I am struggling once again to just share a few pieces of art that I liked

I think this photographic mural of Barbara Kruger really
says it all for me.  She know how to evoke emotions from us. 
She makes us look at ourselves and our society in a way
that maybe we don't want to.

I know this is 3-D but it was a crazy sculpture.
My five year looks just like this little boy so
I couldn't help bue have an eery feeling.

The lines in this paritcular painting are amazing to me.  It
really feels like a 3-D effect as if the fence is about to
fly over my head.  I can almost smell the air of summer time.
I think it depicts the Holocaust and a freeing feeling of
finally being freed. 

I did not get the information for this one, but I love it.
It was done by wood cuts stamped on mylar.  The artist managed to cut
These artery map like lines that occupy a large wall and attach to the wall.
the patience to do this literally makes my head hurt.

My visit to the Denver Art Museum

I realized I hadn't been to the Art Museum since it had been renovated and it's been about 16+ years.   What an expereince.  I took my 12 year old son and my sister along with me.  We made a whole day of it and really got to see some remarkable and interesting pieces of art.  When I crossed over to the original building it felt like I went back in time.  The musty smell brought back memories of when I was a little girl and we went as a family.  I remember seeing a room full of minatures and  doll house displays.  I was so excited about it because it seemed magical to me and that possibly the minatures would come to life when we weren't looking.  To this day I love minature things.  I have revamped an old doll house and have painted minature furniture and dishes.  I wonder if my son's visit will inspire him to create some art one day?  It is definitely in him and he told me he had no idea that the art museum experience was going to be that cool.  That  made our venture worth it to me.

I love this painting because it really captures the pureness
of a child.  My son did not realize it was a painting until I
pointed it out to him.  To look at this painting up close blows me
away of the clarity and beauty of Gottfried Helnwein's work.

Out of all the different pieces of art we looked at this was my son, Kyle's
favorite piece.  I am not sure what to think of it personally. 
The title "Wheat Fields"is a little vague for me. 

Our assignment to work on moving art

I have never used any of the animation tools on the computer before.  Alisha and I partnered up and explored a few areas.  We really had fun on powerpoint.  We found some psychedelic images we liked and found sound effects to go with them as we got them to do some movement in each cell.  We were unable to put it on our log, but the one thing we felt we accomplished was that we were able to put sound to it. 

my own joiner creation

I had so much fun creating this. 
I became very consumed trying to put each photgraph in the correct spot.

I took over 70 snap shots from my upstairs balcony overlooking
my neighborhood.  It may not be David Hockney's work, but
I was so excited to see it come to life. and actually work.

David Hockney and his Photographic 'Joiner' Works of Art



"Photo Montage" David Hockney



"Chair" - David Hockney

"The Desk" 1984 - David Hockney

"Pearl blossom Highway", 11th-18th April 1986
David Hockney

David Hockney
His work is looked at and referred by the Cubism principles as having
 three elements of art which are layered time, space and narrative of which
a single photo cannot have.

I became very intrigued by David Hockney’s work after being exposed to some of his photo collages shown in class.  The assignment of creating our own form of photographic collage became a new interest of mine.  I now catch myself checking out my environment with a new set of eyes of how the visual space presented in front of me would be fun to explore by taking multiple photos of it.  The outcome was so challenging and engaging for me while attempting this feat. I love the subjects that David Hockney used to photograph for his collages.  They were rather simple, but made them more significant when presented in the collage form.

He is a seventy-three year old British artist who has been incredibly influential over the past fifty-plus years.  He was claimed as a pop-artist, but I am not sure he cared for the title.  His main medium is oil paints, yet he has an array of other works done in other mediums such as print making, sketching, photography and presently has fallen in love with the I-pad as his new form of medium.

            Throughout his life he chose subject matters that were personal to him.  He painted many pool scenes, people he knew and other scenic views that were of significance to him.  I enjoyed viewing his different phases of art he created starting from the fifties to the present.  I noticed in several of his pieces, mainly starting from the seventies, was his approach of creating his visual space with grids that would help break up space.  A lot of his pieces are more than one panels joined together such as his painting of “Schwimmbad Mitternacht (Paper Pool II)” 1978.  In the 1980s he really started to focus on his photography as a “concept of naturalism by representing things as they were actually being viewed.” He grew to love this kind of work, but didn’t want to become too dependent on his photographs as an artist.  He created amazing Polaroid collages that had the white frame around them so when pieced together it gave a grid affect to help break up the picture.  He than just took multiple photographs with a regular camera of a subject such as a highway he titled, “Pearl blossom”, a chair, a desk, a telephone pole and many other scenes.  To try and explain the outcome would be hard.  I can only say that his collages make me think of what a fly might be viewing with all of it’s’ eyes on a subject.  It really changes your perspective of what you thought you were looking at and then viewing it with a different set of eyes. 

            I really admire David Hockney, because he still exudes a passion to grow as an artist.  I viewed many works of his and he still produces daily.  He has become completely wrapped up in using the I-pad as his new form medium to create his artwork.  He claims he can create an “I-pad” painting first thing in the morning and send it out to his friends for them to enjoy.  It isn’t so much about the recognition for him now, nor the money, but the mere satisfaction of making others happy by presenting them with some of his art.  He likes the idea of no messes involved and feels that Picasso and Van Gough would have been sold on the whole I-pad concept too.  What a fun man, David Hockney is.  I have enjoyed learning about and observing this man’s work.

I became very intrigued by David Hockney’s work after being exposed to some of his photo collages shown in class.  The assignment of creating our own form of photographic collage became a new interest of mine.  I now catch myself checking out my environment with a new set of eyes of how the visual space presented in front of me would be fun to explore by taking multiple photos of it.  The outcome was so challenging and engaging for me while attempting this feat. I love the subjects that David Hockney used to photograph for his collages.  They were rather simple, but made them more significant when presented in the collage form.

He is a seventy-three year old British artist who has been incredibly influential over the past fifty-plus years.  He was claimed as a pop-artist, but I am not sure he cared for the title.  His main medium is oil paints, yet he has an array of other works done in other mediums such as print making, sketching, photography and presently has fallen in love with the I-pad as his new form of medium.

            Throughout his life he chose subject matters that were personal to him.  He painted many pool scenes, people he knew and other scenic views that were of significance to him.  I enjoyed viewing his different phases of art he created starting from the fifties to the present.  I noticed in several of his pieces, mainly starting from the seventies, was his approach of creating his visual space with grids that would help break up space.  A lot of his pieces are more than one panels joined together such as his painting of “Schwimmbad Mitternacht (Paper Pool II)” 1978.  In the 1980s he really started to focus on his photography as a “concept of naturalism by representing things as they were actually being viewed.” He grew to love this kind of work, but didn’t want to become too dependent on his photographs as an artist.  He created amazing Polaroid collages that had the white frame around them so when pieced together it gave a grid affect to help break up the picture.  He than just took multiple photographs with a regular camera of a subject such as a highway he titled, “Pearl blossom”, a chair, a desk, a telephone pole and many other scenes.  To try and explain the outcome would be hard.  I can only say that his collages make me think of what a fly might be viewing with all of it’s’ eyes on a subject.  It really changes your perspective of what you thought you were looking at and then viewing it with a different set of eyes. 

            I really admire David Hockney, because he still exudes a passion to grow as an artist.  I viewed many works of his and he still produces daily.  He has become completely wrapped up in using the I-pad as his new form medium to create his artwork.  He claims he can create an “I-pad” painting first thing in the morning and send it out to his friends for them to enjoy.  It isn’t so much about the recognition for him now, nor the money, but the mere satisfaction of making others happy by presenting them with some of his art.  He likes the idea of no messes involved and feels that Picasso and Van Gough would have been sold on the whole I-pad concept too.  What a fun man, David Hockney is.  I have enjoyed learning about and observing this man’s work.

http://davidhockney.com/bio.shtml

http://www.davidhockney.com/

http://hockneypictures.com/works_paintings_80.php

http://www.markbarrowfineart.com/hockney_biog.htm
http://5magazine.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/david-hockneys-joiners/

Katharina Grosse

A Modern Artist from Berlin

            I went online and looked up a few websites and two words that come to mind are “WOW!’ and “Trippy”.  What is going on in her head?  The funny thing is that I like what she produces.  She uses an industrial paint sprayer and expresses herself as kind of a rebel towards “fine art”.  She paints on whatever she wants.  She paints on walls, floors, ceilings, beds, books and natural materials like rocks and dirt.  I really got a sense of emotion with her choice of colors.  Like her “Hello Little Butterfly…” it is bright and cheerful with yellows and purples and blues.  It was like a butterfly got its wings in some paint and was fluttering chaotically to try to get it off, meanwhile it was making beautiful marks all over the walls.  The colors in her work all run/bleed together and really give a sense of movement.  Her choice in colors seems to really evoke emotions.  Somehow she is getting her opinions expressed through the colors she uses.  You can tell if she is mad or if she finds beauty in something. Some of her works give me a feel of a flood of colors rushing into a room, like it is coming right at me and I better move and get out of the way or else I will be colored myself.  Obviously she has an effect on lots of viewers as I noticed she has exhibits all over the place and even at our Denver Art Museum.  Personally, I would love to see her work in person.  I have a feeling seeing pictures online doesn’t quite justify her work.  It may sound silly, but I find her to be a brave artist to be okay to paint all over things as she does.  It is crazy and impulsive to me.  As amateur artist I still feel confined in creating “fine art”.  She really goes outside of the box.   I don’t know that I would ever go her route, but she does give me a sense of freedom to do whatever inspires me.

This is Katharina all decked out creating her art.

This is absolutely breath taking.  This is
the room where it feels like the colors are
flooding/rushing into the room.

I couldn't just pick 6

I had so much fun exploring with my camera.  I have a new hobby now.  Values can make or break a picture and can really create emotions and give interesting perspectives. However, I chose six of my photographs that I was really pleased with and I numbered them in their caption.