POSTCARDS (TERM 1-WEEK 3)

   POSTCARD

Here's are my three postcard that i've designed on photoshop. I've took one of my drawings from drawing from nature artwork and my mono printing artwork to design my postcard. What i have done to design this postcard was copying one of my drawings and just copying it and pasting it into photoshop and fading some of the photos and using the free transform tool to change the photos.

This post card that I've designed was my flowers of roses drawings from nature and the quote " KEEP YOUR HEELS, HEAD & STANDARDS HIGH " was from pinterest.com. What i like about the this postcard is how I've mixed the flowers around and fading the flowers. I also like how i just used two colours in this postcard pink and grey just making it look simple.    

This second postcard that Iv'e designed was one of my mono printing that iv'e painted. I added a picture of my great great grandfather to my mono printing. What i did was copying two picture of my great great grandfather and using the free transform tool on photoshop to reflect one of the image. I also got the quote ( IGOURE EVERYTHING & FOLLOW YOUR DREAM ) from Pinterest.com. What i like about this postcard that I've designed that i used a image of my great great grandfather and it means a lot to me and my family. I like how i copy a Samoan patterns and fade in the Samoan patterns into the image.     

My last postcard that I've designed was another mono printing that I've painted. I mono printed a image of a girl of a magazine and adding flowers on top of her hair with the two colours red & yellow. I like how my mono printing turned out it wasn't that bad at all I also like how her eye's turned out as well. What I've done was copying a image of my mono printing artwork and copying and pasting it on Photoshop and just pasting it and using the free transform changing the image around also fading some of the image at the background. The quote that I've chosen for this postcard was ( Be thankful life could be worse ) it was a quote from a rapper name Tyga. 

Artists (term1-week 2)

 Claes Oldenburg 

    

            ·          Date of birthday: 28th January 1929;

·          Nationality: Swedish-American;

·         He is married with Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch Sculptor, art historian and critic;

·          Field: Sculpture and public art;

·          Movement: pop art;

·          Main characteristics of his arts: large scale daily life objects; consumer objects;

·          He went to the USA at the age of 7 so he had all of his graduation and education in the “States” where he attended Latin School of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University;

      While further developing his craft, he worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He also opened his own studio and, in 1952 became a naturalized citizen of the United States. His first recored sales of artworks were at the 57th Street Art Fair in Chicago, where he sold 5 items for a total price of $25. He moved back to New York City in 1956. There he met a number of artists, including Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Allan Kaprow, whose Happenings incorporated theatrical aspects and provided an alternative to the abstract expressionism that had come to dominate much of the art scene. 

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons in New York Photo: Chris FanningBirth nameJeffrey KoonsBornJanuary 21, 1955 (age 58)

 York, Pennsylvania, USANationality American FieldArtistTraining School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Maryland Institute College of Art, BaltimoreWorksPuppy (1992)
Balloon Dog (1994-2000)Influenced by H.C. Westermann, Salvador Dali, Marcel, Marcel Duchamp

Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as Balloon animals  produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. He lives and works in New York City and his hometown York, Pennsylvania.
Koons' work has sold for substantial sums of money including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. The largest sum known to be paid for a work by Koons is Tulips which was sold for US$33,682,500 (£21,219,975) at Christie's New York on November 14, 2012 (Lot 35) in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale.[1]Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings in his works,[2] nor any critiques.[3]

  

Ron mueck 

Ron Mueck has become internationally recognised for his unique sculptures, which replicate the human figure with unrivalled technical skill. His work has a powerful psychological range, focusing not only on universal experiences like birth, life and death but on emotional states such as isolation, fear and tenderness. His startling manipulations of scale are key to our experience of each work.Mueck's work showed at the Christchurch Art Gallery from the end of 2010 through to January 2011. Research Mueck's sculpture in order to answer the following questions;1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and explain how it is evident in his work.(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) involving or characterized by particularly realistic graphic representation.It is evident in his work with a special type of hyper-real sculpture. He has exhibition that he can show and aloud people to have closer looks at his sculpture.

I've learned many wonderful qualities in this art class.It has shown me different tools to work with art. I also learned how to work with the apple imac computer. How to change the wallpaper and saving things into a folder in the documents. And opening new tools and working with them like the safari how to use bookmarks to save and organize your favorite websites. I also enjoyed meeting new people in class and getting to know them. It was so difficult for me to get along with new students also when I'm nervous when speaking in front of the class. And I enjoyed learning different artists and their work like Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Koons and Ron Mueck. Meeting everyone has been a wonderful experience and learning all these new skills has also been enjoyable. I also look forward to pushing myself out there being around people again and not feeling nervous and anxious all the time. I look forward to learning as much knowledge and skills that I can. I like seeing other students artworks because you see what they really into with art also seeing different types of art skills.

Leonardo da vinci (Term 1 - week 1 )

Leonardo 
 da vinci  

The Battle of Anghaiari (copy of    a detail)

Location: Galleria Degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
Orientation:Landscape
1503-05
Drawing
Image size: 1061 x 703 

The Battle of Anghiari (1505) is a currently lost painting by Leonard da Vinci, at times referred to as " The Lost Leonardo" , which some commentators believe to be still hidden beneath one of the frescoes in the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the Five Hundred) in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Its central scene depicted four men riding raging war horses engaged in the battle for possession of a standard, at the Battke of Anghiari in 1440.

Both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were commissioned to paint battle scenes in the Salone dei Cinquecento of the Palazzo Signoria in Florence. Leonardo gained a reputation for not finishing his projects, together with the Adoration and the mighty equestrian statue for the Duke of Milan, the fresco of the Battle of Anghiari is another example of the project not brought to completion. He likely did little more than sketch the design on the wall of the room. In preparation, however , he produced an elaborate cartoon, now lost, of which numerous copies were made by other artists. 

What I see in this picture is war. People fighting killing each other. I also see crime and violence people trying to kill their enemies trying to win the war.I see some men's fighting and ridnig on their horses quickly get near thier enemies to attack them. I also see some people are slowly dieing from getting attack from their enemies.I also see some men already been stabbed and suffering.

What do I think about this picture is people getting killed from each other.And I think this piture is been painted around 1516 because how it looks really old. I think this picture is about war fighting for their lives and land.

What I like about this picture it's showing us a story from 1503-1505 how they fight during their wars. How they design their clothes to protect them from getting killed. I also like how Leonardo da vinic draws this artwork because how it shows so much details with his shading on the horses and how he use just one colour with this artwork