Overall, I really loved this year. The senior show was definitely the peak of my high school art experience. I loved getting to put the show up, and work with all of my classmates (especially shoutout Anika). The opening itself was amazing. I enjoyed giving my talk and sharing that part of my art with my family and friends. Overall, I really think I have grown as an artist this year despite all the challenges of COVID. For example, I think my taste series shows my evolution in painting, and my recent work shows how I've grown to do oil painting. I also think I've gotten better about color and purposefully being loose in my painting. i also finally found a content i'm interested in and will continue with.
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I absolutely loved going to the Latin American Art Lecture by the VMFA. Before this talk, I had no idea how important textiles were to Inka art. I really enjoyed hearing about the connection between weaving and the fabric of the universe, meaning that the clothes you wear represent you and communicate your role in the world. Fork kings, or Inkas, they had specific designs called Tocapu that included designs to represent a microcosm of their empire including armies and landscapes with men coexisting with nature. I also found it interesting that there is not much representational imagery like in Islamic art, instead they opt for geometric shapes and patterns. I was super surprised to learn how they got their red die from bugs called cochineals that were eventually brought to Europe during the Renaissance. In addition to the information I learned about art, I learned a lot of about Inka culture in general. First of all, how in Quechua Inka really means king, so they actually call themselves "Tawantinsuyu" or the four parts together (the four regions). Then, I loved the discussion about camay. Camay is the soul of something that brings something into being, the originating force. A Camas is the reciever physically in the world. Artists are seen as bringing Camay into the world. This idea of soul continuing on also relates to the dead, who are seen as still alive. Mummies are continually given food and drink. This idea of staying alive did cause problems for the emperors as each new emperor didn't inherit lands and instead had to find new ones which explains the rapid increase of territory in such a short time.
Huaca is a sacred spot of object. This idea causes the Inka to see all things as animate, even people and rocks are interchangable. In the capital of the empire (now Cuzco) there are radiating lines that have huacas places along them. Lots of this information reminds me of my East and West religions class I took last year. Especially the concept of Ayni or duality, which we talked about a lot especially with the idea of yin and yang. It is the idea that everything is in pairs, and in relationship to art, artists would always craft items in pairs which I found fascinating. Overall, I found this talk to be intriguing and I learned a lot about Inca culture and art. So I painted the background, but I'm really torn whether or not I preferred it with just the red. The issue was that it seemed unfinished, but I really liked the contrast. I'd love to hear opinions during critique. I also came up with the idea of how to continue the series with other food from childhood, nostalgia with faces (ex. there's another Friendly's ice cream with a face).
I picked Stanley Rayfield because I know him personally, and I wanted to look closer at his art which I believe could help me with my portraiture. His website is: http://stanleyrayfield.com/about.
Highlights of his CV:
My reactions: - "Dad" I think I may have seen this piece in person, but even online it really is a powerful piece. From a realism standpoint, it's pretty amazing, but I am even more impressed by the feelings the piece evokes. You can tell almost immediately that there is a story behind this piece, with the title being "Dad", the glimpse of a hospital bed on the corner, and even the figure itself with a cane, unbuttoned shirt, breathing tube, and eyepatch. I also think adding the shadow that obscures the lower half of the figure and bottom corner of the canvas adds a sense of mystery that surrounds who this is. It makes you think and that is definitely something I would like my art to do. - "Black Jesus" I just watched a short documentary about this piece so i have a bit of background in addition to my first impressions, but i am immediately interested in the background. He said that he used to use paper to give more texture, and I think that's an interesting idea. I also love the luminosity and use of color in the skin. He did not use one tone of brown but warmer burnt sienna and cooler blues for the shadows. I also noticed it was painted on panel, and I would like to research the difference between that and canvas on the paint texture. - Church Hat Series his website says that this is "A series birthed from an attention to the style and designs of church hats and the unspoken dignity, life experience, and wisdom emanating from these women. The hats symbolize a woman's crown and triumph throughout life." I think this is a great example of taking something that may not be spotlighted and bringing it out to a broader topic. Each portrait of these women like the portrait of his father tell a story and I think like many older adults, you have a feeling they have stories of their own to tell. Rayfield did multiple portraits with graphite that are incredibly smooth - I would love to find out how he accomplished this. The yellow painting in the slideshow stood out to me because he actually painted looser than he normally would, which I could definitely learn from (especially the lady's dress) and I appreciate the bold color he used in the background. Also, it's interesting that it was painted on aluminum panel. -Girls Next Door Series What stood out to me about these portraits are the texture in the back, the bright colors, and how he approached hair which could be very relevant to my peices. i made a lot of progress this past week. I finished laying down the main colors, went in with the chocolate chips, did the metal holder, and then the whipped cream. With the metal, I tried to not use black and instead used more ultramarine. Same with the whipped cream, I used cobalt blue to shade. I'm really happy with how it's looking! Coach suggested to finish it, that I should put a background so I did a practice painting (last picture on the slide) to see what that looks like. I think I'll do a gradient starting with white at the bottom.
I really enjoyed the lecture by Amanda Adams on Japanese Aesthetics. Here are some of my notes (commentary after):
Western very different - Kant, German, enlightenment, critique of judgement quantify beauty - Objective
Tanizaki - 1933,
Main takeaways: i really appreciated her comparison between Western and Japanese standards of beauty. I feel like I relate more or appreciate more the Japanese criteria as it is focused on the beauty in imperfection and seems much more of a deep understanding. I also really enjoyed learning about In Praise of Shadows and Tanizaki. I thought the shift between Japanese isolationism to favoring the West and then back to nationalistic and what makes Japan special is very interesting. I also thought her mention of the impact of religion was interesting. I studied Zen Buddhism in religions class last year, and I do feel like it could influence my work. I also thought it was kind of funny how important shadows are to Tanizaki and the beauty of impermanence as that's actually a theme I've thought to explore in my work regarding the impermanence of childhood and what's left or the shadows instead of the thing itself. So I decided for my painting that I was going to paint foods from my childhood so I thought about the Monster Mash sundae from Friendly's where I used to go with my grandparents. I started by applying a base red color on the canvas and then using burnt sienna to sketch the outlines. Then, I just started applying my oil paint, trying to do it somewhat loosely with saturated colors. I'm not sure about my paint application on the reese's cups, but I'm pretty happy with the cherry and obviously there's more to do on the ice cream. The metal cup will also be a challenge, but I'm glad it's going pretty quickly.
This week I started a new painting as I really wanted to try to make an even looser painting. I started with a red wash on the background, and then focused on applying a lot of paint in small brushstrokes. I opted to not go in with white to cover up the background as I liked the look of the red and green contrast. I overall am much happier with this painting and would like to do another one similar next.
I think this piece is pretty close to finished! I first started by fixing my mistake of pulling up the paint that was previously there. I went back in with another thick layer of the colors and tried to emphasize the different tones more. I especially went back into the leaves to try to make them slightly more defined. I do wish I had cadmium red light as I think that was the perfect berry red I was missing, but I tried to make do with a combination of normal cadmium red and cadmium yellow. One of the issues is when i tried to lighten the color, it turned pinkish and that did not match what I was seeing at all, so i had to make everything a little yellower. Then I went back in with a thicker layer of white to paint the background. I'm not sure if I want the shadows to fade out a little more because right no it's pretty black and white. I tried to put some highlights on the strawberries, but it's hard to do so without getting more detailed. I think I'm okay with the decision to not paint the seeds in order to not get distracted by details, but I feel like it may still be missing something.
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