ART.118.FALL

Now let's do the Stencil!

2008-12-05T10:50:00.001-08:00

- Trying to cut my stencil...... ahhhh

- after two hours of cutting my stencil 8.5x11 and 4x6 version

-First try of spray painting...

-Second try.... and I'm getting use to it by now...

-Got carried away and started using other papers....

-These are my 4x6 version

-After spray painting....

CharityWater.....

2008-12-05T10:10:00.000-08:00

I has so much fun working on my project for charitywater.org. below are the stuff i've experimented in process to make final design.

- This is my first try in designing for charitywater project.

- This was one of my ideas.

- I was trying to design a digital version for charity water.

- This is one of my ideas before ending up with my final design

- This is my final design for charitywater.org

Recycled Water Bottle Chandelier

2008-12-03T23:53:00.000-08:00

Here is our Chandelier made out of recycled water bottles!

Design for the other 90%:Shelter

2008-11-17T19:58:00.000-08:00

Design for the other 90%

Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement among designers to design low-cost solutions for this “other 90%.”

They partners with both local and global, individuals and organization to find unique ways to address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor population.

Designers, engineers, students and professors, architects, and social entrepreneurs from all over the globe are devising cost-effective ways to increase access to food and water, energy, education, healthcare, revenue-generating activities, and affordable transportation for those who most need them.

This movement has its roots in the 1960s and 1970s, when economists and designers looked to find simple, low-cost solutions to combat poverty.

They have 6 sections that they are working on. Shelter, health, water, education, energy and transport.

Shelter:
Numerous individuals and groups, from manufacturers partnering with architects to grassroots activists for the homeless, are exploring innovative materials and building methods to provide temporary, transitional, or permanent structures

Partners with Mad Housers Inc. It is based in Atlanta, It was started by a small group of Georgia Tech architecture students in 1987 which is a non-profit corporation engaged in charitable work, research and education. Their goals and purposes is to provide shelter for homeless individuals and families regardless of raced, creed, national origin, gender, religion or age.
To develop low income housing for people in need of housing. To increase the quantity and to improve the quality of house in the world.

Global Village Shelter is a for-profit company based in Connecticut.
It is co-owned by father-daughter team Daniel A Ferrara and Mia Ferrara Pelosi.
These shelters are made from biodegradable laminated material, are low-cost temporary emergency shelters that can last up to eighteen months. Prefabricated, shipped flat, and requiring no tools to assemble, they are easy to deploy. The first prototypes were sent to Afghanistan and Grenada, and later used in tsunami-hit countries in Asia; Pakistan’s Azad Kashmir Province, which was devastated by an earthquake, and to Gulfport, Mississippi, after Hurricane Katrina.

Art book 3

2008-11-10T20:31:00.001-08:00

art book 2

2008-11-10T20:29:00.000-08:00

art book

2008-11-10T20:26:00.000-08:00

Design Book

2008-11-10T19:38:00.000-08:00

Art Movement

2008-10-27T00:33:00.000-07:00

Pop Arts Movement

Pop Art movement is one of the movements I like as an artist because It is one of the major art movements of the twentieth century. Characterized by themes and techniques drawn from popular mass culture, such as advertising,comic books and mundane cultural objects, it is also widely interpreted as a reaction to the then-dominant ideas of Abstract Expressionism, as well as an expansion upon them.

The Pop Art movement first began in England in mid 1950s in paralles in the late 1950s in United States. Their roots began with an interest in Cubism and Dadaism. They admired the singular artworks of Pablo Picasso's Plate with Wafers and Stuart Davis' Lucky Strike. They ... appreciated the work of Marcel Duchamp whose ready-mades, as he called them, added a new sense of completion for the Pop artists. In America, Pop Art is often considered as a counter-attack against Abstract Expressionism because it used more figurative aspects in its works. It was also related closely to Dada, an earlier movement that poked fun at the highbrow and serious nature of the art world and also used everyday objects and mundane subjects. Warhol's rows of Campbell's tins of tomato soup are equivalent to Marcel Duchamp’s bicycles and urinals placed in galleries.

Pop Art challenged tradition by emphasizing that an artist's use of the mass produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of Fine Art since Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of Pop Art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

One of Pop artist I admire is Andy Warhol. Throughout the 1950s, Warhol enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist. He was a very central figure of the pop art movement. Warhol was very successful as an artist but he was also talented at writing and producing records and films, however it was Warhol’s paintings that made him so famous worldwide. His painting of Campbell’s soup tin which was used for a commercial has become extremely well known and praised along with his screen-print of Marilyn Monroe which reflects Warhol’s own insight on American fame and stardom.

I like pop art, because it’s something different. I love how the colors look and how the artist takes simple everyday objects and turns its into a work of art. To me pop art is not for everybody, I think you have to be willing to see the object in a different light. From one of Warhol’s painting of Campbell’s soup can represent simplicity.

Roy Fox Lichtenstein is another Pop artist that I like. He was a prominent American pop artist, whose work borrowed heavily from popular advertising and comic book styles, which he himself described as being "as artificial as possible".

Lichtenstein worked a lot with stencils, thus producing rows of oversized dots that should make his paintings or prints look like a huge mass publication product. Although he prepared and executed his works painstakingly like the old masters, he wanted his works of art look like machine made. One of his peculiarities was, that he did not want his brush strokes to be seen. Other than paintings and sculptures, the artist produced a number of prints for which he used different techniques: lithographs, screenprints, etchings and woodcuts. Often he combined these techniques in one print.  Lichtenstein is usually characterized as ironic, humorous and witty. He openly commented on his own works. What I like most about Lichtenstein is how he uses dots to produce art. Most of his art pieces has the comic looks behind it which is I love, being a comic lover myself. One of his art pieces I love is the Temple of Apollo and Go for Baroque, because of his dot technique. I like to think of pop art as being fun, colorful and playful. As much as it can be associated with a child-like playfulness and simplicity, it has quite a bit of art theory to it.

type composition pt2

2008-10-27T00:31:00.000-07:00

type composition

2008-10-27T00:29:00.001-07:00

4 Colors composition

2008-10-27T00:18:00.001-07:00

3 colors composition

2008-10-27T00:05:00.001-07:00

1 color composition

2008-10-26T23:56:00.000-07:00

Catching up...

2008-10-15T12:48:00.000-07:00

Missing the whole week last week in class is making me more sketches on my own. I got back from San Diego Sunday Night, visiting my Mom in the hospital due to a car accident. Right now I just caught up with my compositions. I will be able to scan all my sketches for each of my compositions from 2 colors to adding type.

Aubrey Beardsley

2008-09-29T20:39:00.000-07:00

Aubrey Beardsley was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era, renowned for his dark and perverse images and the grotesque erotica, which were the main themes of his later work. Some of his drawings, inspired by Japanese shunga, featured enormous genitalia.

His six years of major creative output can be divided into several periods, identified by the form of his signature. In the early period his work is mostly unsigned. During 1891 and 1892 he progressed to using his initials - A.V.B. In mid-1892, the period of Morte D'Arthur and The Bon Mots he used a Japanese-influenced mark which became progressively more graceful, sometimes accompanied by A.B. in block capitals.

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Beardsley was active till his death in Menton, France, at the age of 25 on March 16, 1898 ^[3], of tuberculosis. (wikipedia)

What I like is his intricate use of design, the contrasting mono, black and white style which was his trade mark, his portrayal of the erotic illustration.

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2008-09-29T20:36:00.000-07:00

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