Video Project
Project Reflection:
How does Material Culture influence artistic decisions?
Material culture, such as fashion, influences art in both positive and negative ways. Positive influences may include a creative new way to represent our current culture using these materials, helping progress our society and perspective on trends and human nature. Negative impacts can be insulting social trends or projecting a norm on how things should be.
How is art used in everyday life?
Art is used everyday as self expression, ways of passing messages and information, adding spice to ordinary things, as well as shaping our culture. This is important because without art, our lives wouldn't be as they are today.
What problem-solving skills are employed in making works of art?
To create art, people need to employ certain problems solving skills to be able to become a successful artist. These skills may include patience, creativity, open mindedness, and perseverance to overcome struggles while creating art.
How are the characteristics and expressive features of art and design used to create art?
To create art, it is necessary to incorporate features of current styles and popular design to intrigue the viewers of your piece. These features are incorporated through an abstract or emphasized use of these features to provide expression and make the piece more powerful.
Why do Artists Produce Preliminary Plans? (sketches, brainstorms, storyboards, etc?)
Artists use preliminary plans because, even though raw, unrefined art is powerful, it can still be improved. When creating our video, we used storyboards to create our plot and incorporate all of the project requirements. It was very helpful and gave us an organized way to create our project.
Project Description:
For this project we were tasked with creating our own video - documentary style- and including aspects of film and photography that we had learned throughout the semester. We were taught about lighting and composition, sound and video editing, and how to take a good picture. During this project we watched lots of video tutorials on flash, teaching us how to efficiently and successfully create a stop motion animation, import and export files, and convert files to movies. Watch my video below!
Political Cartoon- Blackfish
Through my political cartoon depicting my reaction of the film Blackfish, Orcas in captivity, and the safety of the whale trainers, I feel as though I have met the required objectives by staying on topic, getting my point across, and understanding the content of this project. Although my art lacks refinement, the message it sends is very clear message for all audiences to understand. Orca’s and other marine mammals are meant to live in the wild with their families. They aren’t meant for human entertainment, and time after time whale trainers have been injured because of the frustration and pain these animals feel.
Art, even in it’s most simple form, is a way of representing oneself. A political cartoon is just one specific style of self expression depicting certain issues regarding problems or our governments. Political cartoons are drawings, but information can be shared through all art such as sculptures, paintings, music, and symbols.
When you look at art, you are seeing some else’s view, when you create art, you are sculpting your perspective for someone else to see. Sometimes the art that the viewer seeing is something different from the artists perspective. This can happen when if you disagree with the artists work, if the art reminds you of something, or if you simply misread the piece. One struggle as an artist is to make your art piece sympathetic to all people.
Art, even in it’s most simple form, is a way of representing oneself. A political cartoon is just one specific style of self expression depicting certain issues regarding problems or our governments. Political cartoons are drawings, but information can be shared through all art such as sculptures, paintings, music, and symbols.
When you look at art, you are seeing some else’s view, when you create art, you are sculpting your perspective for someone else to see. Sometimes the art that the viewer seeing is something different from the artists perspective. This can happen when if you disagree with the artists work, if the art reminds you of something, or if you simply misread the piece. One struggle as an artist is to make your art piece sympathetic to all people.
Pre- Historic Art
Project Reflection-
At the beginning of this project we watched a film called Man Created Dog. In this film, I learned that dogs evolved from wolves because of humans, not natural selection. The dogs that our ancestors domesticated may seem small but it presented a large step from humanity. After we started to domesticate animals, people began to recognize and represent humans and human habits through art and architecture. Building fixed structures instead of hut and farming instead of gathering, are all examples of human evolution. Art has influenced humans to evolved into who we are today, and it continues to inspire us. As a more analytical type of person, I have never been a master of art, and to help me improve my drawing skills, I used a lot of critique that my peers gave me to make my art the best it can be. The Image Trace tool in illustrator transformed my art into a vector and made it easy to color and resize. Using the different effects of Image Trace, my art is able to look like a comic, spray paint, or make it more detailed. This project opened my eyes to the influence art poses into our lives and evolution.
At the beginning of this project we watched a film called Man Created Dog. In this film, I learned that dogs evolved from wolves because of humans, not natural selection. The dogs that our ancestors domesticated may seem small but it presented a large step from humanity. After we started to domesticate animals, people began to recognize and represent humans and human habits through art and architecture. Building fixed structures instead of hut and farming instead of gathering, are all examples of human evolution. Art has influenced humans to evolved into who we are today, and it continues to inspire us. As a more analytical type of person, I have never been a master of art, and to help me improve my drawing skills, I used a lot of critique that my peers gave me to make my art the best it can be. The Image Trace tool in illustrator transformed my art into a vector and made it easy to color and resize. Using the different effects of Image Trace, my art is able to look like a comic, spray paint, or make it more detailed. This project opened my eyes to the influence art poses into our lives and evolution.
This pre-historic animal I drew is called a long neck.l I liked drawing this because I got to experiment with shading and contrast.