Blog 5

 The biggest accomplishment I got from this class is how to simpify my thought and make it serve for my big idea. For my midterm project ,I wanted to tell a story about how desire change life.So I put a lot of things in the project to state the story.However ,the project turns out to be mixed. After I get the feedbacks , I change my project step by step and at last I make my project more clear and meaningful.

The most hard technique is definitely layer-masks. It is pity to say that I still dont understatnd it now.In fact , I dont like layer-mask at all because it is easy to mix and it is too complicated and I think we can use other ways to do what layer-mask can do . I use the background erase tool instead of layermask to do all my projects and it works. The order of the layers can make the images much more different .

For my two projects , the most way I use to state my big idea is the color .For this class the most idea I get is that color has some magic power ,simply changing the color can change the meanings of the images dramatically.Take my midterm project for example: I have changed the color of the knowledge part and money part for many times. At first I choose to make the knowledge part more bright and money part more dark ,however after rethinking about that ,I choose to change a little bit . I use some dark color in the knowledge part to indicate that it is not always positive and make the money part more bright to state that people still like money although people always respect knowledge when we have both in front of us.

Blog 4

 For my final project , I want to make a animation of the earth to indicate the big idea of peace.  I will start with a flying pigeons image and then a world map with five or more pigeons plan to land to Five Continets and then I will have some points in the map. Starting with one point ,I  intend to choose the symbolic buildings of Five Continets with people in front of the buildings . We will use lines to connect the five points when  introducing different people and finally connect all points and make a imagine like a pigeon on the map.And then it turns to the goble with a pigeon on it.After this will be combination of the different peolpe I introduced before .I will made this imagine like what Andy Warhol did .and At last comes five different words with the five letters of the word"world". I will make the letters much bigger and add the fice peolple to the letters just as what Claes Oldenburg did and my project end with the combination of the five words that is world.If possible I want to add the song <we are the world> of Michael Jackson to my animation

Blog 3

Why does this artist appeal to you?

I knew Andy warhol in my Art Education 160 class.As a person always staying in front the ages, he transformed the temporal culture by catching the headlines of the society. He can find some timeless subjects in the abundant of the culture of the media.

What are the Big Ideas in their work?
 The theme of Andy's work was the desire to be different and to be "you".The cover of <times> in 2007 is “you”. Who is “you”? Is it you or me, or can be anyone else? It is maybe just all the living persons who do some trivial things or it can be some guy has done something big. The “you” on the <times> shows that after 20 years, the prediction about the level of the “you” of Andy Warhol—the godfather of the pop art comes to the front of the world .

What do you find inspiring about the work?
The most special thing of Andy Warhol’s artworks is the mass reproduction like the unthinking function of a machine. The same elements of the subject matters emerge repeatedly.By the reproductions of the normal subjects ,the normal becomes out of the common, and the simple thing becomes of something big and beautiful. .

What sorts of questions, curiosities, inspirations arise from your encounter with the artist’s work? How will you use this artist to inspire your final project?
After I see the picture of the Coca I was attracted by the mix of the homology and difference. And I cannot help but move with the cure of the bottles of Coca, and then I feel that it just like a bright rhythm. I cannot see the bottle anymore, all I see is the brown color. When I move along the line of the bottle, every bottle is kind of a little different, however the difference is so subtle that I cannot tell them out. So I travel between the whole part and the single thing, which make me feel the aesthetic feeling of the colors, the rhythm and the stretch of the vision. I would choose something simple which used in daily lives to indicate my topic "real me".

What stylistic components can you learn to make your work stronger?
 I like Andy's idea that just put things repeatedly can create some inside meanings.

What approaches to making an artwork that the artist uses can help you?The objects used can be simple ,but the way to organize it is the most important part of approaching an artwork.

The second artist I want to talk about is Claes Oldenburg. 

Why does this artist appeal to you?

I  saw his work in a book and found that it is very interesting that all his work is about unusual large daily object. so I search him online and find that the unusual size of the object have some interactive effects with people

What are the Big Ideas in their work?
I think the big idea is imagination .Sometime people are constrained by the reality of the world and fail to imagine.

What do you find inspiring about the work?
The most special thing of Claes Oldenburg’s artworks is the extraordinary large subjects of our daily life ,It may looks weird if your see a apple big than you ,however, after a deep thinking ,you may begin to see problems in a total different aspect .For example.if  I were a little fish what I will do if I am got caught

What sorts of questions, curiosities, inspirations arise from your encounter with the artist’s work? How will you use this artist to inspire your final project?
After I see Claes Oldenburg's Clothespin at the first time , I have no deep ideas and I just feel that it is interesting .However, when I go back and rethink his work I am inspired and I begin to think things in a different way . I would like to use this unusual ides to state my big idea in a total different way.

What stylistic components can you learn to make your work stronger?
 I like Claes's idea that just change the size of the object can create some inside meanings.However ,I may would not make my work exactly the same way ,but it provides another path to reach my idea.

What approaches to making an artwork that the artist uses can help you? Changing the size of the object can make it look totally different and the thoughts after seeing it will be incredible attract and unusual .