I was at the MICA exhibition for their post back grad program about a week ago and thought to share something that reminded me of our class. One of the students created an app that used colors to represent emotions and feelings. With that in mind she used the color schemes to create t-shirts that represented how the individual was feeling that day. Attached is a picture of her exhibition. This reminded me of how we used the color wheel and the different patterns to represent different emotions through our different projects. 

Another person made a book on clip art which I thought was so cool! There was another exhibition of a girl who made a museum in the perspective of people who will live in the future. So the museum had objects from today, like an old flip phone, a camera, etc. She placed the objects in odd ways as to explain how the future will have no idea what are the objects functions. 

Postmodernism

-the double level process of interpreting and understanding post modernist painters like Vangoh 

          -placing the background or the historical context for which it is set 

          -the shoes what it represents in that time and place

-confused with utopian realm of the senses ??

-interesting concept that the idea of art comes form the gap between world and Earth or body and nature

-Warhol’s Diamond Dust Shoes "does not speak at all"! -bold statement

-central issue of postmodernism can be seen in Warhol’s paintings and its centralization on commodification

Kubler's, "The shape of time", gives fascinating insight on how "luck," as he says, might define who becomes a well know artist and those who might have had the same talent but didn't make it.
He says, "Times and opportunities differ more than the degree of talent." This reinforces the idea of being lucky and growing up at the right time in the right place. For example, it might be easier for someone who was born in a family of well known artists to become a famous artist himself, rather than someone who was born in the streets with the same or even more impressive talent to make it to fame. This is what happens to undiscovered talents. Furthermore, he identifies temperament and timing of entrance as the factors that will define the individual's chance of success and achievement. Another concept that he talks about and I found very interesting was the metaphor about the life cycle and how that relates to art and history. It explains how the life cycle is sustained by one unchanged principle of organization just like style is in art. It is not as we sometimes assume, that one historical style is unprecedented, but actually a recurring theme that was transformed into that specific style depending on the different environments.

Since the moment we are born we are exposed to images all around us. The increased exposure to visual context has helped humans develop the capacity of understanding what these visuals mean and the message they carry. In this video, we learn about data visualization and the components that constitute it. Something that really grabbed my attention was how significantly important visuals have become in our society. They help give meaning to things that have always been ambiguous or too complicated to put into words. It is through this means that humans can rapidly see, grasp, translate, and understand terms and ideas that were once unknown or difficult to understand, like numbers that are too big for us to even imagine. This can be seen in our day to day when we use google maps to move and travel to places we have never been. Another example is how images are used to portray data on the amount of people that fly on a daily basis or the number of users in the internet around the world. These data images bring knowledge and facilitate our understanding of the unseen, unknown, or complex.

Different tones of white:Whitescapes

 First I began by superimposing a white sheet of paper to a white binder. I started to note differences in the hues of white. The white binder started to look more creamy and the sheet of paper was more blueish.

 Then I compared the white sheet of paper to the white wall and there was an even more dramatic difference between the two. The wall became more yellow and brown while the paper became more red/pink.

I turned off one of the lights and noted that the wall became more brown and less of a bright yellow and the white paper became more blue. 

original Ad logo- Dairy Queen

Photoshop

In Ways of Seeing by Jon Berger, he speaks about how we view the world around us and how we try and put it into words. It is fascinating how as Berger says, "seeing comes before words". We are born with eyes that glance at the world and capture it, and as we grow we try and describe it with words that we are beginning to learn. It all comes in through our sight before being spoken. Every image is taken by someone that wants to capture that moment. The same with painters, they decide on what particular moment should be recreated according to the way they feel about that instance. That's why when we see an image or a painting we are looking at the visual through the photographer's lens or artist's eyes. Although it is their personal perception of a moment in time, the viewers also bring out their own personal way of seeing that image, therefore it becomes not just the artist's but the viewers perception of that image. Jon Berger says,"The way we see things is affected by what we know and what we believe." But, what we see also defines much of what we know and believe. Therefore, its an equilibrium between the two that constitutes what we believe, what we know, and how we will judge what we see.  It also made me realize that most of everything we see comes with a source of bias. This bias comes from 2 things, the way we interpret it according to what we know, believe, and have seen before, as well as our power to decide over what we see and not see. For example, Berger talks about how camera changed the way we looked at paintings. Taking pictures of a painting we liked and multiplying the image in order for other people to look at it, is never the same as coming into a museum or the setting where the painting was purposely set and admiring an art piece. The environment that surrounds the painting is part of the meaning of that painting and once that painting is photographed and moved into peoples homes or offices, the meaning of the painting changes according to the environment in which it was brought into, but has no purpose of being there. It is so difficult to see without having any personal conjectures or biased opinion on the painting, because we are living through our own eyes and thus own believes, which will always have a part of what we see and appreciate.