Copyright

Copyrights are used to protect artist's rights. The specifics for copyright laws are always changing. However, fair use is a gray area but it allows people to use certain parts of copyrighted material as long as it follows certain guidelines such as but not limited to :
1. use for educational purposes
2. non profit profit
3. its transformative enough
4. critique

With the gray area there is no specific guidelines so one must be careful using copyrighted material.

Assignment 2

I've juggled ideas for this one and decided on this. I still feel as thought I could have done more but I'm not sure what. The ideas I had didn't look right after actually doing them so I decided to leave those out.  I choose this photo and changed the over all message. Basically showing how people idolize this idea..this image of super thin models but most are unhealthy and sometimes certain sizes are even banned in some countries.  The original message of the picture before was more like,look at these pretty clothes on these pretty models. Yes the clothes are pretty and the model are pretty but its more of a look at where this industry has taken these ideas to message. This is supposed to portray a more realistic and shocking feel. I want to get your attention. Hopefully having the women morph into the final skeletal model will help to portray that message. Thank :)

Okay so I have to say this assignment is really putting up a fight. haha Coming from an industry not controlled by copyrights as much or hardly at all...its pretty intimidating. I have finally come up a few ideas...but I would not be surprised if it they change again. I am debating between the issue on how model sizes have dramatically gotten smaller to grotesque proportions or issues concerning physicians giving prescriptions for pills (etc) like candy or something tattoo wise like stereotyping. I'm leaning more toward the model subject though. There are multiple reasons why I am interested in this matter. One reason would be what image this puts in young teens/women's mind and not wanting to see them go overboard and blindly follow this trend. There has been a recent event where a model pushed too far diet wise and dropped dead on the runway. I want to convey this message possibly with a runway scene and as the models are getting closer to the camera having them morph into skeletons... all with blindfolds.  I'm still unsure how to borrow these images...I kinda wanted to use big name brands but I'm not sure if that is pushing it too far...but its kinda the point in a way. I've been struggling with this and I need to talk to Kate  about it more. I was most influence by an article with a plus size model and a supermodel posing nude together in a plus size magazine. It stated facts about how models used to be only 8% less than average women and now they weight at least 23% less than the average woman. Either way I'll figure out what I will really stick with after talking to Kate! :) Thanks.

Assignment 1

    This is my final version of this...I would have had an "in progress" version but I was so undecided for the overall piece and had changed my mind many times. I started about three or more ideas but settled with this one that I'm pretty happy with. Its funny because before I knew it I was done and didn't even stop to get that "in progress" snapshot. I do apologize for that!
   Like I stated before I started off with many ideas and I feel as though it evolved into what you see above. I thought to myself...what are things that are important to me...things that have shaped or influenced my life? My children/family...art/materials/books...many other things are in there but have more hidden meanings behind them. With black and pink being my favorite colors I threw them into this piece. Making my background black was not just because its my favorite color, I think it also helps to bring your focus to what's going on. I was hoping to go with a more motivational "let things fall where they may" piece...and you can only go up from where you are. That idea shows that I am trying to improve where I am now.

Darker with the Day ~ George Rush

I attended George Rush's Darker with the Day exhibition. Upon entering into this area I noticed a medium sized "canvas" with a view into a room(no detail of room) through a window with curtains. This canvas was mounted on a wall like "canvas" in itself with what looks like a tree-like pattern. It seemed as a way to invite you into his space and world. As I rounded the corner I saw there was another painting of the window but it showed the viewer looking out rather than in, still showing you the the shadows casted from the window onto the curtains. As I turned towards the other three paintings I noticed they were arranged as though they close you into this room -- still looking outside. Each canvas containing precise smoothly painted items such as a table and chairs and, of course, the window. Among these few items items such as  a jug, paper carton, tape recorder, a can, and a candle(shown in varying heights) on a candlestick holder showed up in some and not always in others. There seemed to be a couple of different angles of the light source. There are shapes of the trees outside reflected down onto the window. The area in which these pieces were displayed was very open and well lit with windows of its own leading you to get a more outdoorsy feel. The tones of the pieces were very much on the black, grey and white side. To most, black and grey scale art pieces may suggest depression or a sadden state of being, but I've learned that it can also bring great meaning and/or feeling. With that being said I don't necessarily get the feeling of being depressed but a sense that he is trying to get across more that just "being" in a room. So its not necessarily even about the room but its something linking the room to outside. Hints the "window". This window and experience can be interpreted many ways in my mind.

I just want to say...

Happy Birthday to Eadweard Muybridge!

Optimism/Pessimism

 This assignment was out of my norm but it was a experience none the less!

Christiane Paul Digital Art

     While reading "Christiane Paul Digital Art Chapter 1" I investigated all the artist and the three that stood out the most are as follows.
1. Patricia Piccinini
       She seems to bring a sense of reality to what isn't the norm. Some of the things she has done are weird and I must apparently be attracted to weird  or out of the ordinary ideas.
2. Joseph Scheer
       He just really brings to attention to the small details and for me implying there is way more this small and most of the time insignificant creature. He allows you to view these little creatures in a very vibrant way; something that you normal just pass off or never really get to enjoy everyday.
3. Carl Fudge
       I would say this an interesting way to really have you observe what is really there. I think at times we miss out on what's going on, in many different aspects of life, and to me it makes me stop and really look. I want to know what this or that is. Also, in a silly childish way, enjoy the shapes and colors and the mirrored quality they are shown all put together to form an image. There is definitely more going on than what appears.
   There are many talented artist in this chapter but there are just a few that caught my eye. Thanks for reading! :)