BLOG #6

For my piece I first drew a rose. I started drawing with pencil then shaded the petals in. After I was done I used a pen and outlined the petals but I did not shade in with the pen I left the shaded in parts done by pencil alone for effect. After I then cut out the rose and put it aside. I got another piece of blank white paper. I put my cut out rose in the middle of the paper. Then I used tape to stick it onto the paper. And then I used pencil, again, to create horizontal squiggles going across the paper. Every other section I shaded it in with pencil. Then my piece was complete. 

CONNECtiNG 2 My PROjECt w/My DEf. Of ARt

What is Art? (according to Nataly): Can be of any color (black, white, red, orange, etc.), a good amount of time has to have been put into it and it shows through the piece, must be eye-catching, doesn't always have to be something happy it can be sad, angry, destructive, but whatever emotion or feeling it must have some kind of beauty to it. Something that I can connect to or relate to my roots, my culture.

What is NOT Art (according to Nataly): Something that holds no meaning, no type of connection to myself. It looks as though it was done in 2 seconds or looks as though somebody just threw things together and claimed it to be an artistic piece. That's NOT art.

I feel my art piece does portray my definition of art because, it's black and white and color doesn't matter to me just so long as it looks like time has been put into it and it sends some kind of message to me or connects to me in some kind of way. I feel my piece does all of the above. It looks like i thought it out. It looks like i didn't just scribble something on a piece of paper and that was it. My piece is kind of confusing and weird but that's o.k. because it makes me think and will make others think as well. I feel like my piece is trying to send out the state of confusion or something like mesmerization, something like that. It's like something beautiful, a rose, in a state of confusion or being mesmerized by something beautiful. The most difficult part of this project....i guess it would have to be coming up with my own definition of art. It was hard for me because i had to really think of what i, myself, thought of as art. It was hard because i had to look at other art pieces online and decide what i liked and considered art and what certain features of a piece i didn't like and consider art. That was the hardest part for me. 

FiNAL PiECe

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FiNAL PAPER

I feel art plays a pretty significant role in my life.  I know it may sound cliché but for me art is something that kind of takes me away from all of the problems that I have to deal with. It allows me to get away but also not to completely forget. Which probably sounds confusing to you but it makes sense to me.  Art makes people go beyond clichés and allows people to expand their mind and kind of think out of the box. Literal media keeps you inside that box while art usually doesn’t.

 

Here are some examples of what I feel is art:

 

This is called lowrider art. The reason why I feel lowrider art is real art is because it has a special place in my heart. I connect to this kind of art because it’s also referred to as Chicano art and no Chicano art isn’t always on lowriders. (I could only find lowrider art on yahoo.) I am a Chicana so I identify with this type of art. For others this may not come anywhere near their definition of art but for me lowrider/Chicano art is art because of the style, the colors, the blending, it has a glow to it. For me this type of art is beautiful, I mean not all of the drawings are supposed to be considered beautiful but for me it is J. Just for the simple fact of the way it’s drawn. That has to do with what I feel is art. 

 

Here is an example of what I feel iSN’t art:

 

I don’t feel this drawing is art. I’d never consider this as art. I don’t see how in any way this could be art. It’s a drawing by someone who’s apparently confused BUT I don’t see this as art.  And it’s not because it’s drawn on binder paper that makes me consider this not art. Art can be drawn on binder paper, you don’t need anything fancy to draw on so it could be considered art. It’s also not the fact that it’s just one color…red either. It’s just I can’t really put my finger on it but it’s probably the way it’s drawn. I don’t think it it’s drawn very nice. It almost kind of bothers me looking at it. The eye is all weird. I don’t know but if I would see this on a big, fancy museum I would still not consider it art even if it was  in a museum. This just doesn’t do anything for me. I don’t get anything out of it. I don’t and can’t connect to it and I don’t know if I really want to. Harsh but true.

 

I’m not trying to say art can’t be abstract. Art can be abstract and in most cases usually is and that’s something nice about art. That it doesn’t always have to be so literal. Sometimes you have to really stop and just think for a second or a minute or two. Art should be metaphoric. But art can also be simple. For me Art just has to be something I can connect to. Something that isn’t like an eyesore though. I mean art can be about death and it doesn’t have to be beautiful or anything it can look destructive or something like that but I feel art has to just have some skill to it. Like it has to be drawn very well, or at least have good blending of color, something of that sort.  

 

Before this project I felt like art could be just about anything, it just depended on the person. Now I’ve realized that for ME art isn’t anything and everything. What I consider art has to directly connect to ME and not everything directly or even a just a little bit connects to me. Like not all big fancy museum art connects to me or has to do anything with me. So I don’t consider that art.

 

When I started to think seriously about what I think is art I though about Chicano art. It’s a part of my culture it’s a part of me so I feel this is art.  Then I just kind of compared other images to the images I thought were 100% art and realized kind of a pattern on what I thought was art and what wasn’t.

 

Art: lowrider arte, Chicano art. Can be simple, complicated, metaphorical, abstract, creative, destructive, beautiful. But No eyesores puhleez!

 

Not Art: Not drawn very well. No connection to me.

 

 

ARt & BEAUty

                                   "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

Art and Beauty basically talked about how we automatically categorize anything that's beautiful to us as art. We may not realize that we do this but it's true. Researchers as the University of Texas and elsewhere found that babies look longer at people who are generally considered beautiful, regardless of ethnicity. Visually we find things such as luminosity, color, and symmetry to be "pleasing." That said we all will never agree about what certain characteristics make something beautiful and may never agree on what is beauty. 

After I read the the blog post Art and Beauty by Writing Queen I felt like what she had to say was very, very true. We may not realize it but sometimes when we see something beautiful we think of it as art. And maybe that's not completely a bad thing just because art can be beautiful, I mean don't get me wrong art doesn't always have to be beautiful but it can be it's just whatever the artist decides or is feeling. As long as that beauty stirs up some creativity.

At this point my definition of art is still the same but I have realized that many people out there don't realize that just because something is beautiful doesn't mean it's art. Art doesn't have to be beautiful, it can be but it doesn't have to be.