Once again welcome! We are all looking forward to seeing your work and this blog offers a place where all of the work can be uploaded and accessed by all staff and fellow year 1 students.
A child tries to find their own identity, when reading 'Stealing the Mona Lisa' a section stood out, the part where a child wants to understand themselves, their own body & sexuality however still to young to fully understand the concept.
This link ^ shows my 6 year old sister and myself slit into one person, The image shows just how similar we are, our family genes pasted down to embody similar facial features, Our family name and blood lingers within both of us we are one person and we share our identity.
My contribution to the UCA summer project is a song called “Imaginarium Tongue.” It can be found on my music website www.myspace.com/thesleepycreatures. The subject of gaze is both interesting and thought provoking, and my immediate response to the brief would have been to produce a short film- if I had access to the necessary equipment. Instead I considered the questions “What is art?” “Why is it so expensive?” and “What makes art history?” As a song writer I drew upon my thoughts on these matters to write lyrics that explain how I feel as the creator (my inspirations and insecurities) and what my passion and motivation for being a musician means to me: It is the channelling of expression from the creator through his/her medium, to its receiver, and the uses and gratifications for both the artist and the audience. I hope you enjoy listening :)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2060655&id=1234341090&l=a72bd606c6 My piece is based on just a few lines at the end. I tried to explore the possibility that maybe instead of only humans observing images, the images almost look back at us, and in doing so, they change us in some way, by helping us form opinions, capitvate us, alienate us etc.
My piece is called Minds Eye, which is based on different parts of the brief. What my piece is trying to say is that when someone looks at a painting or photograph you sometimes get a tingling feeling as if someone is watching us following our every move. The man about to steal the Mona Lisa who originally going to steal another painting saw the Mona Lisa's expressions such as eyes following him and smiling at him, which possessed him to take this particular painting.
I felt that I did not understand it, and the book was giving me nothing, I could work with, which was when I released having nothing, is still having something, so I wrote something that was inspired from my lack of understanding of the book, i tried to develop a idea in which a man did not understand the painting which the book was about. I found my self looking at the painting asking Mona to talk to me giving me a idea, and then it all developed from there. Why not use this to help me develop the story of a man who is driven insane by the painting.
I took from the text: //does art allow us to make our own choice// -The act of seeing. -what we see depends on what someone else sees. -eyes are more important than anything else.
The colours represent the visual influences that everyday objects have on people around us and how they can change how we feel through sight alone. The blind man, although influenced through other senses remains "oblivious" to the visual influences around him and based of the text. Is free from influence through sight but still not the invasion from other people. The child is easily influenced and is still a blank canvas, hence the colour and lack of face. Unknown to her she is building "herself" through the influences around her. I guess, in short, I wanted to question if without sight you are more of yourself than you would be with it.
I was interested in how the copious replicas of the image of the Mona Lisa, usually on merchendise, all paled in comparison to the original and all had little to no worth in comparison.
In my painting all the replicas of the Mona Lisa are shown as degraded or drowning in the shadow of the "original" Mona Lisa, who's face has been stolen.
The black and white image was taken at the Louvre in Paris when I went there a couple of weeks ago. The part of the text that interested me the most begins on page 3 of the text,
"But how, then, can we explain that other great group phenomenon of twentieth-century art, the convergence of legions of French men, women and children on the Louvre to see not a painting but the absence of a painting?"
In my photo, it shows how the Mona Lisa in the background, being blanked out by the Louvre. The painting is within the surrounding figures and outlines of people's shadows, apart from the mirrored shadow, which is suppose to depict the man who stole it. Her (Mona Lisa painting) eyes are hidden, suggesting the identity of the painting is well known, but only when it disappears, is when the painting is most known.
For this projected I created a short animation about the psychology of children’s drawings. I was inspired to create it when reading the section about psychologists and children’s art; how children will lose points when missing out certain features of the human body and score additional points for extra detail. At first I was going to create some ‘fun’ characters out of this idea and I became interested in how these characters would move when lacking certain parts. However I then decided to take more of a serious approach when researching my chosen subject by making my animation about child abuse as I found stories about how child abusers can be caught out through children’s drawings and how art therapy can help children recover.
Hopefully this works http://tinypic.com/r/2zthz6d/7
My response to reading Stealing the Mona Lisa is a photograph of my mother looking into a mirror and seeing a younger version of herself (me). I did this because I found it interesting when it was described in the text how we cannot stop others from viewing us and how we see ourselves how we wish to be seen, perhaps not how others with a pure and true vision will see us.
Hopefully this works http://tinypic.com/r/2zthz6d/7
My response to reading Stealing the Mona Lisa is a photograph of my mother looking into a mirror and seeing a younger version of herself (me). I did this because I found it interesting when it was described in the text how we cannot stop others from viewing us and how we see ourselves how we wish to be seen, perhaps not how others with a pure and true vision will see us.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53598321@N03/sets/72157624744410017/
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ReplyDeleteA child tries to find their own identity, when reading 'Stealing the Mona Lisa' a section stood out, the part where a child wants to understand themselves, their own body & sexuality however still to young to fully understand the concept.
This link ^ shows my 6 year old sister and myself slit into one person, The image shows just how similar we are, our family genes pasted down to embody similar facial features,
Our family name and blood lingers within both of us we are one person and we share our identity.
Sarah Jaban.
My contribution to the UCA summer project is a song called “Imaginarium Tongue.” It can be found on my music website www.myspace.com/thesleepycreatures. The subject of gaze is both interesting and thought provoking, and my immediate response to the brief would have been to produce a short film- if I had access to the necessary equipment. Instead I considered the questions “What is art?” “Why is it so expensive?” and “What makes art history?” As a song writer I drew upon my thoughts on these matters to write lyrics that explain how I feel as the creator (my inspirations and insecurities) and what my passion and motivation for being a musician means to me: It is the channelling of expression from the creator through his/her medium, to its receiver, and the uses and gratifications for both the artist and the audience. I hope you enjoy listening :)
ReplyDeleteNikki Gordon
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2060655&id=1234341090&l=a72bd606c6
ReplyDeleteMy piece is based on just a few lines at the end. I tried to explore the possibility that maybe instead of only humans observing images, the images almost look back at us, and in doing so, they change us in some way, by helping us form opinions, capitvate us, alienate us etc.
Cameron Pease
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23964&id=100001322285520
ReplyDeleteMy piece is called Minds Eye, which is based on different parts of the brief. What my piece is trying to say is that when someone looks at a painting or photograph you sometimes get a tingling feeling as if someone is watching us following our every move. The man about to steal the Mona Lisa who originally going to steal another painting saw the Mona Lisa's expressions such as eyes following him and smiling at him, which possessed him to take this particular painting.
Nicole Standen
I felt that I did not understand it, and the book was giving
ReplyDeleteme nothing, I could work with, which was when I released having nothing, is
still having something, so I wrote something that was inspired from my lack of
understanding of the book, i tried to develop a idea in which a man did not
understand the painting which the book was about. I found my self looking at
the painting asking Mona to talk to me giving me a idea, and then it all
developed from there. Why not use this to help me develop the story of a man who
is driven insane by the painting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGi-DnUaXMc
Ben Pook
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2069724&id=1583522911&saved#!/album.php?aid=2069724&id=1583522911
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ReplyDeleteMy work and explanation is on this link,
Anna Grootveldt.
http://summertaskmaxxaj.blogspot.com/
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ReplyDeleteI have provided a link to another blogspot as i was unable to upload to this blog.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=82887&id=1068686614&saved#!/photo.php?pid=1609486&id=1068686614&ref=fbx_album
ReplyDeleteDannielle Griffin
http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd92/Expoalbum/sml.jpg
ReplyDeleteI took from the text:
//does art allow us to make our own choice//
-The act of seeing.
-what we see depends on what someone else sees.
-eyes are more important than anything else.
The colours represent the visual influences that everyday objects have on people around us and how they can change how we feel through sight alone. The blind man, although influenced through other senses remains "oblivious" to the visual influences around him and based of the text. Is free from influence through sight but still not the invasion from other people.
The child is easily influenced and is still a blank canvas, hence the colour and lack of face. Unknown to her she is building "herself" through the influences around her.
I guess, in short, I wanted to question if without sight you are more of yourself than you would be with it.
Rebecca Musson
Rebecca Musson
I was interested in how the copious replicas of the image of the Mona Lisa, usually on merchendise, all paled in comparison to the original and all had little to no worth in comparison.
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In my painting all the replicas of the Mona Lisa are shown as degraded or drowning in the shadow of the "original" Mona Lisa, who's face has been stolen.
No idea how you actually upload it properly, so I hope this link works.
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The black and white image was taken at the Louvre in Paris when I went there a couple of weeks ago. The part of the text that interested me the most begins on page 3 of the text,
"But how, then, can we explain that other great group phenomenon of twentieth-century art, the convergence of legions of French men, women and children on the Louvre to see not a painting but the absence of a painting?"
In my photo, it shows how the Mona Lisa in the background, being blanked out by the Louvre. The painting is within the surrounding figures and outlines of people's shadows, apart from the mirrored shadow, which is suppose to depict the man who stole it. Her (Mona Lisa painting) eyes are hidden, suggesting the identity of the painting is well known, but only when it disappears, is when the painting is most known.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9GGOCHTP
ReplyDeleteim hoping this works
" What could have drawn these crowds to stare at a blank wall? Many of them had never seen the painting in the first place."
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Vicky Marshall.
http://openshutcase.blogspot.com/2010/09/glory-hole_09.html
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ReplyDeletePsychology of a child's drawings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJlUZhpwmlE
For this projected I created a short animation about the psychology of children’s drawings. I was inspired to create it when reading the section about psychologists and children’s art; how children will lose points when missing out certain features of the human body and score additional points for extra detail. At first I was going to create some ‘fun’ characters out of this idea and I became interested in how these characters would move when lacking certain parts. However I then decided to take more of a serious approach when researching my chosen subject by making my animation about child abuse as I found stories about how child abusers can be caught out through children’s drawings and how art therapy can help children recover.
Hopefully this works
ReplyDeletehttp://tinypic.com/r/2zthz6d/7
My response to reading Stealing the Mona Lisa is a photograph of my mother looking into a mirror and seeing a younger version of herself (me). I did this because I found it interesting when it was described in the text how we cannot stop others from viewing us and how we see ourselves how we wish to be seen, perhaps not how others with a pure and true vision will see us.
Hopefully this works
ReplyDeletehttp://tinypic.com/r/2zthz6d/7
My response to reading Stealing the Mona Lisa is a photograph of my mother looking into a mirror and seeing a younger version of herself (me). I did this because I found it interesting when it was described in the text how we cannot stop others from viewing us and how we see ourselves how we wish to be seen, perhaps not how others with a pure and true vision will see us.
Kimberley Dryden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A42N0YeLbus
ReplyDeleteTwo FBI agents are on the case of a thief who stole the prized Mona Lisa from the Louvre in Paris.
Sorry for being so late, hope it still counts.