Jampolsky Quote 1-31-11

"A truly creative person rids of all self-imposed limitations." -Gerald G. Jampolsky


I think this means that to really think outside the box, you have to burn the box. Basically, anything that's holding you back, you need to let go of it. If you limit yourself, then you don't reach your full potential since limitations deny some ideas.

Aesthetics Definition 1-28-11

aes·thet·ic

 
es-thet-ik-noun       the study of the mind and emotions in relation to the sense of beauty
       Aesthetics, to me, means the emotion you feel, in this situation, when you look at a piece of art. Usually it implies a positive feeling. If it is aesthetically pleasing, it would be directed towards art I think is beautiful. Art I find aesthetically pleasing is usually displaying dance of some sort or the five elements.

This painting is very aesthetically pleasing to me. I love the colors red and black as a combination, so I am regularly attracted to anything those colors. As a dancer, I recognize the position of her body as abstract but beautiful and passionate. Overall, I really like this.

David Hockney 1-27-11

David Hockney
1937-present
Hockney is an artist and one of the main contributers to the 1960's pop art movement. Some of his trademark art is called photocollage, of taking many photographs to make a one entire picture. It plays with the human eye. I like this because it's original. He also painted; one painting, A Bigger Splash, inspired an entire movie. Recently, he has introduced a gallery of iPhone drawings which I like because they are good and I know that drawing on an iPhone is hard.

Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha
1937-present
Ruscha is an American artist who was part the the pop art movement. He practices painting. printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. A lot of his art is flat with words and phrases incorporated into backgrounds. He experimented with some odd, different mediums like grass stains, fruit and vegetable juices, and even blood. His art isn't that pleasing to me, I don't feel much when I look at it. It's interesting, but that's about as much as I can say about it. 

Fritz Hunderwater

Fritz Hunderwater or Hundertwasser
1928-2000
Hunderwater was an Austrian artist and architect. He began his training with simple sketches but then moved on to his bigger  works. Part of his recognizable technique we his lack of straight lines, as shown in this service station he designed. I really like his architecture because it is abstract and not predictable. It looks like something out of a cartoon.

Architecture Preferences for Bird Houses

 Modern Architecture in China

Chinese Pagodas

Socrates Quote 1-24-11

"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives" -Socrates


In my point of view, it seems Socrates is indicating that as living humans, we don't fully realize the world we live in until we aren't living anymore. "Man must rise above Earth--to the top of the atmosphere and beyond" like Heaven. Perhaps we are too close-minded as humans. This could also refer to meditation because some describe it as an outer body experience.

Sondro Botticelli 1-21-11

Sondro Botticelli
1445-1510
He was an Italian painter during the early Renaissance. One of his most famous paintings was Birth Of Venus (to the left).I really like his art, it's very expressive and tells a story of its own with just one moment. It's very detailed, and somewhat magical which I like. His other famous painting, Primavera, also shows mythical human-like beings interacting with people.

Romare Bearden 1-20-11

Romare Bearden
1911-1988

Bearden was an African-American artist and writer. His life experience initially fueled his artistic studies rather that actual knowledge of art. He experimented in using different kinds of prints to make his art. I like his work because it's personal, and I think it really illustrates his life on a personal level. It's very colorful with a mix of incredible detail and basic geometric shapes. The art draws attention and would be eye catching in galleries.

Maxfield Parrish 1-19-11

Maxfield Parrish
1870-1966
Parrish was a painter and an illustrator who used bright colors in his artwork. His work has very smooth lines from using oil paints, and he had exquisite detail. I like his work very much; His color choices  are beautiful and eye-catching. It makes me feel like the subjects in the art appear to feel or how the landscape looks.  Images are dramatic and bold which is very attractive.

Harry Callahan 1-18-11

Harry Callahan, (1912-1999) was a photographer who began by teaching himself.  He then became more self-determined to focus on his photography after listening to a talk by another artist, Ansel Adams, and by forming a friendship with another photographer, Todd Webb.  Callahan used a method of photo developing using silver print which produced a very clear, crisp image. His subjects were often his wife, Eleanor and their daughter, Barbara. His images usually portrayed small subjects on expansive backgrounds. He left little written record of him ever existing, but he did leave about 100,000 negatives and over 10,000 proof prints after his passing.

Impossible? Guess Not! 1-14-11

Georges Rousse

The space bender artist and photographer, WOAH!

Born in Paris and a french native, Rousse paints the impossible. Illusions of floating shapes, like the one above, and words are his staple. By using geometry in a strategical manner and using his openly artistic and creative mind, he is able to paint existing structures with designs of his unique originality. At the perfect angle, what seems like random painted lines on walls, floors, and ceilings...

...becomes a flawless image!

Personally, I like his art very much; his photography is amazing and a wonderful trick to the eye. I could spend all day looking at his work.

So Over Winter Cabin Fever! 1-13-11

      "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution." 
-Albert Einstein





     In this quote, Einstein expresses how he feels that using creativity is more useful than actual knowledge. He implies knowledge is connected to logical thinking which is constrained by the boundaries of what is really possible. I like this because imagination is unique and represents individuality. It is imagination that creates new ideas and it is these new ideas that sparks the evolution Einstein was referring to.