Findings Through Art

"Campbell Soup Cans" Medium: Synthetic polymer paint Created: 1962 Scale: N/A "The Last Supper" Created: 1986 Medium: Synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas Scale: N/A "Dentures/Keep Frozen" Created: 1985 Medium: Synthetic polymer, screenprint, and collage on cardboard Size: 53 1/4 x 79 3/8 inches "The Velvet Underground Album Cover" Created: 1967 Medium: screenprint in colors with collage, on wove paper applied to drawing board Size: N/A "Make Him Want You" Created: 1961 Medium: Wax crayon and oil paint on linen Size: N/A Andy Warhol Museum  Pittsburgh The painting that had the largest impression on me isn’t even a painting, called “Make  Him Want You”, this piece made me think of dissatisfaction in body image of a woman, nothing is good enough. As a woman seeing this painting clearly was made to evoke a response in women, you strive to want to be good for anyone or make anyone want you, instead,...

1.) Creating the Color Wheel and the Value Scale was easy to follow with the videos, I enjoyed creating them and it worked out okay other than the fact that my acrylic paint was acting more like watercolor and I'm not sure why. 2.) I preferred working with the Ebony charcoal pencil, it was smooth and my acrylic paint was not mixing very well and was well saturated it was creating a more see-through effect. 3.) The most important discovery is the fact that color and value is endless, just primary colors alone can mix to be a lot of other colors. The value scale shows how artists can develop dimensions and deeper texture to their art. 4.) The videos from this module showcased the importance of color in the world, color isn't just a surface delight for your eyes, it delves into emotions and possibilities. The video and tutorials were interesting and I learned facts I didn't know before about color and its impacts.

Color and its emotions on people goes back to the evolutionary past of humans. The single-celled organism had to harvest their energy from the longer wavelengths, the reds, but avoid lethal ultraviolet waves. Blue and yellow were the first colors to matter. Primates were the first ones to be sensitive to red and green. Today, squirrel monkeys are tested on and if the monkeys began to like red fruit, they would learn to associate red with pleasure, just like humans. Cool colors and warm colors tend to hold the opposite meanings. Blues are meant to be calming, greens being the color of pastures evoke a feeling associated with being refreshed. Yellow is associated with a more warming effect. A theoretical concept that fascinates me about color is the theory that certain colors can speed up time. In the science museum clip, this was tested by three different color pods of white, blue and red. White is the control, people are asked to stand in the different pods and give a sign whe...

Charlotte Flynn February 7th, 2020 Module 2 Questions Fundamentals of Art Inquiry 1.) In the video  Aesthetics: Philosophy of Art,  I learned that there is such a thing as "positively sinking into art as we look around us, as art is supposed to be everywhere (42:29). Many media forms contain art, humans cannot escape art fully as it is always around us. Art allows for feelings to come about beyond just aesthetics. I also learned that the foundations for modern aesthetics were started in 18th century England (11:33), this period started the first modern system of the arts. In the second video  Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics  I learned the definition for a "consensus partium" it is stated that it is the universal search for harmony and the coherence of the parts within a whole is what leads to harmony (16:22). I also learned from this video the eight laws of arts (26:47) which includes the grouping/binding, peak shift principle, contrast, isolating ...