MGMT-Time To Pretend

The music video contains multiple references to Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film The Holy Mountain & the classic book Lord of the Flies. The video was directed by Ray Tintori. Tiscali Music gave the video a rating of 10 out of 10[5][6] A 3D version of the video with minor changes to the original was also produced.

This music video relates to drawing by first off the colors used in this video. You see a lot of complementary ones, warm colors, & cool colors. Another way it relates is the graphics/drawings & show movement. I choose this video because it's very odd but interesting. I really like how the video was made with the odd graphics & colors. Something you don't typically see in music videos but I guess that's one of the other reasons I really like the video.

Jean Lowe-Hey Sexy

     Enamel on panel 

Jean Lowe's work, Hey Sexy is variation of paintings of photographs that she took from places such as Wal-Mart, Big Lots, & biggest one of all 99¢ Stores.The paintings are isles of these stores in beautiful buildings saying that everything that we buy like food, clothing, soap, paint, ect. And the labels, advertisements, & seal that all of that is are are because we just continue to consume & it isn't enough. I think these paintings are really bold & deep because most people don't realize it, that we take so much for granted & don't even care. The way Jean Lowe's paintings relate to drawing is when I saw these I noticed all the value she used, & her color schemes. When you see advertisements they tend to have colors to make them more appealing so you'll buy them.

  Enamel on panel 36"x36" 

                           

                                            

God Nose-John Baldessar

God Nose, 2007 Casted aluminum, hand-painted. 36"x37"x6" Edition of 25

I tried to find more information about this piece but I couldn't. But I wanted to talk about it because when I saw  it at the Museum of Contemporary Art I thought it was really clever. You see only God's nose surrounded by clouds but the metaphor is he knows everything. I love this piece, I really think its great. And the way it relates to drawing is for a painting & a 3D one you see value with the shadows through out the clouds & even the nose it's self. That, & you see the shine on the nose then to the left of it you see the shadow.

Jo Bradney-Carbon Footprints

  22"x30" Charcoal & pastel drawing
What Jo Bradney is showing with her Carbon Footprints charcoal drawings is what we are what we eat, or in other words what we consume is who we are. I like how she uses her drawings to show that, its refreshing in a way because her drawings are dark with the deep colors she uses to show the message. I choose her because I like her drawings & the colors she uses. The way Jo Bradney's drawings relate to drawing is the value she shows in her drawings with the different values of the grays, blacks, purple, ect.
 




"As I stroke the soft charcoal across the paper, enveloping the artifact, the image forms where the charcoal isn’t. A footprint in the dust. Fragments of faded pastel, like a hand-colored photograph, speak of times past."

                                  

                                                                                                    12"x10"Charcoal & pastel drawing

     18"x12" Charcoal & pastel drawing

                                                                                         

                                                                                   18"x23"Charcoal & pastel drawing

CeCi Saucedo

 

CeCi Saucedo is an 18 year old, first year student at Crafton Hills College. She is in my opinion a wonderful artist, especially when it comes to drawing. Her drawings are really cartoony & show a lot of character which is why I love them. She wants to work with Disney in the future & I think she is well on her way.  This artist relates to drawing is her drawings show value, shading, & the colors in some of her drawings remind me of what we've learned about colors.The colors she uses reminds me of the color scales. She also shows a lot of value in her drawings & I think in some of her drawings shows so much with so little with some of the value or even a bit of detail shows a lot.

                                                    (Bruises from hip hop. Someone made a comment about her knees asking if her man hits her)

 

                                     

     

Blu-Muto, A wall painted motion

A short film by Blu: an ambigous animation painted on public walls. Mad in Buenos Aires & in Baden (fantoche). I choose this because every time I see Blu's videos I have to keep reminding my self that its motion picture & every motion is done by hand. I also think about how much time was put into each motion as well. I am really fascinated with Blu's work. It relates to drawing because every motion is a drawing. But with that, you see motions of each thing as it moves across the wall or ground. And you also see blending as well.

Frida Kahlo-The Two Fridas

Painted in 1939, Oil on Canvas, 67x67 inches. It was believed to be an expression of Frida's feelings about her divorce with Diego Rivera. This was the first large-scale self portrait she has ever done. Frida wore her heart on her sleeve & in this case it was literally almost. On the right, the Frida is holding a small portrait of Diego. It relates to Drawing because first off it's a self portrait which we're about to do. And it's a very expressive painting with how Frida felt. This painting illustrating a literal split between her two selves is from this period of turmoil & self-doubt. The composition is striking. On the right is the Mexican Frida in traditional tehuana dress. On the left is European Frida in a colonial white dress, possibly intended to be wedding garb. The two women are seated on a green bench, holding hands. The anatomy of their hearts is superimposed on them both; the one belonging to the European self is seen through a hole in her dress at the breast. A blood line originates at a cameo of Diego as a child held by the Frida on the right. It twines between them both & is ultimately terminated by a medical implement held by the Frida on the left. Blood stains intermingle with the red flowers at the hem of the dress. I choose this because I love how she expresses herself is so bold & something that I've never seen or would think of doing with a self portrait.

Frida Kahlo said "Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself."

Starry Night-Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, (Oil on Canvas, 1889) was painted when he was in the Asylum at Saint-Remy in 1889. There are different aspects when it comes to this painting talking about how the town, sky, clouds, ect. But Vincent in his younger years wanted to dedicate his life to evangelization of those in poverty. This painting is the post of impressionist landscape painting.I choose this because for one it's my most favorite painting by Van Gogh. Another reason why is I love it for the colors & the motions of the sky. The swirls that I think really dignified  the painting because it's pretty intense. 

Giacomo Balla-Dynamism Of A Dog

Dynamism Of A Dog by Giacomo Balla is a diagram of a dog showing possible alternative positions for a man's limbs. This image is designed to demonstrate how the human frame can be made to fit within both a circle and a square. Which is how it relates with drawing is that you can the different movements with lines. The fast moving ones with the leash & wagging of the dog's tail emphasize speed & movement. You can also see with the the dog owner walking & the grown that the dog & owner are on. I really like this piece because the use of color. It's really simple & it's obvious of what you're focused on. I also really like how by looking at this if you were to draw something to emphasize movement you can look at this & get a really perspective on how to make it.

Jackson Pollock No.1

 Jackson Pollock, Number 1A, 1948, 1948, (oil and enamel on canvas, 68 in. x 8 ft. 8 in. Possible cigarettes  buts [172.7 x 264.2 cm]), The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. OT 186

Jackson Pollock's No. 1 has so mins lines & layers of black & white with airlessness of his layers & lines. He would restrain his use of colors, even dignified as black, white, tan, & aluminum gray. He shows it in his paintings by how the dignified colors are poured & dripped & can be wild. I really love this painting because when I first saw it I had two thoughts. One was that it reminded me of something I made when I was in 

kindergarten with a marble & paint. The second was that I felt very I guess frustrated or mad by just looking at this piece so I didn't really like it at first. But then later on the more I thought about it & hearing about Jackson Pollock & his struggles with art I found myself relating to him & loving this piece. Because I myself am getting use to new areas of art but I'd say my best would be abstract for now. The way that this relates to drawing is that lines & lines are used & layered. And you get a really big feel when you look at this piece of how black & white & the other colors are used.

http://www.terraingallery.org/Pollock_LS.htm

 

http://tmds1.blogspot.com/2011/07/jackson-pollock.html

Katty-Edward Scissior Hands

This video shows Katty's drawing of Edward & Kim from Edward Scissorhands. She made the drawing out of out of a stamping motions froma 1/2inch scissior shaped rubber stamp with Ranger Archival & jet black in on a 3 &1/2' x 6 &1/2fr Srtathmore drawing paper. Art Piece Dimensions: 3& 1/2' ft x 6 1/2& ft.It took her 12 hour to make & all her artwork is uusually sprayed with a coat of matte finish permanent fixative before shipment to reduce aging process.  You can see as the drawing is being made picture by picture & the lines being filled in but you can also see the negative space being filled in with shading. And you can see at the end of the video with the close up of the drawing Katty used the stamp to make the drawing detailed & the shading but not so much that is was really dark. I choose this because I thought it was pretty incredible how it was made & we just learned about contour lines & negative space.

Created using stamping motions from a 1/2in x 3/4in scissor shaped rubber stamp with Ranger Archival jet black ink on a 

Sharpie Proposal

This commercial contains a lot of simple drawings made on postate notes. Seems like there are only a few simple lines make up the postate drawings but there is quite a bit of detail in each & every one of them. There are dark colors used to make the drawings on the yellow sticky notes so that the drawings are more bold & not blinded with the yellow; but there are also light colors used but not so light that you can't see them. I really like this commercial because I like how the used the Sharpie to make these drawing but the fact that these drawings are used on postate notes & are just moving on the stack of postates; surrounding the postates us just a desk. I really love animation so the idea of these drawings are on the notes & on a desk us why I really like this commercial.