module 5

There was a lot that I considered before creating my logo. First, I thought of all the logos Ii have seen in my life and what they meant to me. Then I thought about things I liked and how I could incorporate it into my logo.  I had a lot of "rough drafts" before I came up with my final logo idea. Creating the main shape was my biggest issue. I was not sure what I wanted my main focal point to be. The biggest discovery that I made was there are a lot of words that mean alot to me  and I anted to somehow incorporate them into my logo. The most important thing I learned about logos is that your logo is the picture that people think of when they think of you. For example, when I think of Starbucks I instantly think of their logo. I wanted my logo to fully represent me and I think it does!

color wheel and scale

I really enjoyed creating the color wheel and the color scale.  Creating the scale was actually pretty difficult! I found it hard to create a square that was just slightly darker than the previous square yet slightly lightly than the square ahead of it but I had a lot of fun creating it.

I actually enjoyed using the pencil when creating the color scale. Who knew that a pencil could have so many different shades to it? Who knew a pencil could create a completely black box, it is just something that I haven't thought of before.

As silly as this may sound, the most interesting discovery while creating the color wheel was that mixing two colors could create another actual color. Of course I knew that mixing a shade of blue and yellow would create green, but I have never actually done it before, so to do it, and to see it happen before my eyes was quite interesting.

I liked watching the videos for this assignment. I enjoyed the color wheel video because I felt excited and anxious to create my own color wheel while watching it. It was amazing seeing new colors form due to the mixing of other colors.

photo bucket project

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 http://s30.photobucket.com/user/abbyratner/slideshow/module%203%20slide%20show

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I really enjoyed creating the photo bucket slide show. I have never used photo bucket before and I found it to be a useful tool in creating my art project. It was interesting going through my home and finding works of art that compared to the elements and principles of art. Who would have thought that all of these elements were in my home the whole time and I never even knew it!

It was crazy how art is everywhere!

module 3 blog

" We don't see things, we see light." This first sentence, a part of My art Studio: Elements of Art had me intrigued. It is crazy to think that without light, objects have no appearance. Colors play a huge role on emotions. The example that the elements of art website gives about the stop and go sign and what would happen if the colors were to switch. What would you do at a green stop sign? Or if boys were represented by pink? How would that affect gender roles. Why aren't foods blue? Why are we grossed out by blue foods? It is amazing how all of these aspects of color play a role in our emotions. "The complex emotional responses evoked by colors are not easily reduced to a set of rules or a series of formulas." We have no way of knowing how or way colors impact us the way we do.

The part of color that fascinates me the most would be optical effects. It is amazing how when looking at the value portion under the optical effects sections, those black circles appear amongst the white circles. Personally, I enjoy looking at optical illusions and I never really even thought about how much color impacts and plays a role in optical illusions.

In the color video, it was fascinating to think how color can affect your emotions. When the artist June visits old painting to see where her inspiration came from, we see what a huge role color played for her and how color played a huge role in her emotions that it really impacted her own piece of artwork. I think the colors that she sees in Venice, also play a big role on her emotions.

In the feelings video, what played the biggest impact on me in regards to color impacting emotions was the scene in the church with all of the stain glass windows and just realizing how truly beautiful they were. The stunning colors and the sheer beauty of the colors were incredible. Being Jewish, it is not often that I find myself in a church so seeing these images, ones that I am not familiar with,  I really get to appreciate the beauty of it.

module 2

 These videos and articles were very interesting. Some interesting topics that were covered in the first video was that although Aristotle was Plato's student, there opinions on art and poetry were very different.  When the article discussed the Mona Lisa smile, I found that part to be most interesting. It is amazing how when you do look around her face, her expression seems to change. You have to rely on your peripheral vision so much especially when looking at this particular painting. The Mona Lisa has always been one of my favorite works of art, because I find it beyond beautiful, so learning about how her face changes depending on where you look at her it so interesting to me.

In my opinion, the most important  philosopher that was mentioned was Plato taught that "the there is an idea of beauty in which all things are beautiful." Plato argued the manifestation of something beautiful attracts the person that sees it. This is very interesting and true, we are intrigued by the idea of beauty. Plato held a low opinion on artists and poets which is interesting coming from a man such a Plato himself.  Plato mistrusted poets because he believed the spoke about things that they didn't know about. "Plato famously denied that poetry was art."

It was very interesting when Changeux was discussing how important the function of the brain is when looking at aesthetics. There are many mental processes that occur when looking at art. It was interesting when he showed the picture and asked if it was a mans face or a woman and it was hard to tell depending on how you were perceiving it. Ramachandran was studying visual aesthetics because he wondered why certain works of art had such an impact on the human mind. He was very interesting to listen to in terms of why certain works of art are even considered works of art. People have different likings, and individual peoples cultures are why some people like certain works of art and other people don't like it.

I think the videos and the article really go together and make sense. After hearing the speakers talk about how we rely on our brain when it comes to art, and then reading the article and learning about how your brain works to distinguish color, luminance,  and most importantly why we like art, which I think was touched upon by the speakers as well.

I really enjoyed watching the two videos and reading the article. Personally, I enjoyed the article because how the articles described how your brain works in terms of deciphering lines, and faces , etc. it was interesting to learn about how much you rely on your brain in terms of looking at art. I definately learned a lot more from these two videos and article.