Brianna 2D-Design

Jim Condron's was extremely confusing and I really had no idea what the meaning was behind his artwork when we first went to see it in the gallery, but after hearing his talk it makes a little more sense. If I am being completely honest I thought the talk was pretty boring and he was a very mundane speaker. But, I found it interesting that he just began to create these "sculptures" and really calls himself a painter. For these reasons he explains that he has yet to perfect the ability to make these "sculptures" on a larger scale and needs to keep them smaller, which is very different from his paintings. He also says that he is not quite yet confident in classifying his artwork as sculptures. Looking at his artwork, I would have never guessed that he strategically puts the pieces together, such as candy wrappers, golf balls, pieces of fur, tennis ball cartons, and that they all have some meaning to his life. The last part that was interesting is that his title

This reading was very difficult for me to follow and overall just confused me. In Escaping Flatland, Tufte writes about the ways to expand the number of dimensions that can be depicted on plane surfaces and the data density or the amount of information per unit area. I thought the examples of the Java Railroad and the Criminal Activity was interesting to show how certain visual arrangements of different information invites a wide range of ways to detect the patterns that are made to be persuasive and memorable. When looking at information we want something that we are able to think rationally about, communicate and in the end keep what was learned. Tufte writes how "Chartjunk promoters imagine that numbers and details are boring, dull, and tedious, requiring ornament to enliven." This method is meant to make the viewer look from a distance as if the data were a poster. I think this is actually a very interesting way since numbers are often times boring to look at and hard to

This piece of artwork was made using images on photoshop, paint, ink, marker and magazine cutouts. The composition is very close to being symmetrical and the layout of the piece allows the eye path of the viewer to move from the center, which is the focal point, to each layer that surrounds it. There is both circular and rectangular shapes, which creates a sort of balance and rhythm to the piece. The colors of the painting are warm with mostly an analogous scheme with greens and blues. The denotative meaning of this piece is that there are a collage of different social media and internet mediums slightly deformed being taken in by a black hole. Surrounding this image is a large circle with question marks and around that is a collage of words. The connotation that comes with this piece is a feeling of questioning and reflection. It makes you think about the words that are present and ask yourself how they connect to the message and how much they relate to your life. There is an ideolo

Postmodernism is considered to be a late twentieth-century concept of styles and ideas that deal with art, architecture and culture and shows a deviation from modernism. This is the current era we live in and is continuously evolving. The different eras of art, such as realism, modernism, and postmodernism, come as a result of the current times and is a way to communicate and connect with specific groups that have formed in society. Postmodernism often times plays with a more imaginative and exotic way of creating art. One thing that was confusing for me was the idea about hyperreality, which is defined as exaggerated in comparison to reality. In the article it says that "Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real." How exactly is this supposed to be interpreted? What is the difference between reality and imaginary in this context? Is it trying to say that people think of Disney characters as real, when in reality they are si

In the beginning of the podcast I found the statement that scientist often make "color has an objective reality, but colors we see are tricks of the imagination" very insightful. This explanation made a lot of sense to me and is an easy way to think about color because in actuality there is no completely correct way to observe color or determine the "real" color being viewed. I found it interesting when the speakers went on to talk about the different color receptors of multiple creatures and how each thing would see the rainbow in a distinct way. A dog has only two color receptors, blue and yellow, and can be compared to someone who is color blind. A human has a third color receptor, red, which mixes with many other colors and helps humans have the ability to see about 100 more colors and shades. A sparrow sees more of the start of a rainbow than we do because of their ultraviolet vision. They also see more colors than dogs and humans because they have ext

The sneaker by itself looked bright white and when placed on the sheets the sneaker still looked whiter than the sheets. The sheets looked duller and almost more cream colored. When there was more light added to the room the sneaker was illuminated and had a reflective glow and the sheets became brighter.