Monday, March 31, 2008
Project 2: Self-Portrait Triptych
My overall theme for the self-portrait is autumn as it is my favorite season. For the first part of the triptych I wanted to show the sillier side of me. I love Batgirl and dressing up as Batgirl, so I decided to make a Batgirl army. Then for the center I wanted to portray the everyday me. For the third section I only used the outline of me as if I'm invisible; since I'm usually quiet and whatnot people often forget about me so I get to be invisible.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Illustrator Warning Label
Illustrator Pictogram
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Dia: Beacon
(if you search richard serra on google images, you can find many different images of his sculptures)
Richard Serra grew up in San Francisco working in steel mills. After studying in California, Yale University, and Paris, in the 1960s, he started working artistically with the steel and lead he had grown up working with. Many of his pieces were more about the process of creating it rather than the finished product. Considered a Minimalist, Serra’s works are extremely large, relatively simple metal objects. One of the pieces of his at the Dia, Torqued Ellipses, took four years in the late nineties to create. These ellipses are huge spirals that one can walk in. They curve in and out and are open in the center. When you walk inside of one it seems even bigger then when you looked at it from the outside. I love the immensity of Serra’s works and how they sort of engulf you as you enter. At times it feels as if the steel is closing in on you, but then you get to the center, which seems larger then possible.
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