My Response

I don’t believe there is a correct answer to this question. Except, I would define art as manmade creations that that are creative in style, and can be any colour. They can be any shape; a statue, painting, building (architecture), fashion, image or nature. All art consists of having some sort of line, texture, shape and colour. Art is most commonly creative, and an artist will make their art unique, no matter what they are creating, although it is very possible to copy other people’s creations.

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After Class Discussion

After our class discussion, I still think that there is no correct answer to what art is. Except, I think I did not look out of the box with my answer. After this discussion, I have decided that everything is art! Plants, chairs, table, computer, iPod, animals, the human race, everything on this earth is art!!!

What I thought about the YouTube videos. Are they ART?

1. Hand Art

I thought that the first video was exactly what I think art is. Anything!!! It was very imaginative, and even though it was different, it was still art, because as stated, there is no right or wrong answer to art. When watching the video, I liked to look at the painting on the hand, and try and see what position their hand is, and how they managed to paint their hand the correct colours and shapes in the correct places.

2. Fruit and Vegetable Art

I believe that this is art. I liked the idea behind it, and thought that it was very creative. On each carving of fruit and vegetables, I liked to try and figure out what fruit was used to creqate each part of the sculpture

3. Ketchup Art

I thought that this was the most creative of all the videos. This piece of art is just like using a pen for the drawing tool, and ink as the liquid that comes out. Except in this case, a French fry is used as the pen, and tomato sauce is used as the liquid that marks the paper. The overall result was amazing! I really want to be able to create something like that!

4. Origami Art

The ways that the artist managed to fold up the piece of paper, and not just make a crane, or something small, but large dragons consisting of many folds and many techniques used. I wonder how long it took the artist to figure out where to fold the paper, and what to do! Whenever I saw another photo, I thought of how much time it must have taken, and maybe the artist used more than one piece of paper, or made all the small parts of the shape separately, and then somehow connected them all together at the end.

Alfred Sisley was born on the 30th October 1839, in Paris, France to wealthy English parents. His father sent him to London to learn English and become a businessman. Although Sisley did not agree, and wanted to become an artist. He began to draw in London, from 1857 to1862. When he arrived back in Paris at the age of 23, his supported him, and sent him to the École des Beaux-Arts, where he worked under the encouragement of Charles Gleyre who told him to paint in en plein air (open air) and to be original. There he met Bazille, Monet and Renoir, and they would paint landscapes together in en plein air. In their work, they would realistically capture the effects of sunlight on the land, which resulted in making their artworks colourful, which was different to what the society were used to.
In1880 Sisley moved to a small village near Moret-sur-Loing. The ‘gentle landscapes with their constantly changing atmosphere were perfectly attuned to his talents.’
Through his entire life, he only lived in France, except for some occasional visits to London. Although, at the age of 59, Alfred Sisley died of throat cancer on 29th January, 1899 in Moret-sur-Loing, France. It was only then, and following his death did he receive recognition for his artworks.


La Seine à Argenteuil
1870






A Forest Clearing
1800’s

Georges-Pierre Seurat was born on December 2, 1859, in Paris, France. He had a large interest in art his whole life. During the early 1870s he took private drawing lessons with his uncle who was a painter named Paul Haumonte. During his life, he only painted seven large paintings, devoting approximately a year to each. He also painted and drew another five hundred smaller works. Seurat was the founder of pointillism, also known as divisionism, in art. He was the first person to ever fill each centimetre of his paintings with small, colourful dots, which would only represent the colour from a distance. The quality of his paintings ascended so high that it attracted many different generations of artists, designers, archite.cts, photographers and cinematographers.
On March 29, 1891, Georges died from "choking to death" due to a throat infection, known as diphtheria. At aged 32, he was laid to rest in the Cimitiere du Pere-Lachaise in Paris, France.


The Eiffel Tower
1889









The Seine at Le Grande Jatte
1888

Camille Pissarro was born July 10, 1830 on an island in the Caribbean, Danish west indies. He was sent to a boarding school in France at the age of twelve. This is where the director told him to take 'advantage of his life in the tropics by drawing coconut trees' after seeing his interest in art. So when he returned home in 1847, whenever he had spare time, he would draw sketches of all of his surroundings. He would observe and sketch the boats sailing, and water crashing on the rocks.
He eventually decided to run away to Venezuela, accompanied by Fritz Melbye, and worked as an artist there for two years. Once Camille settled in France in 1855, he became one of the founders of impressionism, along with other famous artists like Cézanne and Monet. Eventually, he decided to begin painting in the pointillist technique, and some of his painting are created purely out of dotting and few straight lines. This technique was said to be very mathematical. He sadly died on November 13, 1903 at the age of 73.


La Route de versailles a Louveciennes
1869







Washing day at Éragny
1901

Small Canvas Painting – Tomato

1. Describe the colour scheme you have chosen in your canvas painting. Discuss why you chose these colours in detail.
For my small canvas painting, I chose the colour scheme to be complementary colours. The two colours I chose were green and a reddish pink. My painting is of a tomato, and I thought that I should use complementary colours because a regular tomato is only red. A colourful tomato would look much more effective and brighten it up.

2. Describe how you created the work from start to finish, including painting techniques.
When painting my first layer, I made a rather light coloured pink which I then painted over with a darker reddish pink. Using my thickest brush, I started from the middle and brushed outwards to the edge. I then drew on the outline and different shapes of the tomato over the top of the first layer with a pencil. I then mixed up a darker shaded green, for the skin, and thicker layer on the outside of the tomato, and firstly painted this with a brush, then, using my finger, smoothened it up like in the photo. The next lesson I mixed up a lighter coloured green and, using my thinnest brush, went through all the wiggly lines. I found it difficult to get a lot of paint onto the brush, so the next lesson, I went over this, which gave it a darker, more solid coloured effect. When I began dotting with the bottle, I used white dots in the flesh, and am planning on using black dots on the skin layer. I have been using smaller dots, but spaced them apart more in

3. Describe what you like about your work and any difficulties you faced.
I like the small seeds within the painting, which are just a slightly darker tone, but have a good effect, as well as the smoothness of the thicker, skin layer from using my finger to paint this. One difficulty I faced was that when I painted the insides of the tomato with the smaller paint brush, it did not produce a solid enough colour, so I had to go over it again the next week after it had dried which took up some time. Another difficulty I faced was beginning later than everyone else because I had missed many lessons. I have only just begun dotting, and have placed my arm on the work a few times, making it a little bit messy.



4. Describe the tone, textures and line you have created in your work.
Tone: For my canvas painting, I used different tones of green for the different parts of the tomato. For the skin, I used a darker tone, although, I put in some white in one section of the skin to make it look like there was a light reflection on it. For the flesh of the tomato, I used a lighter tone, and for the liquid parts, I left them as the dark pink colour so that the complementary colours were more obvious.
Textures: I painted the skin of the tomato with my finger, so that it looked really smooth, and I did the flesh of the tomato by splotching the paintbrush in-between the lines so that it had a rougher looking texture.
Line: When I drew on the shape of the fruit, I did it very roughly because I didn’t want it to have a perfect and even look. When I made the base colour of the canvas, I started my brush stroke from the centre, and went out, so that it was possible to look in towards the centre of the painting.

5. Research the lino block printing process. What is printmaking?
Lino printmaking is the process of using an image, mirroring the image onto a piece of lino, in which you then carve out the shape, and the risen parts are what are painted on with ink using a roller. It is then printed onto paper for fabric.

6. What is a lino block?
When cork dust or wood dust, flax, chalk and linseed oil are mixed together, they create lino block which is used for a method of printing in which an image is carved into a block of linoleum.

7. a) Find two examples of artists’ works of interest that create prints from lino block.
b) Underneath each work discuss what the subject is of their work, the lines and textures
created in the work.
The artist Sybil Andrews created these two prints from lino block. The first picture is named ‘The Gale’ and the second is named ‘Windmill.’

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This piece of work is named ‘The Gale’ by Sybil Andrews.
The subject of this work is that there is a big gale of wind that comes along with lots of rain, and there are two people with umbrellas walking outside. The dotted lines represent rain, and this is proved from the people with the umbrellas. The ways that the white shapes are pointed indicate wind whirling around. Lastly, the textures of the blue which is slightly faded and not a solid colour mostly indicates that the rain is there splashing everywhere.

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This piece of work is named ‘Windmill’ by Sybil Andrews.
The subject of this print is about a windmill powering away, collecting energy. The ways the shapes and lines have been used demonstrate that the windmill is spinning fast and vigorously. The textures in the print displays that the windmill is casting a shadow.