Sunday, January 18, 2009

Beauty vs. Repulsion

A. "Good" art can be anything that catches the viewers eye and keeps their attention. This picture is a great example of "good" art. All of the different colors make the viewer interested in the design and the repeated rubber duck image brings the whole composition together.
     "Bad" art just doesn't keep your attention like good art does. It can be because of the composition, the color choice or just the quality of the image. This painting has a pop art look to it which is nice but the way the two girls are drawn and painted are just poorly done. They don't look 3-D or anything. It's a good start but needs a lot of work.

B. Honorific Art is creations that people of the art world have classified as honorable. Honorific art generally falls under one of the four categories: Realism, Expressionism, Formalism and Poststructuralism.

C. Classificatory definitions of art are reasons or classifications why one design is considered are and why something else might not be considered art.

D. I'm honestly not really sure just yet what makes me the most uncomfortable with aesthetics and ethics in art. 

E. My drawings relate most to Heimir Bjorgulfsson's work. He likes to use nature in  his work, he says his work is about his personal relationship with nature and how it affects him. My drawings reflect the emotions that certain things in nature make me feel. Some things such as butterflies show beauty and other things like centipede's just give me a disgusting feeling showing repulsion.


Thursday, January 15, 2009

Define Beauty & Repulsion

Beauty:
Beauty is something natural, something unique and excellent, a quality present in a thing or person that gives satisfaction to the viewer.

Repulsion:
Repulsion is a feeling of unpleasantness the someone or something gives the viewer.


When I first saw this image I thought WOW that's kind of gross and creepy but then once I took a closer look it's actually pretty cool. All of that is made from yellow Legos, but still a bit repulsive.