Paris Artist

The piece of artwork that I chose to show you that was inspired by the Paris attack on November, 13th, 2015 is this:

 

This specific piece of artwork is by " Steve Benson ". Steven Benson is actually Steven Reed Benson (born January 2, 1954 in Sacramento, California) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson is the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS Church president Ezra Taft Benson.

The reason why I chose this piece of art, was because of the meaning that I feel it has behind it.

I think that this piece of work says a lot about the world, the countries and most importantly the Paris attack.

In the photo, it shows Paris across the lake being attacked, while the statue of liberty is stepping in to help. To me, this photo has a strong message that we need to all be in this together, and have each other backs when heartbreaking things like this happen. I believe that by all the countries coming together and taking care of each other we can make a difference. I think that by people seeing this photo they will also understand the message and realize that its important to stand with eachother in these types of situations and have respect and condolences for the people that were victimized in this trageic occurrence.

Paris Crisis

“We are all part of something, even in war and in love, pray for those who were chosen at war and those who lost their war.”

On Friday the 13th, of November 2015,  the world stood still once again. While I was at home, laying in bed on my phone, my  phone began getting alerts from various news sources relating the worst news. There had been a terrorist attack in Paris. A  number of those critically injured continued to grow and the world held its breath. By midnight that night the amount of deaths was well over 100 and there were over 300 men and women badly injured. Throughout the night, people from around the world stood in respect and sorrow with the French, using hashtags like #PrayForParis and #SolidarityWithParis. Countries showed their respect with the French by lighting up famous locations such as the Empire State Building, the Statue of Christ the Redeemer, and the Sydney Opera House, in blue, white, and red  the colors of the French flag. In Toronto Ontario the CN tower was also lit up red blue and white in honor of Paris. The attack on Paris was heartbreaking to everyone. Paris and the family's who lost loved ones, and who had been affected by this tragedy will continue to be in my prayers.

 

 

 



Experimenting

A couple days ago in art, I was thinking of more ideas and experimenting with different stragaties and tools that could be used for my three series Art assignment. 

I made a little canvas and just started to paint and try new things, instead of what I usually Do, which is think about it for a long time and try and have a image in my head of what I'm going to do. 

in the end this is what I came up with; 

I practiced blending different colors together, (blue, purple, pink). 

And tried to use different techniques to crate the more alive look to the flower.

Salvador Dali

After watching Dalis video on YouTube, i realized how fascinating he was as an artist and a person! 

Salvador Dali was a Spanish painter who was born on May 11/1904 and passed January 23/ 1989.

So, the assignment was to read this quote/ saying, that Dali said. We are suppose to say what we think he meant by this, and to analyze it. This is what he said; 

"Because I am too intelligent to be a good painter, to be a good painter you've got to be a bit stupid"

I think that what he meant by this was that when most people are trying to paint or create a price of art work, they think and think on what kind they should do, and what is a really clever idea that hasn't been done. And by doing that, they overthink the whole assignment and are left with no ideas. Where as other people who just don't think about it too much, and paint what they first think about or just start to paint and end up with a beautiful painting. I Believe that his saying has a very strong meaning and is very true.

I really enjoy a lot of his art work that I seen on YouTube and Google. Some of his art works include: 

I think that his art work is very interesting and I Believe  that every painting he does has a meaning behind them. 

I like the way that he takes simple objects and everyday things we see, and turn them into beautiful peices of Art. For example, the scisors turned into dancers, the clocks and the telephones in the first and last painting I posted are also made into a different meaning and to me they have different expectations rather than just telling the time, or just painting a telephone, they all tell a story and I think that's what art is about, is telling a story.

Poem Project Ideas

For our latest project, we were to try and find a poem for the class to work with. The assignment is to all agree on a Poem, than do a price of artwork that YOU believe represents the poem. 

I was looking at some of my favorite poetry accounts on Tumblr, and came across a few of these lovely poems for ideas.

Series Ideas

For this project, we were asked to create a series of artwork that all were mentally or emotionally connected in some way.

at first I struggled while trying to come up with different ideas for this. 

My first idea was to create a pottery bowl, Draw a sketch of a bowl than paint a bowl. Once I realized that it kinda wasn't a very interesting or clever type of way to take this project. 

Last night I decided that I was going to find a beautiful maple Leaf outside on the ground. I'm going to put it in a book so it stays the same and doesn't curl up, than I'm going to Paint a picture of the leaf itself in water color, with some different designs of course, and for the third, I hadn't really made up my mind but I was thinking I would draw the maple leaf and fill it with a bunch of little designs.

I still havnt decided if this is the idea I'm going with, but it's a start to my project. 

The Artist JR

For those who don't know who JR is, JR is a artist/ photographer who was born in Paris, France. 

JR has done many projects, but the most known one would be " Face 2 Face ", back in 2007. It was the biggest illegal exhibition. 

Face 2 Face was portraits of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight of Israelis and Palestinians Cities. Although he was told he couldn't do it, and it wasn't possible JR continued to prove them all wrong. 

I personally really enjoy his art work and the way he believes in himself  and his artwork. I think that, that's one of the main reason he is where he is now, believing in him self and what he does.

JR's artwork is really amazing and he is a wonderful artist. My favorite project of his work would have to be the one he titles "Unframed". 

Here are some of the photos in this project that he took: 

The reason why I like this particular project of JRS is because I think it has a lot of meaning behind it. Each one is unique and tells a little story. I like how he takes normal places and scenery and makes them into art and makes them his own new masterpieces. 

I think that after researching JR and getting to know more about him and his style, and life has made me the most connected to him than any other artist. He puts so much of himself in his art and I really admire that about him.