Use of Color

Manipulatinon of Time

                                         

                 Illusion of Time

The artist Bill Viola does a wonderful job with manipulating motion and time. For me I always thought that time is just an illusion of the human mind so it can be manipulated. If we go to Webster’s definition though, time is not something that can be tempered.  I do believe that since it’s an illusion, Viola was able to use it to how he wanted audience to see it. In his work, Ocean without a shore, he displays a person who to the eyes transforms slowly but to time, ages instantly. The video starts off with a plumb and young looking person, whose body suddenly starts to leak of water and as this process takes place, life looks to be drying out of her. As this takes place, the person the person’s face gets slimmer and older. This is way to make time move in your own way without interrupting anyone else.  Even though in the natural sense, gets older only when time passes soon, he plays it to the point that in the eyes time is slow but yet the outcome displays the opposite. The way he manipulates time is like playing a trick with the mind and the eyes. Both of them do not relate what they see.

Color And Light

LIGHT AND COLOR

Color and light are two things that make the work of art bold and lively. Most artist choose their colors based on the mood they are in while painting and others just do it as a guideline to what the audience should feel like by looking at the work. From the Eastfield College Permanent collection, I chose Xie Xiaoze‘s work entitled “The Anatomy Lesson”. This work really stood out to me because of the art and colors the artist chose to use. I was really intrigued by the fact that he painted the living in black outfit and the dead in white. I believe in the artist doing so it was a sort of contradiction but at the same time a way to give audience a big enough space to think of all the possible meaning of the work. Normally we attribute color and light or anything bright to the living because it symbolizes life and then we paint the dead black or dark colors. When I looked at the art for the first time I thought it was for no reason but then I looked at it a couple more times. Finally I concluded that, maybe the dead is in white because once a person is dead, they free of all things even bad things that makes us dirty so when you die, you became clean and when you alive you are in black because you still carry around your entire burden that makes your clothing black. I do think that this artist made a good use of color to engage us in how we should think

XIE XIAOZE

THE ANATOMY LESSON

Space

 SPACE

As small a difference we may think that spacing will have in art, in real sense it is not. Space makes a whole lot of different when it comes to art. It brings life to the works of art and give the audience an idea of what the art wants him or her to see when they look at the art in front of them. Spacing can either enlarge art or belittle it. In most works, space it used to give dimensions to the work of art. Most artist work with space to bring their work from the one dimensional figure to become three dimensional which makes the work much more exciting. This also gives the audience a feel of what is happening in the work of art. In Andrea Mantegna’s The Dead Christ, c. 1501, the use of space portrays the idea of the height of the man as he lays there. From the look of things the dead Christ was not a really tall man, not even average if I may add. He looks a bit chubby and short. If the artist had not drawn his full image, anyone would have easily mistaken him for a tall man. So like all other elements that attribute to art spacing makes it live and compliments it as well.

OTHER WORKS USING SPACE

Lines

Our textbook talks about the use of line which is, it divides or connects things depending on how it is used by an artist in his or her work. It goes further to also say that there are varieties of lines which includes outline, contour line and implied line. Through the example of works by artist that used lines, I was taken aback by Alberto Giacometti’s Man pointing. This work demonstrate the use of line that takes something from being so simply to being meaningful and having a lot of detail to it. When you first see the work, it looks like a thin molded man just standing there and pointing. If you take a second look which is exactly what you do upon seeing it, your mind starts to realize that this thin man is actually giving you orders to look at a certain direction. Without thinking about it your head will automatically turn that same way to discover what is to be seen in the direction the man is pointing. The line that brings this kind of change and life to the man is called implied line. Even though there is no line hooking the direction the man is pointing physically, our mind still imagine a line from the direction the man is pointing.

COLORS AND LINES

Lines in general writings, are used to underline important parts or word in a sentence.In art, Andy Goldsworthy uses lines to bring live and some array of meaning to his works. Goldsworthy is a British artist who uses nature as his source for creating art. many of his works uses common materials that can even be found at our various backyards. With his work the broken pebbles, he uses broken pebbles to create an art that gives it a different dimension than we will expect it to be. Tough the pebbles are broken it looks as if  its painted with a black line to create the broken part.

In this work, Goldsworthy uses goose feather  with a brown sand as a background. This is the use of color. If he had used  a beach sand as the background, the beauty of the art would not display as much as it is now. Looking at his works gives as the understanding that all the elements of art have its own contribution to the out come of art. Some gives it live, some gives it voice and others give it beauty to create its uniqueness.  

With this piece he uses both line and color and the finished piece came out to be phenomenal.

Perception vs. Reality

As nonjudgmental as we may think we are, we tend to have an idea about all things before we see it or even experience it. The idea we have about it is called perception. We perceive things according to our previous experience or what we have heard others say about it. When it comes to reality, we say  our we judge things according to what our eyes see. In art, is always best to see before you judge because at the sight of it, you may have a whole different view than what you might perceive it before.When artist  Jean Claude and Christo decided to create The Gates, they being artist knew and understood what the art will be and what it meant for them. When they publicly announced that they wanted to build the Gates, a lot of people thought that it was senseless to waste so much money and time considering the amount of time they were going to have it up. When they wanted to get an approval to put it up in Central Park, the authorities didn't think it was a good idea either. After the tragic incident of  September 11th, the authorities felt like the Gate will bring back some sort of live and color to the city since everything seemed dead at the time. Up to the point of even building it up, people still felt like the ideas were all wrong. When the art was finally concluded people had a different reaction to it. So in art its better to see than to perceive.

Trenton Hancock

TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK

Trenton was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Ok. He grew up in Paris, Texas where he earned a BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and later got an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Pa. His works tells the story of Mounds which are based of biblical story he heard from Sunday School when he was growing up. According to Sayre;s first step in thinking critically about Art, one can tell that his decisions for  his works are to create something new and original with the touch of color for language. You can also see from these works that he makes that, there are many questions to be answered about it since its a unique new creation. These creatures that Hancock brings to live in color are mythical creature that are tragic protagonist of his narrative. When you take a look at Trenton's Mounds, you will assume that they are creatures that already existed but thats only for the resemblance it shares with real live creatures as well, which leaves your mind wondering. A first look at it will make one wonder why so many bright colors but if its carefully analyzed, you realize thats how the works stands out and get its volume.If you think with a blocked perspective, you will probably say that artist is a female, with the choice of colors he uses but then art is suppose to be looked at open mindedly. As concluded by Sayre as the last step, a lot of questions will rise up from analyzing Trenton's work but with a second look and careful consideration, most of the anwers will lie right there in your eyes and from his works not just black and white but red and yellow as well.