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.