Anshu Punreddy

Part 2

Conceptual goal: I made this piece for my mom because she loves to paint, just like me. She always is trying new creative things, and I know her dream would be to open an art gallery after she retires.

Aesthetic goal: My favorite color is black, and I tend to gravitate toward blacks and neutral colors when I choose clothing and other things. My mom always hates this and wants me to be more colorful. So, to incorporate my own aesthetic with hers I chose to recreate a piece that was mostly black and white, but had pops of bright colors.

Part 1

Conceptual goal: I made this piece to hang up in my room because it matches the aesthetic of other things in my room already.

Aesthetic goal: I saw this piece on Instagram (@figaro_many) and wanted to recreate it because I thought it looked cool. I also thought there was an interesting subliminal message to this piece that depicts how women are often scrutinized in society. Women are often expected to be very feminine and gentile, and are often painted in a bad light no matter how they act, especially when they don’t meet society’s unfair expectations.

For my note, I wrote lyrics from “Your Song” by Elton John because it’s a great romantic song and I think everyone should be reminded that people are thankful for them to be in this world.

Attendance Prompt

“The BCC’s assumption was that the confusion was due to ignorant English-speakers not realizing that taupe and mole were different words for the same thing. Marry and Paul were rather more thorough. They set out on an expedition around the zoological museums of the United States and France to look at foreign specimens from the genus Talpa, to determine whether there was a logical reason for using both terms” (p. 257)

Attendance Prompt: “one problem is our modern world, filled as it is with spot-lit rooms and backlit smartphones, overloads us with blue light at odd hours of the day, which has negative effects on our sleep patterns” 179

I chose this quote because I thought it was relevant to the assignment this week about modern consumerism. In today’s world a lot of people are more concerned with material things and being on their phones that they lose touch with more important things like being connected to other people and to nature. I too have also had my sleep affected by being on my phone too late at night and have been trying to read more instead of watching tv or scrolling on my phone.

I decided to draw my roommate Anna again. I tried to incorporate visual repetition by making the clouds in the background squiggly to resemble Anna’s curly hair. I also split her face and half and used scribbled lines for one half to make it more abstract to incorporate your critique from last week.

attendance prompt:

“It was partly these, and partly a love of chemistry for its own sake, that drove an 18-year-old scientist to spend his holidays holed up in a makeshift laboratory in his father’s East London attic, trying to synthesize quinine from coal tar. Today, William Perkin is celebrated as one of the heroes of modern science. It is not because of quinine, which he never did manage to produce, but because of a rich seam of chemistry that opened up when he accidentally happened upon a particular shade of purple: mauve” (p. 167).

Activity #1

Activity #2

Jellyfish facts

1. Jellyfish do not have brains, hearts, or lungs (Source: Marine Conservation Society)

2. Jellyfish are the oldest multi-organ animal in the world. They have been around for at least 500 million years (Source: PETA)

3. Jellyfish may be the first animals with no central nervous system that have been observed to sleep (Source: PETA)

4. One species of Jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) may be immortal because they can revert to a more juvenile developmental state when they are threatened, sick, or old and will mature into a mature adult again (Source: One Earth)

5. 150 million people are stung by jellyfish each year (Source: Bristol aquarium)

Consumerism facts

1. Nail polish fact: Nail polish originated in China as early as 3000 B.C., and in Ancient Egypt it was used to represent class rankings; lower class individuals wore nude and light polish and high class individuals wore red (source: Good Housekeeping).

2. Chevy fact: Nobody knows how the bowtie logo was originated. Some people think that William Durant—the founder of General Motors—saw a similar design on hotel wallpaper, while others say he was inspired by a newspaper advertisement (Source: CrossroadsGM.net)

3. Nalgene fact: Nalgene plastic products were originally developed for use in laboratories for things like jars, test tubes, and Petri dishes. This is because it was shatterproof and lighter than glass. (Source: Wikipedia)

4. Tote bag fact: In Indonesia in the 1970s-1980s, tote bags were often called student bags because students would print a political statement on a plain canvas bag to convey their political beliefs (Source: Vivaldi.net)

5. Champagne fact: The Guinness World Record for the longest recorded champagne cork flight is about 177 feet which was set by Emeritus Heinrich Medicus in June 1988 at the Woodbury Vineyards Winery in New York (Source: the Champagne Company)

Attendance prompt:

“As well as power, red has baser associations with lust and aggression. The devil is traditionally depicted in red. The association of red and sex in the West dates back at least until the Middle Ages. It was frequently the color assigned to prostitutes in the many sumptuary laws passed over the course of the period” (pg. 136)

Midterm Part 2:

Midterm Part 1:

1. I was born on November 21st, so I’m a Scorpio

2. Scorpio is associated with the colors maroon, brown, and black. The associated animal is a Scorpion because it’s related to a Greek myth where Orion got stung to death by a scorpion which is why the star Orion sets as Scorpius.

3. Scorpio is linked to the planet Pluto which is said to govern destruction and transformation and is dark and mysterious like Scorpios.

4. I also included the constellation for Scorpio, the M symbol which represents creation and destruction, and an eagle because Scorpio’s are said to have powerful vision and spot details like eagles.

attendance prompt:

“Pink is, after all, just faded red, which in the era of scarlet-jacketed soldiers and red-robed cardinals was the most masculine color, while blue was the signature hue of the Virgin Mary” (p. 115).

I drew a tiger because it’s my mom’s favorite animal and we used to grow up watching any tiger animal planet show. I learned that tiger’s urine smells like buttered popcorn.

My favorite music to listen to in the fall is anything by Hozier. My favorite Halloween themed movie is Monster House.

I was born in 2001 and something interesting that happened was that the Human Genome Project released its first draft of the human genome sequence, so I included a strand of DNA.

The song lyrics I chose were from the song Rock On by David Essex because my dad used to sing/play it for us all the time when we were little, so it always reminds me of him.

attendance prompt:

“But during the political upheavals of the 1970s, the childlike smiley was co-opted as a symbol of subversion. By 1988 it was a pop-culture phenomenon, inextricably linked with music and the new club scene. A yellow smiley was used on the Uk cover for the Talking Heads’ song “Psycho Killer”…” (p. 74).

I chose this quote because I love the song Psycho Killer. I also did not know that the smiley face had such cultural and political significance considering they are such a common symbol we see everyday.

queen anne’s lace

- this is actually a weed, but I thought it was really pretty. It’s related to a garden carrot and it’s roots can actually be eaten when it’s young.

norway maple leaf

- the norway maple is an invasive species that releases chemicals that prevent the growth of other plants. it has been banned in New Hampshire and Massachusetts

oxeye daisy

- this is also a weed that grows very quickly. When cows consume them on dairy farms, it gives milk an unpleasant flavor

attendance prompt:

“this practice perhaps explains the origin of the phrase “to whitewash,” which means to conceal unpleasant truths, usually political in nature” (p. 53)

I forgot to take a picture after step 1, but I used colored pencil for the first layer

Attendance Prompt:

“Colors, therefore, should be understood as subjective cultural creations: you could no more meaningfully secure a precise universal definition for all the known shades than you could plot the coordinates of a dream” (pg 27).