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The last one is a beautiful pink rose on my backyard fence that I just now noticed to be in full bloom at this time of year. That is why April is one of my favorite months. 

Here is my final studio project for this semester. I had Katharina Grosse as my artist and I tried my best to create a colorful background like Katharina does with a sketch of my cat. 

Here is my encouraging banner for me personally to think about through these hard times. It’s also a quote or reference from the movie “Zombieland.” I really appreciate this rule. 

Redon’s works are meant to be coherent and look upon this idea that “the head as the origin of the imagination and the spirit lodged in matter, not based on surrealism.”  The work evokes a sense of mystery within a dream world. Redon’s main objective is to create realistic visions by “approaching the unlikely and giving visual logic to the imaginary elements...” Redon is more of a modernist than a symbolist because he was also interested in scientific materialism. “His work was mainly based on his own private world expressed in personal symbols and allowed the viewer to understand what hidden realities lay within the forms.”   https://www.theartstory.org/movement/symbolism/artworks/

The artist is the one who creates things from their own experience, knowledge, creativity, imagination, and learning. Their role is to make something that they love, appreciate, admire, inspiring, mind-blowing, heart-warming, etc. Artists are the ones who share their creativity with other people to inspire them, make them happy, make them sad, angry, or make them skeptical. The artist has a big role that can’t be taken lightly or taken for granted because being an artist is hard work. Even being a critic is hard work, being a parent, teacher, anything is hard work. For artists, their role is to be creative and make something that they feel is something that will have an important effect on themselves or on other people or even to make something just for fun. Being an artist can also be fun because you get to learn all these new things about art and use it with your own imagination and creativity. 

The last one is my Nintendo switch controller that I thought had some interesting blue, yellow, and gold colors. I love how the colors of Zelda create a joyful, peaceful kind of mood. 

Here is my emotion chart for this week.

The “Bomber” is derived from a photograph of a World War 2 air raid that Richter could have experienced as a young boy. The color grey carries an expression away from personal experience to an expressionless impassivity. Richter notes that the color grey is “the ideal color for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, and despair” or “for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression.” Richter basically created non-figurative and monochromatic grey paintings that removed imagery completely and carried his idea of the color grey with a better focus. 

Restrictions and rules can help an artist because they might have several ideas or inspirations to use with their own creativity and not even think about what the world would want to see. It would be unorganized and frustrating to go through all the different ideas that each separate person has. So rules are made to keep the creativity at a certain vantage point or level for everyone to be still be able to use their own ideas and creativity, but with a certain theme and ways to present them in an orderly fashion. 

The last picture was a mix of my paints I used with the yellows and some orange colors that makes the water look like a nice, refreshing drink. 

Here is the color research for this week, I tried to get a clear color selection of each flower and I think I did an ok job. 

https://www.leonardodavinci.net/the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-anne.jsp

Visual art is distinguished from design and craft because visual art is all about focusing on the environment and everything you see. Design and craft are types of art that you create and make a change to show off your perspectives. Visual art is where you don’t make a change or create something, but find something that interests you and think about how you want to perceive or understand what you see. Visual art can also be distinguished from design and craft by the concept of what essentials or methods you use to get the result of each art project. Visual art might use a camera or just your own imagination and thoughts to find a subject that interests you while design and craft use paints, paper, etc to create something from whatever you visualize. Design and craft is basically a type of art you create from making a visual on something and making it either more interesting or effective. 

Clothing Color Coordination from white to black and from light to dark.

My favorite colors are in the right circles and my least favorite are in the left circles. 

The other two pictures are my cat and dog that I thought was interesting to look at their fur color. My cat has like an orange, black, and brown mix of color and my dog has white, black, and light brown mixes. These colors compliment their features and it is interesting to look at this in different ways.

James Abbott McNeil Whistler “Symphony in White No.1: The White Girl”, 1862, oil on canvas. This artwork was made by the limits of using a palette, skewing the perspective, and minimizing tonal contrast to create an interesting spatial and formal relationship. The White Girl demonstrates James’ talents to the world, but many viewers were uncomfortable with the looks or the incompleteness of this white girl, so he renamed it with Symphony No.1 to focus attention on what he viewed as the painting’s true subject: his handling on the white paints, its textures, and subtle tonal contrasts. He made this artwork to show others what he thinks on certain aspects of how a painting should look like, according to his eyes.