This is what its about....

       So as you may know I uploaded my slideshow yesterday and watched it with Mrs.Kiick this morning in class. She started jumping in circles and crying; I realized this is the sole reason why I love art. I was trying to get a message across in my video and clearly she received it. When I went back to art for the next of many periods i spend in that class room Mrs.Kiick had gone to buy me a muffin because she said she "just loves to be impressed" in which i responded that, I just love impressing her. Its not only the delicious food that made this day remarkable but that I think I finally understood the true impact of art. If I could wake up everyday and have MY art make someone that happy, I think I would be happy every single day.

This is real, This is me

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Note: The images in this slideshow play through twice for the effect and message of the song attached.

 For my metal working project I decided to make a closure for my book. The dome in the middle will serve as a hook to close the book. After sawing out all of the parts it was time to solder. When the flux was painted on we didn't mean for it to show up in any certain pattern. As always, art worked it's magic. This piece turned out better than I could have ever imagined. This is one of the main reasons I love art so much. Sometimes things just happen, there's no way to predict what's going to happen and that's what makes it so beautiful.

My Dinner Party Guest: Tribute to A Day to Remember

I chose to invite a band that has had a large impact on my life. Each part of my place setting represents a different song; the plate represents the song out of time, the cup is inspired by sticks and bricks and the bowl  is inspired by The Downfall of us all. These pieces do not actually sit together like a normal place setting but that too is representative of the band. They want their fans to know that they are not alone but they can stand on their own. Each part of the place setting has a meaning but together their meaning has a larger purpose. 

        Last year, we made metal panels to hold our sketches together. This year I'm planning to use it as a closure for my book. I started by making sketches to see what design i liked the best. I chose the upper left design because i thought the shape would be better to put on my book. I've already cut the leaf portion out and will start the inside with negative space next week. I'm adding a bowl shape in the middle to become the closure, that should be interesting because i've never made one of them before. I'm excited to have new and different experiences than last year and hopefully and can learn something more!

        I started my collage with the CD cover of my favorite band. I initially did a transfer of my friend and I inside of the hour glass. I wasn't pleased by the collage at first. It lacked depth and emotion. After taking a chance and pulling off a large part of my collage to uncover the crowd of people below, everything else fell together. I didn't realize until i was finished that a teardrop was created in the middle, this finally gave it the emotion that i was searching for.

A Tribute to the Prince of Pop

ANDY WARHOL

                    Andrew Warhola was born August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, PA to Slovak immigrants. His father was a construction worker and died when Andy was only 13 years old. Andy showed artistic talent from an early age but was stricken with a neurological disorder also. His art was his escape. He studied commercial art in college at, Carnegie Institute of Technology. After moving to New York City in 1949 and working with magazines such as Vogue and Harpar's Bazaar, he became one of the most sought after artist in the city. 
                  In the 60's Warhol painted objects like soup cans and coke bottles. He also produced silkscreen prints of Celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor. Warhol liked depicting mass produced products and believed that art should be mass produced saying, 
                "When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums",


In 1962 he opened The Factory, where workers mass produced all of his art and silkscreens. In July of 1968 Valerie Solanis attemped to assassinate Warhol and while he did survive he never fully recovered from this incident. After this he started making more individual works instead of mass productions and even opened his own night club. 
                 Andy was...flamboyant to say the least and most thought he had a bizarre personality. His friends described him as a workaholic. He knew the only way to succeed was through hard work and said that "making money is an art". Andy died in 1987 at the age of 58 due to gall bladder complications. 


This brief biography just scratches the surface of Andy Warhol's life and achievements. To express his effect on the art world would be impossible with words, it simply speaks for itself. He is the epitome of the 60's and 70's, the rebellion, the change, the "bizarre personailty". 

          I love that Andy made whatever he wanted, he was daring and didn't care what other people were going to think about it. And he wasn't obsessed with making random paintings that would end up being world treasures either, not that that's wrong. But he wanted to share it with everyone he could possibly get it to. Andy had a message to get across, whether about life or politics and he wasn't scared to tell people. Art was Andy's escape and he wanted to spend every living second engulfed in it. Even after his death, Andy continues to effect the art world. His prints are still being sold and in accordance with his will The Andy Warhol Foundation was founded. It serves to encourage and support the work of new contemporary artist, like Andy was in his time. Andy understood that art was interpreted in different ways to everyone of every culture and these new artist just needed someone to understand.