Reflecton

• Reflection (electrical), reflected voltage in an electrical signal due to an impedance change
• Reflection (physics), a common wave phenomenon
• Reflection nebula, a nebula that is extended and has no boundaries
• Mirror image, a reflection in a mirror

Reflection is great :) 

Quotation

"You cant depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus"

You dont need an imagination to make decisions, all you need is logical reasoning skills. Imagination actually hinders your ability to make logically correct descions.

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In the visual arts, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combinations. Although color theory principles first appeared in the writings of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci(c.1490), a tradition of "colory theory" began in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around Isaac Newton's theory of color (Opticks, 1704) and the nature of so-called primary colors. From there it developed as an independent artistic tradition with only superficial reference to colorimetry and vision science.^[

Research, Investigate, Inquire.

    Artistic research, also seen as 'practice-based research', can take form when creative works are considered both the research and the object of research itself. It is the debatable body of thought which offers an alternative to purely scientific methods in research in its search for knowledge and truth.
   Investigate to search out and examine the particulars of in an attempt to learn the facts about something hidden, unique, or complex, especially in an attempt to find a motive, cause, or culprit: The police are investigating the murder.
 Inquire is    to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.

10 Different Art Mediums

Trash
Recycled Bins
Colored Pencils
Photography
Discarded Shopping bags
Jello
Cassette Tapes
Post-it Notes
Discarded Lottery Tickets
Records
Car Dirt

Experimental aRT

experimental art. An imprecise term applied to art that is concerned with exploring new ideas and/or technology. It is sometimes used virtually synonymously with ‘avant-garde', but ‘experimental’ usually suggests a more explicit desire to extend the boundaries of the art in terms of materials or techniques, whereas ‘avant-garde’ can include novel ideas expressed through traditional means. John A. Walker (Glossary of Art, Architecture and Design Since 1945, 1973, 3rd edn., 1992) writes that ‘it is a word with both positive and negative connotations: it is used to praise and condemn. Those writers for whom it is a term of praise often mean by it an empirical practice in which the artist plays with his materials and adopts chance procedures in the expectation that something of value will result … Those writers for whom “experimental” is a pejorative description mean by it “a trial run”, “not the finished work”, “something transitional”.’ Walker points out that in E. H. Gombrich's celebrated book The Story of Art, first published in 1950, the whole of 20th-century art was originally embraced in a chapter called ‘Experimental Art'.

Creative Method vs Creative Process

• Ask a Question
• Do Background Research
• Construct a Hypothesis
• Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment
• Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion
• Communicate Your Results

1- Understand the work

2- Audience

3- Business

4 - Challenge

5 - Try

The Creative Process is more creative than the scientific process:) 

Monday Quote

Solutions are just a snapshot in time on the route of discovery.
We are all finding ourselves ;)

How Do Artists Get Inspired?

Some people dream about what they want to do. Others are inspired by nature and the universe. but most are inspired by what happens around them and thier life expierences.

What is the creative process

he creative process is not just iterative; it’s also recursive. It plays out “in the large” and “in the small” ––in defining the broadest goals and concepts and refining the smallest details. It branches like a tree, and each choice has ramifications, which may not be known in advance. Recursion also suggests a procedure that “calls” or includes itself. Many engineers define the design process as a recursive function: discover > define > design > develop > deploy

Aperature

in optics and photography, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. The aperture determines how collimated the admitted rays are, which is of great importance for the appearance at the image plane. If an aperture is narrow, then highly collimated rays are admitted, resulting in a sharp focus at the image plane. If an aperture is wide, then uncollimated rays are admitted, resulting in a sharp focus only for rays with a certain focal length. This means that a wide aperture results in an image that is sharp around what the lens is focusing on and blurred otherwise. The aperture also determines how many of the incoming rays are actually admitted and thus how much light reaches the image plane (the narrower the aperture, the darker the image for a given exposure time).

Visual Journals

Visual journaling is a creative way to express and record life's experiences, feelings, emotional reactions, or our inner world - visually and verbally. Essentially, visual journaling can become a potential key to the artmaking process.

Exploring our own thought process through visual journaling is essential in a world that is in a state of continuous change. Just as there are many ways to express oneself artistically, there are many ways to create visual journals. By committing to the visual journaling process, one can learn how to access his/her inner language of imagery and express it both visually and verbally, while exploring the connection between image and word. Through visual journaling one can also become capable of articulating connections between their own personal art-making experiences and the works of master and contemporary artists.

What is panography

Panography is a photographic technique to compose one picture from several overlapping photos. This is normally done by digital image editing software.

Manga vs Anime

MANGA IS...
Manga is the Japanese word for comics. It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels that were originally published in Japan. Manga is often considered an artistic and storytelling style that can also encompass non-Japanese works, however. The term "AmeriManga" is sometimes used to refer to comics created by American artists in a manga style. Manwha is the Korean equivalent of that idea.
Manga is more unique than anime
ANIME IS....
Anime is commonly defined as animation originating in Japan. (アニメ^?, an abbreviated pronunciation in Japanese of "animation", pronounced [anime]  ( listen) in Japanese, but typically /ˈænɨmeɪ/  ( listen) or /ˈænɨmə/ in English.) The definition sometimes changes depending on the context.^[1] In English-speaking countries, anime is also referred to as "Japanese animation".^[2]

Daily Quote

"Evil is Done Without Effort, Naturally, it Is The Working Of Fate; Good is always the Product of Art"

Well, i dont understand....so is there more evil than good because there is not alot of art? or is there more good than evil because almost everything is art?? yea, im confused. very,very,very confused. i could have.
ART IS A PORTAL TO HEAVEN :)

Will eisner

Will Eisner (1917-2005) was a great cartoonist, but he was also a shrewd businessman with his finger on the throbbing erratic pulse of popular culture trying to predict, maneuver, and exploit the next trend given his very specific set of skills. He spent his life wrestling with those demanding twins, Art and Commerce.

In 1936 when he was 19 Eisner had his first professional work published in "WOW What A Magazine!", one of the first comic books to publish new work in the format we are familiar with today. As he put it in an interview in 1984, "Pulp magazines were dying and pulp publishers were looking for other popular publishing ventures, and so comics represented that opportunity."

Eisner himself never missed an opportunity. Overnight dozens of new comic book titles and publishers erupted to mine the bonanza begun by the 1938 publication of Superman in Action Comics. Simultaneously all these publishers were putting out beefy 52 page comic books. They needed stories and art and they needed them last week.

Eisner and his partner, Jerry Iger, formed a company to package the guts of comic books and sell them to various publishers based on a very simple and sound method perfected by Henry Ford: the assembly line. Each page in the bullpen studio was literally handed from writer, to penciler, to letterer, to inker, to colorist with Eisner gripping his non-repro blue pencil at the end of the conveyor belt.

His works are very good :)

Frank Frezztta & Dr Sues

Frank's work is dark and gothic, while Dr.Suess's work is very bright and optimistic!

Keri Russel

"Sometimes it is the smallest decisions that change your life forever"
This is EXTREMELY TRUE. Sometimes bad decisions can make your life extremely better, or an decision that is assumed to be good can make your life worse. Small things lead to bigger things, and bigger than bigger than bigger things. something as small as a smile can change the course of your whole life. But no matter what we should remember that the universe is unfolding as it should.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 projects, which resulted in more than 500 completed works. His work was very geometrical! 

Gaudi Verses Gehry

Gaudí's first works were designed in the style of gothic architecture and traditional Catalan architectural modes, but he soon developed his own distinct sculptural style. French architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, who promoted an evolved form of gothic architecture, proved a major influence on Gaudí. The student went on to contrive highly original designs – irregular and fantastically intricate. Some of his greatest works, most notably La Sagrada Família, have an almost hallucinatory power.
Much of Gehry's work falls within the style of Deconstructivism. Deconstructivism, also known as DeCon Architecture, is often referred to as post-structuralist in nature for its ability to go beyond current modalities of structural definition. In architecture, its application tends to depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity. Because of this, unlike early modernist structures, DeCon structures are not required to reflect specific social or universal ideas, such as speed or universality of form, and they do not reflect a belief that form follows function. Gehry's own Santa Monica residence is a commonly cited example of deconstructivist architecture, as it was so drastically divorced from its original context, and in such a manner as to subvert its original spatial intention.

Examples of Architecture

Over the past 100 years, Architecture has become more technological. Its on the brink of defying physics!  New ways to build are being created along with new and stronger materials . There's a paradigm shift occuring in the world of architecture! 

Installation Art

Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform a viewer's perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however the boundaries between these terms overlap.
 Installation art includes the use of architecture with photography. You use the architecture to create an three-diminsional work that pops on a photo!

3 Types of architecture

High-tech architecture, also known as Late Modernism or Structural Expressionism, is an architectural style that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high-tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture appeared as a revamped modernism, an extension of those previous ideas aided by even more advances in technological achievements. This category serves as a bridge between modernism and post-modernism, however there remain gray areas as to where one category ends and the other begins. In the 1980s, high-tech architecture became more difficult to distinguish from post-modern architecture.

The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural stylespredominantly employed during the Victorian era. As with the latter, the period of building that it covers may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria. This reflects the British and French custom of naming architectural styles after the reigning monarch.

Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture. Stylistically, Renaissance architecture followed Gothic architecture and was succeeded byBaroque architecture.

Illustration/Comic

An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper article) by providing a visual representation graphically.

Comics are a graphic mediumin which images convey a sequential narrative. The term derives from the mostly humorous early work in the medium, and came to apply to that form of the medium including those far from comic. The sequential nature of the pictures, and the predominance of pictures over words, distinguishes comics from picture books, though there is some overlap between the two.

Paul Jackson Pollock & Leonardo Da Vinci

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life. 

Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.^[1] He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.

Da Vinci Seem to paint more life situations while pollock created more abstract peices.

line art and wassily kandinsky

Line art is any image that consists of distinct straight and curved lines placed against a (usually plain) background, without gradations in shade (darkness) or hue (color) to represent two-dimensional or three-dimensional objects. Line art can use lines of different colors, although line art is usually monochromatic.

Line art emphasizes form and outline, over color, shading, and texture. However, areas of solid pigment and dots can also be used in addition to lines. The lines in a piece of line art may be all of a constant width (as in some pencil drawings), of several (few) constant widths (as in technical illustrations), or of freely varying widths (as in brush work or engraving)

Wassily Kandinsky uses line art in various ways...it is very confusing. Geometrical elements took on increasing importance in his teaching as well as in his painting, particularly circle, half-circle, the angle, straight lines and curves. This period was a period of intense production. The freedom of which is characterised in each of his works by the treatment of planes rich in colours and magnificent gradations as in the painting Yellow – red – blue (1925), where Kandinsky shows his distance from constructivism and suprematism movements whose influence was increasing at this time.

Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Frank Owen Goldberg; February 28, 1929) is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.

His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. His works are often cited as being among the most important works of contemporary architecture in the 2010World Architecture Survey, which led Vanity Fair to label him as "the most important architect of our age"

His works are interesting, i guess. :/

Definition Of Blueprint

A blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction usually of a technical drawing, documenting an architecture or an engineering design. More generally, the term "blueprint" has come to be used to refer to any detailed plan.

Various base materials have been used for blueprints. Paper was a common choice; for more durable prints linen was sometimes used, but with time, the linen prints would shrink slightly. To combat this problem, printing on imitation vellum and, later, polyester film (Mylar) was implemented.

Light in Art.

Before the period of Renaissance, paintings hardly showed the concept of three-dimension give people a one flat plane feeling with several squeezed layers. There was no depth. Looking back, some of us would probably hardly be convinced that people before did not have the idea of the "space". They saw what was in front of their eyes, they painted it down simply being faithful to their eyes. The idea of three-dimensional space itself has been gradually evolved for thousands of years, men do not have it congenitally. There was no solid feeling therefore people didn't have a great emphasis on the light and shadow which are two essential elements forming gradation, creating the "space." 
There are many different example of light.
My favorite example occurs when lighting is used in photography because one different angle of light can create a seperate picture that another angle, even if they are a picture of the same object. 

Chinese Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China.According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beginning of a new year, when there is a bright full moon hanging in the sky, there should be thousands of colorful lanterns hung out for people to appreciate. At this time, people will try to solve the puzzles on the lanterns and eat yuanxiao (glutinous rice ball) and get all their families united in the joyful atmosphere.Until the Sui Dynasty in the sixth century, Emperor Yangdi invited envoys from other countries to China to see the colorful lighted lanterns and enjoy the gala performances.By the beginning of the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century, the lantern displays would last three days. The emperor also lifted the curfew, allowing the people to enjoy the festive lanterns day and night. It is not difficult to find Chinese poems which describe this happy scene.In the Song Dynasty, the festival was celebrated for five days and the activities began to spread to many of the big cities in China.Colorful glass and even jade were used to make lanterns, with figures from folk tales painted on the lanterns. 

I Think the lantern festival has some creative lanterns. Too bad we can't make these in our class :(

Daily Quote

" A Truly Creative Person Rid Himself of All Self Imposed Limitations"
Yes, Thats What People Do.
This is why Im Not Creative...Maybe I Should Start Doing This..
Hmmm, I Wonder If That Will Work.

Aesthetics

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is a very interesting way to express yourself! Makeup, Clothing, Acsessories- they seperate one person from another. 

David Hockney

David Hockney, is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. He uses interesting colors, that make people feel relaxed :)

Edward Roscha

Edward Roscha is an  American artist associated with the Pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film.  His works are very creative.  

Fritz Hunderwasser

This.Is.Random.
Im pretty sure it is advanced but i dont like it.
:(

Socrates:)

"Man Must Rise Above- To The Top Of The Atmosphere An Beyond-For Only Thus Will Fully Understand The World In Which He Lives"
-Socrates

People Have To Think "OutSide The Box."
Sometimes transcendent thinking is required to fully understand the meaning of life. Life is definitely composed of metaphysical aspects that every human being should explore-with or without interest. People have to start seeing the bigger picture wether its entropic in their opinion or positive. The world is much bigger than just a single person, and its important that one knows it.

Sandro Brotticelli

The Birth Of Venus- is magnificent. point blank.

Romare Bearden

I DONT like this. I understand that he takes random pictures and combines them to make a greater picture, but it doesnt appeal to me. I dont like the color scheme, or any if it. At least he tried :) I like the other art work he does better

Maxfield Parrish

I really don't like this. I Can't explain why but the only thing I Admire about the work is the color. :)

Harry Callahan-The Bare Nature Of Beauty.

Simple, yet ambiguous in its message. From this picture you can aquire any conceptual ideal you desire.