Art 110 Summer 2022

      I'm not going to lie, I did not love this activity. I hate the smell of paint and the fumes coming from the can made me really nauseous. I wore a mask because I thought it would help but it didn't and now my stomach is not happy. That look in my eyes is the look of someone about to throw up. Besides that, spray painting is a lot harder than I thought it would be. The cannister is really hard to control which is different from a paint brush and it didn't make concise lines. Sometimes I'd press too hard and a lot of paint would come out and drip everywhere, or sometimes I didn't press hard enough and the paint just splattered everywhere. My fingers got tired after the first letter. This honestly was not great. I tried to make it look bubble like but it didn't work out. I got white paint too to make it appear shiny in some areas like a bubble, but my stomach said no and now I'm lying down indoors. 0/10 I am not made to be a graffiti artist and neither is ...

      Lady Pink is a graffiti artist who paints bright and colorful work. From her website, most of her work on trains is paintings of names, whether its people or groups, or just her own. Although, there is one painting of Stimpy from the cartoon The Ren & Stimpy Show. When you google her name and graffiti, you see a lot of colorful artwork that could be political, cultural, or religious. There are also lots of other work that doesn't seem like they have a specific meaning to me, but rather just expressions of her creativity. Her work does seem like what I'd expect from street art though in the sense that their art is colorful and explosive. Liu Wei is an artist from Beijing that does paintings and sculptures. His website says that in his early works he did a lot of political paintings about his skepticism, but perhaps it's just my lack of political knowledge, but I don't quite see it. His political paintings generally have a Chinese military man facing to the left...

 Both Sachs and Fateman are artists making zines, but their concepts and art styles for their zines are very different. Sachs's zines show his interests, worksheets, and DIY projects that the reader or he does. His zines seem like they are fit for people who like to try new projects and exploring their interests. The zines that I looked at were Moon Rock Report and 10 Bullets. 10 Bullets is a zine that I think tells you how to make your life easier. From the pictures that I see, none of the instructions are particularly hard, if anything these things are obvious to know, but they're things that many people procrastinate on, such as cleaning the house and washing the dishes. Moon Rock Report explores his interest in the moon and shows pictures of moon rocks and documents detailing each rock. From what I've seen, Fateman mostly did zines as a diary. Her zines seem more punk/emo which is something I probably would have done as a high schooler and I love it. I didn't find a...

My zine is supposed to be more like a diary or just something i can put my anxiety into. This week and the next is starting to give me a lot of stress :( . I think this showed enough of my week. It's a little formal and short, but I don't really want to put a lot of information out on this. I think maybe I'd add an extra page next time so that it doesn't look so scrunched up together. I think the line paper works with it because I was going for more diary feel. I think any other zine I make would be just like this one, talking about how I'm feeling or how my day/week was. 

       Alexander Fleming is microbiologists working during the early 1900s and is most known as the scientists who dicovered penicillin. Not only did he discover one of the most important antibiotics we use to date, he was also one of the first scientists to use microbes for art. He painted people, objects, houses, and actions on a petri dish using bacteria. His artwork below is a person, two people fighting, and a mother feeding her baby. I think petri dish art is especially difficult to do because unlike regular paint,  bacteria cultures are usually clear with a slight yellowish tinge to it.This makes it really difficult to see what is being drawn. You would basically have to draw blind and then grow it and see what happens. The only indication you have that tells the artist that they may be doing something right is the marks on the agar from the inoculating brush. Clearly he kept it up and got a lot better, which I think is very impresive. Jerri Bartholomew i...

      This is a blood stain that I smeared and stained in my hematology class this week. My original idea was to do the use jello and colored sugar to draw bacteria on a petri dish, but you said that seems like regular art so this is what I chose. The procedure was written in our lab manual and taught to us by our lab instructor so I didn't necessarily have to do any research for this. The execution and overall project was terrible. I failed miserably. Getting blood out of my fingers took me 2 hours alone because the blood kept clotting and my fingers healed from the needle stab too quickly, so I kept having to re-stab my finger and draw more blood. My smears were also really bad because they either didn't look right, were too thick, or too thin. This was suprisingly the best one and it was still too thick so it didn't stain properly. Looking at the finished project makes me sad because this is supposed to be my career, and I was terrible at it. I should've watched vide...

     Juliana Cerqueira Leite is a Brazillian American sculptor that uses her own body to produce sculptures that still retain imagery of the human body. In an interview about her "Up" exhibit in 2008, she has stated that she is driven by physicality and how the human body interacts with the physical world. Her artwork uses a wide array of materials and often uses her own body to make casts for her artwork. She is inspired by ancient cultures and events which, in my perspective, can be seen in much of her sculptures. In my eyes, some of her sculptures look like if an ancient Greek statue of a human has eroded (not in a bad way). An example of one of her exhibits that look like an eroded human statue would be "Until Different" which was shown in Arsenal Contemporary NYC in 2018.      Tara Donovan is an American sculptor that uses everyday items to explore the accumulation and aggregation. She earned fame for her talent in using characteristics of an ordi...

  This was supposed to be a sculpture of my foot and my arm but clearly it was only the bottom of my foot and part of my arm. I'm sad. The plaster was too thick and set too quickly to reach my fingers :(