6 Functions of Art

"The Echo Rock, Crozant" Armand Guillaumin, 1913

Delight

I picked this picture because of the color patterns and the simplicity behind it. When I saw it I noticed how the grass and leaves on the trees didn't have much detail to them. When you look at it you understand what you're looking at right away. Your eyes don't have to process as much so it makes looking at it more delightful and relaxing.

Artwork by Banksy

  Commentary

I picked this picture because it informs you that nature is the best medicine. The Pharma industry today is profiting off people that don't spend enough time outside and don't exercise enough. The oxygen mask connected to the tree is saying that we need nature to live and keep us alive. humans have been around for years because of all the medicinal benefits we find through out nature.

Worship and Ritual

I picked this artifact because it's, Siddhartha, the person who became the Buddha. After his death the religion know as Buddhism was formed. Buddhism proposes a life of good thoughts, good intentions, and straight living, all with the ultimate aim of achieving nirvana, release from earthly existence.

Bhudda 

Twin Towers By Alan Carlson

Commemoration

I picked a picture of the Twin Towers because it reminds us what happened that tragic day. It shows firefighters and police officers raising a flag to show respect for America. The picture also shows the explosion of the plane going into the towers, that makes the picture bring out more emotion and memories.

Persuasion

I picked this picture because it shows the corruption in politics in America today. I hope people would open their minds to what politicians say and do by fact checking, and researching for themselves to see if what they say is the truth. The media has brainwashed people by spewing out propaganda and lies right in front of you through your own tv.

Banksy

Self-Expression

I picked this picture because the artist was under the influence on cannabis and expressed how he saw himself. When under the influence and drawing your emotions and creativity is enhanced in a way that makes you look and see things differently. The artist was in a more euphoric state making him paint more colorful and with detail.

Self Portraits on Hash By Bryan Lewis

Week Two

9/6/16

• I liked learning that around the age 9 is when we stop being so creative and artistic, it made me want to embrace art even more the older I get.
• Im inspired by Janet Echelman secret which is patience. Ive noticed about myself is that I can get caught up in thinking about the future and where I'm gonna be.
• Creativity: Innovation, Perspective, Traveling, Spending time outside, Questioning everything is all things that boost my creativity.

9/7/16

Looking and Seeing are two very different things than what i thought they were. Looking    means to gaze your eyes upon or acknowledge its presence, seeing is not only just looking at it but understanding the object and paying attention to it.

• 5 things that make up creativity: Associating, Questioning, Observing, Networking and experimenting.
• I always thought folk artist was a type of music, I didn't know it was naive or outsider artists with little or no training.