Special Edition Three: Modern Art Wing

Fernand Leger
Reclining Women

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Craft: Oil on canvas

Concept: From the information section next to the painting, I found out that during this time in his career Fernand Leger was very interested in figure drawings.
Composition: What I find very interesting about this painting is really the simplisty of it. This painting uses a lot of semi bold colors and lines, and the technique of a gradiate. That really adds the 3 dimension of the painting, making this women look very round. The background is very busy but it complients colors and shape of the women.

Special Edition: Two AIC! "The Old Building"

As I walked into the Art Institute of Chicago for most likely the 9Th time in my life, I was overwhelmed by the presents of most likely the most remarkable collections of art in the Midwest.z I walked up the stairs to the second level into the European art before the 1900s in the "old section" of the museum. The themes of most if not all of the pieces follows traditional portrait of wealthy individuals, religious scenes,and of course the occasional bowl of fruit. From there I moved on the the part of the museum that focus on the Impressionist movement. It is in this "section: that I saw painting of people in "natural"settings. For example, Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street, Rainy Day, you can see how the movement of Impressionism was incredible different from the previous "classical art" of the early 1800s, in that with this painting more so you can see and somewhat experience the "rainy day" that are artist is wanting to get across. Caillebotte is vividly showing an actual weather pattern and that is very different to what came before impressionism. To add another characteristic of the impressionist artist is that they actually used the paint as paint. Moving on from the Impressionist movement, I went to the Contemporary section of the museum. This is one of my favorite sections of the museum being that I consider myself to be a very abstract painter, I feel at home here, as I get lost in the painting of Jackson Pollock. From the Contemporary section of the museum we moved to the modern wing of the Art Institute. Everything about this new section of the museum is so cool. The whole "modernesk" fits completely and is such a drastic change from the "old building". So at this point in the tour, the themes running though the paintings are ones that almost force you to reevaluate what you see happening, or in other words, look past the actual painting and try to pick the artist brain.

van Gogh bedroom at Arles
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Craft: This is an oil on canvas painting
Concept: An unknown source told me that (i.e., a random guy standing by me in the museum) this was actually the third version of his painting that he had painted for his mother who was in an asylum at the time.
Composition: The colors really contrast with each other well. The point of view of this painting is somewhat of a third person. Knowing that he had possibly painted this for this mother, it can be speculated that this was his mothers room and it is him that is starting into the emptiness of it, the emptiness of his mother not only being around him psychically but maybe even mentally.

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Week 14

Mondays critique.
My finished magazine was critiqued my my fellow peers on Monday. There was a lot of positive feedback in regards to my layout style and the images I choose to work with. It is pretty cool to know that I'm not the only one who thinks my magazine looks well. To add it is also nice to know that people can tell I worked really hard on my magazine, and put a lot of time into it. I'm glad to came across to them.

As for suggestions, it was mostly arrangement based (i.e., some of my text or images were too close to the boarder, or that it was hard to follow which paragraph to read next. I made all of those adjustments. Besides from that, there were a few grammatical error, such as periods, capitalization's, and stuff like that.

All in all my magazine was officially finished and ready to be sent on Monday. I am very happy with the turn out. I wish I had more images I could put into it. It would be cool if this was a year long class, and we got to make an compilation of everything we had done in an academic years worth of time! All in all I cant wait to have the hard copy in my hands and share it with all of my friends and family.

Special Edition: One Sister Hicks

Craft: Oil on canvas with a touch/touches of crayon,charcoal, and or paste. Being a painter I am sure that she started from the back and moved to the front. That is she might have did a very light and fast sketch with charcoal then begin to paint with light thin paint full of thinner, then added a lot of paint. She really used paint as paint in this particular piece of work.

Concept: Looking out side her winder in the convent in the winter. This painting is simply a Chicago winter, as Sister Hicks looks out of her window. I heard this from on of her, I am getting good friends, as they looked at the painting with me.

Composition: This tree had to be a tree she had seen many times. I say this because it is the main focus of here painting. Even thought you can see the buildings in the back and the cars all around fount, it is the tree that really stands out.

Week 13

Craft: My magazine is really coming along. Nothing much as changed. However I have started working on my cover for my magazine. Thats coming along as well. I am trying to combine everything in my magazine on to the cover. In a cohesive way of course. So I am really copying and pasting images from my illustrations and putting them on the cover.

Composition: The composition of my blog is very simple and basic. Which is a bit of a change from the inside layout of my magazine. I really like the color combination, I feel that it balances out the colors of the text. Over all the composition of my cover follows my style and leads the viewer into what is going on in my magazine. I really like the combination of the cover and the table of contents.

Concept: I don't have any sort of concept in mind. I just wanted everything to flow and look good. If I had to pick some sort of concept I would say that I am going for a summarization of the contents in my magazine on the cover. I guess thats what ever magazine cover tries to do.

Week 12

Craft: This week I have finally got into the groove/ style of what my magazine layout is going to be. It is fairly simple but after all it is an art magazine and the focus should be on that art. I changed a lot of things. For the introduction sections, so to speak, for my projects I make the full spreads, to catch the readers attention and add spark some curiosity into there minds. I wanted to get them excited about what is on the following pages.

Composition: The composition for my magazine is mainly focused on the art. All of the illustrations featured in my magazine are big, clear, and bold. Even though I do have a lot of text, I feel that I managed to create a nice balance between the two. I guess you could call it a could "cluttered" look.

Concept: The concept of my magazine. Thats a really good question, I didn't really come into making this magazine with any particular concept. I was honestly just playing with the software, InDesign, and see what all I could do with it. I looked at a lot of other magazine for inspiration and ideas as to how to go at laying out my spreads. But if I had to pick some type of concept for my magazine I would say that I am going for a sleek abstract, bold color feeling.