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Current ARTicles: Kanye West's Album Cover

A. What do you think about the cover? Is it controversial enough? Why?

I think the cover is unique and its something that normally isn't done, or something that artists normally wouldn't put as a album cover, so that makes it interesting. I think this is controversial enough because it exposes a bit of nudity and it is something that concerns the parents and something that they wouldn't want their children to see, especially if its in public. Also some people might not agree with this being banned because they might say that it is art and art should be expressed however the artist pleases. So there are disagreements, which can be a reason why it is as controversial as it is.

B. What is your opinion on Art being controversial?

My opinion on art being controversial is that, it is art and people should have the freedom to show that in their art form, and I feel as if it is not art if there are limits set. Also nudity and such (since it is a controversial thing about art) they can use that as a method to sending a message, and seeing what the artist is trying to convey.

C. First he interrupts TS during her acceptance speech, now this? Do you think this is a publicity stunt and is it good to promote his Art?Why?

It can be a publicity stunt but for this particular art, I wouldn't have promoted this because after the Taylor Swift interruption, he already has a bad name to him and then he goes and promotes this album cover...I wouldn't have done it, but at the same time, I wouldn't want to pick an album cover that is "safe" and something that wouldn't attract people.

Art Show Piece

The piece in the art show that caught my eye and that I found interesting, was the many pictures and faces of the baby, because I thought it was interesting how the photographer arranged the pictures and was able to capture all the expressions and emotions of the baby. Some of the principles of design that I found in the picture is texture, like even though it was just the face of the baby, sometimes a piece of cloth from the blanket would show and the lighting of the picture would change. Also as a whole, when all the pictures are put together like the way they are, an element that is used is unity. What the photographer is trying to infer is maybe that she loves and is proud of her new baby sister and that she wants to show her off to everyone.

Photo Books

Analyze- In this book, I tried to analyze and put things that I liked or found interesting. And in this book you see a lot of pictures of my friends and I just because I like my friends. Also I picked a lot of patterns because I like using patterns because I feel as if you can do anything with patterns and many ideas can come from them, it also just looks really pretty so I had to use them in my book. I like overlapping things in the book and making it look like a collage, but at the same time make it look neat. Also I incorporated "love" in the book, like in one of the pages I put a picture of a 'couple' looking at each other and then on the cover I drew a couple, and by this, I'm just incorporating something that really means a lot to me.

Interpret- In this book, what I am trying to interpret or communicate is that I love life, earthy colors are my favorite, and that love is important to me. The whole purpose and point of this book is just to show people things that I like and what's important to me. Like the colors I picked are somewhat darker shades and I used green and brown and to me that represents stuff about the environment.

Judge- Since this was my first book, I think I did a pretty good job, it was the first time where I have to organize something like this and preparing for it was very hard, and I had to learn what is too much and what's not and what colors look good together. Just some things that I think I could improve on are the content of the book, like what designs to use and pictures and just putting everything together as a whole. Also I learned that leaving white spaces isn't so bad and that adding too much on a page isn't really a good thing.

Contact Sheets

My group wasn't able to make a contact sheet because this was the film that got burnt and everything was super dark and we didn't have time to re-shoot because we were falling behind.

Up Close and Personal

For this assignment Up Close and Personal, we took pictures of people up close and tried to get their expression and things they were doing at the time. This picture, I used Brianna as a model and when I took this, she was wearing a karate like suite and there was a huge bark from a tree and thought of the idea that she was breaking the bark as if she was breaking wood. I captured her expression and she "broke" the bark and tried to get the bark at the same time. I like this picture a lot because I think the lighting is right, she has expression in her face and you can infer what she is doing.

A Print from the Elements and Principles w/ Reflection

This was the Element of Design where we had to pick 2 elements of design and mines was texture and unity so I took the unity of the pillars in the Circle of the Sun and the texture of the leaves together