#languageproject

[annarogers1999]

Language post-crit response

During the critique, the class talked about a couple things regarding my project. One thing was that someone noticed was that one rabbit was white and the other rabbit was brown, and it reminded them of race and interracial relationships. To be completely honest, I did not think about this before, but I like the connection and the point that was made. This is very similar to what has been going on in society, especially with the Black Lives Matter movement. Also, I know that many people have a hard accepting interracial relationships, but that is mainly because it is different and it was not socially acceptable a long times ago. I personally am not against interracial relationships and I do support black lives. Another thing that we talked about was scale. If we had the critique in person, I would have probably had this printed and hung up. Many people have said that it would have been better to look at it that way, which I agree with them. When working on the final part of this project, I used adobe apps to make sure each frame was straight, each part was placed correctly, and more. Everything was drawn with oil pastels, photographed, and placed digitally.

When talking about it and looking at the project before the changes, I knew that I needed to add more to it. I drew a few new things to add more to the story and the message of the art work. I still used multi-colored oil pastels, and then I transferred them digitally. Before, I had 4 frames, and now I have 6 frames. The first picture in the artwork  has the two rabbits, about to fall in love, meeting and looking at each other for the very first time. The second frame contains the bunnies being in love and kissing. In the third one, there is an arrow flying across. The fourth one shows that one of the rabbits was shot by this arrow. In the fifth frame, we can see that the rabbit has dies as a result of the incident and the tree behind it has died along with it. In the last one, it shows the other bunny, which is still alive, visiting the spot that it spent time with the other bunny and witness its’ unfortunate death. The tree in the background is still dead with absolutely no leaves on it. I would also like to add that for the meaning of this project. In many cases, when someone you love dies, a part of yourself dies as well. For future projects, I would like to do more digital and similar to Graphic Design, but I don’t know if I would do any more drawing.

[annarogers1999]

Language Project - Rabbits in Love

[ericotley-blog]

Language - Post-Critique Response

Coming up with a concept for this piece took a little creativity. I was actually inspired by a cutout collage I created using magazine cut outs, that included a couple images of fences. One was white fence with a black background, the other was a bright background that blacked out the fence in the foreground. Taking this imagery I envisioned how I could incorporate this into language. My initial ideas were pretty crude, but after discussions with classmates and the professor I ended up creating a much more interesting body of text for this piece. 

Some of the weaknesses of this piece was how hard it was to read the abstracted text. I did intentionally make it hard to read, but I ended up making it way too hard to read. The viewer should be able to be rewarded if they spend the time looking at the image.

I plan on implementing a more fence like font, something more wire like, I also plan on making the intersections of text much more clear, so the viewer can follow the line of text without getting lost. It will still be abstracted a little, and difficult to read, but not impossible. I plan on playing with colors of the background as well. This needs to be tweaked a little bit, if not just adjusted slightly.

I feel like I have gained skills that help build out ideas, and put meaning into my artwork.

I can imagine continuing this line of research. Creating objects with text, that tie into a concept that the viewer gets to enjoy and explore.

[jwill-theartist]

Post-Critique Response

One of the strengths of the finished project was that compositionally it was sound. One weakness that O has gathered was my conceptual idea didn’t shine through as well as I had hoped it would. The many interpretations of the finished project were very skewed from the original. That came from me omitting the poem that it was based on. One suggestion that I plan on implementing is the inclusion of words and more importantly the poem that the entire project was based on. I definitely expanded my skills in Adobe Illustrator, with the knowledge I had acquired from Ad127 which I am currently taking and youtube videos. I also learned how to convey strong emotions through images. That’s something that I've never really delved into when creating. Most of my work is straightforward and doesn’t have a lot of emotive messages behind it so, it was interesting and difficult for me to combine two things (art and poetry). I definitely would like to see all of what I can create using my poetry and visual artistic ability. I would take the idea that Professor Wind suggested and try to present the finished project in a different way. She suggested since I drew my inspiration from an album cover to possibly put it on a vinyl cover. So, I might dig deeper into how I can get one printed that way and how it might add to the message.

[jwill-theartist]

Language Project/ Artist Statement

Originally my project was going to be a video that used people who know how to tell stories in a creative way. I was going to have it be shot in the lighting studio and the shirt in the formal interview and have it be super lan originally my project was going to be a video there used people who knew how to tell stories in a creative way. I was going to have it be shot in the lighting studio and be shot in the formal interview and be super bland and mundane but the colorful with words. unfortunately I was unable to carry out there idea for the project. Therefore, I troubleshoot and still had the same idea but in a different medium. My overall theme for the video was going to be poems about love in whatever form or fashion whether that be heartbreak, falling in love, falling out of love, loving someone, loving something, anything as long as it involves love in some form and/or fashion. 

My project was created in adobe illustrator. I narrowed in on heartbreak and ran with that idea. I had poems that I created and I took bits and pieces of those to create the concept that I wanted. One palm in particular that was the pinnacle point of how my contact list created was my poem “Side effects of a Heartbreak”. Are use a silhouette of version of myself and placed it in my project to make it more personal as well as using my own forms to function as a foundation of whether idea stemmed from.

[jwill-theartist]

Language Project Proposal

I intend to invoke a strong emotional response with an audio and visual film focused around one main theme, that will be determined. I want this project discipline to be based in film. I want to have a focused theme and I will have human beings be the main subject matter. This will also be done in the lighting studio with a DSLR. I want it to look like a video-taped interview and somehow have words be transposed on the green screen to appear in the video. 

I am going to find individuals that do a great job telling stories and who know how to paint pictures with their words. I’ll give them a prompt and capture what they say. My intention is to invoke a strong emotional response from the viewers. I think by having ordinary people speaking and how the video may be cut it should be able to allow for the viewer to relate. Being able to do this through words accompanied with a simple but visually entertaining imagery will help with the emotional response. 

[jwill-theartist]

FORM: This work is just graffiti art on the sides of buildings by Steve Powers. 

CONTENT: The artist uses words to convey a various array of messages, some of which are witty and some thoughtful messages. 

PROCESS: There are possibly stencils used to get the crisp lettering like in the example to the right. Uses colors and font type of neon signs to catch the attention of the audience. 

https://mymodernmet.com/text-art-masters/

[jwill-theartist]

Reading Response: Language

In this reading the author talks about how language art can go hand in hand. The author states, ”Visiting the exhibition, a viewer conclude that the incorporation or language in visual art is a common strategy among contemporary artist working in various printed formats.” They’re saying that visual art has taken over the contemporary art scene and is being more incorporated in this art period versus others. A major artist that made a big breakthrough with adding language into the art was Marcel Duchamp. The author quoted Kristine Stiles who said “In 1917, Marcel Duchamp…. had already defined an artist as someone able to rethink the world and remake meaning through language rather than someone who produces handcrafted visual objects for ‘retinal pleasure’.” I interpreted this quote as styles saying that an artist is someone who represents language in a different form versus just creating something that’s entertaining to the audience. Art should be something that tells a story or relays some form of information to the audience and isn’t there in the form is entertainment. Reading further into the chapter the author speaks of artist statements also being way of documenting work. It’s a form of showing the art creation or the prices of in which the art was created and what it was created for, “the documentation commemorates a static artwork in its completion.” this formal documentation also ensures that the art lives on in a different form than what way it was presented to the audience.