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ART EVENT 2

Carl Plansky and friends

                A few weeks ago I went to the Carl Plansky and friends show at the golden paints factory. The show room was filled with oil paintings by Carl Plansky but also consisted of many other artists’ works. My favorite one was called Testing tree by Jake Berthot. It was a very dark painting within a forest landscape. The values in the different colors were all darks, and there were no light areas, yet the painting still had dept. The viewer has to look closely to see the tree trunks in the background, but immediately noticed the big tree in the foreground. He spent a lot of time layering the darks and created a transparency of the dark night air. His painting is my favorite because it is the most visually appearing, which is weird because usually I like bright colors.         

                One interesting thing about the artist Carl Plansky is that he makes his own oil paints. He uses a variety of bright and “unreal” colors in his mind palette to paint his still-life works as well as his self portrait with a twist of creativity. His long thick brushstrokes and sense of space are always chaotic and you can see the muscle he puts into his pieces. His works have a more opaque feeling to them than other oil works ive seen, but they still have the transparency that happens when oil paints are mixed with mineral spirits. There is depth and layering but it is done in a way that looks random and easy. Looking at his work makes you want to paint, it also makes you think “hey I can do this… it’s just random lines of paint” but in reality his work is how it is because he has spent years of working with oil paints. He spends time on each individual painting works hard to keep the colors separate. It is very easy to make a muddy painting from oil paints if you’re trying to do it in a short period of time, but his work shows the slow development of space and color he made over time, which is a main point when working with oil paints (taking your time with layering to build transparency and depth).

         In general this show was really cool and I had a good time at the gallery!

desktop wars!

liquify

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Its a music video and i think its awesome how they incorperated moving/growing art animation within the music video of the band.

art event

yager/artist statement

snookie song LOL

One girl made a bunch of parodys directed towards iconic celebrities. she pokes and makes fun of them while acting out whoever is singing the song. Actually she does a really good job. She looks and acts realistic to who she is imitating and she's good at acting out what people want to see and she makes it humorous. I like these (LOL) they make me laugh. They are kinda weird but thats ok there's tons more bizzare stuff out there.

Liu Bolin

"chinese invisable artist"

installations

ART EVENT 2

carl plansky and friendds

julian beever

Many people know him as sidewalk chalk guy. Julian beever has been doing sidewalk optical illusions for over ten years. Many people have seen his work before, but i had to post a blog about him because he is one of my all time favorite artists. The way he tricks your eyes into seeing what he wants you too works every time. He usually paints scenes where it looks like people are falling through cracks in the sidewalk, which look real but we still know they are illusions.

John Bramblitt

I always make sure to write down my user name and password.. But the index card disapeared.. I remember some things in the blog I already started so I'm just going to repost it on here and go from there. AH! I hate passwords/email combonations.

JOHN BRAMBLITT

Last class I talked about John Bramblitt, so I'll start my first blog talking about him. John Bramblitt was a college student at the UV of texas when he had an epileptic seizure which caused him to go blind. I really admire John Bramblitt because of his drive and his ability to paint amazingly. You wouldnt even know he was blind when looking at his work because the colors/value and proportion are both on key. I know hes not a digital artist, but his art is made up of seprate feilds of colors with limited variations. Because of this, they have a digital characteristic and have the appearence of being created on a computer, on a program like paint or photoshop. The texture of his paint is what makes you know its acrylic, and not just made up of light. Either way John Bramblitt is awesome. http://bramblitt.net/