Hello all, I realize that only those of you who have signed up for the blog will get this message, but I want to remind you that I will be in the room early, by 8:30. I will not be able to stay after class to answer questions, so if you have anything you want to ask or talk about please feel free to come early.
Great job on your first exercise by the way!
Thanks,
Sandy
Jan 10, 2009
Jan 8, 2009
Drawing with Light
Using light to create imagery and drawings isn't original or new by any means. There are a lot of artists that have played with this medium. Here are some links:
• Picasso's Bull
• Radiohead's Like Spinning Plates
(This is a much more sophisticated adaptation and must have been done with computer graphics in the style of light trails.)
Jan 7, 2009
Now We Know!
art
1
[ahrt] Show IPA Pronunciation 
–noun
| 1. | the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance. |
| 2. | the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection. |
| 3. | a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art. |
| 4. | the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture. |
| 5. | any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art. |
| 6. | (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story? |
| 7. | the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling. |
| 8. | the craft or trade using these principles or methods. |
| 9. | skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation. |
| 10. | a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature. |
| 11. | arts,
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) | 12. | skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature. |
| 13. | trickery; cunning: glib and devious art. |
| 14. | studied action; artificiality in behavior. |
| 15. | an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics. |
| 16. | Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship. |
Jan 6, 2009
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Poetry
by Marianne Moore
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful. When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless
wolf under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse
that feels a flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician--
nor is it valid
to discriminate against "business documents and
school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must make
a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"--above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them,"
shall we have
it. In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.