My photographs below focus on Gestalt’s principles of repetition, and continuity. They come together in a compilation that compliments one another. My photos grouped together use repetition and continuity, the two principles together along with different perspectives create a flowing direction in which the eyes follow. The photograph of the trees is especially interesting because it looks as if it could go on forever, like the way a mirror facing another mirror repeats images. The photo of the bicycle tires draws the viewers eyes to the center, as if to make the surrounding circles form a spiral. Unlike the other photographs, the line of continuity in the staircase photograph curves, leading the eyes into what seems like a mystery.  Each of the photographs embody Gestalt’s principles of repetition and continuity in their own distinct ways.

Below are my collections and keywords in both Bridge and Lightroom.

Shelby Charette

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Hammonds

September 27, 2015

Blog Post 4 Part 1

Looking at the upper classman work made me realize I still have so much time to grow and develop my skills as an artist. Their work was so professional and strongly developed, and their advice really helped me evaluate my choices of my use of time and helped me realize that I need to experiment more with materials and step outside of my comfort zone. Each had similar ideas to portray although their styles were completely unique. Rachael unfortunately did not show us her work, although went very well in depth with her presentation. Caelan showed their work very briefly, although her painting and her ideas for her senior project were very in-depth. Shelby’s work is a lot like the work I plan to do, since I am a Graphic Design major, her work was very colorful and even though her work is mainly online, she implemented drawing and painting elements to her work. Although in Graphic Design as well, Paul Young’s work was exceedingly different. He designs beautiful posters and logos. Both Christin and Juliana use photography as their main artwork, although have completely different styles. Juliana takes abstract and very colorful photos, while Christin takes only black and white photos of her main subject. All of the students had wonderful art, and most importantly, they shared their art with us to give us hope for our ventures into the artistic world.

Blog Post 4 Part 2

http://www.yasoypintor.com

I find this art blog very compelling, because it seems to be a just starting blog. I really like the simlpicity of their layout. The content of the blog contains abstract painters, blogs, art, and shows interesting exhibits and workshops to attend.

http://artscenetoday.com/artist_resources/art-related-blogs/

I chose this website in particular for its wide variety of resources. It is not an art blog, but more of a promoting blog for artists, it also has different categories, such as art history, art education, for artists/by artists and many more.

http://www.theartleague.org/blog/

The Art League is more of a way to get artists involved, it has artists needed ads, and daily updates and news. This website is very useful for pretty much anybody, although catering mostly to the artistic part of the community, it is not limiting people that just want to be involved. I believe this is a great way to be a part of the community and to help people get out of their comfort zones.

creativeboom.com

This website is actually a very unusual one, it does not display art, but it is a website to help artists who have a creative block. Every artists, or atlas most of them, have encountered creative block sometime or another, and this website helps get creativity flowing and allows the ideas to flow more smoothly than to be forced. I believe this is a great tool for all artists.

Shelby Charette

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Robinson

September 22, 2015

Medium is the Message Analysis

Throughout “The Medium is the Message,” the main idea stressed is the effect media has on humans. Through the development of technology, man has altered life to fit it. We change with technology, not the other way around. I certainly agree with the idea of humans adapting to fit technological needs, our society is  constantly looking for ways to improve our lives by improving technology, but technology is not always what will help us.

While listening, I often found myself lost, confused, and unable to comprehend what I was witnessing. The speakers were speaking philosophically and talking of abstract ideas, but with all of the befuddling noise, I found myself listening to the noises more than the actual ideas they were trying to convey. Even when I read, I found myself over visually stimulated, finding it excruciatingly hard to focus on what the words.

Although, I did happen to hear one bit of information I believe is very crucial, and it was the explanation of how artists are contradictory. They spoke of how artists exploit situations and ideas people do not wish to know. In fact, that might be a reference to the artists who made this.

Altogether, I was unable to gather much information about the topic, but the main ideas I took from “The Medium is The Message,” is the effect technology has on human society, and how art embodies controversial issues most people will not accept.

While looking through the art blog Colossal, I came across a lot of wonderful paintings and photographs, although one artist caught my eye, Peter Aurisch. He is a tattoo artist in Berlin, Germany and specializes in unique Picasso-like tattoos. He incorporates geometric shapes and astounding color to create an abstract tattoo that very much resembles Picasso’s work. The reason I love his work, is because most people do not use such abstract designs as a tattoo. Anyone can paint a picture, although not many people can incorporate this style of art into tattoo designs. The detail, the immense color, and the uniqueness of his work is truly eye catching.

Peter Aurisch. Tattoo, Work.

Peter Aurisch. Tattoo Work.

Peter Aurisch, Tattoo, Work.

Peter Aurisch. Tattoo, Work.

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When it comes to drawing, I prefer black ink and paper. Almost all of my drawings are black ink and paper, not because its the only thing I’m good at, but because it is so raw in my opinion, much like black and white photographs. I do not have much of my art with me, but I do have some very old pieces I’ve drawn. The lady drawn was actually inspired by another painting that dazzled me. The Tiger and the woman drawings are have yet to be finished, although even when unfinished, the black and white drawings show my strength with drawing accurate lines.

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Shelby Charette

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Robertson

September 8, 2015

Blog Post #4, #5,#6

In Amy Tan’s Ted Talk, Stan Brakhage’s “Stellar”, and Soundcloud recording of Spoon’s creation of the song “Inside Out,” we see much of Gestalt’s theories in play, applying to media not only visually, and mentally, but also when listening to the audio recording of Spoon. It was not easy finding out how the Gestalt Principles applied to this content we were given, but I may have been over-thinking it. All three mediums, Amy Tan’s Ted Talk, Stan Brakhage’s  video “Stellar,” and Spoon’s recording of “Inside Out,” all apply specific aspects of Gestalt’s theories to their creations.

In Amy Tan’s Ted Talk, she discusses creativity and questions the meaning of creativity and what it takes to make oneself creative. Her entire lecture consisted of her journey into figuring out her own creativity. She explained her questions and concerns about the meaning of the word, she explained how her life events impacted her definition of creativity and explored the ambiguity of the subject. Although throughout the lecture, one thing was represented mainly, and it was perspective. Perspective in Gestalt’s theory and in our project we are currently working on, perfective/point-of-view are a very vital part of the entire ordeal. Amy Tan creates her own perspective on creativity, based on her experiences, her knowledge, and everything in between. She bases her entire idea of creativity solely based on only one thing: her view of it. She continues throughout the lecture questioning how we develop creativity, while explaining her entire process of her finally reaching her own definition of creativity.

Stan Brakhage’s creation “Stellar,” can be seen as confusing and extremely abstract, and it very well possibly be the entire point of the video. Breakage uses abstract, colorful illustrations in his silent videos to intrigue the viewer and leave them to interpret. His art is made in order to look similar to what he’s trying to convey, yet not exact.  He uses Gestalt’s principle of similarity to let the viewer interpret his work and piece the puzzle together without the help of an explanation. Since his work is extremely abstract, it is almost completely dependent on perception, which also embodies an important part of Gestalt’s theory.

Spoon’s podcast of the creation of their song “Inside Out,” shows their artistic expedition from just a thought into a final product. They explain that the thought for the song began by just a thought of a simple vocal and guitar, and explains how the more they thought about it, tested ideas, added instruments, added synthesizers, and digital drums, into a medley of complimentary beats that eventually created a fantastic song. They used Gestalt’s principal of proximity by adding multiple effects to create a harmonious and appealing sound to the song. It sounds ridiculous to apply this principle to music, although when thinking about the definition of proximity, it is considered elements being either placed close together or apart, and the viewer, or listener in this case, groups the music notes together creating a song.

Finally, the videos and podcast all reflected principles of Gestalt’s theory within them thus showing us that in whatever art we look at, whichever medium we use, we can find some sort of representation of Gestalt’s principles.