geometric food art by sakir gökçebag

I thought this artist's works was interesting since he used a very unique medium: Fruit. This artist, sakir gökçebag, is a Turkish artist who takes fruits and vegetables and rearranges them in various patterns and shapes. The images above may appear to be digitally altered but, are in fact cut very precisely and photographed to make the straight edges more apparent and show how the formation of the fruits show circle formations. 

Quote by Famous Artist

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. — Twyla Tharp

I had really taken an interest in this quote by Twyla Tharp because people use art as a means to escape reality and dwell into a world they envision. Besides it being used to show ones interpretation of something, some people use art to get away from the problems simply by placing it on paper. 

ARART App.

So today I came across this video on the Design Boom website and it really caught my attention because it's about this app developed by kei shiratori, takeshi mukai and younghyo bak. This app that they have created is suppose to take well known drawings and paintings and visually alter them into real-time virtual animations. I thought this app could also be interesting to use when you want to see how a work of art uses move or sense of direction. This app is also available in the app store on your iPad so check it and tell me what you this :)

My Fire/Water Completed!

So after 6hrs of doing this I finally finished the panel last night. I was a bit skeptical of posting the image on the blog since I just wanted to wait until everyone saw it at school but I still wanted to show my progress. I hope I get a good grade on this since the detailing was very very tedious. But all I have to do is mount it :) then ta da!

My Fire/Water Panel Process

So far this is almost done. Still working on it as we speak and just need to add more details.

New York Metropolitan Museum Trip

So last week we went the whole first year foundation group went to the metropolitan museum and I found the trip to be amazing! while I was there, I seem to have found my most favorite place in the museum: The Temple of Dender :) I wish I could've taken more photos of the exhibit but I wouldn't of been able to capture its large scale but I have included some of the few paintings that have caught my attention :)

New York Met Museum Trip Assignment

Kimberly Torres

10/1/12

           One of the two pieces of artwork that has caught my attention while i had visited the
Metropolitan Museum of art is a painting done by James Rosenquist, titled House Of Fire and another 

painting done by an artist named Clifford Still who's piece is untitled. I believe both the artists are trying to convey some type of emotion from the viewer. Both of these paintings appear to be Kinesthetic since when i first seen these paintings, they made me have the sensation to touch the pattern of objects that were within them. In James Rosenquist painting, I feel like he wants to show the average life of women but also showing some kind of hardship she might have to go through. The main focal point of  this image would have to be some sort of bucket like object but what also makes this the focal point is it's use of red which makes it more eye catching. This piece also has have a sense of Harmony since this image uses a monochromatic color scheme. what I also find eye catching about this image is it's Gestalt since the image contains objects that are more or so obvious as opposed to being abstracted.

          

          The second painting appears to be eye catching just the same since it uses contrast and a large scale size. This painting is also a good example of a Non-objective work of art since there is no apparent subject matter. I believe that is painting was trying to express and emotion to and from the viewer. when i first looked at this piece, i didn't receive a very good vibe from it because of the large use of black in the center of the image. What made this a successful abstract work of art was its use of  Equivocal space and Continuity which shows visual unity since the painting uses the same line quality throughout the whole image.

                                                                   Untitled
                                                  Clyfford Still  (American, 1904–1980)
         Date: 1960 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: H. 113, W. 146-1/4 inches (287 x 371.5 cm.)

                                                              House of Fire
                        James Rosenquist  (American, born Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1933)
                    Date: 1981 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 78 x 198in. (198.1 x 502.9cm)