An Artist that creates video art :Pipilotti Rist

• Rist was born in 1962, she studied video art in Basel, Switzerland. In 1997, her work was first featured in theVenice Biennial, where she was awarded the Premio 2000 Prize. She creates video art that that more often than not features herself.
• She creates work that is supposed to relate to gender, sexuality, the human body.Her art is also supposed to transmit happiness, and simplicity.
• She does a great Job portraying this theme through her color choices, and the use and infasis on the simplicity of the nude human body. 

I'm not a girl that misses much
 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJgiSyCr6BY

Put your body out 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3fUy64lM8

• Over all I really like this artist I enjoy the colors she uses, and the subject that she chooses. I especially liker the " Put your body out" piece because if its message to interact with the nature around us. Although the "I'm not the girl that misses much" really disturbed me because of the style of the film and her voice saying that she doesn't miss much put me on edge.

Sources

•  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM3fUy64lM8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJgiSyCr6BY 
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipilotti_Rist
• http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/25/pipilotti-rist/biography/

Project #4

• The Basic Idea of this piece is of coarse a ram skull, but I intended for the viewer to focus on, and and almost the power of the horns.
• The horns are the rams main defense, so I tried to portray the fierceness of the rams horns through giving them texture that portrays that. The desighn decisions that I made were to glue pieces of pine cone to give the horns an intimidating feel. I also didn't put much texture or design in the rest of the skull in order to have the focus point be on the horns. I definintly put the most time into the horns, and it shows.
• Through making this piece I learned not to underestimate the time it will take to hot glue hundreds of pieces of pine cone to a horn. I also learned that if i do something, like leave hot glue strands, that i need to do it all the way or not leave any at all.
• If I could do anything better I would leave more hot glue strands, to add a sense of cobwebs and age.

Sketches

Fluffy Clouds

Dirty Rag

Glass Bottle

 Pine Cone

Tape

 Wool

 Grip Tape

 Shoe Sole

 Fraudulent Fur

 jearsey

 wire door stopper

 pastic bag

 wall texture

 Spaghetti ceiling

 Plastic vent

 Log

 Red Rock

 Broken Rock

Car Dashboard

 Paper Bag

• The theme that I decided to do was Texture. Texture is something that i struggled with throughout my last few projects so I wanted to focus on texture in my blog in order to help with ideas for textures in my final project.
• I really enjoyed the texture of the pine cone, and I am currently using that texture in my final project. I also really enjoyed the texture of the dried up log that I found. Its age deepened iyts grain design giving it a rough yet flowing texture. Finally I enjoyed the fake fur, it has a coarse, yet fluffy texture that would serve well in an animal sculpture. 
• An artist that has used pine cones in his art is the creator of Third Eye Pinecones. He crates crystallized pine cone necklaces that are perfect for the average hippy.

Andy Goldsworthy

•  Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist, who creates, and photographs works that consist of thing he finds in nature. A lot of the time his pieces only exist for short periods of time, for example his sand art, or snow Art. "All of Goldsworthy's artwork is created by responding to natural surroundings and he creates no work that is preconceived. He explores and experiments with a variety of materials which he finds on site such as grass, leaves, stone, wood, clay, ice and snow. Most of his sculpture work is only temporary, or semi-permanent, so he captures many of them with photographs." When creating his work he wants the viewer to become aware of the change that occurs in nature. "I have become aware of how nature is in a state of change and how that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather."
• Andy is successful in portraying this idea of change, by him changing the nature around him, then natural forces change it back, and it shows the beauty of how nature is constantly changing.
  
  
  
  • The form in this peice highlights change in nature by the gradual fade from dark to light leaves, representing changing of the seasons. Andy also just lays the leaves on the ground without any thing holding them down so a simple breeze would create change to his piece.
  
  •  The artists material choice is that of an easily changed medium, Ice. we know that this piece is extremely subject to change because of the fact that it is ice and will soon change from a solid to liquid. This again shows how nature will change the change he has already made.
  
  • This artist intrigues me because of his view on he change of nature, and how he exposes it. I love how he just wanders around until something comes to his mind, and that his work is not preconceived.
  • I would want to work with this artist because who wouldn't want to be able to hang out in nature all day and be able to create art; although it would be hard to create art because I would be so intrigued by what he is doing.
  sources
  
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy
  • http://www.greenmuseum.org/c/aen/Issues/goldsworthy.php
  •  http://www.morning-earth.org/ARTISTNATURALISTS/AN_Goldsworthy.html

Project #3

• The Idea of this piece was to represent my physical existence in this world. I created an piece that interacts with wind, by harnessing it and propelling me on my long board. 
• I wanted the viewer to get the feel of flying,a winged being, even though it is not meant for flying. I also wanted the wings to resemble A ships sails. I also wanted to entice the viewer with feeling the uncontrollable crazy side of flying by throwing in the psychedelic Jimi shirt.
• I used sky blue throughout the piece in order to make the connection of being in the sky and flying. And i used a sail like design by connecting the "wings" in view spots creating the loops.
• the main thing that I learned making this piece was how to sew. I had never sewn anything in my life before this project, and I hit some speed bumps  but I'm glad to finally know how. i also learned that sewing machines would make projects like this a hell of a lot easier.
• If I made it again I would add something that further interacted with the wind like streamers or something.

Sketches

Casa Bonita

Casa Bonita Cliff Structure

Run Down Mine

 Run Down Mine

Minde Shaft

Run Down Mine

Run Down Mine

Snow Board Half Pipe

 Structure Near 

Fire Hydrant 

 AV

Bathrooms By IM

 Light Pole

 Rec center

 Loral Village

 Basketball Stadium

 Durell Tower

 Edwards Hall

Clock Tower in Front of AV

Light Pole

Similar themes that I found were new, and aged structures.  For example the Yankee Boy mine in Ouray has a rustic old timey look, because it is old as dirt. Although these structures are old they are visually appealing in a different way than the newer structures around campus. The ones around Campus are a more modern and stable look.

Some artistic ramifications that I got from the pictures that I took in Ouray were a rustic aged look that I really enjoy. I have incorporated this in other pieces that I have created, with aged barn wood. From the fire hydrant picture I get the same aged feel from the original red paint showing through the yellow paint, although its not as old as the Yankee Boy Mine structure. The third picture that i learned from was there newer more modern rounded look of the basketball stadium. I don't find this stadium as appealing as the other aged ones although i can learn from the artistic shape.

Rob Bohlman is a steamboat artist that works with aged wood to create furniture. His beautiful carpentry captures the elegance of aged wood, he uses wood that resembles the wood that is used in the Yankee Boy Mine Structure.