Reflection During the brainstorming and observation steps of my process, I focused my attention on surface level observations of my room and not my emotional attachments to objects and things within my room. This allowed me to manifest myself into the importance of memory, both within the things of my room and the essay itself. Additionally, during my hour observation, I found myself losing focus and just sitting in silence.…
Officer and the Laughing Girl Artist: Johannes Vermeer Year: 1657 Medium: Oil on Canvas Seeing this piece in person really resonated with me because through pictures, it looks really dark but in person, the details are a lot better captured. The light of the windows pop and creates a very delicate and vulnerable moment between the figures. The Forge Artist: Francisco Goya Year: 1817 Medium: Oil on Canvas The bright…
The Wall paintings from a Cubiculum Nocturnum are a set of wallpaper-like paintings from 50-40 BCE in Roman culture. Although not part of an official collection, about sixty sections of wall paintings were discovered after the excavation of the villa and sold to different museums around the world. The walls of Room M were purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1903 and are currently on view. The particular…
The gallery I chose to write about was the show “Forever Wild.” The first piece I noticedwas the wooden sculpture of the rabbit-duck illusion. I especially liked this piece because theinvitations Daina handed out in class referenced the sculpture and felt specially curated. Thecontinuation and blending of the shape and colors of the wood also played together making itmore engaging to the eyes. The use of the mirror as the…
Identify a current example of how design is being used (intentionally or not) as social, political or environmental critique or protest. This protest poster of the Shell Oil Company struck me because if you don’t read the text, it almost looks like an advertisement from the official Shell company. I also liked how a recognizable symbol was used to catch immediate attention. The simplicity of this poster is also refreshing…
This assignment entails selecting one object from the past and one object from the present and makingcontextual comparisons between the two. That is, whom, when, how, and why were they used. Smoking pipes from Ancient Central America and Mexico, 700 A.D Current Day Cigarettes, 2023 The objects I chose for this assignment are the clay smoking pipes of Central America in what can be assumed as the Post-Classical Period and…
