Turner

The reverberating sound spills and sprawls from powerful and magnificent waves. The sound swallows me up, pulling me down into the colorful depths of the sea. Down, down I go under the thick layer of yellow-green only to resurface by the delicate ship thrashing in the dangerous white peaks. The skies ablaze; radiating fire in every angle. Only someone that has experienced this could know what this was like. I know the old stories of him are true.I want so desperately to escape this horror, but yet I bask in the beauty and intricacy of his soft marks. This scene is crafted delicately, yet with a heavy hand. The sultry use of color captivates me, holding my attention for more than a second, consequently submerging me in the experience. It’s a sensual delight of the senses that dangles me dangerously closely to the edge of addiction. While I want to recreate this, I have neither the knowledge nor the tact to touch this talent. I would rather simply surrender to the dangerous beauty of Turners magnificent creation.

sculpture

Wowwwww. So this is incredible. This is a sculpture by Bernini. When i saw this i was basically in awe. So this is carved out of stone. I've carved stone before and i can't imagine doing anything like this. This is so..realistic and beautiful. The skin looks so fleshy while the hands dig into the skin. The hands evoke to me an emotion of need and urgency. The rolls of flesh that rise up from the fingers create valleys in which the fingers sit deeply in. The veins in the hands are strained popping out of the skin. The light in which this image is show helps to emphasize the cast shadows that the fingers create. I wonder what Bernini was thinking while he was carving this. I know that when i carve i poor myself into what i'm doing. All the emotions and thoughts i have spill out and overflow into the material i'm working with. My greatest sculptural influence is definitely Henry Moore. His design aesthetic captivates me. Henry moores pieces are simple clean and sleak. They have a unique sound that i resinate with. heres and example...

Although this sculpture is a lot different then Bernini's both speak to me. they clench my gut when i look and them, and also snag my breath. They make me want to pick up a chisel and attack a mountain of rock. I don't know how to explain why works of art do this to me, but i do know that work like this inspires me and fills me with the desire to create. When i create i feel whole. I feel like i'm doing what i'm destined to do. I wonder if that's how moore and bernini felt while creating these pieces. I wonder if they where addicted to creating pieces of art of if they merely only produces because they were naturally talented. While i can fantasize that they are like me, i can't even know for sure.

the art of the portrait

Caravaggio's portraits are incredibly captivating. The sense of dramatic lighting is so powerful that one cannot deny how potent the images are. After looking at the pictures i sent up a challenge for myself. My challenge? To create a powerful portrait. I tried various things. Here are my outcomes via photography :



So in these photos i stole what i liked most about Caravaggio's portraits- his use of dramatic chiaroscuro. I did this by taking a lamp and angeling it on the models body in a dark room. In the middle one i used natural lighting taking advantage of the shadows that fell on my models face. I placed around with covering my models faces in all the photographs because that's something that really interests me. While i'm no Caravaggio, i did like learning from him and applying it to my own art.

Pure Perfection?

Ok so what is pure perfection in someone in terms of looks? if i could answer that then, well i would know something rest of the world doesn't know. Take the mona lisa for example. It's one of the most famous paintings of all time. It is said to be a symbol of beauty. On a closer look though you notice the male features mixed within mona lisas face. here's a picture...

upon a closer look you see Da Vinci's face as an underlayer...

Setting aside the fact that most artists paint themselves , sometimes self conciously in their work, is the ultimate beauty a mix of male and female...aka androgy

nous?

Personally i find androgynous people to be gorgeous. here is an example.

so...here's and experiment..what if i took according to the internet the two most beautiful common day people and morph them together...

aka eva mendes and brad pitt

hmm..not so attractive? or maybe just a little bit? So what about having male and female features makes certain people so captivating? Maybe one could relate this to the theory in life that everyone is a little bit bisexual. Many people especially republicans hahaahah,( ok sorry not so funny ) would definitely disagree with me. I personally believe it though. I feel that we are all somewhat attracted to our own gender...hence why people that share female and male traits are so desirable. Androgynous actors are popping up all over the place. Take for example the actress in the show  the L word. aka shane. She is now known internationally as probably one of the most desirable women, not only in the lesbian culture but also to many straight girls. you want to know why? because she has male features. this brings me back to my theory on why the mona lisa is looked at to be a rare unusual beauty..her androgyny. back in the day there probably weren't to many androgynous people in paintings, thus when da vinci painted himself mixed with a female it shed a new light on beauty. it made people stop and look and pay attention because it was something different then what was usually portrayed in paintings. i feel this might be the whole reason why the mona lisa became so popular. the unusual take on a woman.