Boston

Alright, here's the thing about Boston, I've been to a fair number of cities in my day, but I still love Boston. It's not great to skate in, but it stays true to what it is. It's rude and angry, with unorganized streets and costly living, but it still rules. Boston is one of the few cities that hasn't been completely remodeled during the mid to late 20th century, sure there are new buildings but Boston tries it's best to preserve some of it's history. It has world class museums and schools. It lacks public art and space. It has an alright music scene. Overall Boston is pretty eh, but I have a certain loyalty to it.

Therefore It Is part 2

In 1917 Duchamp made a drastic display of the notion that if you say something is art then therefore it is art.
Duchamp was influenced by the anti art and anti authority movement of the early 1900's. His artwork is consider by many as a major landmark in art history, and is considered some of the mosts influential work in the 20th century.
His most well known story is when head produced a work called The Fountain, which was basically a urinal in display at a museum. Critics had a blast with this one. For obvious reason. Duchamp's ideas were clearly presented in this, whatever you call art, is art. So would a Urinal displayed in a gallery be considered art? I guess so, it makes you think on a higher plane doesn't it?

Therefore It Is part 1

Basically if you say something is art it then becomes art. Art doesn't really have a definition not in a social seance anyways, people really can't define art. It is anything that makes you think in a higher plane, and think in a way that you don't usually think. It makes you see, hear, think, and feel.
Poety is art, cooking is art, writing is art, painting is art, dancing is art.
A more philosophical sense of the word is saying something is art makes you think. So basically if you out the thought that something is art in someone's head they start to think of it in a different way. You say it is, therefore it is.
Many artists play around with this idea and it usually brings chaos to the general public as well as baffle critics and people who are trying to appreciate, appraise, or judge art.

Flickr.com

Flickr.com is an image hosting website. Mainly it is for photographers and people who strive for and focus on digital art in the form of images. It's blocked in school and is kind of lame. Flickr is also a website that has forums on how to achieve certain lighting, exposures, and other photographic techniques.


Deviantart.com used to be a great website to display and share art. Now it's sort of overrun by fan girls and pictures of anime characters. If you filter through the garbage though there are some really great stuff.


Vimeo.com is a video hosting website that provides a place for movie makers to share their movies and get constructive criticism (lol at YouTube) it provides HD service, and was the first one to do it. Many movie makers release promos and trailers through this site. Underground filmmakers swear by it.

In My Portfolio Art Class

I need to finish 2-3 more paintings by the time that Christmas break comes around. I need to experiment more and take things seriously.
Taking things seriously is a huge problem for me, sometimes I'm just way to layer back for my own good. Once I get things started though I usually see it through. That's the hardest part of anything for me, getting the initiative to start a project.
I've been painting recently though, but nothing good or anything that I really like.


Mixed media is when you take two or more media such as charcoal, paint, graphite, photographs, collage, ink, or annoy other material and use it in the same piece of art. I want to play around with some mixed media sometime soon, probably photographs and paint, or something with ink and watercolor. There are so many possibilities and I wish I don't procrastinate everything.

One of His Best Known Works

Kandinsky

Kandinsky is the founder of abstract art. His works are wholly on the abstract level. In the early 1960's abstract art didn't exist. Expressionistic paintings were what got you into the art world, but in order to make your mark in the world you have t do something new and creative. Picasso's cubism was still in the works and still popular in how it wasn't tradictional. It made the public aware of other forms of art.
This made the public more assuming a towards abstract art. It wasn't cmpletely excepted then or even now by the general public. His works take things and portray the artists emotions and what he or she is feeling rather then t reflect something that was seen or once was seen.

Madness

These are some of my journals. As a person I'm an unorganized mess, this is my person method on how to cope with that. I just compile my life into nicely bound pieces of paper. I know the exact date i started doing this too Friday August 13th, 2010.

That was also the fist day I took art seriously and started to draw and sketch and compile my ideas. I'm really super scatterbrained and my thoughts just don't have any connections. Writing it all down has greatly improved my standard of living. It's fantastic, try it out.

Tomorrow Is A Fine Day

Alright, so tomorrow is a field trip, it's going to be a nice one at that. My art class and I are taking a short trek to the MFA in Boston. I love it there and usually go once a year with my family during the summer ( my Mom just makes fun of cubism) but this is the first time that I'm going there on a field trip.
I'll share pictures and tell war stories on Saturday. I'll also share some of Mr. Mahoney's life tales with you, I swear, he has a story for every occasion. One time his family had lunch at the MFA with famous musician Yoyo Ma, crazy right? So, on Saturday I'll have some things to share with you, sweet.

Dale Chihuly

here is a work from Dale Chihuly. This Sculpture is about 13 feet tall

 and is made completely out of glass.

His works are displayed around the world

and are always the centerpiece to any space.

Let's Continue That Thought

Earlier I said that the industry makes you think new things look better so that you appreciate old styles less and you insist on buying the newest and the best looking things. Well here are the facts, it's true.
Take fashion for example, if suspenders never go out of style then you'll just be wearing suspenders for the rest of your life. But what if you wear suspenders one year and then your favorite magazine promotes belts. You say "no way! Suspenders rule! I'm not gonna waste my money on that" but then your peers start wearing these newfound belts and all of a sudden you reconsider.
What if it's the same principle for sayyyyyyyy, headphones. When you buy headphones you're looking for the best ones right? So you pick the pretty and expensive ones. Here's the thing though, headphones and their quality are determined by their driver sizes and types of rare earth magnets. You picked out your headphones without ever looking at the specs or knowing about them. Companies know this, their train of thought is that the consumer is uneducated in making choices and that if they look nice and go for a high price then they're good quality.
It's a neat trick, depending which end of the dollar you are on. It's one of the evils of art and the purpose of it, and that's to catch your eye. It's also the foundation and goal of marketing, to take advantage of a customers spending habits.

Cars

When you think of cars you think of mechanics and brute power, not the functionality and flow of art that it provides the eye of the driver as well as the pedestrians.
Henry Ford, in the begginging, early days of the automobile intended that all cars be kept black, and more or less looking the same.
As you can see by today's variety and trends this didn't hold up very well. Cars today come in any color you choose, and they can look like anything you choose, given you have the right amount of money. Sports cars for example don't just look sleek, they are sleek. They combine form and function in a way that only fluid dynamic principles can explain. Things like streamlining and drag have shaped cars since they were first invented. It's gotten to the point that, if you really wanted to you can haveq a car be shaped as a hot dog if you really wanted it to.
Every single car on the road is cut and molded to please your eye. Cars in the 90's have a different style then cars today, what people like changes, only because the motor industry makes you associate good looking cars to new cars. So if you want a nice looking car it has to be new, so BAM! You buy a new car. Marketing and a hint of brainwashing in the simest form, how everyone does business these days.

Dale Chihuly

Dale Chihuly is a glass artist, meaning he makes sculptures out of glass. Glassblowing is a fine art that takes years to learn and over a lifetime to master. The initial internship of a glass blower lasts about 6 years, after studio and sculpture classes.
The art of glassblowing was dying in the early 1900's due to the costs of training glass blowers and the ease of producing it in factories via presses. The arts still survives today however because of artists and people who take pride in their work. Glassware that is hand blown and handcrafted goes for a high price in today's market and sculptures by famous artists go for even more.
Dale Chihuly is the most famous of modern glass artists, he is 70 years old and he wears an eyepatch. His eye was severely cut by glass in the 70's in a car accident out of all things. His works are extremely large and are often center pieces in lobbies and large rooms with high ceilings and such.
He is known by the organic forms that he blows his glass into as well as the vibranta colors that he incorporates into his art.