3P F15: 1

VIS 340 Gregory M. Gómez
3P F15: 1
List of sites to visit for week of 9/9/15

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/johannesburg/

Artist:  Johannesburg

Perhaps this is not the most realistic painting in terms of photo realism. However there is a sense of realism in terms of the concept that is being expressed. The background is not just a blank slate of red but not by much. Its almost as if the painting is unfinished more so in the second painting. The colors are even unnatural but they are not lacking in detail. Its as if the subject is real but the image is contorted in such a way that it is almost unnatural or un realistic. Since the eyes are scrunched it gives off a sense of not just laughter but out right unreserved laughter.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/tags/painting/

Apollo, 2010, Oil and linen, 60 x 34 inches

This image is not only representative of an unprecedented event but also captures movement in the form of the flames. The thick paint hides no type of realism but rather a sentiment or idea of the scene. Like water flows through the square like pieces of paint that come together to make the figure are consistent throughout the painting. There is both a darkness and a lightness about the painting. Perhaps more intrusive is dues to the subject matters desire to travel off the page. It is interesting that despite it's contrasting colors one might not be able to distinguish the rocket shape at first. There is a smaller finality from the rocket.

http://paintingperceptions.com/cityscape-painting/interview-with-frank-hobbs

Silo and Rails, Delaware, Ohio 

oil on canvas 48″ x 36″ 2011

http://anneneilsonfineart.com/artists/murphytrogdonayala/

MURPHY TROGDON AYALA

http://anneneilsonfineart.com/artists/murphytrogdonayala/

MURPHY TROGDON AYALA

http://www.williamhavugallery.com/mark-lunning/urban-garden-series-the-path-of-entropy/

Urban Garden Series: The Path of Entropy

zinc plate etching with chine-collé 

27 ½” x 44 ¼” 

http://larrygroff.com/paintings/recent/

Looking past Zora Garden, 2015 18 x 24"

http://www.colinpagepaintings.com/paintings

Colin Page

Oil on Canvas 

Go as deep into the sites as necessary to find images that interest you. Explore these sites to select works, considering why and for which of these traits: subject matter, style, idea, techniques employed, materials, color palette, other.


Museums: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions http://collection.whitney.org/artists/by-letter/A


Artists Blog: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/01/twilights-new-ink-paintings-on-vintage-books-by-ekaterina-panikanova/
http://paintingperceptions.com/interviews/interview-with-andrew-wykes
http://paintingperceptions.com/cityscape-painting/interview-with-frank-hobbs http://vincenthawkins.blogspot.com/

Galleries: http://anneneilsonfineart.com/an-artists/
http://www.wholmangallery.com/artists
http://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/artists/
http://www.driscollbabcock.com/artists/category/all
http://www.williamhavugallery.com/featured-artists/


Artists’ Websites: http://larrygroff.com/paintings/recent/
http://zachcollinsart.tumblr.com/
http://galencheney.com/
http://www.colinpagepaintings.com/paintings


VIS 340 Gregory M. Gómez

3P, F15

In Pursuit of Personal Preferences,
Weekly Website Investigation



This is an ongoing assignment that will require you to spend time looking at the works of art by other artists and compiling a file of those that interest or appeal to you. You are required to spend at least one hour of work each week in this relaxed and focused endeavor. Each week I will send you an email of a list of websites. These will be from: museums, galleries, art centers, blogs, artists’ personal websites, or web artists’ videos. Allow yourself to investigate these sites and artists following your own interests and inclinations. From those sites you are to select 2-3 individual WORKS each week that catch your eye. The selected works don’t have to be from the same artist. It is somewhat pertinent that you choose images that relate to either drawing or painting; depending on which class you are taking. Grab the images and place them in a file on your computer. Rename the image file with your name and the date and the artist’s name. Example: ggomez,1-22-14,Ensor. In a separate document you are to list the date you grabbed the image, the name of the artist and work, and any information about the work that you find pertinent. You are then to write a couple sentences about why you chose that work. Your reasons for selecting a work are meant to represent your interests, but break this down into categories: subject matter, style, idea, techniques employed, materials, compositional structure, color palette, etc. These categories can be represented in your couple sentences for each image, but you should be as specific as you can, not just “I like it”. Each week you are to send me your properly named images, along with your sentences. I will retain a file for each student, but you should also keep the images and response sentences, adding to your file weekly.

Toward the end of the semester you will go through your file to select 2 or 3 images, which you will write about in regards to: subject matter, style, idea, techniques employed, materials, composition, and color palette, as well as how those things relate to your creative interests. You will compare the images as high points of your semester’s Pursuit of Personal Preferences.