My favorite out of the 3 pieces is Alex Ross's. I enjoyed this one the most because I felt the compisition was diverse. It is also illusionistic giving the viewer a sense of depth and space. The green alien plant thing being the center of focus object closed to the viewer. And the blue abstract patterned in the background. Also the background has a blurred effect, executed by using the feathering technique I would suppose. I also liked O'keeffe's piece for the choice of colors to go with the patterns and shapes used. It has a strong sense of abstract waves. Tomma Abts piece was the one I liked the least simply because I was not interesting to me personality I felt there was a lack of subjectivity, and color.
O'Keeffe's piece from the Lake stands out to me the most because of the colors she used.I love the completary colors. The way the blues and the reds and the greens interact with each other catches my eye. They way she paints the wavy shapes I can relate to so that's another reason.It makes you feel a lot of emotions like a storm of things maybe she was painting a storm or a way to describe the way she feels.Alexander Ross's piece I also enjoyed. I like the way he uses depth and and space to make the blob seem as its coming out at you.Also all the little circles inside the blob fits well as he shades and uses light and dark can also make it look like it could be a rock climbing wall or a sponge. -Deborah
This is very different from the other O' Kieffe works that I have seen. I tend to see O'Keeffe works that are flowers, and have a vertical direction. In contrast, the piece "From the Lake", is horizontally directed, and pays with shapes more, leaving them, such as the ovals and even som half-pear type shapes, non-absolute as to which they respresent in " the lake", while her other works leave less imagination, and tend to start form the abstract and guide towards flowers, rather than joining several random shapes ogether and leaving them without a deferante still-life subject. Abts's work I like because it takes her little in the background to create a tension of stretching bones or muscles: that it mainly created by the variance of shadows, and placement of the bars against each ther, done carefully enough so that tension is withheld in the painted lines, no created by background variance. Unlike the other two pieces, except in their quotations of their own art, and thereby their mocking of it, ; the Ross painting seems very funny. The size and the shape of the circles seem like bubbles without much solidity to them, but none are complete or perfect shapes.... all are distorted, as if the were drunk and banging around each other, making their outlines and stems blind and non-feeling, almost autistic, but having a good time, floating in the air. -Allison Lewis allisonlewis0899@yahoo.ocm
Georgie O’Keeffe has always been someone whose work I admired. I like this piece because of the way the direction that seems to be in it. The way the angled “swooshes” are make my eyes follow them like a path until it gets to that navy blue blob on the upper right corner. Though this piece seems to be mostly dark and eerie, there are parts where the artist included a pop of color, like the green.
Tomma Abts makes me feel like I’m looking at a section of a pinball machine from overhead. This one like O’Keeffe’s appears to have a sense of direction in this, like the main focus of the piece is for the viewer to follow the path and see where it winds up.
I’m not really sure what to make of Alexander Ross’s piece. It’s different. I like the sense of texture Ross makes the green object have, but I think what bothers me most about this piece is that everything seems to be in the center or originating from the center. ~Melissa
I also like the O'keeffe work the best among the three. It seems to appear the most fleshed out piece creating a sort of turbulent, organic landscape. Where the Abts piece focuses on the division of the negative space, O'keeffe's does something similar, but turns then into shapes themselves. The result is a more sensuous abstraction evoking a feeling of sliding or slithering forms within an undetermined space. Abts gives us the examination of line and structure within a limited closed space with surface. Ross's work is definitely more contemporary in its feel with the use of color, particularly the green, and the strange alien/coral/microbe-like form. Although all three works incorporate abstract forms, Ross's seems more representative and invokes a different response. O'keeffe's appears to represent a more pure emotion.
It seems as if all three works has a similar flow of direction. They all have a similar mood but a different subject of abstraction. I really liked the minimal simplistic qualities of Tomma Abts. There is a saying that "the simple things in life are the best things in life". That notion can relate to art and is very prominent to many artists. All three works were top notch but from my experience and preference Tomma Abts sealed the deal for me.
O'Keeffe uses brilliant color theory in her piece by using subtle hints of red in the darks to contrast the bright greens near the lights; the value shift is intense and beautiful, and the entire, semi-diagonal, "wave-like" shapes compliment the title without making the subject matter too obvious.
Tomma Abts piece creates a sense of confusion because the shiny, connecting geometric shapes imply some sort of man-made building material, but they are in very monochromatic earth tones. The negative space takes up most of the piece with a few shadows connecting the foreground to it, and the pieces are strategically placed to balance the composition. But I hate it.
Alexander Ross's piece creates an interesting juxtaposition between flat shapes and the illusion of dimensional shapes. The shadows and highlights on the strange object are handled intensely to make it reminiscent of hard shiny plastic. I'm not crazy about the color scheme just as a personal preference, but I think the bright, alien-esque green color is appropriate to compliment such an odd form.
I though Georgia O’Keeffe’s natural abstracts have a natural organic quality. The works of art have soft curves and rounded edges. They are naturalistic without being totally representational or realistic. There is a calming effect to O’Keeffe’s natural abstracts. I would describe it as a natural wave or organic flow. O’Keeffe’s use of earth tones and soft highlights appeals to me. O’Keeffe’s paintings of NYC buildings also have a natural organic rounded quality. It’s a pleasure to see abstract works of art with natural organic appeal.
Georgia O’Keeffe is an American female master artist honored by presidents LBJ and R. Regan. She also has harsh critics. “Critic Clement Greenberg, a nonfan, was appalled when MoMA honored O’Keeffe with a retrospective in 1946—one of its first solo shows for a woman; her work was “little more than tinted photography” (Jerry Saltz, NYT, 2009). I’m glad O’Keeffe stuck to her guns moved to New Mexico kept painting nature.
Alex Ross is whimpsical. The artist creates volume using perspective, highlights and shadows. The white and blue background is flat. The depth is shallow due to the flat colors in the background.
The amount of volume in Alex Ross' piece complements the figure and shape shown to create a great amount of depth. The shadows are very significant to manifest the illusion of the shape emerging out of the canvas. It's very effective.
My favorite out of the 3 pieces is Alex Ross's. I enjoyed this one the most because I felt the compisition was diverse. It is also illusionistic giving the viewer a sense of depth and space. The green alien plant thing being the center of focus object closed to the viewer. And the blue abstract patterned in the background. Also the background has a blurred effect, executed by using the feathering technique I would suppose. I also liked O'keeffe's piece for the choice of colors to go with the patterns and shapes used. It has a strong sense of abstract waves. Tomma Abts piece was the one I liked the least simply because I was not interesting to me personality I felt there was a lack of subjectivity, and color.
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O'Keeffe's piece from the Lake stands out to me the most because of the colors she used.I love the completary colors. The way the blues and the reds and the greens interact with each other catches my eye. They way she paints the wavy shapes I can relate to so that's another reason.It makes you feel a lot of emotions like a storm of things maybe she was painting a storm or a way to describe the way she feels.Alexander Ross's piece I also enjoyed. I like the way he uses depth and and space to make the blob seem as its coming out at you.Also all the little circles inside the blob fits well as he shades and uses light and dark can also make it look like it could be a rock climbing wall or a sponge. -Deborah
ReplyDeleteThis is very different from the other O' Kieffe works that I have seen. I tend to see O'Keeffe works that are flowers, and have a vertical direction. In contrast, the piece "From the Lake", is horizontally directed, and pays with shapes more, leaving them, such as the ovals and even som half-pear type shapes, non-absolute as to which they respresent in " the lake", while her other works leave less imagination, and tend to start form the abstract and guide towards flowers, rather than joining several random shapes ogether and leaving them without a deferante still-life subject. Abts's work I like because it takes her little in the background to create a tension of stretching bones or muscles: that it mainly created by the variance of shadows, and placement of the bars against each ther, done carefully enough so that tension is withheld in the painted lines, no created by background variance. Unlike the other two pieces, except in their quotations of their own art, and thereby their mocking of it, ; the Ross painting seems very funny. The size and the shape of the circles seem like bubbles without much solidity to them, but none are complete or perfect shapes.... all are distorted, as if the were drunk and banging around each other, making their outlines and stems blind and non-feeling, almost autistic, but having a good time, floating in the air.
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Georgie O’Keeffe has always been someone whose work I admired. I like this piece because of the way the direction that seems to be in it. The way the angled “swooshes” are make my eyes follow them like a path until it gets to that navy blue blob on the upper right corner. Though this piece seems to be mostly dark and eerie, there are parts where the artist included a pop of color, like the green.
ReplyDeleteTomma Abts makes me feel like I’m looking at a section of a pinball machine from overhead. This one like O’Keeffe’s appears to have a sense of direction in this, like the main focus of the piece is for the viewer to follow the path and see where it winds up.
I’m not really sure what to make of Alexander Ross’s piece. It’s different. I like the sense of texture Ross makes the green object have, but I think what bothers me most about this piece is that everything seems to be in the center or originating from the center.
~Melissa
I also like the O'keeffe work the best among the three. It seems to appear the most fleshed out piece creating a sort of turbulent, organic landscape. Where the Abts piece focuses on the division of the negative space, O'keeffe's does something similar, but turns then into shapes themselves. The result is a more sensuous abstraction evoking a feeling of sliding or slithering forms within an undetermined space. Abts gives us the examination of line and structure within a limited closed space with surface. Ross's work is definitely more contemporary in its feel with the use of color, particularly the green, and the strange alien/coral/microbe-like form. Although all three works incorporate abstract forms, Ross's seems more representative and invokes a different response. O'keeffe's appears to represent a more pure emotion.
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It seems as if all three works has a similar flow of direction. They all have a similar mood but a different subject of abstraction. I really liked the minimal simplistic qualities of Tomma Abts. There is a saying that "the simple things in life are the best things in life". That notion can relate to art and is very prominent to many artists. All three works were top notch but from my experience and preference Tomma Abts sealed the deal for me.
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O'Keeffe uses brilliant color theory in her piece by using subtle hints of red in the darks to contrast the bright greens near the lights; the value shift is intense and beautiful, and the entire, semi-diagonal, "wave-like" shapes compliment the title without making the subject matter too obvious.
ReplyDeleteTomma Abts piece creates a sense of confusion because the shiny, connecting geometric shapes imply some sort of man-made building material, but they are in very monochromatic earth tones. The negative space takes up most of the piece with a few shadows connecting the foreground to it, and the pieces are strategically placed to balance the composition. But I hate it.
Alexander Ross's piece creates an interesting juxtaposition between flat shapes and the illusion of dimensional shapes. The shadows and highlights on the strange object are handled intensely to make it reminiscent of hard shiny plastic. I'm not crazy about the color scheme just as a personal preference, but I think the bright, alien-esque green color is appropriate to compliment such an odd form.
-Shelby
I though Georgia O’Keeffe’s natural abstracts have a natural organic quality. The works of art have soft curves and rounded edges. They are naturalistic without being totally representational or realistic. There is a calming effect to O’Keeffe’s natural abstracts. I would describe it as a natural wave or organic flow. O’Keeffe’s use of earth tones and soft highlights appeals to me. O’Keeffe’s paintings of NYC buildings also have a natural organic rounded quality. It’s a pleasure to see abstract works of art with natural organic appeal.
ReplyDeleteGeorgia O’Keeffe is an American female master artist honored by presidents LBJ and R. Regan. She also has harsh critics. “Critic Clement Greenberg, a nonfan, was appalled when MoMA honored O’Keeffe with a retrospective in 1946—one of its first solo shows for a woman; her work was “little more than tinted photography” (Jerry Saltz, NYT, 2009). I’m glad O’Keeffe stuck to her guns moved to New Mexico kept painting nature.
-Ken Johnson
Alex Ross is whimpsical. The artist creates volume using perspective, highlights and shadows. The white and blue background is flat. The depth is shallow due to the flat colors in the background.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of volume in Alex Ross' piece complements the figure and shape shown to create a great amount of depth. The shadows are very significant to manifest the illusion of the shape emerging out of the canvas. It's very effective.
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