Art Event 7: Quilt Nation
“Quilt Nation”, 12/4/12, Oceanside Museum of Art
Out of all the museums and art events that I have gone to in my life time, this was the first time that went to a exhibit dedicated entirely to the art medium of quilting. When I found out that it was there I kind of was laughing because I have never thought about quilting as being art. It turned out to be a good exhibit for the most part. I had no idea what someone could make by quilting. Some of them put in so much design into their pieces. They would use the stitching to make lines and cloth to fill with color. There were many arts that influenced me with there work because of the design, layout, color combination, and symmetry. My favorite artwork was made by Mary E. Stoudt and it was called “Equilibrium”. This was a really good piece, and influenced me. The thing that stood out the most to me first was the colors. The color combination I think really made the piece. Also the structure design that she had was interesting, it consisted of lines of a grid and some of the squares were morphed and blown out.
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Art Event 8: The Beauty In the Beast
“The Beauty In the Beast: Crafting Creatures by Neville Page” Oceanside Museum of Art, 12/4/12
This art event was cool because it gave background information about how some of the science fiction creatures were created. All the Creatures came from movies such as Prometheus, Tron Legacy, Super 8, and Green Lantern. It said he created some the characters by using traditional medium of drawing, with Photoshop and Zbrush to create the fantastic exotic creatures. It interested me when a flyer described the exhibit it told some background of the artist. His view on creating the images was by creating mythical anatomy with believable surface detail, and adding behavior and individual personality all incorporated into the image, gives and tells a sense of motion that would be used in the film. What I took away from this event was the time and dedication the artist took to put so much realistic detail into the image. I was puzzeled on how detailed they were and tried to figure out how he managed to do it.
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Art Event 9: Oceanside Surf Museum
Oceanside Surf Museum, 12/4/12
I have always wanted to visit this museum, obviously because I am a surfer, but because I really love surf heritage and learning about the past and progression of surf, and in that the surf art from photography to paintings to adds. The thing that I saw first was the design and layout that they had for all the pieces of art and information. It was made to be really structured, by having information about an image line up with the image, and how all of it had symmetry in it. It is easier to understand if you saw it. Some of the photographs that I saw were very inspiring and had meaning in them by how they were shot. On photo that I found was very cool was a photo taken by Aaron Chang of Malina Jones. It was a underwater photo of her duckdiving under a massive wave. The colors of the photo were changed, the wave was made red as she was a purple tinted color. I found this photo to be inspiring and influenced me. It made me want to go but a underwater camera, but unfortunately they cost way too much money that I don’t have right now.