This semester in Art 4 had been an experience. When I went into this class, I had gone from Art 2, and I wanted to skip Art 3 because I really like the style of Mrs. Rossi's class and wanted to have her again. On the first day I walked in and knew a few people, and recognized others, but didn't really know a lot of people that I could just go up and talk to. Throughout the first week, I felt very intimidated, because everyone was very good at art, and it was a different dynamic than Art 2. I felt inferior to a lot of people, and felt more self conscious about my work. Looking back on that first week, a lot has changed. Now I am familiar with a lot of more people in the class and are very close with the people at my table. I am no longer self conscious about my art and am more open to opinions from my peers because I know I will gain good trusted opinions. Some things I wished I was prepared for in this class was just mediums I had never worked with, like oil paint or mixed media. A big thing that I learned in this class is time management. I learned which mediums I work faster in, and if there was a medium I was slower in I would work smaller. I do work at a slower pace which I learned last year, but this semester really proved to be my downfall. This was the first art class I had to work a lot at home. Next semester I am looking forward to being with the same people in the same environment, and working on pieces I enjoy.
The song for my second concentration piece is Father's Son by 3 Doors Down. The song is about a man who comes to a bar and picks up a young prostitute, then years later come back to the same bar and he now was a family and a daughter. As he's at the bar he thinks back to the time before and thinks about if his daughter had ended up like the other girl and starts regretting what he did. So for this piece I decided to do a bar scene where it was a unclose of a beer bottle with the label including a lyric from the song "what if that was my little girl" and a silhouette of a daughter figure to symbolize the guys regret in the bar. Also I included a crumpled up 100 dollar bill to signify prostitution. To create an interesting composition along with those things, I added different colored lights in the background to reflect off the beer bottle.
For my concentration, I wanted to do something that I would enjoy doing, so I thought about what I love and I love music. So this piece was the first idea I came up with when thinking of concentrations. The song behind this piece is Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles. The song is based off this orphanage Strawberry Field that young John Lennon had by his house. He described the outside as being dark and rustic, but once you step inside it was filled with flowers and almost seemed enchanted. I connected that concept to his childhood, where his dad left him at an early age and remarried, and his mother gave him up to his aunt and uncle, because she felt she was not fit to mother him. His mother also met an untimely death when he was 16. This part of his background was the imagery I used towards the bottom of the piece. Then towards the top I used the flowers he described coming out and around the fence. Over top of it is part of the red fence that belonged to the orphanage. This piece was my first experience in mixed media. I have always wanted to do one because the mixed medias pieces I've seen. Overall, I think the piece turned out pretty good, it was fun to see how the piece evolved as I went through and added aspects that weren't originally planned. If I were to do this piece again I would add more layers and put the gel medium between each layer. I would definitely do another mixed media piece in the future as it was very fun to do. I think this piece was a good start for this concentration.
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March 2018
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