Canvas

appears to be a mess at first glance; paint violently pushed across canvas, no focal point and seemingly just no point to this piece. However, by giving a name to this abstract mess, we are able to begin to use our imagination to begin to see shapes take form to see that Mitchell has made an abstraction of a French mountain and it is our job as a viewer to use our minds to make a story of her canvas. Mitchell’s 200 by 217.2cm canvas overtakes your vision the second you step in front of it. As…

Object #2 is a ‘painting’, in the sense that it is a framed canvas hanging on the wall. But it is not quite a ‘painting’ as most people are used to experience it. Artist doesn’t use any components normally recognizable in painting: color, brushstroke, perspective. There is no image! Though we can argue that artist uses some composition by placing text almost in the middle of canvas (page?). White plain canvas, thin frame, typography, simple font remind me of typed piece of paper. Thus the…

The Arts Institute 9th July 2017 Milestone 1 Task 1: Untitled, Jean-Michel Basquiat Selection 1 Introduction The first piece of art presented to The Apollo collection for consideration is “Untitled.” It is an acrylic and mixed media piece on canvas painted and created by Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981. The work is a part of the Broad Collection in Los Angeles. On first inspection of the piece, the piece seems to be made up of lots of lines and blocks of colors creating jagged shapes along…

blue, rust red, light grey, beige, dark pinky red, forest green, and black. He dripped all of these colors on a canvas in what seems to be a very sporadic way. When he painted the canvas was layer flat on the ground, so all the splatters do not drip down. There are not really very many brushstrokes visible, it appears that almost all the different colors of paint were dripped onto the canvas from above. The few…

he continued to paint the landscapes and the ocean but this time it was converted into lines and signs. The color variation of squares and rectangles make it appear that the lighter ones are in front of the darker ones sense of overlapping on the canvas, which…

cleaner environment. People don't care about cheap plastic bags and so they end up as litter. These plastic bags are such an issue that "there is now more plastic in our oceans than plankton"(BSmith). However, imposing a bag tax would have people use canvas bags and not leave litter. These plastic bags end up getting caught in trees, storm drains, and disregarded leaving debris that leaves a dirty city. According to Seastewards "Americans generate 10.5 million tons of plastic waste a…

Self Portrait, Myself at 66, is an oil on canvas, painted by Mathias J. Alten at his home studio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. and is most likely his final self-portrait. It currently resides in the George and Barbara Gordon Gallery at Grand Valley State University as a part of a collection titled ‘Mathias J. Alten: An American Impressionist’. Alten painted himself as a gray-haired man with a white shirt and gray pants, holding a palette and paintbrushes. It is evident in this work that Alten has…

We found that the business model canvas was a more accessible tool in terms of quickly identifying the essential functions of the business, while the business plan was difficult to navigate and process efficiently. We conducted our research based on our intuitive improvements we created for version one of the business model canvas. Our initial research luckily coincided with our hypothesized improvements. Continuing our research allowed…

means for self-expression. A particular piece that effectively portrays complex ideas by the use of creative methods is Morning Light, which is the last component of a seven piece series (The Killing Cycle). Alfred Leslie, the artist of this oil on canvas, 72 x 192 inch work of art, is a renowned artist of the Abstract Expressionist Era. This era was especially prevalent during the mid 20th-century that keenly focused on emotional expression.…

the window. It continues to call attention to the illusion of painting by the brush strokes being visible on the canvas. This incites the idea of self awareness of the artist and understanding that a painting is not a reflection of real life but an artifice. The concept is continued by the character on the canvas looking at the viewer as opposed to the canvas he is painting upon. The canvas is the same size of the character, which continues the connection between art and artist. The colors on…