Visual learning

The themes that I chose from The Last Lecture to depict in my art project are; brick walls are there for a reason, and make a decision: Tigger or Eeyore. I favored these themes because they resonate with me and can both be illustrated coherently within the same drawing. In the cartoon I drew, Tigger sits morosely on top of a brick wall pitying a dejected Eeyore. Eeyore, with his pessimistic attitude, is unable to find a way past the wall to join Tigger. Realistically, Tigger would be helping his…

Glasses versus Contacts For most girls the largest struggle they faced entering first grade in the early nineties was whether or not to have bangs. For me it was the trip to the school nurse when the teacher realized I couldn't see the blackboard at the front of the class. After a call to my parents and a trip to the ophthalmologist it was determined I would need glasses or contacts to improve my vision. Thus began the great debate of my life, that continues up to this day, whether or not…

Introduction Has environment pressure of sunlight contributed to the variation in iris pigmentation? Only 10,000 years ago, someone who lived near the Black sea developed a mutation, which resulted in blue iris pigmentation (Eiberg, 2008). The iris consists of small connective tissue surrounded by muscular structure with a central opening known as the pupil (Sturm, 2008). This pupil allows the eye to control the amount of light, which enters to allow they eye to focus the lens to the retina.…

the focus of the painting. The line toward evening is interesting because, it looks like daytime. The sky is a muddled blue, blue and there are no lights in the window. Realistically, this would be when the hunters return, but there are not too many visual cues to support this. Williams also begins the second stanza with a preposition, which he is quite fond of doing. This technique puts the reader right among the…

Throughout this course I have gained more of an appreciation for artwork and the artists that create them. I have also gained an appreciation for the people that try to define what art is in general or more specifically what makes good art. We have read great thinkers and their philosophies on this, and the fact that even people of such great intelligence can disagree on the subject proves how challenging it can be. By reading the opinions of these great thinkers, and by discussing their…

I enjoy driving by spray painted depictions of Martin Luther King, local landscapes, and renderings of past events. The artwork is more than just scribbles on a wall but a visual statement of their beliefs and view point of their era. Graffiti created in dangerous private places are more than just kids writing their names but artists that are creating pieces that are grander, more elaborate, than the cave men paintings. I…

metaphor that stood out to me that Elsaesser mentioned was cinema as a visual experience, more precisely cinema as eye or as a look and gaze. All of Elsaesser’s ideas can be related to and exemplified in the mystery/thriller…

When I was reading Nietzsche’s comparison of the Apollion and Dionysian orders I felt a connection to the way these two opposites, the order and structure and the emotional, the ability to just enjoy life. These elements had to collide to create artwork that represented the human condition. I have found that through my process there are also these two opposites at play when constructing my artwork. Not only do these opposites form the artwork in the most complete way but they also connect with…

even when it is misunderstood, is powerful and beautiful. The first stanza in the poem is written simply by the poet, he makes sure that he describes the woman as alone. He shows that the woman is alone which is describing how the woman is a work of visual art herself. She is also the one creating the sound that interests the traveler showing that art alone is powerful.…

In the grand ideas of justice and “the good” a disputed concept is the notion of goodness and the former being mutually exclusive. However, this may be a misconception. Justice and “the good” are not necessarily good, we have been taught the world is much more complex than that, and society is filled with as many uncertainties as it is filled with people. This complexity is similar in their relation to art, the practice of art does have a relation to these ideas, but art may serve them in a…