Monday, April 30, 2007
Graffiti ARt photos by Alex Torres
I Think this relates to the drawing class because a number of students are interested in pursuing tagging or graffiti art.
Speed Painting by NEXX
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K_NQe57C-k
Lost-John Locke-Photoshop speed painting
Lost-John Locke-Photoshop speed painting
Wolfflin's Ten Ideas
In Art History Wolfflin's ten ideas can help see art more intellectually. Criticism can be more into depth. His main ideas is the Painterly and Linear catagories that works of art may be placed into. Some art-works can be both but in earlier years we see very distinct differences. High Renaissance art, for example, is linear while Caravaggio of the Baroque style is painterly. Take a look at the picture above and see if it helps.
Delia Brown
Delia Brown D'AMELIO TERRAS | |
| Delia Brown is best known for a very particular brand of genre painting, one that depicts a commodity-filled good life lived flashily and strenuously. Her vivid renderings of the young, sexy, and indolent making the most of their fleeting moment in the sun has often made her work seem like the painterly equivalent of a Bret Easton Ellis novel. The series of ten drawings on display in this small and engaging exhibition, by comparison, is decidedly less showy, its intent more obscure. Using white gouache, graphite, and colored pencils on paper in a selection of muted colors—mustardy beige, powder-room mauve, stone gray—Brown illustrates the fictional story of Felicity and Caprice, a young artist and her wealthy, older benefactor. Made with an expert hand and an enticingly impersonal style, these soft-focus, anatomically correct drawings are reminiscent of cult illustrations such as those found, for instance, in Dr. Comfort’s The Joy of Sex. Indeed, Brown clearly enjoys flirting with bad taste: Felicity Walking in on Caprice at Her Toilette (all works 2006–2007) depicts a tense, shrewish locking of feminine gazes in front of a gilded bathroom mirror, while Felicity Struggling with a Drugged Caprice knowingly riffs on the sort of pulpy '80s miniseries in which the viewer could never be sure whether an encounter between women would end in a fight, a fuck, or raised glasses of Cristal. While Brown might seem to be trying her hand at a contemporary version of Hogarth’s eighteenth-century sequential series, wherein a harlot’s rise always ends with her well-deserved fall, what is eminently intriguing about “Felicity and Caprice” is its position as a morality tale with no discernable moral—a skillfully drawn, willfully opaque series of disjointed scenes that embraces both the everyday and the melodramatic. |
Check these Final Projects
School of Visual Arts
Foundation Drawing
Final Projects
Monday, April 30, 2007
Instructor:Amy Wilson
Freshman Class
Photos taken by Alexandra Torres
Foundation Drawing
Final Projects
Monday, April 30, 2007
Instructor:Amy Wilson
Freshman Class
Photos taken by Alexandra Torres
BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department student Anthony DeFranco recently invited all of New York City to join him in Union Square Park for a celebration of the arrival of spring. On Saturday, March 24, DeFranco organized BubbleBath, a community event in which the public was called to blow bubbles throughout the park, transforming the stretch of downtown Manhattan into a soap-bubble filled oasis.
Several hundred people participated in the event, with the first 400 to arrive receiving free bottles of bubbles custom designed by DeFranco. The project is part of his departmental thesis, created under the guidance of faculty member James Victore, and also includes a logo, t-shirt design and Web site. “It was truly one of the greatest experiences of my life,” says DeFranco. For more information on the event, visit www.bubblebathnyc.com; photos are available on Flickr.
Image: Anthony DeFranco, photo from BubbleBath, 2007. (1)
1)http://intranet.adm.schoolofvisualarts.edu/VABriefs/images/articles/bubbles_275x183.jpg
News from MYSVA
The Lower East Side’s newest gallery, launched by faculty member Amy Smith-Stewart (MFA Fine Arts Department), recently opened its inaugural exhibition, which features work in a variety of media by several members of the SVA community. Kate Gilmore (MFA 2002 Fine Arts), Marilyn Minter (MFA Fine Arts Department faculty), Mika Rottenberg (BFA 2001 Fine Arts) and Elif Uras (BFA 2001 Fine Arts) are among the nine artists taking part in “Foam of the Daze,” which is on view through Sunday, May 20, at Smith-Stewart, 53 Stanton Street.
Moving several blocks west, alumnus Lori Earley (BFA 1995 Illustration) is set to open “Anima Sola” at Opera Gallery, 115 Spring Street, April 28 – May 19. Early will be showing her oil paintings, which take classical portraiture as a starting point and then gently distort the image into a fantasia of eerie beauty. The gallery will hold an opening reception on Saturday, April 28, 6 – 9pm.
Image: Kate Gilmore, Baby, Belong to Me, 2006/2007.
1)http://intranet.adm.schoolofvisualarts.edu/VABriefs/. The Visual Arts Briefs.mysva.com. In A Daze.
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