Concentration Pieces 2013-2014
When people look at my paintings I want them to feel like they are looking at an emotion come to life with color and form.
Over the course of the school year I felt that I grew a lot as an artist. When I compare art from my freshman year with artworks that I made in nearing end of my junior year, It feels and looks as though my skill has grown exponentially since then. I found out more about my weaknesses and strengths as a person and an artist and even developed a style unique to me. Through first quarter when I worked on pieces for my breadth selection I stepped in and out of my comfort zone by drawing a range of things that I never would have engaged in doing on my own. I experimented and did not stick with just drawing things the way that I had been doing them for a long time just because I felt it was the best decision. I feel that my best skill is drawing the head and face but I rarely drew the figure because I was scared that I would not accurately display proportion or I would over think it and the piece would look too tight. I got to explore my artistic talents by broadening my knowledge on different mediums and techniques such as, For example, figure studies, experimenting with eraser drawings, still life, very loose artwork and acrylic paint. But my weakness is my reluctance to experiment and take risks in art, drawing the figure, and working with mediums that. The purpose of my concentration was to implore on the idea of how people use their bodies as a form of art.
Concentration Pieces 2014-2015
My concentration started out as exploring how people try to find an identity and the frustration and confusion that are present in the journey (Piece 1 and 2). I wanted the mesh of ideas and different people in piece 1 to represent how people struggle to know themselves and project themselves to others as an individual. Later my pieces started to depict several different subcultures and foreign subcultures as a way to represent the trial and error of fitting in with a culture or subculture, conformity, and expression of individuality with those who have a common interest (pieces 5 to 7). I also touched on how subcultures and cultural appropriation sometimes mesh or clash with tradition, and ethnicity. Piece 12 is a mirrored self-reflection with the real self and ideal self, because part of truly being a confident and self-actualized individual is having those two unified or closely similar.
My central idea is Individuality expressed through a subculture. My concentration is to show a comparison and a contrast of creativity of the individual to a large group of individuals. My concentration started out as exploring how people find their identity by first establishing one based on a common interest with their peers and it expanded to how we show creativity and how the similarities can be so numerous that they become a subculture.
My central idea is Individuality expressed through a subculture. My concentration is to show a comparison and a contrast of creativity of the individual to a large group of individuals. My concentration started out as exploring how people find their identity by first establishing one based on a common interest with their peers and it expanded to how we show creativity and how the similarities can be so numerous that they become a subculture.