Blogging Art

Highschool Friends

I went to a very small high school, my graduating class was only 32 people, and in our sophomore year, half of the total class splits to attend the Joint vocational school to learn a trade, and thusly the amount of people that we saw on a daily basis was about 20. Thusly everyone knew each others names, if not their life stories. I think i will know the ones i was closest to in the next 10 years, surly my best friend, who i still see more than once a week, and a few of my other really close friends. 

I think i will still know these two in the future, because of how tight we have been since seventh grade, though we have had our ups and downs just like any friendship, we still know each other better than we know ourselves. I feel that this, accompanied by how often we see each other will keep us in touch. 

Academic and social

 My academic and social challenges have not really changed since my last blog post, the difficulty of the the work i am presented with in all reality really isn’t very hard for me to do, and do well. The real problem at hand is there is only so much time in the day, and with 18 credit hours, playing a club sport and trying to find time for family and friends, the day really isn’t long enough. The challenge i am presented with every week is balancing when i do what, so that it is complete by the due date. To be honest I have not really changed what I have been doing since the last blog post. What I really should be doing better is focusing, I feel that if I could focus on work just a little better I could get a lot more done in a lot less time. 

The next three weeks will be brutal, the end of the quarter will not be easy, many of my classes will have exams, as well as papers that will be due the last week, so i will spend a lot of time studying, typing and it will be mentally taxing. What i really need to do is just focus as best i can, and work smartly and efficiently. 

Reflection

In my first quarter at here, I’ve learned a very important lesson. That is I can’t leave things to the very last minute, which seems ironic to post now, seeing that it is so close to the start of he class. I tend to put things off the the last minute, and everything piles up, and i can’t do my best work when forced to write so much, in so little time. 

Sistine Chapel: Second Life

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/italy/rome-sistine-chapel

http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html

I think the Second life version of the sistine chapel is the best that could be done on the platform. The quality of the paintings is not extremely high, though its not terrible, its still not at the same level of detail that can be found in my second link. I think the second life version helped me to visualize the scale, the first link helped to know the history, and the second to appreciate the art.

The second most accurately fits the criteria, it is a purely unbias 3d tour of the chapel, and allows all users to see the chapel first hand in the comfort of there own home. I honestly prefer to use the web pages then to use second life. I feel like in the websites I am presented the information in a clean, and straightforward medium, as appose to through a watered down medium within another. 

Google art project Vocabulary.

Guitar and Newspaper, Juan Gris - Chaotic

Field with flowers near Arles, Vincent Van Gogh - Naturalist

View of the Flower of Greece August Wilhem Julius - Astounding 

Piazza Navona, Rome, Caspar Adriaansz - Ornate nature 

The Cathedra, Frantsek Kupka - Haphazardly

Cross, Andrzej Bielawski - Violent

Bonaparte Crossing the Grand Saint-Bernard Pass, Jacques Louis David - Charismatic

Louis XIV, King of France Hyacinthe Riqaud - Sumptuous

Arrangement in Black: Portrait of F. R. Leyland, James McNeill Whistler - Miticulous

The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh - Dissonance

http://goo.gl/d46UD

Secondlife

With Second Life, I had no issues starting an account, and getting set up. Though that was were my ease ended. It was difficult to figure out where to change the way my avatar looked, and i was plagued with jumpy and incomplete graphics, and the program seemed slow and clunky. I managed to get lost, travel to a city where the only thing people spoke was German, and I had not the foggiest on how I had gotten there, or how to get back to where ever I was suppose to be. 

Art Identity

http://goo.gl/d46UD

When I started looking for art that would illustrate the identity that is shown in my narrative essay, I was looking for something caring, protective, or nurturing. I had difficultly at first finding things, but when i started to open up to more abstract ideas, the paintings and sculptures were found much more easily.

The man standing with the sword seems vigilant, and protective of his home, which ties in with my protective identity towards my mother. The second, the sculpture of tumbling blocks, shows the disarray that is found in response to my mothers illness, it shows the confusion and struggle in my identity. The final picture shows a man helping another, which i feel shows compassion for those in worse positions than you. which I think follows my identity as compassionate.