Wk 8: Sketching in the Japanese Garden

116 responses to “Wk 8: Sketching in the Japanese Garden”

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   Briana Garcia

   October 16, 2016

   I thought it was so funny to see how drastically art changed. We started with cave art and what looked like stick figures to exposed women and men in detailed paintings. I must say I was quite astounded to see such blunt and exposed paintings like the one of the woman’s private area for example. I guess that’s what realism was all about. However, it’s not so shocking now. I don’t think it’s uncommon now for artist to use naked people as a model for drawings or paintings. I’ve actually heard that in some college art courses they would actually have nude models and the students would have to draw them. I did some research and found that a key idea of this realism movement was to incorporate real life situations in the art whether it be socially, economically or culturally. It also meant including the “ugly” or the truth. Since this was the start of modern art, I can see a lot of that today.

   Briana Garcia (1pm)

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      Bryan Aparicio

      October 16, 2016

      Agreed. A lot of things change over time and it becomes really really different. It’s a thing every era has an effect on. Realism gets more and more detailed and we clearly saw an example of that. Thanks to your research I learned something new. I had no knowledge that incorporating real life situations would help with the realism in art pieces. Great to know.

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   laurajlockett

   October 16, 2016

   Laura Lockett

   After researching Claude Monet I thought it was hilarious that the first link that pops up is a Wikipedia page which is basically what Denis Diderot created as mentioned before. While looking into Claude Monet I was suddenly caught by his painting Water Lily Pond because it was so similar to the Japanese Gardens with the pond along with the bridge. All of his paintings had such detail which made them magnificent to look at. I have always found myself interested in pictures/paintings of scenery rather than a portrait of someone. I definitely feel like I know more about the time period now that i have watched this video.

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   Bryan Aparicio

   October 16, 2016

   The countless hours of work to create an encyclopedia must have been ridiculous. So much time it took to make. Crazy thing is that a lot of people, including myself, do not refer to an encyclopedia when they seek information. There’s tons and tons of things to look for that you can find the book, but instead you refer to Wikipedia to make it easier for you. Can’t be upset if there’s a faster way of attaining knowledge as long as you’re learning it. Art constantly changes over time and it’s expressed it different forms. For a example, the painting “Sunrise” was a simplistic but creative art piece. The features to it are what make it stand out. Sometimes the pieces with the least color, can shine the brightest. The beauty of art.

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      nataliesantanablog

      October 17, 2016

      Hey Brian,
      I totally agree, I cant imagine how long it must have taken to create the encyclopedia and it is so true how it is rare for people to even use it. Since its the age of technology of course people will much prefer to use Wikipedia since it is much faster. I like how you mentioned the painting the “Sunrise” what I like most about it is how it looks so different than just any painting of a sunrise. I love impressionism and just love how its not all blended together. I’m not sure how to describe it. In my art class, when we did paintings that focused on impressionism we would have to do dashes or dots, it was something different. When you look at the painting from afar you see a painting now just dashes or dots. Amazing.

      Natalie Santana

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   abigaildmanuel

   October 16, 2016

   First off, I have to say that the Enlightenment period has to be one of my favorite time periods when learning about history. Don’t get me wrong at all, I’m a Christian woman and very much believe in my own and respect other religions, but when learning about history I think it’s very refreshing to see mankind kind of take the lead and allow themselves to kind of think for themselves and realize that everyone has a different kind of mind and that it’s completely okay, even beneficial to give yourself a little credit for the amazing things that humans are able to do. The way that this is illustrated through art is amazing, and I love looking at works that are considered to be neoclassicism. I enjoy the way that artists are able to depict the light and the very real subjects they use as well.

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   duhmarkymark

   October 16, 2016

   Marcelo Ceballos Jr. – 1PM

   Woah! I just learned so many things. Other than Vincent Van Gogh I had never heard of any of the other artists or art pieces. The biggest bombshell from this weeks video had to be learning about Diderot. I had never heard his name before but he is essentially the godfather of the information age. If it wasn’t for his vision of having all of the information packaged into encyclopedias who know how long it would have taken for the idea to arise. And then, who knows how much longer it would have taken to come up with all of the cool new inventions we have today if people did not have a collection of knowledge to learn from. The impressionist style paintings like the Sunrise one never really made sense to me until i was older. Before I just thought the artist just wasn’t good at drawing realistically but it turns out that the whole point is to just leave an impression of the moment or subject. Really glad we covered this age of art because there is so much to learn!

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   klauduso

   October 16, 2016

   Tommy Duong

   I researched a bit about encyclopedia and how 250 years later, wikipedia was created. When encyclopedia, I believe many of the writers were scholars who were experts or studying in that type of topic. Compare it to Wikipedia where the credibility for the information is low. Anyone can go into an article and edit it making it non credible. It’s something I found interesting because wikipedia state that editors do not own any of the articles they write. Which means anyone can take it and change it the way they want it. Compare it to an Encyclopedia where the credibility is high and it is backed with trusted sources.

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   Vincent Santos

   October 16, 2016

   I think impression art work are very interesting, I never knew there was a thing called impression art. I always thought it was art and to hear they didnt consider art because it lacked details made me stumped. If they didnt consider this art at the time it crazy because these amazing artist have done art pieces before that were consider art pieces. Even thought impression art isnt detailed they can have some abstract content which allows all the views to see the main purpose of the art piece. I personally like impression art and i would with out a doubt consider it art. Ive notice alot of impression art around my area and i think it cool to have art like this in the street.

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   nataliesantanablog

   October 17, 2016

   Natalie Santana

   It was amazing learning about who made the encyclopedia and why he actually made it. He just wanted to share knowledge and what was even amazing is how Wikipedia was invented 250 years later to share knowledge with the entire human race. I was very interested in learning more about impressionism because that is one of my favorite art movements. I remember in my high school art class, I did a few paintings inspired by impressionism and I loved doing them. I remember my teacher would tell us if you look at it too closely you might be confused as to what it is but if you look at it a bit father away, it will all come together. I didn’t know much about artist during that time period and I liked learning more about it. I do remember learning about Claude Monet and I loved his painting Impression Sunrise and its crazy how there paintings were rejected and people didn’t consider them as an actual painting but just an impression of one. Of course Van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night is what we focused on in class but I wish I would’ve learned more.

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