Intro to Ceramics Written Response Number Two: Mitchell Grafton The artist I have chosen to review is named Mitchell Grafton. He is a contemporary artists that specializes in one-of-a-kind sculptures. What drew me specifically to him was exquisite uniqueness that he has to offer in each of his fine sculptures. They each tend to be flashy, dramatic, and extremely three dimensional, begging to be viewed from all angles. They each also look to me like imaginary scenes from a book, and the emotions portrayed on each of the faces are so dramatized as to invoke questions about the cause of their intense feelings and motives.
Art essay Shawn Barber’s body of work focuses primarily on painting, portraiture and documenting contemporary tattoo culture. Barber creates intimate renditions of tattooed individuals offering a balance of meandering lines, loose brush strokes and paint dripping. A lot of his works are abstract in nature featuring bold or shocking colours. I am particularly interested in his works as I have been concentrating on both dolls and portraiture in my sketchbook, both of which Barber focus‘s on in his collections ‘The Doll Series‘ and ‘Tattooed Portraits‘. I find tattoos in particular largely fascinating and the way Barber paints his portraits of tattooed models instead of the average model makes his portraits that much more intriguing to study.
He promotes himself and his work to audiences all over the world. Dale became interested in glass while he was studying interior design at the University of Washington. Chihuly graduated from UOW in 1965 with a Masters of Science in glassblowing. Soon after he graduated, he enrolled in the University of Wisconsin to take part in the first glass program in the country. Continuing on, he went to Rhode Island, which he went to the Rhode Island School of Design.
During her senior year, at Tyler School of Art, Scher met her Husband Seymour Chwast. Chwast is a talented designer who founded Pushpin design. He was and still is a huge influence on Scher both in everyday life and in her design work, as she said in an interview with Caitlin Dover, “I originally wanted to be an illustrator, but I realized, being around Seymour, that I’d never be good enough, so I concentrated on design.” Scher began her career in the record business as an art director for CBS and Atlantic Records. There she designed covers for Eric Gale: the typographic ‘Best of Jazz’ series and Boston’s 6m-selling debut. These initial experiences with the design world helped her understand how design is structure as a business and how to navigate its many facets.
“I never saw a worse paper in my life.” As the narrative develops, her later feelings start to contradict her initial emotions and her behaviour becomes more irrational. “...It is like the colour of the paper! A yellow smell.” The suggestion of the wallpaper having a smell indicates a lingering odour which is perhaps metaphoric of the woman having the wallpaper consistently on her mind. She has become so entirely absorbed by the wallpaper that she is now letting it dictate her senses. As the story develops the woman’s descent into madness can start to be seen more clearly as she reveals her obsessive and protective nature over the wallpaper.
Will he keep running to perform the task that he so often practices? Or will he stay and protect this woman who represents something so foreign and intriguing to him? It’s elements of painting such as that that makes one worthy of my time and
Ray Bradbury uses similes and metaphors that paint incredible pictures, telling in his stories of how selfishness and the loss of intellect are great threats to our society. He wrote stories of varying lengths and plots, but his writing as a whole was centered around a warning of how life may someday turn out if certain important things are ignored. Bradbury is known for his very poetic style of writing. Specifically, his use of similes and metaphors is noteworthy. By using these comparisons, he gives readers a clear image of characters, situations, and scenery.
With the use of long sentences, O’Brien uses vivid imagery which allows the readers to use their own five senses to paint their own ideas of the war scenes being described. The use of imagery really provokes the reader to make mental images in their head to visualize how horrible the war was. With the use of those short sentences I mentioned above and also the use of commas, O’Brien provides the reader time to shortly stop and build the scene inside of their
He often creates very alternate commentary on political, cultural and emotional themes in life using his whimsy characters. He describes his approach as “regressive, messy and vaudevillian - producing work which is both raw and sublime, loved and hated.” (Michael Leunig website). His artistic style often has a very playfully quaint or fanciful feel in the way creates his pencil and line drawings. These pencil line drawings often have heavy philosophical statements about modern society embedded in them. Leunig also uses watercolours in many of his thought provoking art works.
Dr. Benner based her work on the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition (2001). Background and Origins Dr. Patricia Benner was born in Hampton, Virginia, but spent her childhood in California where she was formally educated. She attended Pasadena College, where she majored in nursing and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964. Her work as a nurse ranged from direct, bedside care as a floor nurse to Head Nurse in Kansas City General Hospital’s Coronary Care Unit, to Stanford University Hospital