Artist-in-Residence: alexander DeMaria

i like this piece because it is really cool how he can cut up paper and arrange it into a beautiful piece of art. i am really not sure what is going on in the picture but i think it is people going to attack each other and then they merge together. i think that the contrast between the off white and the gray causes you to look closer to the work. i think that this incorporates into his collection of work, because it is in the color scheme...i also really enjoy it because the way that he cuts the work you can tell that it takes a lot of time and there is so much detail.

how long does it usually take for him to make this type of art?

Studying Nighthawks...

1)
Night Hawks by Edward Hopper
America
1942
Oil on Canvas





2) I feel as if I have seen this painting before and that it is just a painting of a common scene. I am drawn to the bright white wall paper in the diner place.

3) Edward Hopper is a man who was born in Manhattan, New York. He started to paint right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This painting is painted to show the urban life in night time. It also shows how lonely the open streets and urban life can be.

4) Hopper uses many Principles of Design, one thing he uses is contrast. There is contrast because of the brightness of the white wall in the diner and with the dark outside of the diner. Another thing that Nighthawks uses is emphasis. Even though the diner is not right in the middle of the picture, it still catches the eye of the viewer.

The work of Ingird Calame

The Work of Ingird Calame
-WHO Ingrid Calame is
-HOW she makes her paintings
-WHY she makes her paintings the way she does

Ingrid Calame is a artist who does paintings by taking copies of stains or mess ups, and incorporating it into her paintings.

She makes her painting by having a big team of people help her, and going to a location and copying down shapes, and then tracing them and using them in her paintings.

She makes her paintings this way because she wants to take natural things/ or things that happened by mistake and making them beautiful and making them fit.

Info on Painting-
Ingrid Calame (American, born 1965).
Secular Response 2A.H., 2004.
paint on Mylar
Dimensions variable: each mylar panel 12ft. 4 in. x 5ft. (3.76 x 1.53m).
Installation at Kunstverein, Hanover, Germany.
Courtesy the artist and James Cohen Gallery, New York.
Image courtesy Raimund Zakowski
3. I like this painting because I love how it is really simple and only has two colors. I really like how it looks as if the green was put on with a sponge. The shapes that it creates in the white are also really interesting.