Visual Brainstorming

Big idea questions

Why is it important for an artist to be personally connected to their big idea?

In order for an artist to make meaningful art they must be in some way connected to the subject matter whether that be through a personal experience or just an interest.  This will allow the artist to display a deeper form of art that evokes more emotion.  In doing so the artwork will not only display a deeper emotion to themselves, but the connection will evoke a deeper emotion from the viewer as well.

8 concepts

1. Expression
2. Success-Doing good and making a lot of money.  I like money and a large part of my outlook on the success of my life will be determined by the amount of money i make.  There are also other factors which influence success in my opinion such as relationships with other people.  Ahving a solid foundation of friends definitely will help to live a better life and therefore have a sucessful life.  Having a good relationship with your family and significant other could also contribute to this.  I think the only success in competition is #winning.  Winning is the true measure of success in a competition i'm not all about the learning from loss thing.
3. Siblings
4. Home-Home is where you make.  You like to see homo's naked?   No, Home is where you make it.  That's fine with me if you like to see homo's naked.  Though this was just a scene in a movie i think the guy Joe Dirt is talking to makes a valid point.  Home is where you make it whether it's a house the size of the student union or a car as hot as this class room if your there with people you love in the place you reside it in my opinion is your home.  IS a home really a home when your loved ones are gone?  In my opinion no, because no matter how many times i go to the home i grew up in for 21 years, if it's empty and i'm by myself i still do not have the same comfort level as i would share in a hotel room i've never been with my loved ones.
5. Religion
6. Individual
7. Self Exploration-Finding yourself in life is something that many people feel is a very rewarding process i don't think i have went down this path yet.  I feel as if i still am caught in between wanting to be out in the real world, but not wanting to "Grow Up" in order to do this.  I don't think meditating or vodoo or witch craft is the key to Self Exploration i think it's more less something that just happens.  Life experience which happen to you will lead you to finding yourself.
8. Money

Blog 1

Dale Adcock uses an elaborate color scheme in this digital masterpiece.  There are two dragons that appear to be connected by their tales which are wrapped around other planets which resemble earth.  The dragons seem to represent a higher power since they seem to have control over all the planets.  These dragons seem to be from the distant past.  The multiple world represent the changing of the world over time.  The dragon being on the outside of what seems to be present day earth trying to get in, represents evil and good battling to enter earth. 

Dale Adcock in this digital masterpiece uses different planets and a single moon in a unique way.  He also uses some sort of beam type object.  The planets represent different pool balls and the moon represents a single cue ball.  The beam of light seems to represents a pool stick.  The earth seems to be separated from the other planets this could represent that the earth has intelligent life form which separates it from the other planets.  The dark background seems to be the universe and the "unknown" that is still out there and unexplored by mankind.  The distance to the moon relative to other planets is very small in reality, but in the picture the planets are closer than the moon.  This to me represents that life on other planets might not be as far away as we think.



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BLOG discussion of Interpreting VC by T. Barrett

Question-How does the media effect how we perceive art?

Answer- I feel that the media has a huge influence on how art is perceived by individuals.  Much of art has a background and story behind it.  The only way an audience knows this background is if it is conveyed to them by someone and in many cases the means which it is conveyed by is the media.