Week 5 Research

 Lozmar; real name Martin Lloyd is an exciting artist. When looking at pieces by them, they are peculiar or not normal. Some of the pieces are very random and altering or like normal places with something that is so out of place. The image that I saw that stood out the most to me was the piece called Siamese Twins. This piece is very interesting in the way that it plays on the idea of Siamese twins and makes a Siamese twin have another twin attached to them. The artwork made by this artist is all done through Photoshop and did this to see if there really is a way that new tech can still create good art. 

Week 5 Research

He creates his art using a mixture of photography, and digital art. There is not much about how the artist created his work. https://www.alessandrobavari.com/

week 5 research assignment

 Dylan Madera 

10/2/2023

Carol Caputo

Carol Caputo is an artist who uses various techniques and materials to explore how we perceive and understand cities through art. She creates artwork by following certain rules and deliberately leaving things out, which can make her pieces emotionally intense. Her art draws viewers in, making them ponder and wander through the artwork. Caputos work connects the real world of landscapes with the abstract style of impressionism. Instead of showing the city as it is, she uses art to create a kind of dreamworld that sparks our imagination.Although Carol Caputo's art is sometimes linked to the new romantic movement because it seeks to embrace the local in our increasingly globalized world, she doesn't intentionally aim for this classification. Instead, her art naturally taps into a shared human experience and memory.

the reason I chose caputos art work to talk about was because her work didn't catch my attention at first glance. I see her work and i think to myself who would ever want to buy this or even want to even take time observing it. the thing that changed my perspective of it was the details and emphasis she puts towards this piece. this piece makes me question things like why is there a balloon that looks a lot better then its background scene. i would also know what is the theme of this art piece and where its located at because they mentioned her doing landscaping art pieces and to me this would seem like one of those. this makes me question if its a birthday party a memory she had or anything personal to her.

Week 5 MOCA Research

 This week I've decided to do research on Alex Dragulescu. He is a Romanian virtual artist, pushing the boundaries on how art can be made. He has multiple degrees, with a Master's of Fine Arts in Visual Arts. He has traveled the world in exhibitions, to gather information and inspiration for his art. His art though, sits at the intersection between art and technology. For example, this series, which he named "Spam Architecture", is a result of a computer program that Dragulescu designed. It takes junk email and uses certain keywords, patterns, and other algorithms that are programmed in order to create what you see below. He was hired by an email security company to help visualize the threats they faced, and he was able to do so with his program. He controlled color coding, the positioning of the virtual camera, and lighting. I find this work to be unique and original, and to some degree mind-boggling on how somebody is able to program that and have such good results. The art itself is very abstract and up to interpretation, I see a very cruel version of a mouse trap. 

For more of his work, here is Alex Dragulescu's website: https://sq.ro/info.htm

Week 5 MOCA: La Ulrich- Andre Marcano

Apophysis

Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything about the creator, who on MOCA is named La Ulrich but i really wanted to write about this piece because i found myself staring at it every time I saw it. I do know however how they made this piece as they mentioned how in the artists notes. What La did was they used something called Apophysis 7x to create the main part of the pieces and then enhanced the color with Picasa 3. They then created the background using Paint.net's curves adjustment. Im not even sure what this piece is i keep wanting to think that its maybe a black hole or maybe the beginning of the universe or time maybe.

Week 5 Research

 

        This is an AI-generated image of one of the world's cities, Istanbul. This image is created by Denny Copperman through the power of an inweb AI generator. This makes Istanbul a city hidden in the clouds, which makes it even better. 

Link to Image: https://mocadigitalart.com/aicities/aicities06.htm

week 5 MOCA

 

This art work is called the old horse knows made by Stefan Arteni , i could not find any meaning behind this piece but i do that he painted this and looking that this first looks like branches but the top half looks like something different. looking at this feel a bit chaotic like its alot going on

Week 5 Assignment MOCA (Toby M)

 

David Kramer Gallery

    This week from the MOCA, I chose an art piece created by David Kramer. I chose this because of the vibrant colors and different shapes surrounding the image. Kramer named this style of art "Playing With Art". In my opinion, this piece resembles a city or a house. But, I don't exactly know how he created this art piece. This is significant to me because art can't just be two colors, but a lot more than 1. 

Research Assignment Week 5

 For this week's research assignment, I chose to go with the artist Virginia Small. She is a visual artist, cartoonist, illustrator, craftsperson, and writer. She has a master's degree in Community Arts Management from the University of Illinois, a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and a certificate in Multimedia Design. She is multi-talented and has done so much throughout her career. Virginia grew up an artistic child, always involved with the arts. This carried on into her adulthood as she attended the universities listed above to make it a living, almost a dream come true for her inner child. She also loves the art of story, how you can convey a story through many different mediums and she loves to create through any medium as long as the story is told and reaches the target audience. I really loved how diverse her work was, she has so many different styles. Just by her portfolio alone, you can really tell the passion she has as a creator. The Image I chose to focus on reminded me of outer space, which I really enjoy. Art that has contrast and depth like this image shows always pulls me in, I really love it. Traditionally she is a color pencil artist, but as of a few years ago, she began scanning her drawings into the computer to begin making hybrid forms of art. She uses fractals and several computer programs like Super Blade Pro to complete her art pieces. She noted that she is a visually disabled artist, which I found very interesting. It just shows that disabilities don’t always limit you as a person, and you can still reach high just as she has throughout her career. Below I’ve linked the website where you can read more about her and look at some of her illustrations as well. 

https://www.zebracorn.com/blog/

Paul Piorkowski - Week 5 Research Assignment

 The artist I chose to share this week is Dominik Mayer. Mayer was born in Germany in 1991 and currently lives in the city of Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany.  He began his work as a professional artist in 2018, and has since done art for many companies, including Blizzard Entertainment, BOOM! Studios, Epic Games, Netflix, Riot Games, and most importantly, Wizards of the Coast. He mainly uses a combination of Procreate, Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator to make his art.

The artwork I've chosen to share this week is titled A King's Quest, and it comes from Mayer's collection titled Nachthunger:

Mayer's website: www.dominikmayer.art

Week 5 Reasearch Assignment

Juergen Schwietering, born in 1964 and hailing from Italy, is a computer software engineer. He obtained a computer science degree from the University of Bremen in 1993 and is a native Dutch speaker. His extensive research and publications span diverse areas, including computer music, fractals, and computer graphics. 

The showcased works feature "fractal plane-filling procedures" crafted by the artist, often inspired by real photographs or paintings. Beyond his technical pursuits, Juergen enjoys playing guitar, snowboarding, surfing, and mastering the art of the boomerang. His artistic and musical talents have graced the public exhibition space of Bremen Town Hall.

Week 5 Research Assignment

 For this week, I researched about Helga Schmitt Pullach. Helga was born in Augsburg, Germany in 1936; she's been living in Pullach since 1971. As of late 1998, Helga has taught herself the technical in's and out's and began making digital art. Her creative work was influenced by her father-in-law, Professor Otto Michael Schmitt (1904-1992). Helga states about her motivation's and themes; what she intends is to create images and if somewhere somebody likes them the way they are, then she is happy. She's interested not only in the atmosphere, the contrasting colors, and the proportions. There are also more small fragments and structures being discovered. Helga transforms, reconstructs, and regroups these different elements into brand new situations, topographies, alternated views, virtual artifacts. The artwork that MOCA shows off with Helga Schmitt Pullach is "Anagyris" and it's very abstract image with a depiction of a face in the middle, seemingly looking like it could be made of gold. The link below is Helga Schmitt Pullach's website with artwork in different tabs.

http://www.schmitt-pullach.de/index.html

Week 5 Research Assignment

 

Lutz Meinert is made from art and technology to create abstracts, from photography which helps him create this work. This was interesting because his work is so simple it almost looks like bark on a tree, and this additional coloring to it just makes this work pop. 

Week Five Research Assignment

 

The artist I picked this week is Umberto Oldani. He likes to make 3D images based on old still-life pictures. He does all of his work using open-source software, specifically with Blender. Once he processes images in Blender, he adds finishing touches using Photoshop.

I really like how realistic the images are and how it has an older theme to them. The rendering looks like a still frame from a Disney or Pixar movie.

Week 5 Research Assignment - Reagan Franzoni

The artist I chose for week 5 from the Museum of Computer Art is Pavel Melnichuk. He is a digital artist from Ukraine specializing in digital painting combined with using actual paintings and photographed textures from digital brush tools. Pavel’s passion for digital art began with color photography and imaging. He is inspired by digital technology that combines art with science. This process allows him to use self-expression through digital tools and techniques. He believes digital processing is an experience of the 21st century that changes stereotypes, harmony, and transformations of the mysteries in the world. Pavel Melnichuk creates his designs using a Wacom tablet to utilize Adobe Photoshop’s digital brushes to create his combination of paintings with photographed textures digitally from scratch. Melnichuk’s designs are about himself and his reflection of what still-life and abstraction mean to him. When looking at his work, he often asks himself “Is it me?” This is a way for him to discover the meaning of living life and the world’s reality.

The image I chose from Pavel Melnichuk’s collection of digital paintings is called “Childhood Dream” and is a very simple and colorful painting that reflects his use of digital textures and realistic paintings. Based on the name of this painting, I am guessing this piece is about Melnichuk’s reflection on what it means to use creativity as a child. The painting has no image, so you have to think about its meaning through the colors and brush strokes. This painting is messy, demonstrating the technique of having freedom of creativity as a child to let the brush do its own thing. Every child’s dream is to do art however they like and be messy, and this image examines the techniques children use to create their unique art. I chose this image because I really like the dimensions of the brush strokes and the use of warmer colors on top of the cool colors to create depth in the painting. I like how the strokes of the brush almost create a tear in the canvas with shadowing. This also reflects the idea of letting the brush do what it wants, even if that means tearing the painting and using messiness skills to create the uniqueness of art. 

There is no actual link to his website, but this is the MOCA link:

https://moca.virtual.museum/melnichuk/melnichuk01.htm

Image:

Week 5 Research Assignment - Hayden Grigas

 

This piece was created by an artist named Benedikt Amrhein. This piece was created with multiple different techniques. This artist used three different techniques, Fractals, Photography, and Digital Processing. Im not sure what this work is about but it looks like a portal of some sort.

Week 5 Research Assignment

 For this week I chose the artist Enzo Minarro who created this piece with Photoshop and Blender, first by using Blender to make the resources for the mountain faces. He then put them in as foreground to create the feeling of it being 3D at close ranges and far away. He then continued with Photoshop to colorize the assets and add lighting to the piece and the water flowing through the canyon. The piece that Enzo made was to examine the large and mysterious expanse of the desert. I also believe that he is trying to show how the water flowing through the canyon is almost the essence of life in the desert atmosphere. I believe this because in the image you can see the water glowing as if it is alive or has some mystical property. This is also shown by in the very far almost middle of the image you can see where the water presumably goes and a lighting effect akin to something possibly being created.

The artists page is here: https://www.artstation.com/enzo-minarro

Week Five Research Project Kyle Dann

 

For the fifth week, I decided to take a look at the work that Colin Aiken makes. Colin takes a simple photograph, where light has been captured from a camera, which causes a latent image to be created. The process and tools used just like the ones in Colin's pictures, are also used on most photographs you have seen. The tools are used over and over again until the picture is "destroyed". The original picture is pretty much gone at this point and is almost unrecognizable. What you see in the images is your own imagination taking over and creating an idea in your head. This is a technique that artists will use to draw attention to the piece. It makes the observer feel connected to the piece to see exactly what they see. Everyone might not see the same things. Different objects or colors will stick out for different people. This is what makes his pieces unique because he is able to get the audience thinking. His photographs have been made to remind us that, in a photograph, we only see what we already know. Our brain has already made up what we want to see. We cannot change the ideas that our mind makes up. Colin takes this picture of this fish and changes it to make you draw your attention to other details of the piece instead of just the fish. You can see the different colors, as well as the different shadows that the fish cast. He uses lots of vibrant colors in his pictures of nature which gives it a unique take on the actual picture.

Colin Aiken's art on the Web

Week 5 Research Assignment

 The artist I am researching this week is Thomas Demuth. He is a digital artist from Germany. He was born in Hamburg in 1965. He uses 3D rendering software to create photo-abstract images. He bases his work on polygon mesh structures. He calls his style “Polygonismus”. His work is highly complex because it includes many different shapes, but they all combine to create beautiful art pieces. Thomas draws influence from history, religion, and anthropology. The piece I chose this week is called The Triumph of Death. When I first glanced at this work, I saw people fighting in front of unknown structures. After looking at his piece for some time, I realized that every detail in this piece is made with different geometrical shapes. We see some things or shapes you would think do not belong. For example, we can see an elephant to the left of the picture. I did not expect to see this elephant, but it makes the art much more powerful.  

This is his personal website: 

  http://www.polygonismus.de

Week 5 Research Assignment

This week, I've chosen to write about Marcos Schmidt. Schmidt is a Brazilian-based illustrator and graphic designer, in Sao Jose dos Campos. He is self-taught, while also using his knowledge from past architecture and art classes he's taken. His work is mostly painting-based, and then using Photoshop and Corel Painter to finish it off. 

This piece I've chosen, titled Coltrane, shows a painting of saxophonist and jazz legend John Coltrane, as he looks down. I chose this piece, because I love Coltrane's music. I also really like the dark theme that Schmidt has done, with the dark top of a piano on the right of Coltrane. It also represents how Coltrane was in his later years, dark and reserved. The neck strap (That necklace-looking piece on his shirt) implies that he is practicing his instrument, but the actual instrument is nowhere to be seen. The grey stains on his shirt are also very rustic and raw. The mood of this piece is dark and mysterious.