Week 15 Research Assignment (Toby M)

Link: Gerhard Scholz

    For this last week, I chose art from Gerhard Scholz. Scholz was a German painter, born in Wolfenbuttel and had his artistic training at the Karlsruhe Academy. He also provided military service in World War I. After World War I, he continued painting, working in a style fusing cubist and futuristic ideas.  In 1919 Scholz became a member of the Communist Party of Germany, and his work for the next few years was harshly critical of postwar Germany's social and economic order. By 1925, however, his approach had softened into something closer to neoclassicism, also while being appointed a professor at the Baden State Academy of Art. 

    I chose this painting from him because it reminds me of the mandalas we have created in Photoshop. Also using radial symmetry is another aspect of Photoshop. I also like how simple this piece of art is. Only used two colors for this painting. 

 

Week 15 Assignment (Toby M)

 

week nine research assignment

Dylan Madera

dec 13 2023

Christel Dall is a passionate photographer from Denmark. She used to work as a photojournalist for a local newspaper and has recently delved into digital art, enhancing her photos digitally. Alongside her photography, she also engages in advertising and occasionally sells prints. Born in 1965, she became a professional photographer after more than a decade as a hobbyist. Christel is self-taught in both writing and photography. She studied philosophy and multimedia design for a while but decided to drop out. Before her photography career, she worked in various jobs like nursery gardening, cleaning, and decorating department stores. Despite not enjoying talking about herself, she pours a lot of emotions into her pictures. Christel believes in the viewer adding their own meaning to the images. She enjoys working with typography and incorporating words into her pictures, showcasing a range of styles from minimalist to surrealist, guided by her creative instincts. Adobe Photoshop is her preferred tool for editing. Currently, she is a single mother to a five-year-old boy.

fractal design week 10

Dylan Madera

dec 13 2023

fractal designing week 10 

 

 

Week 9 Fractals

 

Kaleidoscope

 

Week 15 Radial Symmetry- Kayla Clark

 

Week 12 Artbreeder

 

Week 15 Research

For my final research assignment, I researched Peter Casolino. Peter Casolino was a digital artist and photojournalist. He studied photography and painting at Southern Connecticut State University. He worked as a photojournalist for the New Haven Register. All of his art comes from his photo work which he then manipulates and creates new art with. It is uniquely composite, subtle, and surreal. I picked his work 'Untitled'. It shows a mirrored face of a man at the bottom of the picture, with a winter forest above him, and a lake around him. This art caught my eye right away, and not just because it was staring at me. I identified the mirror technique he used for all aspects in this piece, the man's face, the forest, and the lake. I really like that he decided not to add any color to this picture, it adds more of an ominous feeling to the picture. It seems that the man in the picture is in control of the forest above him and the water around him, which combined with the black and white that I aforementioned makes for a spectacular piece of digital art. 

Unfortunately, Peter died in 2018, below are links to an obituary of Peter and his MOCA gallery:

Obituary

MOCA Gallery

Week 4 Liquify

 

Radial Symmetry

 

Week 13 Line Rider

 

Week 12 research

 Today, I decided to look at Werner Hornung's work. Werner does work in the category of digital fine art. The works are fascinating and have a common element of human symbolism.  The works on display in the gallery aren't titled and have a unique identity. The images in this gallery look like humans in common places but with something that doesn't look like it belongs there. My favorite out of all the ones in the gallery is this one with the elephant. The elephant is just so colorful and looks like it is out of place but with the woman riding it it looks even better or even like a performance. 

Week 15 Research

 

The artist I picked today is Masanta. She is a Japanese artist and she studied graphic design at Japan Designers College in Tokyo. She uses Photoshop, Illustrator, Macromedia, Fontographer, and more. Masanta describes her art as warm, humorous, and sunny.

 I love the colors and the symmetry of her artwork. Each piece is very unique.

Week 14 Research

  

The artist I picked today is Kenneth Gould. He is from Boston, Massachusetts, and went to architectural school. In his final year, he received a scholarship from the San Francisco Art Institute to study sculpture art and painting. Through that, he got into digital art and the rest is history. He says "in a meditative state of mind, a slow breath took me through the rabbit hole into the world of digital technology, a place where I envisioned the earth turn on its axis shifting into the twenty-first century. This understanding of nature's universal creative power is what I want to share, a reflection through space, form and color."

I find his art very interesting and creative and I would love to know what inspired him to make each piece.

Week 13 Research

 

The artist I picked today is Thomas Broadfoot. He doesn't share a lot of personal information online but he has said that he has self-taught himself digital art. He uses 3d rendering and landscape programs to create his art. I find his art very compelling. The sailboats and the sunset in this picture caught my eye. He has a whole series around the theme of sailboats and sunsets.

Week 15 Radial Symmetry

 Kyle Dann

Week 14 Research

 For the penultimate research assignment, I have chosen LA Ulrich. Through all of the research that I attempted to gain from them, I could not find much other than what they had on MOCA. Instead, I will talk about what they had on MOCA and then focus mainly on their piece and what I take from it. I picked one piece from their collection, 'Apo7x-120720-18'. This piece was created with Apophysis and then color-boosted using Picasa 3. In the piece, there is a swirl that starts on the very right which then rotates counter-clockwise and then becomes more defined and a straight line. This line then becomes the perimeter and goes in a triangular pattern, making a triangular perimeter. there are gaps between the lines, in which there are smaller versions of the pattern said above. I especially like the coloring in this piece. It's not a constant color, it starts in a shade of blue into red into yellow into purple into green. It's constantly and smoothly changing. The smaller patterns within the triangle are all also different colors, and you can see that they are also changing colors, coinciding with their larger pattern. The perimeter line is also interesting. It starts as the texture of a very light brush, like a comet in the sky. As it turns into a straight line, it collects more of a hardened texture, seeing it more as a wall that contains the other pattern within it. I really appreciate it's completely black background, as it helps emphasize the pattern in it. Overall I love this piece of art, and I would compare it to something I would see in an Apple commercial, very abstract, creative, futuristic, but rather simple. 

Week 13 Research

Michael Sussna is an American digital artist. He was born in New Jersey, in 1950. He gained his bachelor's at Sonoma State University, his master's from Fairleigh Dickinson University, and his doctorate from UC San Diego. Despite all of his past education in computer science and similar fields, he never studied art. He is a self-taught artist and he has created fractal art ever since 1985. It is unsure how he creates his artwork since he describes it as "geometric, yet organic." It's more abstract and original than traditional fractals. 'Hacienda' and 'Moonlight Surface'  are the pieces you see below. The first thing that I notice and appreciate is that there is no color in these images. This results in more of a focus on the fractal design rather than distractions around the design. I particularly like that the hacienda piece looks very similar to a computer chip, giving it a more science-fiction look. In moonlight surface, there is a clear inspiration and look to the surface of the moon. The random array of the "craters" that are spread throughout the piece is a unique aspect that I liked looking at while researching. 

Here is Sussna's website: https://www.sussna.com/

Week 12 Research Assignment

 Pavel Melnichuk is a Ukrainian artist born in 1972. He lives in Chernivtsi, Ukraine. Chernivtsi is known and named as 'Little Paris' because of its architecture and culture. Melnichuk is a self-taught artist, he started with color photography and was inspired by digital technologies that fused science and art. He started processing some photo scans and the results were as good as the idea. He and his artwork found success in Ukraine as well as in the United Kingdom. After his success with photbased artwork, he decided to start from scratch. He used Wacom tablet and digital brushes in Adobe Photoshop. The results were just as successful. He also created some artwork combining his digital photographs and from scratch art. He describes the paintings to be about himself, and his positivity. I have picked two of his creations, 'Creature', and 'Fruit'. Both of these works are part of his digital brush painting, which I mentioned and explained earlier. I selected these works because I am a fan of the abstract ideas that he uses for these works. Creature can be looked at in a multitude of ways. I see two faces in the middle of the painting. Right above it though, one can make some kind of bird or vulture. Fruit is even more abstract. It's red color and vibrance dominance over the painting make it seem like there should be a fruit as its center, like an apple or strawberry. I personally can't really make a clear-cut subject in the painting, but it is fun to examine and try to find something new every time you see it. 

I could not find a website for Melnichuk's work, including the website that's watermarked in his work, so here is his MOCA gallery: https://moca.virtual.museum/melnichuk/melnichuk01.htm

Week 15 Research

Today I decided to look at the work made by AI. Yes, this is the only work that I have looked at that is by an AI and not a person. What I would like to start off by saying is that even art made by an AI should be considered art. I say this because similar to an artist the software has to find different sources or images to base its work on. This piece really looks good to me as it reminds me of a scene from Ready Player One which is a movie about videogames taking control of the world and the destruction of the Main Characters home. 

Week 14 Research

 Today I decided to look at the works of Amichai Shavit. Their works are classified under the category of 3D abstract art. The works tend to always look nice and very interesting which is why they had a piece featured as the image of the day. The piece was not titled and is of a tree that looks like it is in space. To me it personally could feel like a representation of Yggdrasil. I get that from this piece as the tree looks like it is in a cosmic state. I really like that this was the piece of the day due to how they can make a simple tree or things look like a tree look so spacey or out of this world.

The art piece

Yggdrasil

Week 13 Research

For Week 13 Research, I chose Peter Hammond's Venetian. Peter Hammond is from San Diego, CA, and he started on photography in 1989. He uses mostly vertical and horizontal lines with not much deep perspective. I chose this one just because It's cool. I did not see any deep meaning behind it, but I found very interesting and well made this collage. Also, this type of art makes me feel interested looking for all details in the picture, letting my imagination to complete how the full image from each cutted photo looks like.

Line Rider

Line Rider

Week 15 Research Kyle Dann

 Thomas Vilot graduated from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia) in 1989. He has always been intrigued by the fusion of arts and technology. He uses his computer screen to create his images and it is where he starts his process. Thomas will then turn his computer work onto large-sized canvas or paper. He is known to be more of a conventional artist than people may think. Thomas's canvas prints are created from traditional brush and oil techniques. He does a wonderful job blending colors together to give the background more life. I like the way that he usually has some sort of object or design in the middle for people to be drawn to.  The painting might look simple, but the minor details that Thomas includes in his pieces bring the entire painting together. I like the way he can connect all sorts of colors together to give the painting some sort of theme. 

https://moca.virtual.museum/vilot/vilot07.htm

Frax

Week Fifteen Radial Symmetry

week 15 research

 Dylan Madera

12/9/23

intro to computer art

Werner Hornung, born in 1955 in Germany, is a Paris-based freelance graphic artist known for his second major exhibit at the current location. Despite facing the challenges of making a living through his art, Hornung has achieved recognition by winning Donnie awards at MOCA three times. Describing his work as more than mere photomanipulation, he sees it as a unique form of painting, aiming to convey stories, adventures, and emotions. According to Hornung, the essence of artistic creation lies in the skillful manipulation of composition, form, and rhythm, transcending the focus on the tools used. Over the past four years, he has dedicated all his time to crafting images, emphasizing that the most crucial "software" for artistic expression is the inspiration found in the right side of the brain.

This art piece really interest me because if you look closely there is a person behind a mask which interest me a lot because it reminds me of spartan times.

radial symmetry

Dylan madera

dec 9 2023

intro to computer art

 

Week 14 Grappa

Week 12 Artbreeder

Pope Pius XII mixed with a lion in the wilderness

How a desert Location would be drawn by Studio Ghibli

Week 10 Research

For Week 10 Research, I chose Gilles Tran's A Few Things Left Behind. Accrding to MOCA, Gilles Tran works as a agricultural engineer, and 3D art has been his hobby since 1993. He is very detailed with his artwork, and has some of the best works in the website. This artwork was modeled in Cinema 4D and Rendered in FinalRender. I chose this art in specific because it looks just like the video game Fallout 4, a game that show the future with a 50's aesthetics, and the machines in the game looks just like the one in the picture. 50's aethetics is a type of art that I like a lot, and I personally find this outstanding.

Week 7 Research

For Week Seven Research I chose Robert W. McGregor's Winter Solstice. According to his website, Robert McGregor is a multidisciplinary visual artist working in both traditional and digital media. An accomplished writer/author, musician/composer, and software designer/developer fluent in several computer programming languages. This work was created based on an art doodled on an napkin, and brought to pc using Persistence of Vision and custom-developed software. I chose this artwork because it looks like a spaceship, with this precise form and well shaped spheres. If someone told me that it was from Star Trek, I would totally believed it. http://www.mcgregorfineart.com/home.asp

Week 4 Research

For Week 4 Research, I chose Christel Dall's Your Junk - My Treasure. Christel Dall as a 'compulsive photographer' explores the realm of digital photography, she started to do it after enhancing his photos digitally for years. She works with advertising, and for a small daily newspaper in Denmark. I chose this picture because it reminds me of my uncle's work with junk and heavy machinery. Abandoned stuff has it's own charm and makes me feel like I am seeing a dystopian world.