Surrealistic Art

These are my favorite surrealistic 2d pictures. I'm really into psychedelic surrealism. I love the different art styles. Surrealism is probably my favorite type of art. It shows its own personality without trying. It's different than most art. It's more creative in my opinion. 

MOKI MIOKI

Moki Mioki is a German based artist. She really likes to paint nature, more specifically "isolated Scandinavian and Iceland terrain". She believes that there's no just one mind. You're elsewhere even though you're in one spot physically. She takes reality into dreams, which is essentially surrealistic art, but with Moki, her paintings make more direct. I also really enjoy the nature and how she combines a person with nature physically. I love her work. 

Surrealistic Collages

From what I've seen about surrealistic collages is just nonsense into reality. It's a dream form of art. It's like sci-fi. There's some famous surrealistic collages. To me this type of art work is something that I would like to pursue. All of these collages remind me of the movie The Yellow Submarine by the Beatles. It's a mixture of different things with tons of color or no color. 

Grattage

I think Grattage is a painting that you can scrape off of, and create something with its own technique. I've looked at Max Ernst, and his paintings are actually different. He put so much details into his paintings. It's so busy, but it's also really cool looking at paintings and finding little surprises. The painting has a personality. I really enjoy Grattage

Arshile Gorky

I've seen many paintings of his work. His work is very different from other people I've seen. His work. It's all different styles and colors. I love the different contrast of his work. His work makes me look at different shapes and styles in a different perspective.

Dreams

I don't remember my dreams as much now, but when I was little, I remembered that I kept dreaming of me in a boxing studio and I would always look at myself in the mirror and look at what I was doing. I had that dream for years on end. I stopped having that one specific dream after I turned 10. It just changed.

Preview

The first trimester was difficult at first with understanding what Conceptual Art was. I didn't completely understand what it was suppose to be. Then, later on I realized what it was and I understood it more than I did earlier. I understood that conceptual art is a perspective to one's mind, but also wants to trick other people. A new perspective on everything with just that one painting, picture, still life, etc.

I've worked on a 3D design of a jellyfish the first time. I like that piece because it's not only showing what I like about a jellyfish, but it also shows colors and depth within the jellyfish. That one piece is the piece that I interpreted what Conceptual Art is. I've learned afterwards  when I was just doodling in my personal sketchbook I understood. I'm happy with where I'm going from here. I've changed a lot about what art is to me. I grew more about art this trimester than I ever have in the last three years being at school.

I believe that I should've worked and asked more what I could do to understand Conceptual Art. Maybe if I really sat down and thought about more of the art than what the description of what it could be or suppose to be. With the jellyfish project, I didn't exactly understand what I was supposed to do with this project. I just thought maybe if I was more colorful or making my piece pop out more, it would've been something great.

I think throughout this trimester I did learn more each class. When class started in September I didn't understand fully. As time went on, I've seen and looked at other people's artwork, and it just gave me inspiration to figure out how to do my pieces. I think I lost my focus at the beginning of the trimester and then I just figured out how to do my pieces and ever since I think I've been working harder.

During the trimester, I had to do five pieces for my conceptual art class. My first piece was a jellyfish 3D. If you've seen pictures or went to an aquarium and seen jellyfish, there are many different sizes, shape, and colors of jellyfish. I wanted to interpret what I thought of a jellyfish: A wonderful, deadly, mesmerizing creature who has bold beautiful colors. I wanted to show everyone that a jellyfish isn't a bad sea creature more of a stunning one. My second and third pieces are called Zentangle patterns. The pieces are suppose to help you be calm as your drawing, and honestly it works for me. But if you look at the pieces, they're not just patterns, they're all different in some way. I wanted to show that there's more than just perspective. I wanted to show that there is no beginning and no end. You just have to wing it mostly.

Honestly my blog would be a 3, or a 2. I didn't work as hard when I should've. I don't exactly think this blog really helped me with a lot, but researching about other conceptual artist did give me more of an idea. Although I do like to blog, and I think if my class continued this blog, I would work a lot harder to do my pieces and research many pieces and get some inspiration.