thoughts on beauty

I appreciate and understand Sagmiester's idea of opposing beauty in art and design. I have been interested in this for a long time. I am not intent on making things look attractive, but at the same time I wouldn't avoid it if it came out beautiful. I seek what i call 'beautification-diversion', or seeing 'through insight' design structure. I have a design process which fuels my creativity. I understand what I am doing, I don't know how to explain it exactly. We have been taught to make beautiful work, but I choose not to. I'm not purposefully creating something abstract, but more towards a surrealistic theme. I don't have direct intentions of making surrealistic work.

sagmeister video

Here's the Stefan Sagmeister video I showed in class. Think about his experimental play with type and his total (even physical) immersion in his work. What do you think he means when he says "Trying to look good limits my life"? In what ways can your artistic process and your approach to working with color explore ideas without the concern for an aesthetically pleasing outcome?

virtual/virtue/virile: a web of shifting meaning

Words change over time, through overuse, misuse, reinterpretation, and linguistic exchange. In recent history, language has continued to mutate at a more rapid pace, due in large part to the influx of new technology, flooding our language with new words, creating new hybrid terms, and creating systems of communication that encourage the reduction and reinterpretation of language.

How has the virtual environment also affected art production? More importantly for our concerns in this course, how has the seemingly limitless range of digital technology changed our understanding of, interpretation of, and application of color? Has digital technology in fact changed the way we see color and the phenomenal world in general? What was your response to generating high resolution scans of small details of mundane things? Did you begin to see ordinary things differently? These are the questions we are plunging in to with this last section on digital systems in color theory.

To Be Continued...

virtual

1398, "influencing by physical virtues or capabilities," from M.L. virtualis, from L. virtus "excellence, potency, efficacy," lit. "manliness, manhood" (see virtue). The meaning of "being something in essence or fact, though not in name" is first recorded 1654, probably via sense of "capable of producing a certain effect" (1432). Computer sense of "not physically existing but made to appear by software" is attested from 1959. Virtually (c.1430) originally meant "as far as essential qualities or facts are concerned;" sense of "in effect, as good as" is recorded from c.1600.

virtue

c.1225, "moral life and conduct, moral excellence," vertu, from Anglo-Fr. and O.Fr. vertu, from L. virtutem (nom. virtus) "moral strength, manliness, valor, excellence, worth," from vir "man" (see virile). Phrase by virtue of (c.1230) preserves alternate M.E. sense of "efficacy." Wyclif Bible has virtue where K.J.V. uses power. The seven cardinal virtues (c.1320) were divided into the natural (justice, prudence, temperance, fortitude) and the theological (hope, faith, charity). To make a virtue of a necessity (c.1374) translates L. facere de necessitate virtutem. [Jerome]

*from www.etymonline.com

FOUND COLOR WHEEL

Above: Updated with another tee shirt

Above: Updated Color Wheel

Above: Updated Color wheel


Above: Color Wheel as presented in class

Above: Color Wheel as presented in class

Hey Guys here are some photos of my found color wheel. Constructed with 5 Tee shirts, 2 Tank Tops, 1 Hat, and portions of 2 pairs of shoes, all authentic Ed Hardy and some cool purlpe mesh that Jessica gave me. I was obsessively hooked on the Ed Hardy brand about 2 yrs ago. Present day, I hardly ever wear Ed hardy. I did however spare a few pieces I couldnt bear to slice up. Since the critque on Friday I added another tee shirt I found hiding out in a drawer. The first pics are of my found color wheel after I added the 5th tee shirt to the equation. The last pics will be of the color wheel what I presented in class on friday, The newly added tee shirt allowed me to enhance the orange section of my color wheel with orange graphics taken from the light orange tee shirt I added to my composition. I really enjoyed this found color wheel. Thanks Jessica!