Morikami Museum Visit

        The Morikami Museum was so beautiful. I remember very little about my first visit when I was about 5 years old and it was such a refreshment and it was like seeing the garden for the first time again. The weather was crisp. The garden was peaceful and calm. We got there right when they opened so there wasn't a lot of visitors which made the garden almost a private experience. The landscaping and the weather at the time made me feel like I time traveled to Japan in a split second. Everything was just perfect!

Small Work#1 Garden

For my small work assignment I chose Treetops park in Davie, Florida for my 30 minute writing and drawing. After walking a small trail in the middle of the park I captured this scenery of a quiet calm lake. the weather was cool and the sky was clear. The lake was filled with catfish, turtles, alligators and you could even see quite a few ducks as well. It was very serene and peaceful.

Combined Sentance Exercise

My partner and I made a lake scenery with oak trees inhabited by spiders.  

Small work topic #4 Poetry

Serene lake 

Walking the end of a breathless take,

Approaching the beginning of a clear serene lake,

Vibrations of wind, birds, water, and hushed cars,

how I wonder what it's like being here with the night stars.

A surface roofed with Lillies, trees, and bush features,

In the water lies catfishes, turtles, ducks and other living creatures.

The scent of clear air, flowers, and fresh pine,

a place so peaceful a place of sublime. 

With open fields and woods condense,

The grass is rich in color and clearly immense. 

The sky, vast and partially clear, 

Clouds of cirrus and stratus I spot from the pier. 

As the wind softly blows the surface with tension,

the water is still clear you can see another dimension.  

As I leave, my last breath I take,

I long to come back to the beautiful, quiet, serene lake. 

Creature Assignment

Propaganda Portrait

For my in-depth project I drew Gordon Ramsey as an admirable portrait using white and black charcoal. The left portrait is the admirable and the piece on the right is the propaganda portrait depicting a workplace bully. I had a lot of fun with this project considering that I highly admire Gordon Ramsey.

FIU Frost Museum

Lewis Hine's "Little spinner in mill" shows a young girl in a mill factory. By observing the piece, you can see the mess on the floor and you can depict that the girl was working in poor working conditions and how dangerously close she is to the machines. You can even see that her shirt is stained and worn out from her working in the factory and by the look on her face I wouldn't guess that this was a dream job of hers.

In Depth Project : Abstraction of the Form

For my Pattern and Ornament In-Depth piece, I made a charcoal and fabric based drawing using a 6ft x 3ft brown paper and I used drum sticks, and red ribbon as the support. This Japanese inspired piece presents an Oni mask and a Tengu mask both used for protection against evil spirits, aid for good luck, and celebratory attire. The Japanese writing on the top right corner translates to passion in which I used passionate as my personality trait for the piece. In relation to the ornamental chair, the skin of the dragons represent the cushions of the chair. The spikes on the spine represent the tuners on the bass guitars from the chair, and the Oni and Tengu masks represent my appreciation for theatre.

The Rhinoceros from Durer to Stubbs 1515-1799

I prefer Durer's woodcut compared to Burgkmair because to me it had more exaggerated features making the rhinoceros more unique and interesting to the eye. Durer also had studied armor in which you can see the influence from that in the woodcut giving the rhinoceros a remarkable appearance.

I really like the olive-green chiaroscuro woodcut of Durer's rhinoceros because there is an extensive amount of detail in it. I can see a lot of sharp marks as well as soft marks that have been made in the piece. Because Durer was influenced by amour, I can also see how the plates on the rhinoceros show a lot of similarity to that of Durer's influences. I can also see an exaggeration on the rib cage and how it resembles like the pegs in an umbrella giving the rhinoceros a striking appearance.  

Ornament / Personality Chair Design

Here is a front view of my chair ornament. 

Using reference from my original chair ornament,
I added traits of my personality and constructed
a chair that best revealed my character.

 

Ornament Relief



Top View 



 

 

Area of Focus

The Wolfsonian-FIU,

         

          At the Wolfsonian, out of all the amazing pieces that I saw, there was one piece that really stood out to me. This oil painting was made by Dutch artist, Harald Rudyard Engman in 1941. His subject was an Anti-Nazism , Humor/Satire , Figurative piece and it is about Engman's commentary on the negative aspects of Nazi occupation of Denmark during WWII. The painting has a human pyramid made of different time frames and on left shows Denmark in the past and on the right shows Denmark in the present during WW II.

Here is Ethel Magafan's

Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans.

This piece is depicting the building of bulwarks by

slaves piling up cotton bales.