Self portrait

While visiting the art gallery I asked if they had any self portraits, the woman at the desk said she did not think so.  I took it upon myself to look around and found the 3 I downloaded.  Unfortunately, the information I took about them can not be found.  I do know that the first 2 pictures are of the same artist in 2 different forms.  I remember reading about it. The third is famous for the woman with the cow in the bathtub.  Finally I downloaded one of my favorites of myself, I was going to Halloween party as a hippie chick, this is a good side of me.  I like to be free and have fun even at my old age and I recently just lost 68 lbs. and am feeling pretty good about myself.

 I found that the other self portraits I downloaded look gloomy almost sad, maybe the artist was portraying her mood, In my portrait obviously my mood is portrayed as upbeat, and girls just want to have fun. The elements in my piece has pattern and color. I think this was good I know that I did not draw myself, I tried but it was not working pictures are better.

Article critiqueing

I selected Welcome to Wonderland first because of the title, it caught my curiousity, then once I click on it to download the bright vibrant blue color opening is more intriguing. A challenge I found picking one was they were all so good and I was not quite sure how to critique without being to harsh. I guess it was harder than I thought because I am not an expert.
I would like to see what my peers say about my slideshow so I know how to make things better. I did enjoy working on this project it was interesting to see everyone else's projects and ideas.

Video Blog Review

Criticism has been here for many years, it was interesting to see just how many things are criticized in everyday life.  Not only do we have the criticism of music, films,movies and art as stated in the video Critics:Stories from the inside  pages. We as people criticize all the time, look what happens in the real life with people in the media, they even have a show called "Fashion Police". Clement Greenberg said that writing about and criticising art is harder than music, but he really doen't say why. It doesn't seem that some art critics favor Pollack I was getting mixed feelings from each of the videos on how the critics may felt about his work, or I should say they have mixed thoughts.
     I was finding myself criticizing art when going to the art gallery in many forms we learned about, but sometimes I would look at something and wonder WOW why did this painting make it to the gallery or I could of done that. I guess the films relate to the project in ways that we look and take a painting apart whether it is abstract or what expression  if  any is the artist saying.I think being a critic is hard, your tearing things apart at times but I guess that is what it is all about.

Module Project4

This was a great project for me, I enjoyed looking at the different art works in connection to the Civil War.  At first I was not sure how I was going to do it or what to do it on. I guess I did not fully understand what was expected of us.  I was under the impression we were suppose to use one artist, then realized we could use multiple as long as it was in the theme realm.
I even went back to the art gallery to look around again especially at Kara Walker Series.  The other photos of paintings I was able to locate on line.and some were a little harder than others. Unfortuneately I was not able to get the exact years or sizes.