Rowe Building: Students' Artworks 2/10/11

Daily class notes

My least favorite artwork was the "yes you can" graphic design/ digital print. The overflow of objects in the artwork made it look crammed and the color scheme was not well chosen. The gridded background didn't add anything to the piece. I think that he could have made the gridded background useful by making
 it smaller as it goes farther from view to give dimension to the piece.


My favorite artwork or artworks were by Sara Catapand (I hope I got her last name right): "Functionally/ Non-functional Clay" and the "Inverted Series". The viewer automatically gets the "wow" expression. The 1st artwork was beautiful and very attention grabbing. The texture of the clay piece was unexpected. You expect to see a smooth textured clay vessel. Yet, her piece had this spikiness that makes you not want to touch it, but admire the technique that was used. The colors (turquoise and golden yellow) were very elegant together. The way the colors were applied to the piece was genius. The turquoise was on the ends of the spikes while the golden yellow was at the roots. Then at the bottom of the clay piece, as the spikes got smaller, the golden yellow was plainly used to signify that something was happening at the bottom. The inverted series were also unique in style: a detailed spiked texture but from the inside. However,  I would rather have her works displayed next to each other rather than separating them.