Art has a voice...

Jamie White

"Art is not what you see,

but what you make others see."

Edgar Degas

    

     "Art has a voice and a voice should say something worth saying; art should contribute meaning and value to the culture and not merely participate in the process..." thus ended the final Art History lecture this week. Soon the brushes will rest for the Summer. 

Here are a few year-end pieces that have something to say:

R J Villoresi

Jack Radford

Mechal Harward

Serigraph

Jacob Byrom

CONGRATULATIONS

to Mechal Harward

An original oil painting by Mechal is hanging in

Mugs Coffee,

an excellent cafe, located at

5126 Park Road

Be sure to stop in for coffee

(and tell the Manager they have good taste in art!)

Students in the photography classes have been busy

with stop motion videos.

Here are the finished works so far:

Sail from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
Photo Comic from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
Hello from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
Sara's Gift from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
The Proposal from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
The Moving Screws from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
Phone Race from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
Dancing Chairs from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
Noah's Shirts from Good Day on Vimeo.



 
Reliant Stadium from Good Day on Vimeo.




2 guys and a chair from Good Day on Vimeo.

Art is everywhere...

Stretched Screen
Austin Nichols

"Art is everywhere,
except it has to pass through
a creative mind."
Louise Nevelson

The Trinity Art Blog has been viewed in
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and this is post #101!

     Life is about deadlines... one of the ironies of art; only in art does an execution bring life. Of course, no one enjoys deadlines, and there are in my mind four categories of people-

     1. Those who finish early

     2. Those who finish on time

     3. Those who finish late

     4. Those who do not finish

So, one of my tasks as an educator is to help students understand there is an appointed time to finish, because the 'finishing of something' speaks to our integrity.

Here are a few examples of those who finished this week:

Oil on Canvas

Mechal Harward

Graphite and Marker

Rachel Levi

Watercolor
Austin Carpenter

Serigraph on t-shirt
3rd State
Jack Radford

Serigraph
Jacob Byrom

Watercolor
Rachel Levi

Three of our students are working on a mural for a nearby lower school.

Mural Project

The photography classes have been working on stop motion and short videos. Here are a few examples:


First Period from Good Day on Vimeo.




Far Away from Good Day on Vimeo.
by Aaron McPeak




And They're Off from Good Day on Vimeo.
by Ben House




Chairs Attack from Good Day on Vimeo.
by Matthew Mallon




That Sinking Feeling from Good Day on Vimeo.
by Alexander Jones




Shoeless in Charlotte from Good Day on Vimeo.
by Will Vogel



... and a couple from Mr. Carter-


Art Is... from Good Day on Vimeo.


 
Yet Another Good Day from Good Day on Vimeo.



And here is the world's smallest stop motion from IBM-

 

the Creative act

"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone;

the spectator brings the work in contact with

the external world by deciphering & interpreting its

inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution

to the creative act."

Marcel Duchamp

April 1957

Austin Carpenter

Collagraphs

Ben Engel

Ella Rosenberg

Eric Loytty

Hannah Hatton

Jack Radford

Jacob Dudzik

John Chirchirillo

Nick Miller

Ryan Horton

Scott Walker

Will Silvers

Zach Cassady

Etching

Will Silvers

Davis Martinec


Watercolor

Emma Carter







Here is a sample of this week's Photo Essay Assignment:

To view Sara Cazorla's Photo Essay,
click here.

A Photo Essay by William Vogel

NYC Photo Essay by Isaac Catchatoorian from Good Day on Vimeo.


And finally, an interesting look into how we view ourselves:

Real Beauty Sketches from John X. Carey on Vimeo.

Cyanotype Collages and Marbleized Paper

Rembrandt van Rijn
Self Portrait

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

A recap:

Thursday's lecture involved the work of Rembrandt van Rijn. The printmaking classes are finishing screen prints. The photo classes printed cyanotypes from original collages (click here for a previous post that explains the chemistry of the cyanotype process). The sculpture class is making books.

Here are a few cyanotype prints:

Ben Engel

John Chirchirillo

Daniel Smith

Ian Fisher

Emma Carter

Jack Radford

Jason Lu

Hannah Hatton

Connor Phillips



And, a drawing from Rachel Levi

This week, two of the Art Timeline Mural panels were installed.
Here is the timeline plan-

Davis Martinec

Mechal Harward

Seventh Period is working on handmade books.
Monday we marbleized paper for the end sheets.

One more thing...
Last year we introduced the official Trinity Art T-shirt.
This week we've pulled the screen from the vault and,
once again, are making the following offer:

Bring in a t-shirt, hoodie, or other article of clothing
and Mr. Carter will print the Trinity Art Logo on it for you-

NO CHARGE!

Emma models a sample

Our Marbleizing 'How To' video-

Marbleizing from Good Day on Vimeo.

A Matter of Excellence

Golden Sea

Makoto Fujimura

2012

Mineral Pigments and Gold on kumohada over canvas

80" x 64"

"It doesn't have an intensity that loudly calls people's attention but it has a beauty that resonates slowly and deeply. I think that this way to think about beauty is going to become more and more needed in our world today."

Norihiko Saito

Artist, Professor of Nihonga and Teacher to Makoto Fujimura

     The hope of every teacher is this- something is imparted to the student that was not there before. The teaching of art provides a plethora of opportunities for this hope to be realized (in spite of James Elkins position that art cannot be taught). This past week we discussed the notion of excellence in art as we watched a video about Makoto Fujimura, an artist whose work exudes excellence. In addition to being a painter, Makoto Fujimura is an international speaker and author. Regarding art, he says,

" It does not have to do with whether you can buy and sell the work, it has to do with who you are and what you're built to do and how honestly you can depict those things to point to the future, and when artists are not able to do that the entire culture suffers."

     One of the somethings I hope to impart to my students is a better understanding of excellence. Here are a few endeavors from this past week: 

Etchings

Collagraphs

Pinhole Photographs

And, here is the video: