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Color Studies- Max – Eric

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In the book, In the World of Perception, Maurice discovers that there’s a distinction between outline and color that classical artists drew the shape of the objects first and then filling them with colors. This makes me rethink about my way of creating all the above works. For me, it is color comes first. I would first decide what color to use and imagine what kinds of spatial form would best express this color and my thoughts. Maurice then brought up ideas of Cezanne that, “the object’s shape, its particular color, its physiognomy and its relation to neighboring objects,” all come together. True. In my contemporary art history class, when I wrote about the painting of Cezanne, the colors and the arrangements of objects in his works are often quite bold and sometimes do not make sense, but full of vividity, which is brilliant. Maurice concluded that our perceptions of artworks are not given but “emerges over time.” In general, Maurice argues from the aspects of science, painting,  and philosophy that people’s perception has changed from classical to modern ones that we are more perceiving the world as a whole rather than separately. In addition, Maurice talks about the spirit is another thing, that we could not see it, but to feel and reflect on them. Other thoughts Maurice talks about include that mind and body are distinct but at the same time united closely with each other.  In the end, Maurice claims that it is impossible to separate things from their way of appearing. 

As for my assignments, I feel totally different from making physical color studies to the digital ones. I made assignment one because I love the color orange; however, it is more of a test.  Assignment two is inspired by artist Etel Aden when I visited one of her shows in Serpentine Gallery in 2016 summer. Etel’s work explores the assembly of colors, which is very inspiring seeing how different colors were arranged accordingly in one painting. 

As for the digital work 3,4,5, I found it rather challenging for me, cause I am not that familiar with digital languages. And I perceive digital color, which situated in the color bar slower. I feel less connected with them, and therefore, especially work 3 and 4 totally come from experimentations. Assignment 5 is inspired by one of my favorite Korean artists Lee Ufan. He works with monochrome and tries to express the zen idea through his painting with mere brush strokes. And I made this work also in the idea of achieving the minimalist sense.  

 
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Week2-Respond_to_Understanding-Comics(Clover)

  When I read McCloud’s Understanding Comic, it really expanded my understanding of comics. In chapter one, I was really fascinated with the definition of comics. Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, conveying information to produce the visual or sound response in the viewer. Maybe that’s why we love comic so much. Using simple words to stimulate the senses of the readers. After reading this, I thought of a great comic book I read before. It is Father and Son. This book using simple words or even no word to convey its information. Just by the small changes of the character’s facial expression, we got the what emotion or attitude the writer what to convey. Maybe that’s why we love comic so much, simple but impressive.

  Another word attracted me is the word icon. Before I read this book, I thought that icon is used only to describe people. But after I read this I found that icon can be used to represent many other things. Also, I was surprised to find that our lives are full of icons, it has already become a part of our lives. I even imagine in our future we can see the 3D icon in our daily life, walking on the street and be part of our community.

  In chapter three what impresses me most is the word the concept of closure, the “phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole”. This makes me rethink the space between the comic. I found that the space is really important. It can let readers further think what the writer wants to convey in the former picture and have got a clearer understanding of the next picture. This chapter also made me think that also the comic is really simple, every detail does count a lot. Small changes in one picture may result in a completely different feeling of the readers.

  I was also deeply fascinated by chapter four. By reading this I understand why word balloons are used in comic. Although our eyes view the panel as a snapshot of a single moment in time, the conversation depicted in the word balloons makes it clear that the events occur over several moments. So although the cartoon is flat, it can still give people a sense of space and time. Also together with the sound effect added to the duration of a panel which strengthens the reader’s feelings. 

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Week 2: CSS exercise – Ruby Kim (Moon)

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~sk7383/week02/css-float-n-flex/index.html

Screenshot of the webpage

In this project, the task was to create a webpage with style by utilizing CSS.

The first problem that I encountered was setting the ‘footer’ to the center of the page, which I tried to manage it by altering the margin and width of the box. Even though it was possible to locate the footer in the right place, but the correct solution was using a ‘text-align: center;’. Also, I learned that the ‘margin’ is not independent, but rather it is referring to the margins between the elements. 

However, coding the ‘content’ and ‘content-box’ was the most challenging part of this project. While trying all the ‘flex’ codes, I still could not figure out the way to set an equal margin for the boxes. And also was not sure if I should employ ‘float: right;’, yet it was the final method that I could choose.  

In addition, by utilizing Google Fonts and Adobe websites, I changed the fonts and the overall color of the webpage. Especially regarding the colors, rather than merely inserting the name of the color (e.g. light gray, white, black) I searched up for the HEX code in order to provide a more detailed illustration.

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Response to Payne – Jennifer Cheung

Payne’s article is an extremely revealing account of garments’ life from start to finish. Each section is easily readable and goes through each distinct stage of garments’ production and usage. She lays out current harmful practices within each stage along with suggestions of how manufacturers and designers can make conscious decisions to mitigate these negative impacts.  Further, connections made to Australia’s textile industry show how these problems can be combated on a more local level as well as give insight to how they are making progressive movements towards more sustainable practices. 

Usually when shopping previously, the only factors I paid attention to were style and price point. I never thought of what it took to get a garment onto the shelf, or of the consequences my own treatment of clothes had on the environment. Payne’s article has changed this mentality, since now I know that with each step of garment creation, there are negative effects. With this in mind, I am more conscious of how people’s excessive consumer habits perpetuate the harmful cycle of waste and simply drain our wallets unnecessarily. I now know that thrifting not only is a current trend that provides a more unique touch to people’s closets, but also is an integral part of sustainability that gives new life to worn garments. 

Within these stages there may also be contradictions of how to maintain sustainability. Quality and comfortable materials will allow for longer lifespans, decreasing the amount of material waste, but these materials may require large amounts of water to produce. Sustainable disposal of unworn clothes can be achieved with compostable materials, but how will these last for long periods of time without the consumer needing to buy replacements? Additionally, ethical working conditions are imperative for the progression of sustainability, but the high price tags may deter customers without enough purchasing power and push them further to fast fashion companies who can provide the same style for cheaper. Finally, classical designs definitely make clothes less likely to be quickly thrown out, but these universal styles may make it difficult for people to uniquely express themselves and stand out in a trend-central society.

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Week 3: Understanding Comics [Ta-Ruedee Pholpipattanaphong (Ploy)]

“Understanding Comics” is not so much like a typical comic book that aims to entertain. Whereas, “Understanding Comics” is informative and “sort of a comic book about comics!” (McCloud 6). Before reading this, I have never touched a comic book before even though I have seen them lying in my brother’s room. The reason why I do not read them is just how McCloud describes – as comics have the stereotypes that are less useful compared to the actual book or novel. I was totally wrong as I am currently so surprised by how complex it is to compose a comic book.  

Since it was my first time in a comic book, I definitely see the differences between a book and a comic. it seems very interesting to see the different logical order of reading comics. I like how there are images everywhere. Sometimes I do catch myself off guard looking at these images rather than reading. Lastly, I feel like comics are very powerful as it does not fit a certain standard or ways of writing. I like how it is less formal but effective in sending the message to the audience. For instance, the bolding or some words, the capitalization of specific phrases, and unique borders which add to create a new emotion to the readers.  It ultimately gave room for the audience to make their own interpretations. 

I ultimately like how McCloud puts it out that “it should be kept in mind at all times that this world is only one — (start a new panel) — of many possible worlds”(23). It emphasizes how we shouldn’t limit ourselves to one single aspect because it does not cover everything. It is interesting to see that comics are everywhere – even in Egyptian hieroglyphs. Moreover, throughout the chapters, he seems to be revisiting the idea that “our attempts to define comics are an on-going process which won’t end any time soon” (McCloud 23).