The Last Blog of the Semester (feat. A Response on Brenda Ueland)

Liz Kenny

2D FND 115

Dec. 16, 2009

Brenda Ueland Response

Ueland’s advice throughout the excerpt “Everybody Is Talented, Original and Has Something Important to Say” was very moving, but yet humble sounding and easy to understand at the same time. I actually connected with what she had to say a lot. Along with majoring in art I hope to major or minor in English because I enjoy writing so much. I write short stories and blurbs about passed experiences I’ve had almost like a journal but in more of a story form in order to work out situations and express feelings I otherwise would not let out. The part where she speaks about having a friend who constantly “[wants] to understand more about everything [I] feel and know the changes inside and out” really got to me because my best friend listens to me read my writing aloud to her on a daily basis without criticizing it in any way (8). She purely just wants to listen to me let everything out. I appreciate it so much because having someone to hear what you have to say only encourages you to write more, just as Ueland says throughout the excerpt. I agree with Ueland on every basis she covered, that you need to be free of criticism and that it is important to have someone there who has the right attitude to listen or read your writing to keep you going. Writing is something anyone can do as long as they feel free to say whatever it is that is on their mind, creative and free writing has no limits or rules. Ueland’s opinions on successful writing were dead on and I enjoyed what she had to say throughout “Everybody Is Talented, Original and Has Something Important to Say”.

Absent Image Project Potentials

Analyzing the color relationships in the Generative Process

1.) The original image is made up of split complimentary colors. Red takes up most of the image; however, webs of a blue-green and yellow-green design fill in the middle of the original design. A normal green, red's compliment, fails to show through in this design. There are areas where the design branches out to the outside in a red-violet color that compliments the yellow-green in the center. A triad with red-violet, blue-green, and yellow-orange also appears in the image when the viewer notices the small yellow-orange dots in the very middle of the circular image. There are no neutral colors shown in this image. There are different monochromes of red throughout this image.

2.) The second image shows various color relationships. The red, blue, and yellow circles represent the primary colors and a triad. The split complementary colors yellow-orange, blue, and violet are also depicted in this image. Another set of split complementary colors, yellow-green, violet, and red, is also shown in the center of the circles enclosed in black squares. This image does not show any neutrals and monochrome colors. Complimentary color relationships are shown throughout the image, such as blue and orange, and violet and yellow.

3.) Third image is made up of the analogous colors from yellow green to red violet. Triads, neutrals, complementary, and split complementary colors do not really show. However the image shows the monochromes of green.

Generative Processes, Original and Two Offspring Images

Local Currency Proj Sketches

2D Comic Sketches

Why is minimalism "theater"?

Liz Kenny

2-D FND 115

Nov 1, 2009

Question on Donald Judd

Minimalism is theater because it is purely artwork that is meant to push the limits and categorizing of artwork and art styles. Donald Judd’s pieces are very original. Although at a first look one might want to call them a sculpture, the way his multiple squares and pieces that make up his work as a whole are mounted on the walls remind viewers of paintings. His original style of art entertains the mind by getting his audience to question what style his artwork can be considered. Even though he claims his artwork is in its own definitive category, his work still provokes his artwork’s viewers to think about how they would categorize it, and the reasons why. By denouncing paintings and sculptures so much Judd is able to draw attention to himself and his work. His pieces push artwork into new areas by showing artists that new styles and forms of art are still being created. Judd’s work is so memorable because it entertains the mind and creates its own style for itself, causing his minimalistic work to be considered theatrical.

One can also consider the minimalism artwork of Judd to be theater because his artwork itself puts on, in a way, an act. Judd gives off the impression that his pieces should be categorized into their own art style category when in fact he admits his work resembles sculptures and is nearer to being categorized as a painting. His artwork, although it is three dimensional, is made up of the rectangular planes he negatively talks about throughout Specific Objects in order to dissociate his work from paintings. He also denounces sculptures for their definitive form and sense of singleness when his work of numerous boxes and cubes ends up creating one artwork as a whole also. In a way Judd gives off the impression that he is hypocritical. In fact his work is more similar to paintings and sculptures than he may want to believe, making his theory that his artwork is totally original and must be classified in its own category an act one could refer to as theatrical.

3 Objects with Interesting Shape