Studying Nighthawks

Nighthawks-1942

By Edward Hopper an America artists

The painting is very detailed. I see a man and a women sitting at a bar with one other women. There is also a bartender and a street. The painting is very balanced because of the colors chosen. 

Edward Hopper is an American artist who lived in cape cod during the 1930's and 40's. He was a very famous and talented artist who married a model. He made the painting Nighthawks to resemble a restaurant. The painting is really about three customers all alone in the bar feeling lonely. 

He puts Emphasis on the yellow door on the back by making it a bright color on top of a dull color. He balances the picture well by focusing on the people on one side but also using a bright color to even the balance out on the other side. There is no rhythm or movement.

Finding Images That are Balanced

The Artists Habitat

An artist is someone who expresses anything thinkable through a visual, or hearable representation. An artist is someone who can express them selves and describe something in many different ways. Being creative means being able to think about everything in two ways, and being able to see what others don't see at first. 

Giving Up Control: POURS

To make a pour painting you had two pick several colors of paint pour them onto a blank sheet of paper and tilt the paper to move the paint around. It felt weird and somewhat frustrating to do something where I had almost no control. Surprisingly enough, the paintings in the end turned out beautiful and the only way could could have their unique beauty was by letting go of control and leaving it up to physics. The paintings were very good because the paterns and shapes and mixed colors, could not have been accomplished if there was control in what you wanted the outcome to look like. 

Revisiting My Pour Panting

1. Man with sun glasses
2. Monster with an open mouth
3. Devil faced human
4. Robed man
5. Animal slepping

Revisiting Observation/Description Activity

The parts of the painting that looked like the original were the one that described the layer and clearly stated the relativity to other objects in it. Describing what the general shape was and not the details worked very well. To many times the paintings were off because people focused on the details and not the key points. Describing size relative to the actual sheet of paper was also helpful. When people draw shapes inside shapes, and when people focused on detail the drawings became to confusing and it made the drawer feel disoriented in terms of shape and space in the drawing. If I were to do the activity again I would focus on color and general shapes in space more. 

Reflecting on The First Week

This week we did three activities, the collaborative drawings, the pour paintings, and the mapping the still life drawing. All of these three activities required us to be able to work out of our comfort zone, we had to cope with change and we had to work without control of the outcome. In the collaborative drawings we had to let other people draw in our drawing and let them take it in any direction. To do this assignment properly we had to work out of our comfort zone by having someone else do what ever they wanted to something we worked hard on, we had to cope with the changes our peers made and we had work knowing we had know control of the out come of what it would look like. In the pour paintings we had to work out of comfort zone because we had to give up control, we had to cope with change because the painting was constantly mixing and moving, and we had to somewhat work without having control of the outcome because of how the paint would hit the paper, how it would mix and how it would dry. In the mapping still life activity we had to utilize these three skills to the best of our ability. It was out of our comfort zone to have someone else controlling the change in our drawing and having to add and take away objects. For this same reason we also had to cope with change and be prepared to give up control of the outcome.