Project 5

Project 4 Critique Form

What ideas did you incorporate into the piece?

I incorporated the idea of a person who volunteered to be a nurse in Africa to help with Ebola. However when the person goes there, he gets infected. Therefore he is brought back to the US and is miraculously cured. After arriving home, the state tells him that he is not allowed to leave for 21 days just in case for a mistake with the doctor's results.

Do you think the piece is successful? Why or why not?
Yes, it shows the whole story clearly. I think that everyone could understand it.

What skills did you learn through working on this piece? How did you employ these
skills in your work?

I learned Photoshop and batching pictures. I also learned how to do a timeline with a frame-rate.

What challenges did you face?
The batching process took a while because I did not save while recording. Also the frame rate was off a little because I forgot to click add sequence.

- Did you find a suitable resolution—if yes, what? If no, what would you change?

Yes I found one by going online to check the problem. It was the batching.

What revisions would your make if you were to do the work a second time?
I would add more pictures in order to make a better frame rate for the video.

Project 4 - Ebola Story

Link to Project 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsJqW1jSm58&feature=youtu.be

Research: Part 1/5 - Nadir Afonso

Nadir Afonso (December 4, 1920 – December 11, 2013) is a Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter. He studied painting in Paris and became one of the pioneers of Kinetic art. His art is based on observation and perception, not imagination. Afonso uses geometry and the bases of perceiving angles and circles into his art. His first piece or art was the painting he drew when he was 4, which was a circle. At that time, he began moving toward observed objects. Afonso started going from an inspiration period to another in 1949. After his period or learning, he moved back to his hometown in order to be isolated and focus in his arts. By his 50s, he was recognized internationally in Paris and New York.

I think that Afonso’s art shows us the feeling of geometry in life. Construction of geometry is always the base of things in everyday life. Trees are a stick and a circle, the building are rectangles, and posters are squares. I think that he influences these kinds of shapes because he likes using perfect shapes and apply it to his art. The feeling of environment show his inspirations of places in the world. There are paintings that show holy sites, buildings, cities, and sunsets.

I think that his art is strong because it makes many people feel like everything is fitting where it belongs. It could also help people with OCD. I would suggest putting more colors and definitely applying a background color because they are almost white all the time. I find the variety of colors in the paintings powerful because it makes each object distinguishable from the other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_Afonso

http://www.mtportalegr e.pt/en/artists/view/19/3

Article Idea Mapped

Nurse -> Africa to fight ebola -> Sick -> back to treatment -> Survives -> test negative -> Governor still doesn’t let her out of her house -> ran away -> pursuit -> Court.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/health/ebola-up-to-speed/index.html?hpt=wo_r1

Tabaimo Response

Tabaimo’s art is quite unique. In my opinion, I think that she is very successful at showing the viewers what she means to communicate with them. Using different kinds of art media enables her to have different varieties in her art, such as the bathroom scene, the buildings, the flowers, and even the music. Tabaimo’s passion for music makes her want to make the music and show it rather than listening to it. Her animation creates the mood of her story, including the mood of color and silence. She connects her arts with her sensation, just like she explained the things under her skin moving.

Tabaimo uses an entire building to show her work, which makes a lot of space for her to acquire. I think that she compares many things and connect them together. For example, she explains that public bathrooms and the Internet are similar because each person has his own private place in a public place. I don’t usually see these kind of artists, but I think that she is very unique because she creates art combined with a story and mood in an animation.

I can say that she is successful because she illustrates what she wants to show, however I have trouble in getting the meaning, and also because some of them make me scared to look at. I think that she should change the music style and the creepiness of chopping up people and sinking babies in the toilet. Other than that it is an excellent form of art.

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