Part One & Twooo (MIAD)

This sculpture I saw looked so cool! The artist of this piece is Mark Horton. As i was looking at this sculpure, it appeared so strange to me, yet so cool. Instead of taking a picture of this from a front view, I decided to take a picture from a different perspective... I took it from the top! I love how the picture turned out, it has good quality and makes you think what it really is. I noticed in this piece there was obviously shape and a great use of texture. Even though i was not allowed to touch the pieces, you could tell the glossiness of this sculpure and the smoothness of it. The one least effective part of this piece is the lack of color, if there were other colors in here besides red, it would have more to say.

When my class and I entered this gallery, this piece blew my mind! Mark Horton, the artist of this piece is a realist. In his art he creates places that are not real. Only one of his pieces did he use a real place and mix it into his piece. You can see Unity here because of the buildings contrasting eachother and unity that its just one city together. You can also see movement in the cars on the road and it actually feels real, the cars are really moving in this piece. The thing i loved most was the detail of each individual building and the colors mark used. One thing that I disliked was the shadow of the orange building close to us, I think that couldve used some work but it still looks good!

With this piece in the MIAD hallway gallery, it appeared very strange to me. A old womens head in a baby carage? what? What I infered from this piece is a old women trapped in a young persons life. The women looks scared and trapped. It also reminds me of the movie, Benjamin Button. An old man is born at age 80 and has the traits of a baby but not the face, its old and wrinkly. The elements of design I saw in this piece is repetition, movement and line. The repetition of this piece is the way the artist repeated her design. There is line after line in this piece and you notice the repetition in each part of it. The hair of the women, the carrage, and the top of the carrage. Line is obviouslly used alot in this piece, every area has its own part where the lines are perfectly straight. I love that you can notice line in the wrinkles too, You see movement because I get the feel that the women is breathing but just barely, she looks as if shes stuck and needs to get some air.





In front of the Mark Horton Gallery, I shot a picture of this flower. I thought the quality of my point shoot camera did a fantastic job shooting this. What drew me to this flower was mainly the color and the light that was hitting it. I love how the woodchips on the bottom has a blur to it and it has the flower in focus. I've actually never seen a flower like this before but i've definetly seen a similar one. 

I shot this picture in the painting studio of MIAD. I love how old fashioned and crummy this place looks. The walls are loosing its paint and the ceiling looks rusty. This shot is interesting because of the design of the place. I love pictures from old times and things that look worn out.  I've never seen a place exactly like this nor at a college studio, but this makes this college unique. What this room reminds me of is a room in an actual house... like an attic. 






When I shot this photo we were walking to the galleries. This shot was interesting to me because of the perspective I shot it at (shooting up) and how the building and light post contrast each other. I think buildings like this around the MIAD campus is what makes this place so interesting. Usually campus's look "expensive" and super nice but this place is so chill and homelike. I love that there are so many alleys here and how interesting the work is around there. I've seen many places like this especially in Rexburg Idaho. I shot my senior pictures in alleys that looked very similar to the alleys on MIAD campus.