Monday, May 9, 2011
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
5A. Reimagining Visual Framing
This is Salvador Dali's "Metamorphosis of Narcissus." I knew I wanted to use one of his pictures because he is one of my favorite artists, He gives me a lot of inspiration with the music I write.
To compare these two images obviously that are both the same thing but one is a zoomed in part of the flower coming out of the egg. The part of the real picture I want to point out is the reflection of the hand on the water side. If you don't know the story of the mythical person Narcissus, He was a very beautiful person and everyone wanted him. One day he walked up to a lake and saw his reflection and fell in love with it. He eventually died because he never moved. He was fixated on the reflection he was in love with. And Metamorphosis is a collection of books tell of ancient stories about mythical people.
For me the flower is a very import part of of the painting. It is the only thing that is growing/not dieing in the painting. I think it represents rebirth and finding new beauty and not focusing on your own, this painting is so famous because of all of the things it stands for. Every little part has a meaning. Mostly about life.
To Contrast, If I just looked at the zoomed in egg I would think of happiness and the happiness of new life but if you look at the whole painting that it is more than that. I mirrored part of the image shows death and what narcissism gives you. Either way you look at it, this painting is a beautiful way to show the problems with humanity and our self-absorbed way we only think about ourselves.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Brianwashed
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The two most important layers in my life are "the Lizard" and "Ship". I believe I have both of these problems that I must overcome to do what I want to do in life.
The Lizard strikes your mind telling you that you can't do it, you wont ever be good enough, they will laugh at you. NO ONES LAUGHING! It's all in my head. I need to keep my mind set on my future and remember how far I have came but also remember how far I need to go. Its going to take a long time but I can do it. Stay focused and don't fall into The Lizards game.
Ship, I am always frightened to show people my expressive art. I keep it all by myself and never let it be shown. Why? I don't know, maybe its The Lizard. But to get anywhere I need to ship. I need to be will to show everyone my art. I'm not afraid of laughter, it takes a lot to embarrass me but my art is my soul so I have to stand by it.
With this blog I have been making I can see how this makes these things go away. I can put all of my art on here for everyone to see. Slowly I'm becoming the shipper. The Lizards not telling me that people are going to make fun of me because as this is a class everyone has to do this. But wether or not I am putting my art on here, my words, my emotions, my viewpoints on life. Do I like it? Yes. I want to venture out and show everyone my work, I want the world to know the music of Joshua Powell. As a music composition major there is always so many people around me telling me my work isn't like everyone else's and they don't get. But those are professors, do they truly know the now when I ask my friends and they love it.
The Lizard strikes your mind telling you that you can't do it, you wont ever be good enough, they will laugh at you. NO ONES LAUGHING! It's all in my head. I need to keep my mind set on my future and remember how far I have came but also remember how far I need to go. Its going to take a long time but I can do it. Stay focused and don't fall into The Lizards game.
Ship, I am always frightened to show people my expressive art. I keep it all by myself and never let it be shown. Why? I don't know, maybe its The Lizard. But to get anywhere I need to ship. I need to be will to show everyone my art. I'm not afraid of laughter, it takes a lot to embarrass me but my art is my soul so I have to stand by it.
With this blog I have been making I can see how this makes these things go away. I can put all of my art on here for everyone to see. Slowly I'm becoming the shipper. The Lizards not telling me that people are going to make fun of me because as this is a class everyone has to do this. But wether or not I am putting my art on here, my words, my emotions, my viewpoints on life. Do I like it? Yes. I want to venture out and show everyone my work, I want the world to know the music of Joshua Powell. As a music composition major there is always so many people around me telling me my work isn't like everyone else's and they don't get. But those are professors, do they truly know the now when I ask my friends and they love it.
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