Artist's Reflection

Leonardo Da Vinci

Hyman Bloom

During Leonardo Da Vinci's time, the Vitruvian was able to translate the proportions of a male human body. The person who owns the Vitruvian is unwilling to give up this piece of artwork that was drawn by Da Vinci. Unless the person who wanted to loan it was willing to give that person two paintings painted by Raphael in return, the person who owns the Vitruvian won't lend it to the person who wanted to loan it. I feel like this is fair because if you are willing to loan it to someone else, they should give you back something in return until you both get back the item that rightfully belongs to you.

In Hyman Bloom's art work, it is horrifying because of all of the brutal looking images he painted, but he puts in such detail that it can be sort of breath taking. His use to color can make the painting stand out and catch your eye. I don't think that I can make art work like Hyman's because I do not have much knowledge of the human anatomy, and I do not really like to draw horrifying images. Maybe for this type of art paint and some pencil/ charcoal will be good to make similar effects that Hyman painted.

Waltham Mills Studio

I am inspired by Emily Glimp's artwork because she experiments with metal, which put her to perspective about the characteristics and the limits of metal. She is able to look at the metal in a different angle. I like that fact that she like to look at the metal from different angles to be able to understand it. if I were to meet her, I would ask her how she is able to understand something I don't

Arther Hardigg's artwork inspires me because he is able to draw a number of people and make them seem like they are the big scenery. The way tat he is able to make people look like they are a drawing of a room amazes me. I would like to ask him how he is able to make people blend in so that it would look like their shape creates a different object or scene.

Glass Blowing

Glass blowing originated Lebanon, Israel, and Palestine in the Eastern Romana Empire. During the Middle Ages, glass blowing in Venice became became the center of glass making. Soon the glass blowing disease decided to move to Murano. The glass was so clear there that the people there decided to find some glassblowing employes. They used the Mould-blowing technique for the glass blowing. Then eventually the glass blowing disease spread to China, Japan, and the Islamic Islands and they started to follow the technique that Murano was using. The Syrians invented the blowpipe, and then Bakewell found out a way to mechanically flattened hot glass. After the 1890’s, the manufacturing and development of glass increase really fast. Then Michael Owens had a brilliant idea of creating an automatic glass blowing machine, so then it produces thousands of light bulbs a day. 90% of the flat glass is still manufactured at Sir Alastair Pilkington’s late 1950’s float glass production methods.Glass blowers can be known as a glassmith or a gaffer. Also, glass blowing includes inflating some molten glass into a bubble, using a blowpipe of a blow tube. The major tools that are used in glassblowing are the blow pipe, a punty, bench, marver, jacks, blocks, paddles, tweezers, paper, and finally a variety of shears. Eventually the glass blowing techniques would change. Ancient glass workers used clay poles because nobody knew how to make it out of metal yet. Free-blowing and mold-blowing were the main types of glass blowing. Mold blowing is an alternate glass blowing technique, which was created after the invention of free blowing. The tools and techniques have barely changed throughout the decades. Glass blowing has been passed down from father to son, master to apprentice. It has been around 2000 years now, and it has gone through many different transformations. Today, it’s one of the finest pieces of artwork that’s ever been produced. Cite: http://www.historyofglass.com/glass-history/glass-blowing-history/
Dale Chihuly: Dale Chihuly was born on September 20th, 1941. He’s from Tacoma, Washington. His older, and only brother, George had died in a Navy training accident, and his father passed away at the age of 52 from a heart attack.Dale Chihuly had no interest in formal education after graduating from high school, but his mother was insisting and urging him to continue. He enrolled in the College of Puget Sound then went to the University of Washington, and studied interior designing. Once he lost interest in his studies, he later traveled to the Middle East, and met an architect there. When they had a meeting and his time abroad, Chihuly decided to go back to his studies. In 1963, he took a weaving class, and learned to embroider glass into the tapestries. He received an award for weaving, and graduated from the University of Washington in 1965. At the University of Wisconsin, he studied glass blowing, and even a full scholarship in it. He received a Master of Science degree in sculpture, a Master of Fine Arts degree, and was awarded with the Comfort Tiffany Foundation as well as the Fulbright Fellowship. Chihuly traveled to Venice where he first saw the team approach glass blowing. Coming back to the United States, he right away spend four consecutive summers teaching glass blowing at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. He was able to cofund the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington, and the Hilltop Artists program in Tacoma. In 1976, Chihuly was in a severe car accident, where the windshield glass severely cut up his face, and he lost sight in his left eye. After recovering, he still continued to glass blowing, until he dislocated his shoulder from doing so. He hired workers to do the work. From then on, he was like a supervisor and a director. Cite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Chihuly

The Human Body

Brain

The brain is what makes the rest of our body move. It sends down a pulse through the motor neurons in the spinal chord, then that impulse goes out to the muscles through a thin extension called an axon. The brain is also where we are able to learn new things, to be able to think, to want to do the actions we do, and the brain is also able to store memories in it.

Liver

The liver is a really important part of our body. It is able to make bile, which is a yellow-ish green substance that helps absorb the fats in the food we eat. The liver is also able to produce energy to the body. It also breaks down old or broken down red blood cells, making it into a waste product.

Kidney

The kidney is the function in our bodies which help create urine. It helps to get rid of the extra water, salt, and other minerals that aren't needed in our bodies. The kidneys also are able to clean the red blood cells. They are the ones that control how much salt is in our blood, how much blood pressure there is, and the balance of acids in our blood.

Lungs

The lungs are the organs that help us to breath. When we breath in, we are breathing in oxygen. When we breath in oxygen, the oxygen is then sent to the alveoli so then the blood cells with carbon dioxide in them can trade out the carbon dioxide for the oxygen. When we are breathing out, we are breathing out carbon dioxide.

Native American Street Artists

Native Americans across the US are making art around many different places as a sign or a stand for something. They have "Indians Alleys", which are rare, but consist of many concentrated art pieces. they usually paint/ draw many things that relate to their heritage. Their art is also used as a sign of a protest of certain things that are bothering the Native American land. They are doing their best to help their people and try to improve their society to make it better. In my community, I would make art to help make the community more beautiful, and make it mean something that everybody shares.