Andrea rosales
Concentration Statement
This semester I wanted to focus on relationships. I was thinking of relationships as the basic human with human relationship and I ignored everything else. Over the course of the semester I started noticing that there are relationships everywhere. In my art, specifically, paint, color and composition create a relationship with movement. My art this semester is about how a good relationship can create something beautiful and unexpected. You just need to find the right amount of each and keep a balance. You need to figure out to to display it and how to put it down. This semester I decided to be careful with the relationships I was creating through my art and pay more attention than I every have before, these pieces came to me with no struggle or problem and I think that’s how I know these are it.
cicada de mi corazon
Mixed Media
Spring, 2019
Advanced Visual Studies
I see this piece as more of a movement piece. All the elements here are connected and there’s a path that yours eyes follow. It’s the relationship that’s happening between the people and how that relationship is together to make another relationship with the cicadas. This piece is about size and composition. The placement of all the elements make it work together and make our eyes find a way to look at it that satisfies us, or at least it does to me.
cherry hill
Mixed Media
Spring, 2019
Advanced Visual Studies
This piece is all about spaces and color. I used those empty spaces where the paint doesn’t touch the paper to emphasize the part where the color does touch. The part of paint that touches the cherry comes from the tiger and that makes us think about the tiger’s relationship with the cherry. Why is the tiger’s paint touching the cherry but not it's own. I used the color to differentiate “the tiger’s paint” and “the cherry’s paint,” I see it as kind of their power, disattached or unbeknownst to them but still affecting something else. I left the top empty to have a place to rest our eyes from all movement in the paint and the detail in the cutouts.
iguanajuato
Mixed Media
Spring, 2019
Advanced Visual Studies
With this piece I knew I just wanted movement, from the moment I saw that lizard on the page I knew I wanted to make a piece that just kind of breathes. That’s what I was going for anyway, I don’t really think it breathes but I do think there’s a lot of movement that I’m really happy with. Again I kind if see the paint as the animals essence or energy. The colors match and the movement makes sense. I’m really happy with all the stuff that I made this semester but this one is definitely in the top. It just makes me very happy.
let's get this bread
Mixed Media
Spring, 2019
Advanced Visual Studies
Composition and color make the relationship here. Using the colors that are in the birds for their strokes of paint is really effective here. I wanted this piece to be simpler and smaller with the output of those two birds going separate ways. I decided to add the stroke of paint in the paint to really bring everything together and to add more elements to it. I really saw the stroke of paint as kind of their energy or feelings, but it’s whatever it makes you feel with this one, I feel like since the colors match it’s a lot of their essence. This was one of the pieces with the hardest paint mixes, I had a harder time getting the colors right and after I placed the cut outs a lot of the color was hidden under the birds but I figured it out and made it work. Since there wasn’t a lot of space in this one I felt more comfortable with leaving more empty space and really just having that main attraction.