What I've Learned from Art

It is amazing the amount that I have learned this semester in the world of art. I have always found my likings to have a right or a wrong. In art there are no wrong answers or right answers. You don’t have to be perfect to be viewed as a great artist, a creator of thought and adventure. When I fist started in this class I didn’t know what to expect. I can now appreciate art the way that the art was created. The amount of terms that I learned was fun and allowed me to sound somewhat like I know what I am talking about when I critique an art piece but learning about color and line I think was my favorite.
Lines are every where and each line in or out of the environment or in a painting represent something more. A simple line can represent emotions or lack of emotions; it can represent boundaries and borders; it can be representing sharply and gently. One single line or multiple lines can each be put together to build more or take it away to be more simplistic.
Colors are a very complex when applied to describing emotion. Each color has a separate emotional meaning or feeling. It can provoke intensity and calmness. Color is what adds the life to lines. There are so many combinations of colors that it can change the value or hue of any primary color and the greatest thing is that there are only three primary colors.
There are so many other things that I have learned this class. I really enjoyed the way that this class was taught. This has been the first time that I have ever kept up a blog site. I found it to be an art creation in itself. I also learned a lot about myself and what I like in art and what I don’t like in art. I found out that colors and lines are what I appreciate the most in an art piece. I like the warmer complementary colors used in painting as well as more of a representational to abstract types of paintings. These things I wouldn’t have never know about myself if it weren’t’ for this class. My husband and I are also going to take an art class together to increase our knowledge on how these lines and colors can be displayed creatively.
The artists that I have learned about were all different and there are a few that I will take with me as ones I will follow. For example, Ron Mueck is a great artist and represents reality, expression and provokes thought. I would love to visit one of his original pieces and track his work. We learned about this arties in visual reflection week. Another artist that I will follow will be Steve Hanks that I researched in My Favorite painting week. There are other artists that I found attracted to artistically like, Leonardo da Vinci, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt and Andy Warhol. I will continue to study art.