Revised Eames Cards Design

His Pet: 60 pounds

                                                      Her pet: 1 pound

His towel

Her towel

Eames Card Ideas

My idea for my eames card design is his/hers. Its a pretty standard idea. I thought it was pretty ingenious because however unintentional women and men are exact opposites in many ways and unfortunately have different (opposite) views on virtually everything simply based on emotion and skills they learned growing up based on gender boys play with tools and girls play with barbies.

So I think my theme will be Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus

 My pictures will consist of

1. His towel and her towel
2. His pet and her pet
3. His chair and her chair
4. His idea and her idea
5. him and her

 

November Art Rush

 

The first gallery I attended was at the Stiefel Theatre. I saw two interesting peices there. The first was a painting that has what looked like a snake charmer surrounded by sheep with a wolf "dressed in sheeps clothing" and sunglasses. It made me laugh. The second was a wonderful water color with flowers. The flowers were pink and purple with naturally green leaves and grass, but there was a splash of blue on the painting.  I then went to the ETC Boutique which was featuring Tom Dorsey's photography. I was personally very excited to get to this one because it was strictly featuring photography. I was very impressed with his work. The photos he had were all black and white, and were taken with a Holga. I learned that a Holga is a Russian toy camera, in order to use one you have to actually tape it up in order to keep the light out. The last stop I made was at the Studio B, they had multiple booths with many different types of art from doll houses to paintings. Two of the paintings grabbed my attention. The first reminded me of that terrible movie The Ring, the second made me think of the calm after a storm. Both had a very angry feel to them.

While I was at the Art Rush I felt very out place, yet I was still excited because I haven't been to anything like it before so I was looking forward to a new experience. The smell of Studio B sticks out in my mind the most because it smelled like art, a mixture of paint and wood. I tasted dry bread and red wine, and heard the noise of people socializing.

Chapter 16

Art Deco

Art deco begin in France around 1920. Art Deco comes from the name of a French art exhibition called "Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes." Art Deco exploded internationally and lasted through WWI when it gradually became less popular after the stock market crashed in 1929, but it was not forgotten. Until 1968 Art Deco was truely considered modernism, but Bevis Hillier wrote a book entitled, "Art Deco of the 20's and 30's" it was because of this book that Art Deco actually became what the style movement was called.

The art deco movement had influence on almost every form of art there was; painting, architecture, furniture, clothing,  hair pieces, purses,  graphic design, and interior design. Art deco is different from it's counterparts because it's not just beautiful or functional, but is beautiful and functional. I believe a great example of art deco in todays society would be the ihome, with it's sleek beautiful design and full functionality.

I like the Art Deco style because of impression it gives me. When I see Art Deco I think class, harmony, it's beauty is seductive and lures you to look longer, it encourages you to feel what you see not just understand it. In my opinion this would be a useful style to design a website because it's wide range of popularity and also the lure to be inspected it gives people. Art Deco is saturated with seduction.

Some ideas that style can convey are; time, emotions, high tech, fashionable, and age. Tools used to make a design can influence the style by making them look as though they came from a different era, or a specific style that the designer wants to get across.

Who the *%$# is Jackson Pollock?

Who the *%$# is Teri Horton?

 

Teri Horton's Jackson pollock is located in Toronto, Canada still for sale, she is asking $50 million dollars. Teri has been offered $9 million, but she turned it down flat, without regret. In the movie Teri Horton and Jackson Pollock's personalities were compared because Teri refuses to sell her Jackson Pollock for less than it's worth. While Pollock was alive he showed the same stubborn personality. Pollock would have rather been a, "starving artist" than sell his work for less than he personally thought it was worth. They both stand firm in the decision they made. In this movie the experts would try to influence your thinking by saying, "I'm an expert, she is not." They would try to discredit Teri by pin pointing that she only has an eighth grade education, and they still are trying to discredit her. I read many online article's from the experts trying to discredit her and all the people she's hired as well. I read online that along with all the evidence that they found on the painting and in Jackson Pollocks studio they have also found that Jackson Pollocks brother may have lived in San Bernardino, California.      

I believe Teri Horton's painting is a Jackson Pollock. While I watched the movie I would feel a certain amount of anger because all the evidence is in favor of Teri Horton yet, the "experts" still will not accept it. I believe they have their own reasons for not accepting her painting, and that they are more based on personal feelings than on professionalism. I think that many of the experts will not except this painting based on principle, the same reason Teri wont sell her painting. I believe that they feel as though Teri has went out of her way to embarrass and discredit them. To be an expert and say, "No, this is not..." and then have hard facts thrown in your face that say, "Yes, this is..." was probably very humiliating.  I believe that and social class is the reason they wont except Teri's Jackson Pollock.

I've read multiple articles stating that Teri Horton is just some poor old woman who wants to get more than she should receive. Personally, I don't think so. Teri was a truck driver that owned her truck and her trailer home. A decent used semi truck sells for about $60,000, anybody would have a hard time convincing me that Teri was poor, even if she does live in a mobile home. It would be wasteful for her to own a $100,000 house when she most likely spent most of her time away from there. She also lived a very humble life shopping at thrift stores and dumpster diving to save money on the things she didn't feel like she wanted to pay so much for so she would be able to pay more for the things she felt was worth it If anything I think Teri was just a regular middle class person. She wasn't afraid of hard work or a little grease, nobody who "Rolls with a flatbed" is. I know personally that drivers that haul flatbeds do a lot of hard work, and Teri was 70 years old doing this kind of work. I think that last thing Teri Horton is looking for is a free ride, or trying to get more than she deserves. Teri found the pot of gold at the end of her rainbow, and I congratulate her for that and hope she continues to live a very fulling life.