Corn Maze

Corn mazes are another type of public art. I think it's pretty cool how people can design these. It must be really hard though to create the maze itself. I think it'd be cool to go through one of these one day, but I'm sure that I would definitely get lost! I really like the design of the butterfly maze that I've posted.

Titian Exhibit

On Thursday, i went to go see the titian exhibit. Personally, I didn't really like this exhibit. Overall the paintings were really good but their subject matter didn't really appeal to me since it was mostly religious human subjects. But Titian did a really good job on the detail of the people and also with the use of bright colors that stood out. With the gold frame and the red background on the walls at the museum, the paintings looked really good when looking at them from a distance.

Calligraphy

Calligraphy is one form of art. I personally think that it is a really beautiful form of writing, especially when you look at Chinese calligraphy.

Here is a clip of a man writing in Chinese calligraphy. He does it so fast, and it must have taken him many years to master that skill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ghtJolXC8

Art Museums

Here are a few images of different art museums that I found. I thought their designs were very interesting, and that the museums themselves are a art.

My Presentation

I think my presentation went well. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. I was really nervous about presenting, but once I got up there, i was fine. And the time up there went by really fast. My topic was different types of public art thats found on campus and how this creates an identity for who we are as college students. I started off by talking about public art objects that seemed pretty obvious, and then I slowly moved onto other forms that weren't really so obvious, ending with the Tech trolley. When i first took a picture of the trolley, I didn't really think i would be using it as part of this project, cause it didn't seem like it would be considered public art. But then i realized that it was because someone somewhere took the time to design the way it looks. It's not an ordinary bus, and it's available to students throughout campus. It creates an identity for who we are as GT students.

I wasn't really sure what my theme was going to be either. But as i took pictures around campus, i realized that we have a variety of public art here and how it's really an important part of this college campus.

Overview

Overview of the visual essay project:

I really enjoyed working on this project. Why? well one of the reasons i would say is becuase i like to take pictures. And i've noticed now, that when i've been driving around town, and i see some statue or waterfall- i'm like hey, that's public art. I guess i never really realized how much public art means to our society.

I also liked some people's topics they chose, including just focusing on benches, street lamps, or even stairs. It never really occurred to me that benches or street lamps or even stairs could be considered as public art. But I now have realized that not only are those things considered to be part of public art, but many other things as well.

I think that everyone did a great job on their presentations. I thought that a lot of people would have the same images, or even the same topics, but even if they had the same images (which weren't as many as i thought there would be), they would be taken from a different perspective or that person's topic was different. So essentially, the same object was part of two different areas of public art.

Wrapped Reichstag

In class this week, we were shown some public art that Christo and Jeanne Claude have done. I found it really interesting how they art is on a very large scale basis. For example, they put up orange fabric throughout Central Park. In Berlin, they covered the entire Reichstag building with fabric. The Reichstag was only covered up for 14 days. I really like the birds eye view of the reichstag.