Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I saw this event on Tuesday March 24, 2009. The title of the show is Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kristina Wong. She talks about the issues of being Asian and women's issue. She tries to solve the problem of women and how they try to survive in the world that we live in. Wong describes the world as a harsh place for a lady to live in. She mixes humor and psychology together. She tries to tie in the issues of Women living in this world and other issues with comedy. She also tries to get to the climax and the problem to solve it all. Her way of solving the problem with Asian Women and the world is very comidic and tries to solve her way's and issues.

Color Speak

I found this article on May 14, 2009. This article is called Color Speak by Nita Leland. Leland talks in the article about the properties of color's. The properties of color are hue, value, intensity and tempurature. The color tempuratures describe how attractive the colors are and also it describes the distance. For example the color red is near and has a warm feeling. The blue color is very cool and has a far feeling to it. She states each color has a certain amount of feeling and effect to a person. Like the attractive colors are red or yellow where that can make you look at them automatically because of the way the color's are; there bright. Cool colors make you not want to look at them. 

http://www.nitaleland.com/articles/colorspeak.htm

Photography is Art?

I found this article on May 14, 2009. It is called Photographic Realism by Clayton Medeiros. He is talking about how photography is not a form of art. He views as photography as something the artist cannot change because he or she has taken a snap shot of it and cannot do anything else to it. Once it is in the viewers hands there is nothing the artist can do to alter the picture or change it. Scientist say that the photo's view the real color in the picture. It adds realism because there is nothing painted to it and everything is real around what is pictured. The only way the artist can alter the image is if he or she has a program like photoshop to alter the photo.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_4_97/ai_n31558668/?tag=content;col1

Highly Priced Museum Fee's

I found this article on May 14, 2009. This article is called City Culture Scourges by Mara Tapp. This article talks about how low income children cannot afford to go to museums in Chicago as they were charging 90 dollars just to get in a view the art material. The price to go in is crazy and something a low income family cannot afford at all. Most of the museums in Park District in Chicago are highly priced to get in and low income families cannot afford there children to get in and look at there art. This only happens during the summer. During the school year children can go for free.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-oped0514artmay14,0,7556046.story

Art on the Etch Sketch Pad

I found this article on May 14, 2009. The title of the article is Etch a Sketch Art by George Vlosich. This article is about drawing using an Etch Sketch pad. In this article he drew a few basketball players on the Cleveland Cavaliers. It looks really good in what he used. Just incredible eye hand control on when to stop and the shading is spot on. It looks like something he drew with his hand when really he just drew it using both his hands just turning the knob. It probably took a lot of precision and timing to get the shading and the lines right.

http://www.artnewsblog.com/2007/09/etch-sketch-art-george-vlosich.htm

Obama Sign's Art Bill

I found this article on Thursday morning, March 19, 2009. This article is about Obama signing a bill for the arts. He signed a Recovery and Reinvestment Act with reinstated support for the arts. This bill is about making improvements to art places like the Smithsonian or other art museums to make repairs. The senate and the house are trying to treat the people who work as an artist or for art the same way as people who would loose there mortgage or health insurance. The Smithsonian's spending was cut from 150 million to 25 million. That is a big cut and from the 125 million, that can be used to make many improvements.


http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16946

Art on the Street

I found this site on a chilly morning on Thursday March 19, 2009. A guy by the name of Andre, a big person might I add, paints the streets of Providence Rhode Island. Most people call it graffiti and some professional artist call it street art. Andre does many types of art from 3-d effect art to a simple 2-d. He does not stop doing street art on the walls of Providence, his other canvas includes various types of signs like stop signs or bathroom stall signs. Any type of sign that is posted up, it can be done in an artistic way by Andre. Museums are very attracted to street art and are starting to pick it up. His types of style are Art Nouveau, Constructivisim and punk art. What I am learning about this is the various types of art that can be done. Even graffiti is considered art, both illegally and legally. These various art styles, art nouveau and constructivism offer smooth lines that does not dissapoint the eye and makes it good too look at.


http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2570