HOW TO LIVE WITH ART

   Living with art means, making art your language and means of expressing your emotions; Making it something that you embrace and love in your life. To appreciate art, sometimes to even have emotional feelings towards a piece of art is something that we humans have as instinct. But living with art is more than that. In the book, “living with art”, the quote, “…, is making art live by letting it engage our attention, our imagination, our intelligence”, expresses the meaning of living with art.

       If a person has an eye for a piece of art , if that person responds to the art around him then this person is engaged  his or her attention by art. To be living with art, a person should be engaged both his imagination and his intelligence along his attention by the art, and should be able to imagine and put that imagination to work through his or her intelligence for either appreciation of or production of art. In general, living with art is being passionate about art.  Like the great artist Vincent Van Gogh said in his latter to his brother, it’s to devote yourself, heart and your soul to art. That is when you are living with art.

The trip to HOB

   The trip to House of Blues was very exiting. For me, as many things are in Chicago, it was new experience. I heard the name the House of Blues before but i didn't  know it was a place where you can relax,enjoy and at the same time appreciate art. 

      Once i saw what was  inside, well i was amazed. The house is almost a museum! the art collections are very beautiful. Different kinds of art, folk , contemporary and stain glass painting in the same room. For people who have interest in art, The HOUSE OF BLUES is heaven on earth. The trip was a highlight of that week i really enjoyed it.

       The tour was very educational and informative. I learned about life history of different artists, what motivated them to make art and what materials the use to make their art. I learned a good deal about folk art and its artists. the trip was informative in general. I hope we will go to trips as exiting as the HOB.

Question # 22 Representational art

I chose this painting as a representational art.

Question # 10 C

This is a painting i chose to show how artists give feelings like love a tangible form.

"THE LUST FOR LIFE"

The movie " The lust for life" is an autobiographic film of the great artist  Vincent Van Gogh. The movie shows that how talented and how creative he was. How his idea of painting was very different from other artists at  that time and how he was misunderstood by the world. His best friend Gauguin (an artist) and a brother who supported him from the time Van Gogh left Holland to the time of his death were the people whom  Van Gogh had a close personal relationship. Even those closest to him misunderstood his work and his expression of art.The movie also showed the close relation between   him and Gauguin. How they used to argue about art and how it is supposed to be expressed. Those disagreements led to a huge fight between the two  and to the break down of Van Gogh.  In general, the movie reflects how a soul tortured , talented, misunderstood great artist lived, how his passion for art controlled  him and finally destroyed him.

my reaction to the movie........

It was a sad movie really. I tried to imagine how he felt. Neglected and going no where with his work,                                            

It is actually torturing.The life he lived would drive any man crazy. He lived such a difficult life. However, i would say his love for his work reflects even after all this years. It is just he lived at the wrong time.

The trip to AIC

        The trip to Art Institute Of Chicago was one of a kind. Since this was my second time that i ever went to any museum my entire life, it was awesome! Apart from the fun i had with Anthony and Snejana, it was very educational, entertaining, and a good experience for me. Being there looking at very old and historical objects, paintings by world famous artists and actually feeling what most of the time I hear people talk about, about how art makes them feel, was the best part of the trip. The painting by Van Gogh, " the yellow room",  was one of the things that fascinated me most. It was one of the most beautiful  things I have ever laid eyes on and it made me see the role of colors on paintings. I hope we will have many of those trips in the reaming of this semester.

AIC web site

The AIC web hunt was very interesting. I learned a lot of stuff. The web site was really cool, it made me eager to go to the museum and see all the staff i saw on the web.  Even after the trip, I visited the web site three times. Every time i vist the web site i see something interesting and beautiful. Of all the things i saw on the web site, i cant understand why but my eyes were attracted to this object.

      May be it is because of the shape, maybe the color  or maybe because it represents a glorious myth animal , The dragon. either way it is my favorite. so i thought i share it with you guys . what do u think