final

I had the ticket stubs and pictures but I don't have the chord to my camera to put the pictures on the computer.


Erica McCullough
Intro to Art
27 April 2009
Final Exam Paper
Hard Candy is a very artistic film. All scenes throughout the movie use colors to make the audience feel different moods. At first when the two main characters, the little girl and the man she met through chat on the internet, meet at a café. That is the only part of the movie where the colors are normal, like any other movie making whoever is watching it assume the man is a predator and the little girl an innocent naïve teenager as his prey. When they go to his house every room has a different color scheme. At first the colors are soft, with the intentions of keeping the audience believing him to be her predator. Then, when the twist in the film arises, when she ties him down and starts yelling at him the colors turn to black and white with the characters at a bland grey color. The film was very artistically directed with the intentions of making the audience change their perspectives with whichever color scheme the scene portrays.
The movie Coraline, based off of a children’s book, was directed by Tim Burton so of course it was creatively made. With computer animated clay characters, the beginning of the film starts off with Coraline as any other child who feels like her parents neglect her and choose their work over her. The scenes are all bland with black and white colors. Only when she visits her very unique neighbors do the colors change. When she enters the alternate world through the little door in the wall, all the colors change to vivid and bright. Her new mother and father and all the other alternate characters in the new world have black button eyes which foreshadowed the darkness and blindness that eventually fell upon Coraline. Once she realized her new mom wanted her soul, everything turned from very colorful to dark and disturbing. A prime example would be the garden having all its beautiful flowers turn into vicious monsters that wanted to attack her. This film used colors and clay characters and is very artistic.
The Foreigner was a play I viewed on campus at the theater behind the TLC building. It was very comedic and enjoyable. The actors were very talented as well. The playwright and script were very cleverly put together in a creative demeanor. As part of the audience it made me experience many emotions which I assume the play meant to convey to its audience. The script was creatively written to make the audience feel happiness through laughter, sadness and anger at racism and ignorance. All sets in all plays are built by people to set the scene and that in itself is also an art. This set did a wonderful job of putting it together to develop the scenes. It made you feel right at home there with the actors on stage. I would love to see this play again for it was a lot of fun.

My Blogroll:

www.postsecret.com
By Frank Warren, this started as a community project where people all over the country send in postcards with their secrets on them.
www.xanga.com/photos_n_quotes
This site has a lot of really pretty pictures and inspirational quotes.
http://tazmo.deviantart.com/
Mohamed Gaff (Tazmo) takes beautiful portraits of people and objects and nature.
http://larafairie.deviantart.com/
Lara Jade is a young fashion photographer who is quite popular on the deviantart website.
http://ribbon-picktures.xanga.com/
This is a blog with more amazing conceptual photography and portraits.
(Photography is my favorite genre of art)

I Love This Piece of Architecture: Wing House by Wallace Cunningham

The Wing House located in Rancho Santa Fe, California was designed by Wallace Cunningham and built in the 70s in between 2 canyons. “The subtle curvature of the surrounding topography is reflected in the design, which encourages constant movement from one space to another, from interior to exterior,” says Cunningham. The house, which sits on a four-acre site, is defined by concentric semicircles and composed of two overlapping private wings, with the public spaces at the center.

Human Nature

When I think of Human Nature I automatically refer back to the Nature vs. Nurture conflict. These paintings perfectly symbolize this conflict through the portraits of babies still in the womb. It starts out white, like innocence, then goes to black, as though the whole baby and its whole environment is corrupted by what it learns and experiences.

Graffiti

Graffiti from Little Five Points in Atlanta:

My Photographic Eye

Smoking:

The Human Condition

All of the emotions one may have conflicting photoshopped into a young woman.