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Week #6

Exhibition Information

Artist: Ricardo Corona

Exhibition: The Enchanted Borderlands

Media: Mixed media

Gallery: LBSU school of art, Dr. Maxine Merlino Gallery

Website: Ricardocoronaart.com

Instagram: ricardocoronaart

About the Artist

Ricardo Corona is a Background Artist, Visual Developer and illustrator at CSULB. He is a student in the BFA Pre-Production program and will be graduating in spring 2020. His interest is drawing and painting fantasy creatures and much more. The painting that was seen in the Gallery symbolize the variety of characters that exist in the world. The inspiration comes from the characters and transforming them into creating new story.

Formal Analysis

It illustrates the different visuals of characters and be put into stories. Overall, the art contains many different varieties of colors that made the painting more appealing. It has shapes and characters in the painting that tells a story.

Content Analysis

The different paintings that was being showcased in the Gallery all consist of pieces that explore the different combinations of Wild West genre and varieties of characters from a movie or video game. The exhibit creates the content of Enchanted Borderlands.

Synthesis/ My Experience

After experiencing the different arts that was being showcased in the gallery I was able to relate it to my childhood, because some of the characters that took part of the artworks was some character that I was familiar with because I was able to remember it from a game and see it as a theme of something.

Week 6:

1. Race shouldn’t identify your personality. I often heard about people saying that Asian people eats live animals such as dogs, bats, cats, pigs and more. I personally think that you can’t just target asian people.
2. I felt like people are disrespecting Asian people because they always accused that any of them that are considered to be Chinese or just Asian in general eats live animals and that is not true.
3. It is good to be informing about this because it is something that has been expose before and many people always accuse us for it just because we’re asian. I felt like I did it successfully because I was able to give my thoughts on why people shouldn’t always think that our race is horrific in some sort of way.
4. If I was to do it differently I would try to focus on identifying how to debate and hear out the different opinions being said and put out there.
5. Another idea that I can recount is coronavirus, Saving the ocean.

week #5: Idea 5

My Trip to Cambodia 2019

1. I originally chose this story because I wanted to share some of the best memories that I captured throughout my entire trip. Some of the places that I visited was something I’ve never knew even existed, and I was happy to see how the country developed since the last time I’ve visited. Speaking about Cambodia, although I was not born and raised there Cambodia still has a place in my heart.
2. Looking back at the photos I’ve taken I will have to say that I do cherish every moment that I’ve experienced because although memories are just kept in photos the great thing is that I was able to experience it on my own by actually visiting. Some of the places that I was able to visit was very spectacular and I enjoyed every part of it even by just passing by the provinces, countryside.
3. Overall, the best image in my story will have to be the third picture of my nephews and I capturing a photo in front of one of the most popular tourist attractions in Cambodia known as Angkor Wat Temple. The reason I chose this as my best photo it’s because this place was the first place we captured a photo all together 12 years ago when we were young. And being able to reunite with them again and taking this memorable picture was amazing because we also get to compare it with the old one.
4. No, I feel like all the photos that were captured are all great images and means something to me because they’re all captured at different locations and tells different stories and activities.
5. Next time I feel like I would try to visit more places that I’ve never been to, and I would also want to stop by a foundation because it’s something I always wanted to do for a while now when visiting Cambodia. I wanted to visited some places that children’s are in needs and help them in a way by creating funds or just donating money, helping with personal items, foods.
6. No, I feel like this photo story that I told about is something that is mainly important and good to display out there to talk about.

Week 3 Idea # 3 :

1. After using tape to create a random shape we came into conclusion that this is art. The reason why we think this is art it’s because we get to view our school campus in many different perspective and see the difference of it.
2. I believe that it is art because making some sort of shape does not really make a difference, I think it’s your point of view and how we see things in a certain way, since art can be create by anything that you may find interesting and appealing.
3. yes, I feel like it will still consider to be art because I feel like art can be your vision or just how you see things the way you do.
4. I feel like it doesn’t have to be a certain object for it to be considered as art because any objects that may catch your eyes and you think it’s an art then it is considered to be one.
5. yes, Art can be anything other than an object because there is a lot of things that are unique and the way it’s being displayed and expressed may determined whether it is or not.
6. Experiencing art and taking the time to visual and view the art is something that is important because then you start to observe and think about why the art or why you think that it is art.

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Week 2 Idea #2 :

1. Abstraction is the visual of creativity that sets the uniqueness of how it’s being created.
2. Representation, because that art can mean something and can be related to anything that you may have encountered or it can just tell a story.

Finger painting:

1. The experience was really great, I was able to see what abstraction necessarily is and I was able to just experience on my own how art doesn’t have to be perfect.
2. It felt different after seeing the results because at first I don’t know what to actually expect after finishing it.
3. The experience was totally good because although there was no subject behind it I was able to just create something that I wouldn’t have imagined I created and see the outcome of it.
4. It’s really different because some other paintings aren’t alike and the results of course won’t turn out the same at all.

Week 1: idea #1 Women’s work is also art

1. what “Women’s Work” means to me is that it indicates that although people might say that women shouldn’t work because they should be more relaxed than mens but I necessarily think that women can be working equally as much as mens do because they have choices rather then just counting as gender to make the decisions. but there is some jobs that do fits more for mens to do rather than women but women can have the power to do whatever one that do or capable of doing.
2. The term Art means that it can be your creativity and visuals of things that expresses moods. Anything can be art because it’s the unique picture that is being created from your mind.
3. Women’s work is also art, I think refers to indicating that women’s work is something that can be created as being art since it shows that it’s the power and skills that women’s can also have or do. The results of it can determine that women’s can consist of being art since whatever they do can be a visual of unique things.

Maintenance Art Activity

1. After performing Maintenance Art the result of it after is that it was something that makes yourself feel good and appreciative of the sculpture being display where it currently stands and by performing maintenance it can felt quite odd and different only because since it was something valuable although it was being displayed out in public it was something that I felt like I never thought we could even surround ourselves or even put our hands to clean or touch itl.
2. Both is different because it shows that women can also step forward to doing any job that she is capable of doing and overall, both can do the same task so it doesn’t really have to refer to gender. I think that either both can be art because women can work but sometimes it’s based on what you’re comfortable doing since sometimes women don’t really step you doing things like what men’s normally does. And speaking of men’s they can do mostly any task and that is considered art since it’s something that is unique and different about them.
3. Her performance of Maintenance Art to me did consider to be art because doing what she did was her power and ideas of making choices to insist of cleaning the steps although it’s not something she has to do. I don’t think just because she performed at the art museum made it as the name of art because I feel like anything that is just your creation and willing is considered art. anything can be created as art because a lot of things can just be unique and different from how we or others see things.
4. An object necessarily can be named as object because to me I feel like anything that just be art it’s your way for taking things and actually seeing things that can change your perspective of how to capture and visual things. Painting aren’t all on canvas art because it doesn’t have to be the ones that are being displayed in the museum. some of those may be more valuable since it’s being displayed there. painting a house to me can be considered art because it’s the colors and the feelings that changes the mood of how to perform doing it.
5. yes, after observing and seeing both being a result of women’s work did make me think differently about it because all women’s should be honor of being considered art since they put the power out there to do things that many people may think that women’s shouldn’t do. they both showed an example that women can have power to be able to do many things and make it art.
6. Disneyland star