Project 4 Art Review

Tim Cantor

Huma Bhabha

Eric Timothy Carlson

1.    Be receptive:  This means keep an open mind.  Assume that the art has value and set out to discover it.  Don’t judge the work based on your feelings or preferences. 

2.    Description:  Look at the work carefully and describe what you see and/or what is happening in detail.  Get as much background information as possible, such as the title, date, artist, country of origin, medium etc.  Ask yourself: what is already known about the time period, style, artist, etc.?  Is the work representational, non-representational or realistic?  Does it make use of modified images?  And so on. 

3.    Formal Analysis:  Pick apart the composition or design.  Ask yourself:  What elements are emphasized?  How are they used?  What principles? How?  What design type?

4.    Bracketing:  Artists often refer to things from everyday life in their art.  Sometimes when we look at a work of art we are reminded of another artist or style of art.  Sometimes we notice iconography we are familiar with.  Think of what you are reminded of when you look at the work.

5.    Interpretation:  Stop and look at what you wrote down in steps two through four.  Put all the information together to determine the meaning of the art.  What strategy is the artist using?  Are there any symbols, metaphors or allegories that tell you anything about what the artist intended?  Do you have an emotional reaction that you think the artist wanted you to have?  Make your conclusions from the previous steps support your interpretation.

Tim Cantor

-  All of Tim Cantor's work really appeals to me because it is that all the pieces that he made for Imagine Dragons was constructed to each represent a story/song that was a part of the Smoke and Mirrors album.  I like how he connected a song to a work of art that further explained a story.  I actually attended an Imagine Dragons concert in which they had an art gallery to display all of his art which was very interesting to see as well.  All of the art is very real but always seems to have something placed in a weird environment like the girl falling through the sky and the very different looking tree figure.  They all represent something with a story.

Huma Bhabha

-  Like Tim Cantor Huma takes a very unreal perspective when it comes to art creation.  All of her pieces are said to be alien and si-fi inspired.  In various paintings she draws the image of a alien like person or figure and it is distorted with all different kinds of colors that in result finish with a very different but interesting looking piece

Eric Timothy Carlson

-  It is that right off the bat Eric comes off like someone who is symbolic and expressive in different ways and for Bon Iver ( American spiritual singer) to ask him to do his album art seemed like a guarantee to happen.  Hid various symbols and pieces like Tim Cantor are related to the songs in which Bon Ive created.  I really like the symbols that he creates because not only are they basic but they are also impactful and really seem to represent the song in which they are paired with.