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9/30/2019

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Since the last post, I've done more ruminating on my topic and decided that I'd stick with the topic of looking at the way artistic culture shapes a community, but change my focus. I want to instead explore the way it shapes a community, through events like Sculpture Milwaukee and murals. Through this development, I realized it would be beneficial for my piece to include an interview with an individual who had created a highly visible public work in Milwaukee. My street art class met with Mauricio Ramirez when he talked about his work. In addition, Emma Daisy created the Westown in Bloom mural on Wisconsin Ave, and I got to photograph her at the opening for the Shepherd. I could potentially connect with her via instagram, so I'm starting to form leads. Other ideas might include the way the addition of the Black Holocaust Museum has shaped our community. 

The discussion with Todd helped me ideate the way I want to go about my project. I like to always have a plan or roadmap and stick to that, but his suggestions on following our own gut for inspiration and research to lead you down paths, and to keep exploring ideas and topics within that realm until they lead you to the next area of investigation were a helpful way to suggest a new approach to my plan. 








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four

9/23/2019

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For my ideation process, I think I want to talk most about where fashion and art intermix. Some topics I want to explore are self representation through style; specifically how one’s outward appearance dictates other’s perspectives of them 
This isn’t only focusing on looks, it focuses on everything that a person puts out into the world to be seen by the public. It can be their website, their paintings, their hair, tattoos, accessories, and how they all work together to inform the public about the individual.

    I will delve into the way artistic culture shapes a community, because that will be the driving force for my article to relate to the series and to the description we have come up with - https://www.quora.com/How-does-culture-shape-a-community- is a good jumping off point. 
other sources: 
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/art-of-bring-high-fashion-down-to-earth/2015/07/17/4fe7a244-2963-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html-
    • Talks about the ways people use expensive clothing as a means to convey their life- but they focus on the clothing that has already been curated to a certain style for them. 

  • https://artsandculture.google.com/theme/XgKyfdx7wqN8KA-
    • “The reality is that creative folk are rarely immersed in the bubble of their own discipline, but absorb a wealth of ideas around them.”- figure out what this means 
    • ​“Over the years, art and fashion have enjoyed a rich relationship, sometimes bold and brazen, often more understated, yet always stretching way beyond the boundaries of geography to bring global influences to our wardrobes. It's impossible to suggest that British designers are shaped only by British art, because the wonder of the creative mind is that it draws ideas from a plethora of sources – a snippet of vintage oriental silk, a faded photograph, a Moroccan mosaic or a rare sketch by an obscure artist – and amalgamates those into a cocktail of fresh shapes and colors that seem relevant to the modern day.”


I’m not completely sure who to interview for this piece but I think that after starting to find solid research it will come to me. 

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three

9/8/2019

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Becca Kacanda, MKE

https://www.rottogrotto.com/work-1


Has a portfolio of physical work with high quality pictures of grottos that she creates all over the midwest. The pictures in scroll over states list the title, dimensions, and the media used, which is good for viewers because they might be curious.  She also has links to social media prevalent at bottom of every screen, encouraging site visitors to follow her facebook and instagram for more fine art and updates. One smart thing she has listed on her site is a whole page containing her cv listed with qualifications. The about page for Becca is pretty vague so I feel like by looking at the cv it is easier to find out information about her. She has a link to her blog listed with posts every few months about her current works along with some interviews. Overall the site is pretty basic and a little impersonal but it has touches of character to it with font choice and color. 




Neil Stevens, UK 

https://www.crayonfire.co.uk/
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Neil Stevens website is eye catching. There is a bright graphic as the landing page, and if you scroll down the landing page becomes a portfolio. He has rollover states on his small square images that give the subject. Once visitors click on one of the squares he has details about the project and the client he worked with as well as a wide variety of pictures. He seems very established in the way he presents his work. The descriptions don’t come off as braggy but he explains why he made the design decisions he did. The bottom of his site has a back to top feature that is really handy for how long you have to scroll when viewing all his work. His socials are at the top, making it easy to find. His socials are unusual tho, with Twitter, Behance, instagram, and Tumblr listed. His about page doesn’t include a photo and has a big long list of the companies he’s worked with. With such a vibrant site, I feel like he could include their logos or at least put the companies in a list form so they're easier to read. One thing I like about his site is the link to the print shop within it where you can buy his event posters. 

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two

9/5/2019

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notes on Milwaukee news sites

OnMilwaukee

https://onmilwaukee.com/

  • Categories are articles, events, neighborhoods, places, guides, shopping, partners, and weekend preview
  • Focus on the fun things to do in the city and restaurants
  • They also have a section towards the bottom called “today’s featured events” that has a list of things happening around Milwaukee that day with a brief description of place and time. 
  • Everything is clickable and easy to navigate
  • Imagery is similar to newspaper images 
  • Video content as well


Journal Sentinel
https://www.jsonline.com/

  • Much more politics and news stories 
  • Categories are news, sports, business, communities, watchdog, entertainment, nation, obits, and more
  • Focus on politics and news stories are heavy 
  • Less fluff
  • Site is easy to navigate
  • Not much video content
  • Ad heavy

Shepherd Express
https://shepherdexpress.com/

  • Categories are news, food. Music, hemp, arts and entertainment, LGBTQ, advice, sports, film, and events
  • Left leaning 
  • Focus on local news impacting Milwaukee and community events equally
  • Trending topics right below categories with featured stories 
  • Image heavy
  • Ads are for their own events they put on

Milwaukee Magazine
https://www.milwaukeemag.com/

  • Categories are dining + drink, news + city life, culture, lifestyle, best of MKE, things to do, magazine, and faces of milwaukee
  • Seems like the cool older sister of OnMilwaukee
  • Their graphic design, photography, and layouts are better than the other news websites 
  • Not very ad heavy
  • Focus on weekly community events and promotions

Milwaukee Record
https://milwaukeerecord.com/

  • Badly designed
  • Categories are home, music, city life, food/drink, comedy, film, arts, sports, podcast, shop, and calendar
  • Imagery is only sponsored ads
  • Articles don’t seem particularly interesting 
  • One nice feature is that it had a little calendar at the bottom of the bigger upcoming events this week
  • Seems to appeal to older demographic- events listed are a lot of throwback 70s music reunions

Principles for Interpreting Art

Dog·mat·ic- adj. inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true.
principles:
  • Artworks are always about something.
    Goodman values works of artists as well as the contributions of scientists because both science and art present us with views of the world that provide us with powerful insights, valuable information, and new knowledge. However, art provides insights, information, and knowledge only if we interpret works of art.

  • Subject matter + Medium + Form + Context = Meaning 
Recognizable things +material+composition+environment=interpretation
  • To interpret a work of art is to understand it in language
To make sense of our responses. By telling or writing what we see and feel and think and do when looking at art, we build a clearer understanding of it. 
  • Feelings are guides to interpretation. 
“Emotion in aesthetic experience is a means of discerning what properties a work has and expresses.” 
  • The critical activities of describing, analyzing, interpreting, judging, and theorizing about works of art are interrelated and interdependent. 
Describing- telling what one sees
Interpreting- telling what you think it means
Judging- telling how good you think it is
theorizing- telling what counts as art
Analyzing- telling formal characteristics about the art
  • Artworks attract multiple interpretations and it is not the goal of interpretation to arrive at single, grand, unified, composite interpretations. 
There is no single, right interpretation for art. "an interpretation is true if it deals with a meaning the work will sustain; where there are many such meanings, there can be many true interpretations.” 
  • There is a range of interpretations any artwork will allow. 
Fear of over-interpretation- reading too much into art. “History and culture limit the range of interpretations that are allowable. To interpret a work from a time and place other than our own, we must first recognize and acknowledge that it is of another time and from another place.”
  • Meanings of artworks are not limited to what their artists intended them to mean.
All art is open to interpretation and often the artists themselves can help us understand things about their work we can’t find from other sources. 
  • Interpretations are not so much right, but are more or less reasonable, convincing, informative, and enlightening. 
No wrong answers, but some interpretations can be unpersuasive, redundant, far-fetched, obvious, fragmented, or boring. 
  • Interpretations imply a worldview. 
“We all move through the world with a more or less articulated set of assumptions about existence, and it is through these that we interpret everything, including works of art.” everyone moves through the world differently and everyone who interprets brings a unique perspective to the table based on where they have been and what they have seen.
  • Good interpretations tell more about the artwork than they tell about the interpreter. 
It is the critics task to relate the personal information being offered to the artwork being interpreted so the general public understands the work not just the interpreter. 
  • The objects of interpretation are artworks, not artists. 
The art in question is meant to be interpreted, not the artist and their life based on background knowledge. 
  • All art is in part about the world in which it emerged. 
“There is no way out from seeing art as a reflection or meditation or a comment on life.”
  • All art is in part about other art. 
Art is a public practice and can only succeed publicly. In order for the viewer to understand it they need a basic framework of art it was inspired by, medium, and technology, among other things
  • Good interpretations have coherence, correspondence, and inclusiveness.
Three criteria:
Coherence-does it make sense in itself and apart from the work? 
Correspondence- does it interpretation match with what is being seen? 
Inclusiveness-does it account for what is in the work and the environment that the work is in?
  • Interpreting art is an endeavor that is both individual and communal. 
Has both meaning to one and one’s life, and is also a shared interpretation with communal understanding 
  • Some interpretations are better than others. 
 “many matters of art are matters of opinion but go on to assert that statements about works of art can be more than mere opinions, they can be informed opinions.” 
  • The admissibility of an interpretation is ultimately determined by a community of interpreters and the community is self-correcting. 
“an optimistic view of the art world and scholarship that holds that artists, critics, historians, and other serious interpreters will eventually correct less-than-adequate interpretations and will eventually put forth better interpretations”
  • Good interpretations invite us to see for ourselves and continue on our own. 
We might not have picked up on some elements or meaning of a piece of work on our own and that makes quality interpretations useful


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9/4/2019

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I'm taking this class because I write best when talking about something that interests me and connects to my personal life. I also love research and delving into topics i'm passionate about. I'm not sure what I want to focus on and have my essay be about, but I think I want to talk about either creative outlets or something on design. I need some clarification on specifics for  this assignment but from what I understood it sounded like we could write about anything? Before I stress myself out, its probably best not to overthink it and just pick something i'm interested in. 
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