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E - Art & (My) Life - Final Paper

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D7- Artist Conversation - Marina Perez

Short Story

Artist: Marina Perez

Exhibition: Prologue

Media: Acrylic, Oil, Unstretched canvas

Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Max L. Gato Gallery East

Website: N/A

Instagram: N/A

Centuries ago, there was there indigenous family in a little poor village in Mexico named the Martinez family. It was a family of five, the parents, two sons and one daughter. One of the son’s was named Juan , the other son’s name was Diego and the daughter’s name was Lupita. The Martinez family was a really humble family.

Everyone who lived in that little village knew who were the Martinez family because they were a really hardworking and humble family. Especially they all new who was Lupita; a young pretty inocente girl that always had to stay home with her mom helping her do the house chores. Since she was the only girl in from the family her father and her two brothers were really stricked with her. She was only allowed to go to school so she can get some education but she was never allowed to have friends because after she was out of school she had to go straight home to help her mom.

Everyone at school thought that something was wrong with Lupita because she always had a sad innocent face. No one ever tried to talk to her because she would always ignore them and walk away.

There was one rainy day and her father was not able to pick her up from school so she had to go walking home by herself in the dark. Through the lonely street that she had to walk there was an older drunk guy that was there. When the man saw that it was Lupita the pretty innocent girl that was never alone, he started to follow her and he decided to sexually abuse her.

That day was the worst day for Lupita. When she got home she was in tears but her family never new why was she crying until a couple of months past. After a couple of months past her mom started to realize that her stomach was growing. Which was because she was pregnant and she was already 9 months about to have her baby. But this secret was between her mom and her.

The day came and she had a beautiful baby girl. While Lupita was giving birth she started to get really sick. She was not able to resist the night and died that same night. Her mom was full of tears carrying her grandchild not knowing how was she going to explain this to her husband and her sons.

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D7 - Remix Culture

In this society we have a lot of freedom, empowerment and risk that involves us using the internet. We as the people can do a lot of things that the internet provides us with, like creating remixes with an type of media. In addition, my thoughts about copyright is that it should of be strengthened because sometimes there is people that take advantage of to do bad things but sometimes copyright is used for helpful things. The license that I decided to use for this image was Flickr License>CC> Modifications Allowed to choose all 4 images that I used and then I used an app called Photoshop Mix to mix all 4 images into 1 image. My experience doing a remix piece seemed to be easy to do but in reality it’s not that easy, I feel like you need practice so that you can create a beautiful remix piece. Some if my challenges were to cutout the backgrounds if tho other images do I could may 1. Overall, it was fun trying out something different.

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C1- Artist Conversation- Alyssa Mejia

Artist: Alyssa Meija

Exhibition: Kalopsia

Media: Digital art, Illustration

Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Dennis W. Dutzi Gallery

Website: alyssamejia.carbonmade.com

Instagram: alquarius

Alyssa Meija is an undergraduate student at Cal State Long Beach. She is a senior and she will be graduating this year receiving a BFA in illustration (pre-production). The program that she is from CSULB School of Arts is in illustration/animation. Her interests are movies, video games and live actions. In the future she hopes one day to work in an animation studio concepts of art for movies or shows.The ideas that her work explose are many different designs of characters that are in beautiful colors.

Alyssa Mejia has many different artworks but what they all have in common is that they all involve some type of character and cartoonish design. Her work is not that small or not that big it’s the size of like a portrait picture. The media that Mejia uses in all of her work is digital art because its what helps her create and design her characters. To create and design her characters she uses a lot of color, shapes and line. If you take a closer look at her artwork you are able to see the small details that she creates to make these amazing characters in her artwork.

All of Mejia’s work is about some type of character design, environment design, and concept art. What inspired her to do this type of artwork is her childhood and especially because she loves movies that involve cartoon characters. Since she was a little girl she enjoyed art but when she got into college she followed in love with digital art and using color because she believes color is the most important thing in art. The ideas that she is trying to explore through her artwork are different character designs that she has created that she has visualized and thinks they can become really great characters that can come out in movies or shows.

This art exhibit resonates with me because I also really love cartoon characters. Her work grabbed my attention because I saw her artwork work titled “Papa Coco” which is one of the characters of my favorite movie coco. The other artwork that grabbed my attention was the one that has a girl with butterflies in her hair, I really loved this piece because I love butterflies and it looked really beautiful. Overall, all of her work is really beautiful and I feel that one day I will see her work on movies or tv shows.

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Fresh yummy strawberries that are about to be come into a delicious desert.

Creamy texture creams that are about to be mixed with strawberries.

Chopped strawberries into slices.

Mix the two creams together to make one creamy mixture.

Pour the mixed cream with the slices of strawberries together.

The strawberries with cream are ready to be eaten.

Yummy dessert!

D6-Storytelling (Photography)

I choose to do is story of me making a delicious dessert which is strawberries with cream because it’s one of many dessert that there is around the world and also it’s one of my favorite dessert. I think I did great showing the some of the steps in how to do this delicious dessert and in detail. In my opinion the best image in my story was the 2nd to last picture which is the final product, the strawberries with cream in the jar. This is the best image of my story because you are able to admire how delicious this dessert looks. I think my photostory doesn’t contain an image that I think it’s not a great picture, I think they are all great. Next time I would do this activity I would probably focus in another topic and use a pro camera not my phone. Other photo stories I would like to tell would be climate change, life in a family or surfing in the beach.

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C1- Artist Conversation - Christine Nguyen

Artist: Christine Nguyen

Exhibition: Emergence of the Kelp Deer, 2007

Media: Photo-based painting, Acrylic paint, Watercolors, Ink

Gallery: LBSU Art Museum, The Arthur M. Axeland Gallery

Website: N/A

Instagram: N/A

Christine Nguyen is a graduate student who received her BFA from Cal State Long Beach and her MFA from UC Irvine. Her artworks have been exhibited in many art galleries and museums. She has a great passion with art, for her art is her everything. Her intrests of drawing are imagery of nature, the sciences and the cosmos to create her artwork.

In this artwork named “Emergence of the Kelp Deer” by Cristine Nguyen is a beautiful big piece of artwork. It is 99 1/2 x 239 1/4 inches big, it’s as big as a wall of a house. The colors that Nuguyen used on this artwork were cool colors. In this piece of artwork we can see two deers, plants and a solid color sky. If you get closer to the artwork you are alble to see the details she used and also can see how she used leaf shapes to create the deers.

This artwork is about one of her vivid dreams she had. She was inspired to paint her dream since she remembered what happened in her dream, she dreamed that she was in a dessert looking like water. Also with piles of dried seaweed and as she walked past it she remembers that she heard a noise. Also, Nguyen’s inspiration was from visonary 19th century scientists such as Ernst Haeckel and other scientists. Most of her painting involve imagery and are photo based pieces like this artwork named “Emergence of the Kelp Deer”. Also she uses a lot imagery of nature, the sciences and the cosmos to create her artwork.

This artwork “Emergence of the Kelp Deer” meant a lot to me because when I walked in the museum it was the first artwork that grabbed my attention. It grabbed my attention because of the cool colors that that artwork has and the size of it. This artwork reasonates to me because it involves nature and I really love everything at first site that involves with nature. Overall, it’s a really gorgeous painting, I had never seen a big piece of artwork in person especially this beautiful.

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D5 - Architecture & Urban Planning - The Wedge

For this activity I sketched the new design of the USU Wedge. The new changes of the USU wedge are that I would remove the gray inner wall that is in between the two white piers and the right concrete bench. The new design would only have two piers and it would have a squared wide arch so that the students can have a wide space to walk through. I made these choices because it will still be the same short cut that there is right now but the difference is that it would be wider and more students will be able to walk through at the same time. I think the students will love this new design of the USU wedge because they will not have to go all around to go through, they will save a couple of steps and more students will be able to walk through at the same time.

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C1 - Artist Conversation - Yuccen Liu

Artist: Yuccen Liu

Exhibition: Fill in th Blank

Media: sculpture, metal

Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Dennis W Durzi Gallery

Website: N/A

Instagram: yucen_metalismith

Yucceni Liu is a graduate student at Cal State Long Beach. In addition, she is in the School of Art of meltalsmith and jewelry. She came to the US in 2010 as study of broad student and then she ended up staying here. She waid that in the being it was difficult for her to adapt in a new country, new language and meet new people. After she gets her masters she will like to be an art teacher. The ideas that her work explores is stuff animals turned inti hard metal.

The form of the work that Ycceni Liu uses is metal to create sculptures. Her stuff animal sculpture are not too small or too big. She uses a lot if shape and texture to be able to form the medial into a stuff animal. The colors that she mostly uses it the color if metal and pastel colors. If you look at her sculptures reall close you can see the hard work that Liu did useing her hands to be able to form the lines and texture to create a stuff animal into metal version.

In Ycceni Liu gallery exhibition, all her work involved some type of stuff animals. What inspired her to use stuff animals in her artwork is because she loves stuff animals. Especially because stuff animals remind her if her childhood and it makes her feel like if she would be back home in China with her family. She loves it because she has stuff animals at home and in her studui she has stuff animals made up of metal. She also said she really enjoys working with her hands while doing the process of creating her metal stuff animal sculptures.

I really loved Yucceni Liu artwork, I felt connected with her because I also love stuff animals they are the best they make you feel confortable. I had never seen stuff animals converted into a metal sculpture which I really liked and makes me want to try to do it. I feel very proud of her because she came to US not knowing anything and now she has improved a lot especially in her creativity in art. Overall, she is a great artist that create beautiful stuff animal sculptures.

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D4- Student Choice

For this activity of free speech I decided to use the idea of culture. Culture is one if most important elements in life because it represents who we are and our background roots. The media I used was photography. I feel that photography was the perfect media to use for this activity. In these pictures you can see different beautiful skulls, bread, flowers and other things that are part of the holiday Day of the Dead which is a huge celebration in my culture. The Day of the Dead is an important day to my culture and I celebrate because it’s the day that we remember all our family members that have died. This experience was great especially since I love taking pictures. This project meant a lot to be to be able to talk about one of the holidays that is part of my culture.

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C1- Artist Conversation- Charlie Roses

Artist: Charlie Roses

Exhibition: Dead Man’s Party

Media: watercolor, sculpture, ink, 3D printing

Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Max. L. Gatov Gallery East

Website: N/A

Instagram: charieroses

Charlie Roses is an undergraduate student at Cal State Long Beach and he will be graduating this year. He is involved in the school of sculpture which he will be getting his BA this year. He said that he loved art since he was 2 years old which is when he started to do art. He enjoys trying different medium, for example, sculpture, ink, 3d printing and watercolor. Also he said that he enjoys working with kids especially helping them paint or draw. Overall, he has a great passion with art that involves horror.

Charlie Roses artwork focuses con horror because she loves painting and drawing things that can look scary and interesting. In most of his artwork he uses color, line and rhythm. In other of his artworks he just uses black ink. If you take a closer look at his artwork you are able to see the detail that he uses to make it look realistic. Most of his artwork are not that big or that small they are usually the size if a regular paper because most of her artwork is done on a notebook.

All of Charlie Roses artwork involve a halloween spirit. She really enjoys painting and drawing things that involve horror because she loves that topic. What inspired him to do those type of artwork that involves horror were the halloween cartoons that he would watch since he was younge, the 1920s vintage aesthetic and horror movies. Also she usually always involves ghosts in her artworks because she loves ghosts being her persona in her piece of art. In breif, all of her artwork are inspired by Halloween since Halloween is her favorite holiday and Halloween is usually in her daily life.

This art exhibit resonates with me because Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and all the artwork form Charlie Roses involves the inspiration of Halloween. One of my favorite artwork was the drawing that is black and white of a little sad black widow because it is a unique artwork that combines a womens head with a spider’s body to make it into a human been spider. Overall, his artwork was really beautiful I loved it how he involves Halloween in all of his artworks.

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D3-Speech Actions

In this activity I decided to paint an earth that is falling apart because the fire is causing it to melt. The medium that I choose were watercolors and a old brown paper. I wanted this painting to speak from me how I feel that climate change is destroying our earth. I think I was successful while doing this artwork because it expresses my speech. My art expresses my speech by showing how the fire is destroying the earth by destroying nature and people’s lives. Overall, if I were to do this project again I would probably use a different medium and maybe I would express a different speech.

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C1 -Artist Conversation-Yaneli Delgado

Artist: Yaneli Delgado

Exhibition: Global Change

Media: Lithography, Intaglio, Relief, Screen Painting

Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Dennis W. Dutzi Gallery

Website: N/A

Instagram: omequiztli

Yaneli Delgado is a baccalaureate student at Cal State Long Beach. In addition, she is in the school of arts of printmaking. Yaneli has a bachelors in sociology and in Spanish from Cal State Santa Barbara and now she is trying to obtain a teacher credentials in art at Cal State Long Beach. She wants to be an art teacher at a high school because she loves helping and teaching kids. Also, she has a great passion in printmaking because she loves working with her hands.

In the piece of artwork of Yaneli named “Ni la tierra ni las mujeres somos Territorio de conquista” is a piece of artwork of global change in the Azteca culture. In this piece of artwork there is a women holding a baby , has cloth covering her mouth and she has her hand on top of the cloth that is covering her mouth.Yaneli Delgado used two colors only red and black. She only used those two colors because of the máchicas codes. The formal qualities that she used was line and color. If you look at the piece of artwork closely you can see how she she used lines to create detail.

Yaneli Delgado named her piece of artwork “ Ni la tierra ni las mujeres somos Territorio de conquista” which translates to “ Neither land nor women are territory on conquist” because she feels that we as womens should be heard that we aren’t no one’s territory. In this artwork she focuses on females, colonialism and capitalism. What inspired her to create this artwork were her Chicano/Azteca roots, the books that she has read, Los Angeles culture, and a famous writer Gloria Saldua. All these resources inspired her to create this artwork to help speak up for all women’s voices that we are no one’s territory.

When I saw Yaneli Delgado’s artwork it grabbed my attention because of the quote she had on it. I felt connected because I’m also a women that comes from Chicano roots. Especially I felt more connected when she started to explain the meaning that it had which made me agree that we women are no one’s territory and we need to let our voices be heard. Her ideas resonate with my ideas because coming from Chicano roots we know that many women from hispanic country go through situations were they feel that they are someone’s territory because they are scared to speak up and defend themselves that they are no one’s territory.

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D2 - Zines

The goal of creating this zine was to demonstrate the beauty of flowers. I really love flowers and admiring how beautiful each flower is. I feel that flowers create a huge impact in me because they always change my mood in a positive way when I’m feeling depressed. In this zine I tried to show some of my favorite flowers. Next time I would I would add some color to my zine. In the future I would like to draw something different for my zine for example, items that we see in our daily lives or other nature plants.

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C1-Artist Conversation-Sienna Browne

Artist: Sienna Browne

Exhibition: “You are You’re You”

Media: Oil paint, steel, fabric, sand and stuffing concrete

Gallery: LBSU School of Art, Gatov Gallery West

Website: Siennabrowneart.com

Instagram: siennabrowne

Sienna Browne is an undergraduate that is currently in her fourth year of the drawing and Painting BFA program at CSULB. Her intrest are art, helping people as a lifeguard and help students at a Church. Since when she was a young girl she had many family problems she discovered the healing properties of creativity by doing art. The ideas that her work explores are imagery, creatively with what she feels in the inside and emotions.

One of the artworks that grabbed my attention was “The Image of the Invisible God”. In this artwork when I saw it I right away new that it was saying something related to the world. It was full of color and it has a lot of different small dabs that create a bigger image at the same time. It also has a texture that was created with dabbing of the oil paint. When looking close at the painting since there is a lot if dabbing you need to pay close attention of what it’s forming.

The painting “The Image of the Invisible God” is about Jesus how he would look like in Colossians 1:15-20. While I was conversating with her she said that she started it she was scared but excited at the same time. What inspired her was her love to Jesus. She knew she wanted to paint something that meant the moment before something becomes in form.Also she said that she camouflage faces and eyes into her pieces to comment how Jesus love is everywhere but we can’t see it and is looking at everyone all in once.

This piece of artwork grabbed my attention right away because it looked colorful and beautiful. Not only that but after reading the name and conversating with Sienna I felt connected. I felt connected because I also feel really conected with Jesus and I have the same ideas that God is everywhere and is always taking care of all of us wherever we are. This made me feel more connected with this piece of artwork because its an art of Jesus Christ which is a really beautiful artwork and a perfect way to send the message that Gods love is everywhere.

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D1- Finger Painting

Overall, I had an awesome experience finger painting an abstract painting. Even though in the beginning it was kind of difficult painting with my fingers, I still really enjoyed it because I got to feel the texture and the rhythm of the paint while I was painting. Making a painting with no subject was kind if confusing in the beginning because I didn’t know what to paint. Then at the end it was fun and distressing because I just started to paint random lines. Some differences between other painting are that this one is unique, I used my fingers not a brush and it’s not an image of something . Also, some similarities to other paintings are that there was some type of maeninng in the painting and there are a use of colorful paints.

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C- Graffiti Writing- Extra Credit

Extra Credit: Me holding a zine book from the Zine Rack at Small World Books.

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C- Grafitti Writing

My experience at Venice Beach was awesome, I had so much fun tagging my name in graffiti letters on the art wall. I had never done something like this, if I were to do it again I would use more colors and paint something else. Overall, it was a great experience.