"The point is, that every piece of art changes your whole perception of the rest of the world for the rest of your life. And it's not a joke! And if it doesn't, then it's not art, it's a commodity."


        Well, Rubens is always talking about subjective vs. objective in class, and discussions about subjective vs. objective are always prevalent in art school and the art community. I can understand the objective side of viewing art, based on the history of art, and general skill of the artist. But the above quote is directed at an individual. (Notice: your instead of their) Anyway, because the quote is directed at an individual it has to be subjective. There cannot be one piece of art that changes every single individuals view and perception of the world, that is nearly impossible. There can be however, a piece of artwork that can change one person's perspective. Is this not art then? Changing one person's perspective out of the billions on this world?
      And surely, commodities have changed people's perceptions on the world. And some commodities can probably change perceptions more wide spread than some art. 
      I just don't know how i feel about this quote. It seems like it should be right, but it is just not.

Redone Inside Out Mona Lisa. Ink and Colored Pencils.

    For the first day of drawing class, Rubens told us to bring in our most accomplished drawing. i brought in my inside out mona lisa. Maybe it wasn't my "most accomplished" drawing in the fact that it used killer observation and had awesome perspective, but i chose this drawing because, it was one of my most favorite drawings that i have done, and also because observation is definitely very important, but it can be pretty boring too.

Jessica Hische

Jessica is a Tyler School of Art graduate of the Graphic design program. Her work involves typeface, and typeface only. She works for a big company and has a lot of say in what she wants to create. the perks of having a creative job. On the other hand she works like nonstop, hopefully she doesnt do as much work as us poor little foundation students. Biggest lesson learned: a nice artist who is mediocre will find the same work as a nasty artist who is great.

Foot type project

Cancer the crab type project

frog type project

The feel of the City, the feel of Philadelphia.

Bauhaus
I attended a lecture the other day. The topic of the lecture was about trying to make our artist equipment state of the art and in tune with the 21st century. To be honest, I some what agree, but if you do not have 21st century equipment, than create art anyway!