just posting some artwork

I guess for the first piece, I think it looks pretty nice.  But I guess I agree with my professor on how he said there is some sort of "sweetness" about it that puts you off.  It's a weird feeling, it is nice to look at but lacks any oppositional/original motivation.  It's just titled "Landscape."

 

 

 

 

The next one i did a year earlier, kind of Roger Dean Inspired actually, at least the background part with just the two colors.  I actually kind of like this one, been thinking of doing things more like this.  It was actually in the SUNY student art exhibition.  Not exactly a big deal, but they did put a picture of it in one of the exhibtion pamphlets.  I don't have a real good picture of this one , the first picture is just sort of thrown together to take a shot of it, the second is just the pamphlet shot, , but not set up the way it should be.  The third is how it looks in the house right now.  This one is also called "Landscape."

 

 

 

 

 

interested in some feedback

 

Aaron

 

Thanks Rover,

 

Well, I guess my whole attitude on art is that I won't bother with a social or political agenda.  That's why they are just titled "landscape," because that is what they are.  I just try to represent them in another way, while still keeping the feeling of vastness.

 

The first one was literally thought up in my head, drawn on paper, turned it into a wall sculpture.  Pretty much all held together with wood glue, hahaha.  That one was just ply-wood and stain.  I guess it was funny to use ply-wood, but that was just because I was cheap, it didn't have anything to do with recyclable or inexpensive materials to create art.  I guess I think that because I don't like the whole "art can be wonderful no matter the quality of materials" approach, especially if that is what is giving you the inspiration.  Most of that garbage art that the general masses views as garbage, is garbage in my opinion.  Enough on that.  I was just cheap. 

 

The idea behind second one started as smaller wood cutout paintings.  But I always like working big.  It lets the mistakes become less noticeable, haha.  That and size does have some sort of quality, small or large.  The crisscrossing mountains was just an idea I had.  It let the mountains support themselves rather than being a flat painting.  Also, the way the mountains blend together is the crisscrossing looks interesting visually.  If I can motivate myself to work a little more on this stuff, I will probably continue in this direction.

 

Aaron

 

 

 

Aaron