Assignment #1 Aesthetics

“I'm a passionate believer in the inherent creativity possessed by all people and our inherent ability--if it's not clouded by convention--to appreciate authentic beauty in all forms, whether we like it or not”. Porter Arneill

“Aesthetics happen”. Porter Arneill


Porter currently serves as the Executive Director and Public Art Administrator for the Kansas City Municipal Art Commission in Kansas City, MO. He is also a member of the adjunct faculty for the Kansas City Art Institute. Previous to this position, he served as the Director of Public Art and Education for the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, MO from 1997-2002. During this time in St. Louis, he also served as the Director of The People Project, a $1millon, self-supporting, 12 county, bi-state temporary public art event spawned by the Zurich and Chicago Cow Parades. From 1993-1997, he was the Curator of Education for Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis. Porter serves on the advisory board for Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He has lectured about public art throughout the country. Porter received an M.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Fine Arts and has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country.

www.artsusa.org

Aesthetics is what each person sees in that picture of piece of art. Everyone will have different views of viewing art.
It was interesting to find this information focusing on Kansas City Arts. We are thinking about planning a trip to Kansas City and someone mentioned how much art is in that city. Then to find these quote on aesthetics was something else!

Lighting and shadows

To do the different lighting effects I took three pictures of the same area at different times of the day. The first one was taken around 10:00 in the morning. It shows some shadow and mostly sun.

Standing in the same place on my deck I took another around 3:30 in the afternoon. The sun was already starting to set and mostly shade was around.

The last picture was taken at 5:00 and the sun was already gone for the day. It was bright during the day as it melted the snow on the railing. All the photos were taken on auto mode.

Complementary/monochrome

I thought that my Christmas poinsetta was the perfect complementary photo, showing two different colors at opposites sides of the color wheel. The flowers are still in bloom from Christmas time (plants never last this long for me).

After last Wednesday's snow storm, I took this picture early Thursday morning. The picture seems to show many hues of white making it a monochrome photo.

For the Birds

I took these pictures in the morning before going to work. The feeder in the tree, and all the bird seed that seems to fall to the ground. I noticed that when looking at the bird seed on the ground it seems to have lots of details. Up close seems to show all the seeds singled out. I starting to have fun with the different settings that I have found on this camera.