My Photographic Eye

"Morning Routine" (theme from photofriday)

My Favorite Artist

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born in a farmhouse on a dairy farm outside of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on November 15, 1887. By the age of 16 Georgia had 5 years of private art lessons at various schools in Wisconsin and Virginia. Ateacher once said of Georgia; "When the spirit moves Georgia, she can do more in a day than you can do in a week" After receiving her diploma in 1905 she for left Chicago to attend the Art Institute of Chicago. O'Keeffe was hard to please and would continue to bounce from school to school, job to job, and place to place. She was encouraged by Stieglitz to return to New York. By this time he had fallen in love with Georgia and wanted to pursue a relationship. He being in an unhappy marriage, had moved out from the family home and into his studio. She boarded a train in June of 1918 to return to New York and Stieglitz...and to a new life that would make her into one of the most important artist of the century. Alfred's wife divorced him in September 1924 and he began to press Georgia into marriage. She was reluctant to do so since they had lived together since 1918 and had survived the scandal, seeing no reason to marry now. She finally relented and married late in December. By 1928 Georgia began to feel the need to travel and find other sources for painting. The demands of an annual show needed new material. Friends returning from the West with stories stimulated Georgia's desire to see and explore new places. Alfred had no desire to leave New York and Lake George...he hated change of any type. In May of 1929, Georgia would set out by train with her friend Beck Strand to Taos, New Mexico...a trip that would forever change her life. Georgia found the thin, dry air enabled her to see farther...and at times could see several approaching thunderstorms in the distance at once. She affectionately referred to the land of northern New Mexico as "the faraway"...a place of stark beauty and infinite space. Georgia would return to "her land" each summer until Stieglitz's death in 1946, when she would move permanently to her home in New Mexico. ---ellensplace.net

Fashion As Art

Fashion is art.

These are several designs that were popular for these past few seasons.

Just like any other type of art shadding, shape, deminsion, and all types of materials are used within a "piece".

Just like any stereotypical art, these pieces can be judged and classified for a specific taste.

I Am Having Another Catharsis

I graduated high school in the spring of 2008. Throughout school my major activity, sport, and time devotion was cheer leading. I cheered from the time I was able to at the age of 5. I cheered with the same girls pretty much the entire time I cheered. Two since I started, picked up another one in 6th grade, another in 7th and finally one our freshmen year of high school. Obviously from cheering all these years together friendships were made and tested. By our senior year my relationship with everyone of these girls had failed. I was able to accept that, finish out my senior year, and just work toward my life long dreams. Too bad they weren't able to do the same. My entire senior year was a constant battle with them. I had to defend myself every time I turned around. Event today 9 months after graduation and over a year since we cheered together they still pick open the sore. I logged on to my facebook profile recently and to my surprise there were some old cheer leading pictures from junior year. Not so surprisingly the same girls I had struggled with senior year were in it and had tagged myself as "Crazy Bitch". I was so mad. I wanted to leave nasty comments like they had done. I wanted to call them up and let them know just how stupid and immature they were. I wanted to meet them somewhere and just beat their head into the concrete. But I ignored it like I have been for the past two years now.

Art On You Tube II

This art i found on you tube is trully amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0hwMEe-v28

Meet this Artist I Know

The artist that created this was, Leanne Duffey, my big sister in alpha gam! I believe she trully is an artist. This is one of many peices I have seen from her. She is very creative. She created this piece over the summer. The idea came from inverting colors on photos off her computer. This is a self portrait

On the Graffiti Beat

This graffiti was discovered a step off the carrollton square. The graffiti was painted on the side of a garage in 2005. I do believe that this particular graffiti is a work of art. This took very much talent to create. This is just as much art as it would be if it were on a canvas. I personally do not know what this art means, but to the creator this has meaning. This is art.