Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Blog post 1...

Hello and welcome to art101iup.blogspot.com. This is an interactive space intended for ongoing discussions from class, a place to find key concepts, and a place to interact, in a professional manner, with your peers and your professor. Weekly, I will post a topic related to what we are covering in class. I am looking for statements, comments, and questions to be posted by you, the student, under the appropriate comment space. This will allow others to see your comments and for them to respond or expound on them. I hope this creates a thread of comments that others may find useful in some way related to our class. This blog will also serve as a posting board for arts related happenings in and around the Pittsburgh area. Be on the look out for gallery openings and other events that you can attend.

First step: You must create a Google account...its free and easy. This can be done when you click on the comment link. Then you are in.


Also, I will be posting links that are relevant to this class in the margin...there are already a couple there now. If you have interesting art links, post them in the comments page and I will review them before deciding to make them a permanent link.


I do expect EVERYBODY to log into this blog and to also to leave a comment at least 2- 3 times this semester. Please use this blog as a tool to keep up with class, ask questions for people to respond to, find out things missed, and to further deepen the concepts from class. This is designed to help you and keep you connected to each other. In a large lecture based class having a blog type component can be helpful and informative...so USE IT!

9 comments:

brnp said...

picasso is very interesting in the way he portrays his art

mcolyar said...

its interesting to see how architecture and art can relate to relate to eachother

MMiller012 said...

i love picasso, his art is amazing and of course his cubism period with the guernica painting is pretty cool too. i saw his work at the prado museum in spain this past summer, good stuff.

khouser said...

Thanks for jumping in so soon with a continued discussion and comments from our past class...

BuffaloMarkAnderson said...

i think the way piccaso paints shows a different side that people don't see and his cubism makes things interesting being layered and different shades in such a small area

ppryts said...

id have to say Guernica is one of my favorite Picasso works. The size of the mural with all of what is going on in it is amazing.

Unknown said...

Picasso is one of my favorite artist. His art is interesting and its very differnt.

Greg Fleming said...

I really prefer art in architecture, art on the wall never really does anything for me. Its so much better when you can when you can walk around and touch the art, when you can feel it, its just moves you especially when elements such as water or fire are incorporated into the piece.

MHaft said...

Picasso has to be on the most well known artists in history and has his own very unique style of art.