Blog Post #7

Creating blog has been a good experience for me. You can share your ideas with others folks; and with the feedback they post on your blog, you can increase your skills working on blogs. I don't spend a lot of time working at the blog outside class. Even though doing blogs has been a good experience for me, I don't enjoy working on it so much. It is not a funny activity.
Blog is a type of art. You share your personal ideas with others. Even though sometimes you use other people ideas, but you combined it to your own ideas which makes it yours. Moreover, people look at your work and critic it like an artwork.
My favorite blog activity have to be posting comments in other students blog. I like to see other people work, reflect about it and then give a feedback. You get a better knowledge by looking at other people works.
What I would like to have done on blogs is interact with other classes, so I could develop  brand new ideas with blogs. It is really good to work with students' from other classes, especially Eng students.

Meme and Art

    Those pictures are art because they support all the three art criticism theories. It is difficult to evaluate the artworks from a formal point, because these days lots of artist combined more than one picture to make one piece of art so it is difficult to have an unique style. However, how the artist plugged in the police officer in the pictures, makes those pictures unique. From a contextual point, those old picture represent innocent, unarmed, and peaceful people. The police officer in this case is the bad person. The artist transmits the bad image of a police officer doing bad deeds. Finally from an expressive point, the artist, probably a student, wanted to give a support for the students and also to show the bad side of police officers.
  Those pictures were made for a social cause. To show people how police officers sometimes act when they feel overpower. Furthermore, what makes the police officer look like a "devil" is the fact that the students was using nonviolent methods to protest.
Recreating art and using memes are not plagiarism. Artist combined different tips of artwork to built one single art, making it an unique piece of art. Unless you take another artist artwork and do not modified, we will call it plagiarism.

Practice Post #6 - Research

1. Usually, Toulouse-Lautrec subjects were related to social events. Like people at bars, people dancing, and parties.
2. Most of his artworks used printmaking as the medium. He used a printmaking style called lithography. 
3. Toulouse artworks' doesn't evoke a big feeling inside my. His artworks look like  normal pieces of art. The artworks doesn't attracts me at all. Maybe for the subjects he usually printed, or maybe for the lack of bright colors on his artworks.