Peer Reviews

The first blog I was supposed to review did not have a post for either project 1 or 2.

The second blog had a posting for project 1, but not project 2.  So I did leave a comment on project 1 - the elements & principles slideshow.

The blog is Sharntell Moran's: https://sharntell-tnfa.blogspot.com/

Her Elements & Principle's Slideshow was amazing.  I felt like for most of her pictures, I understood exactly what image she was trying to convey, and I agreed wholeheartedly with those images.  They were perfect.  For the images I was less sure of - mostly because they were unlabeled, but not all - I could see a couple of different principles/elements.  There's one unlabeled one that looks like it could be either line or contrast, depending on what you're looking at.

The other blog I reviewed for project 1 was Megan Newton's: https://artinquiryreflections.blogspot.com/

Her Elements & Principles slideshow was good, though maybe not quite as impressive as Sharntell's.  For some of her pictures, I wholeheartedly agree with what she was going with.  They're fantastic pictures for illustrating particular elements/principles.  For other pictures, I could see where she was going with the idea but I didn't necessarily think her picture depicted that well.  I'm not sure I saw a different element/principle in the work, just that I might have picked something different to what she was trying to show.

The first blog I could review for project 2 - the art gallery visit - was Haley Laskowski's: http://haleysartforthemind.blogspot.com/

She picked some nice works, though none of them were the same as my own.  She seemed drawn to more modern/recent works - everything she picked was created in the 20th or 21st centuries, while I like older works of art.

Megan also did project 2 so I reviewed her blog too.

She and I did have one piece of work in common - we both felt drawn to that Niagara painting, and we generally had the same reason: we live in the Buffalo-Niagara region and care about what happens here.

I have to say that Haley picked a piece of artwork I sort of missed somehow in my visit.  Nancy Dwyer's Kill Yourself piece is quite interesting and I agree that I want to know way more about it.  Especially since it was done in 1989 so it would make it difficult (but no less relevant) to say that it "came out of" internet culture because the internet was not such a big thing in 1989.

To be honest, I feel like my peers need to learn to talk about their processes a little more.  They're reflections are very short and reserved and don't really give me much to go on in terms of analyzing an opinion and forming a response.  As you can see, I do not lack for words, or the courage to use them.  I wish they would speak up more.

Also evidenced by the fact that I have no comments on my own blog, so I can neither agree or disagree with what they have to say about my processes/reflections.