Analyzing the Pop Art Piece, "Perfection!"

1) This is a very strong composition because there's extremely dark or strong contrast under the character's neck. There's lines for the gloves and the hair, the lines on the glove shows it's wrinkly, and the hair looks curly, giving some textures. There's also few colors, only yellow, red and blue.

2) The artist uses only few colors, mostly red, yellow and blue, making the picture an attention grabber. The colors blend together nicely. The black color gives the art a strong contrast from the bright colors, giving the character an illusion of 3D.

3) The lines on the gloves gives the wrinkly look, and the lines on the hair gives the texture of curliness. There's also tons of circles/dots on the woman's face, giving the art a cartoony look. But with lots of details of black, thick lines on her eyes, nose and lips, she's a mixture of cartoon and realism.

4) My connections to this art piece is that I find cartoon art fascinating, and I love the way how the artist did this art piece. Instead of coloring in the skin color, the artist puts tiny dots on her face, making it look more cartoony. But with the dark contrast on her face, it makes the cartoony art a lot more dramatic. It's also the way how the character is posed and the serious look on the face with the thought bubble saying "Perfection!" gives it a sense of drama. By looking at this art piece, I think the artist's intention is that this woman wants perfection. The message could be, "We want perfection, but no one is perfect, so we make mistakes in order to perfect something."

End of Term Reflection

1. I have grown artistically in classes by trying my best to do what teachers say. In my opinion, all art teachers have helped me grow in many ways and in a new perspective. Mr. Edward made me build a puppet, and it required art and engineering skills to create a puppet that blinks, moves its mouth and sign. With Mr. Hackett, I learned how important observing with what I see can make a big difference in my drawings. Ground and figure relationship, along with balanced proportion, helped me improve my drawing skills dramatically. Ms. Marsh helped me a lot with drawing values. I learned that some areas are darker than others, that I can layer cake to make a drawing look like in 3D. Lines makes drawing look flat, so I have to turn lines into edges in order to add the 3D effect. I'm still struggling and improving, but Ms. Marsh made my 3D drawings look much better than when I had not much experience in adding values. Mr. Leyen taught us how to use Illustrator to create interesting art, like words forming a person or an object. I also worked with a partner to create a storybook. Miss Aldarondo showed me how artists express themselves through art by visiting art museums. With all of the support from my awesome teachers, my perspective on art did change.


2. Being in a creative community made me notice how students have very different art skills, yet we all have one thing in common: we love to do what we want to do and we work hard on our art skills. It's so nice to see other visual artists like me, though on different stages of skills and interests, we always learn something new from each other and we are always improving. I enjoy getting feedbacks from other visual artists, which helps me grow on my art skills and ideas. I also taught students something too, like I wrote tips on the white board on how to use 123D design to create Ife heads in the STEAM lab. Even though we are students, we teach each other. That's what I learned being in the BAA community.