WP3: Prewrite 1

A large majority of my experience with art has come from this past school year. Being more interested in math/sciences, I hadn't taken any art classes in high-school. This year however, as a student in the pre-architecture program, not only have a been taking an online course the purpose of which is to learn how to analyze art and design but I have been taking the visual literacy courses that have had me working with colors, speculative drawing, analysis/composition, and perceptual drawing.

This experience has given me the ability to clearly analyze art-objects like the ones we have seen earlier and mine right now (as far modern-art can be analyzed clearly). It has worked out that my archictecture courses work complementary with this English course, both teaching analysis techniques I can apply to the other. With a better ability to analyze art rhetorically and technically I have also found a larger appreciation in modern art than I had before (although I still think a painted red dot shouldn't sell for thousands of dollars).

Performing an analysis on modern art can certainly be tricky, especially while trying to find a starting point, but without understanding of its technical elements, it is either impossible or largely arbitrary. Just as with our analyses of documentary photographs, I will likely approach any analysis (even though I'll be doing the second option for WP3) through the means of analyzing the elements first and then coalescing them into larger arguments.

I made my initially decision on my piece (Superstructure on 4) of artwork for WP3 because I thought it would make an excellent subject of a project for my perceptual drawing class (and it did) (I'll post the pictures of it up once I get them back as my multimedia element). Also I have a pretty easy idea about how to model it as well. I look forward to working with it (a bit apprehensively) for this project.