Tetsuya Noda

Tetsuya Noda was born in 1940 in Kumamoto Preficture. He is famous for his prints. He is a print maker, now for those of you who don't know what print making is exactly. Print making is when the artist creates a sort of stamp and places ink on the stamp and then places it on paper. The way they can do it is by getting a piece of wood and placing a sort of rubber ontop of it. Then they first sketch the drawing onto the rubber and then carv out the negative. After the artist has created the stamp he can print as many prints as he wants using a variety of color. Tetsuya also used to paint but that practice became unsuccessful so he turned to printmaking as his main focus. Now I've done print making in art class for high school and let me tell you it is not an easy thing to do. First you have to sketch the drawing onto the wood and then carve it out. When you are carving the wood out it makes it really difficult to get some of the details. So in order to do impressive work like Mr Noda one needs to be a highly skilled artist with great talents. So here is some of his work

Now if we just look at this piece we can see that even though it is a print it has a great deal of details. Even the texture around the person has nice details. Noda uses wood to make his prints and he also uses silk sheets. He likes to use these things because it adds texture to the background of his prints without him actually having to do it. Noda is very interesting because all of his prints are a represintaion of his life. If he is at a place or location that he likes he will take a picture of it and turn that picture into a print. His art is like what we might consider to be a diary.

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This is another example of what Noda prints look like. He basically turns e erything he sees into a print. Now I don't know if this is a good thing because of the whole concept of supply and demand. If he continues to spit out hundreds of prints one erything that he sees or experiences then who is going to want it if there are hundreds of them. Something that is rare people want but if they're a dime a dozen then people are going to apreciate them less and less. So in my opinion he should tone it down a bit and focus on doing big pieces and not a lot of little ones. And by big and small I don't mean size but big as in meaningfully. So overal Noda is awesome just does way too many pieces.

Here are some more:

LACMA !!!!!!!

Ok so i arrived at LACMA and i got in for free which was pretty cool. i got in for free because i had a Bank of America account. i guess you get in the first weekend of the month if you have an account. I had never been there before so i didn't know what to expect. The first building we went into was the 5th building, this building was huge and i didn't really know where to go. This museum was completely different than the Norton Simon museum. At Norton you kinda know where to go but not here. Well i found a room and there was some really nice stuff. I noticed that the guards here were really different from the Norton museum as well. At LACMA there was one security for one giant section of the museum, and as for Norton they had a security for every 5 ft of the museum. So here i felt a little more comfortable to roam around and do my thing.

Later on in my adventure i found myself in the Japanese art building. This building is incredible. I mean even the building itself was a work of art. i really liked how they made the building look as if the wall were those doors that people change behind of.

All the art inside was interesting. To tell you the truth i didn't really like anything on the way up the building until i got to the top. When i reached the upper level of the building i found paintings that had great detail and emotion in them. For example on one of them there was a group of people crossing a bridge. They weren't only crossing the bridge but they were fighting wind and rain. They were going against the rain rather than with it. I think the artist was saying that their people fight for their path. They fight for where they're going and what they have. Something else that really caught my eye were a pair of  Guardian Animals. These two sculptures were carved from wood. They are believed to protect the surrounding areas from harm and evil. The one on the left is based off a lion and is saying the first letter of the sanskrit alphabet ah, and the one on the right is based of a dog and is saying the last letter of the sanskrit alphabet un. Because of this it is believed that the entire universe is held between these two guardian animals and they will protect it. One on each end, the beginning and the end.

Next Building we went into was one with American art in it. The first couple of floors were closed so we couldn't see what was on those floors so we went to the third floor and there is were we found some incredible  art. The art there was much like the art in the Norton museum. lots of paintings of women, not so much nakedness though but a lot of paintings of the human body. One of them that i found interesting was the one titled  manly pursuits by Thomas Eakins.

 I find this painting very interesting because we don't see the faces of the wrestlers but yet we can see that they are fatigued to the limit. you can only imagine how long they have been training  or wrestling. It seems as if these two men are extremely exhausted and have given it their all. We usually get all that information from the face of the character but here there is no face to analyze and we are still able to get that from the body language of the characters.  

This entire experience was one for the books. It was extremely fun, and I'm planning on going back pretty soon and doing it all again but this time with more time to spare.

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Real?

Ok so in class on Monday we had a really insightful deep conversation of what real or reality was. Is real physical, mental, psychological, or hypothetical. In my opinion reality is based on perspective. To tell you the truth I'm not really the artist type I'm more of the nerdy science type of guy so to me reality is all based on ones perspective. For example getting into the touchy subject of religion... To some God is real. Jesus is real. To those people God listens to their prayers at night. Guide them when they are lost and heals them when they are wounded. That is a reality to those people based on their believes and their perspective. Not based on physical but si souli their perspective. God is real and that's that. To others there is no God. Some believe that the blue sky full of clouds is just that a sky full of clouds and nothing more. To them God is not there, he is not real, and that is their reality based on their perspective, based on the way THEY look at it. So now getting into the science aspect of reality. Like perspective each perspective changes relative to where one stands. For example if I'm at a train station sitting on a bench, and see a train pass me at 45 miiles per hour. In that train I see a person throwing a ball at 15 miles per hour. Relative to where I stand my reality is that the ball is traveling at 60 miles per hour, because we add the speed of the train and the speed at Which the person threw it. Now relative to the person that threw the ball the ball is only moving at a speed of 15 miles per hour. He doesn't see himself traveling at 45 miles per hour so he could only measure that the ball is going 15. So who's right ? Me or the train passenger? We both are. That is why reality in my opinion changes on the person's perspective. This comes from einstines theory of relativity. According to him the reality of everything can be changed relative to ones perspective. Time, mass, lengths, measurments are all based on perspective. The only thing that cannot change is light and the speed of light. I would explain but it's too long. Ok that's my insight feel free to ask Q's.