Author Archives: baicane

Today was our last day of class in the course. Man, did the last six weeks fly by. It feels like yesterday I was just learning all about my new classmates, teacher, and Second Life. After working with Second Life … Continue reading →

After reading the Wikipedia article about postmodern art, I found a lot of things interesting about the movement. As stated in wikipedia, postmodern art is “a term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction … Continue reading →

Next week my class and I will be presenting our own contemporary artists to each other along with the second life public at an art show this tuesday. I have decided to interview my very good friend, Jeremy Miller. We … Continue reading →

The painting that had inspired me the most in my college career is Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night. The painting is simple, yet so dynamic to me. Starry Night was painted with oil on canvas in 1889. The painting was … Continue reading →

Vincent Van Gogh has always been one of my favorite artists. From his sunflower paintings all the way to his very own portrait, I think all his artwork has so much visual weight to themselves. I have decided to take his artwork … Continue reading →

Walking around Second Life, I have begun to explore other galleries in the virtual campus. There are several amazing artworks around the campus by many different artists. Each piece of work shows a different message to me, which I really … Continue reading →

Watching Roy Lichtenstien’s video about turning Monet’s work into pop art really had me impressed. I loved the way Lichtenstien took a more classical piece of work and turned it into something so postmodern. The original piece uses traditional colors … Continue reading →

This week I was quite interested in learning more about one of our founding fathers in art, and decided to research more about one artist that was demonstrated in our Artist Role-play project this week in Second Life…Pablo Picasso! Picasso … Continue reading →

After reading the wikipedia article about visual arts, I learned a lot. Almost every type of art involves aspects of visual art. These types of visual arts are usually fine, applied, decorative arts and crafts, but in 20th century Britain, … Continue reading →

This week I was unable to attend class, so I was able to teleport to the Second Life Sistine Chapel and visited the Sistine Chapel around the virtual world. I found several qualities interesting about the attraction that really opened … Continue reading →

Watching the khanacdemy.org video on art history with ancient cultures, I learned many things. The building were all architecturally designed for the beauty of themselves, which was one of the most important things when building in ancient rome. The emperor at … Continue reading →

One of the several places I look forward to traveling to at some point in my life would be Chicago. Not only for the amazing stores and people, but for all the art. Everywhere you look there is something that … Continue reading →

It has been a few days since I have started my online class of Art 1010 and so far, It hasn’t been to bad. I have received the vocabulary list and have been going over it, along with reviewing all … Continue reading →

Early this morning I began to work on my first assignment of my ART 1010 class, which included starting this blog and making an avatar in a virtual world called “Second Life”. At first, the avatar part part was quite … Continue reading →