SOU Art Department Website

The Art Department website is very bland and in the same style as the rest of the SOU website.
The first page of the website offers an image of the university with a cut out border but is unoriginal visually. The Art Department website should feature more use of color and dramatic imagery.

On the Facilities page, there should be student art work shown for each different facility along with pictures of the different facilities. The facilities should also be separated more to help create more of a flow rather than how cramped it looks visually now.

Overall, the Art Department needs more visual impact. After all, this is the website for the ART Department. It should feature the strengths of every aspect in the art department and show student work to help encourage students to attend.

Sea Maiden

Red hair
Black hair
Greenish gold paint by the chin
Turquoise eyeshadow
Stars in the background and overlain in the image
Greenish blue paint on hand

This photo is called "sea maiden," since most of the colors are green and blue in tones. The red hair helps add dramatic impact and flare to the image. The use of color in this image help to mimic the sea except for the red. However, one could say that the red color does also help mimic the sea by paralleling it to red coral. The stars in the background help to give this photo an otherworldly, goddess feel. Overall, this image is fascinating since it incorporates reality, the woman, with fantasy, the stars and wild makeup.

Innocence with a Tinge of Surprise

Woman
Dark brown eyes
Red lips
White lacy shawl
Sunlight
Blurred, dry, nature background

I chose to comment on this image specifically because of the expression on the young woman's face. Her expression resembles that of innocence and of surprise, paralleling that of a deer's expression probably because her expression is similar to a deer in the headlights or just of one caught off guard. Because the eyes are said to be the windows to the soul, the woman's eyes express to the viewer innocence and surprise. The sunlight behind her frames her and helps her to stand out. Her red lips somehow seem to enhance her expression. The white shawl helps further emphasize innocence in this photo.

Y Tu Mamá También

One Woman
One man in front of her
One man behind her
Text
Green title text
Red names for the actors
Red behind woman
Palm fronds in front of the man and woman

First, a description of the cover (so this can be used as a visual critique). This movie poster exudes sensuality and sexuality with its use of color and imagery. The two men are both holding one woman. The woman has red behind her, symbolizing passion. The palm frond on the left hand side helps to symbolize paradise and vacation.

I chose to review this movie for the Ashland Film Festival assignment since all the Ashland films had been taken down at DJ's Video and so I was allowed to choose a foreign film. This movie was very different than a lot of movies I have seen. The movie was rated 18 and over. I had heard about this movie several times over the past couple of years and decided it was time to see it. This movie was very sensual and erotic. This movie is about 2 young boys, around 18, who are around the age of graduating high school. Their girlfriends decide to travel to Europe and go to Italy one summer. While they're gone, they meet Luisa, who is married to the cousin of one of the boys. Basically, the boys convince Luisa to join them on a road trip to a beach. She at first protests because she is married but decides to go with them after she has a dramatic event happen to her. To mask her pain, Luisa has sexual relations with both boys. The boys develop friction within their friendship because they both discover that they have broken their guy's "code" of friendship they had developed together. Both boys not only slept with Luisa but had slept with each other's girlfriends in the past. This movie shows that while on the surface friendship may appear stable and fun, with some friends there is a murkiness just beneath the surface that can end up destroying a friendship. This movie also shows how a woman in pain (because of several circumstances) used sex as a way to numb herself against worldly pain.

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Book Project Part II

Soul Reflection

1 blurred figure with reflection in a mirror
In focus striped walls with tan and off white strips

This photo is titled "Soul Reflection" by Elif [Sanem] Karakoç on DeviantART. I find this photo fascinating. The nontraditional effect of blurring the subject is very useful and impactful here. The use of the mirror further helps convey the artist's message as well as the striped walls remaining in focus. The striped walls help to depict the individual in the world, viewing herself. I believe the title "Soul Reflection" refers to the idea that it is challenging for individuals to truly view themselves. The literal translation of this could be simply viewing ourselves in a mirror, but in reality, this pertains to viewing our lives as a whole, our personality, and good attributes. In essence, it is hard for individuals to truly see and view our SOULS.