Princeton Museum of Art


I went to the Princeton Art Museum and explored the entire gallery. I came across the Asian art collection. This is one of the permanent collections in the museum. I took Art History of East Asia last semester, so when I was walking through the exhibition I found a lot of familiar pieces and artists. One that caught my eye was a screen painting by Maruyama Okyo called the Hozu River 1772. It is a 6 fold screen in ink and light colors and gold on paper and is about 6ft tall and 11 feet wide. In the gallery this piece is on a platform and not surrounded by any other work. I feel this helps people concentrate on the piece and the amazing intricate brush strokes. This piece is from the Japanese Edo Period 1600-1868, which was one of my favorite time periods to learn about in my art history class. I really enjoy this piece because if the composition and the brush strokes. It is a landscape of the Hozu River in Japan. The image itself is very simplistic, however the stylistic rendering is quite beautiful and complex. On the left side of the screen is a faded hill with hardly any detail. As it shifts to the right you start to see some clouds and a few trees. Finally the strokes begin to get darker and more detailed and show this amazing landscape of these gorgeous trees along side the river. The drawing is done in a mostly monochromatic palate, which puts more emphasis on the composition and skill of the painter.

Place- Cemetery
Environment- sunny
People-disarming
Mood-content
Objects-circle
Flora-merryweather
Period-days

PLACE- house, cemetery, garden
ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS- breezy, frigid, sunny
PEOPLE- strange, unique, disarming
MOOD/FEELING(S)/EMOTION(S)- nervous, bliss, content
OBJECT(S)- circles, cups, forks
FLORA/FAUNA- merryweather, sleeping beauty, disney
PERIOD OF TIME- month, days, seconds

How to carve a pumpkin
For my how to book I am planning on making a how to booklet on carving pumpkins. I know I have always found it difficult to carve pumpkins, but always wanted to learn how. I want to create a easy to read directional book for people on carving. I will have the standard jackolantern and a few variations as well. The booklet will contain lots of pictures and visuals as well as written directions to help make the process easier.

My name is Danielle. I am a Senior Fine Arts major. I am not a computer based artist. My work mainly consists of pencil, charcoal and ink drawings. I also really enjoy film photography. In thesis this year my body of work I will be creating will be about my relationship with natural and how people manipulate objects found in nature to create images or sculptures. I will also be playing with the idea of real vs artificial. I plan to use what I learn in this class and apply it to my ideas for thesis.