Digital Portfolio (2019-2020)

Layering Investigation In class we were given a lot of artists to base our investigation on, and while we were supposed to only focus on one person and their works, I found interest in a specific work of art by each of them, and decided I'd base my investigation on that. I'll start with Sigmar Polke To be honest I was immediately drawn in when I saw this image. There's something that was so mesmerizing about this piece that it ke pt grabbing my attention even when there was about 10 other works also showing on that part of the Google Image page. The title of this work is  Magnetische Landschaft (Magnetic Landscape in English). I couldn't find more on the specific painting, other then it was created in 1982, however I did find a website detailing Polke's biography. He was born in Poland, 1941, but quickly had to flee with his family after the expulsion of Germans after the second world war. I think these events heavily influenced his art, because from w...

I think the topic that easily grabbed my attention the quickest was Invention and Fantasy. I hope I'm not misinterpreting this genre because when I think Invention I think Sci-Fi, and with Fantasy well, obviously fantasy. As a kid 2 of the first games I played were Halo: Combat Evolved, a Sci-Fi FPS and Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, an obviously fantasy puzzle action game. I got the chance to play these around when I was 6 or 8 years old, I don't have a good enough memory to remember the exact age. As time went on though, I got more and more into Fantasy (while still enjoying Sci-Fi) with the Lord of the Rings trilogy being one of my first memories from when I first moved to Pennsylvania at around 10 years old, and my dad giving my the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A Salvatore as a bit of reading to do over the long summers before I actually got friends up here. Fantasy has always been a genre I could escape to when things got hard, and I love the messages that can be delivered ...