week 5 - He IS A 100 ArTiStS!!

I’m talking about the contemporary artist Shea Hembrey, or actually I shall call him “the artists”. He is the one behind the international biennial by himself. He invented 100 characters who were artists who have different passion in life and art style. Am quiet fascinated and astonished from this artist; I usually hear that group of artists worked together for one project, but for a single artist to come up with many imaginary artists and do their work! This is definitely amazing and interesting.

I watched his talk in TED and there were two things he said that I am going to quote it for my life. The first thing is that when he said that he visited international art exhibition in Europe and couldn’t find what he wanted from artistic level which instead of making him disappointed, it gave him the pulse to make his own biennial that could be how he wanted it. And that’s a spirit that only great artists must have if I ever wanted to be one. The second thing was when he said that “Great art would have Head, Heart and hands”, here he meant the head with having interesting intellectual ideas and concepts, he meant heart for having passion and soul, and he meant with the hands for the great crafting. If I want to add anything to what he said I will simply say, that I will definitely follow the 3H’s rule for my artistic projects but with the different understanding which will be based on the assignments and projects given.

week 4 - class activity (juxtaposition)

in this week our lecturer asked us to choose randomly two digit numbers and then match them with two words from the column below :

step 1 :

choose 2 digit numbers

my chosen numbers are 50
5,0 =  fire, head


step 2 :
create a sentence using the two random words 


50 : the fire flared and burned his head

step 3 :
create a new word by combining the two words together 


firehead

step 4 :
create and illustrate the image of  "firehead"

painted hands!!!

one of the most inspiring and amazing work that astonished me and made me stop for a while speechless, was a work by an artist that unfortunately i don't know his name as the work was emailed to me and others from unknown source. actually this artist paint animals in a very fine details on the HUMAN HAND and what makes it even more special is that its so expressive and very realistic and remarkably life like.
now i'll leave you with some of his best art works.......Enjoyyy :) 

Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention.

on week three our lecturer MR.Mustafa  accentuate  us to the deep meaning of those 4 phrases (novelty,creativity, innovation and invention). and here are some pictures that may describe each phrase ;)

Novelty :

                                                               gun hairdryer

Creativity :

                                          this is actually a sidewalk 3D chalk drawing

Innovation :

Invention : 

school versus creativity and talents

I can’t agree more about all what Sir Ken Robinson said. Creativity is as important in education as literacy and should be treated with the same status; such a statement shall be spread to those who prepare the education systems for children. Not everyone have the same abilities, some use their right side of their better than the left side, and others not. We can never know that if the first 12 years of the children education life was very concentrated in literacy.

Sir Robinson also said that if you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original! And that’s true, if we never fail we will never know how to deal with mistakes and succeed further.

One funny statement of Sir Ken Robinson was “Professors live in their heads and slightly to one side; they look into their bodies as a form of transport to their heads”. It reminds me of some  lecturers here in MMU .