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Art 211 - 2 Sections

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A collection of visual and written ideas produced by the student artists of Western New Mexico University while working with adjunct faculty member, Tyler Bingham (Fall Semester 2016).

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Marcus Bohlin

I appreciate art because there is no right or wrong ways to practice it. Wheather you are a drawer or a painter, there is no set of rules you must follow, all you have to do is enjoy yourself and your craft.

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Rikki Carter

Art is interesting because it shows the artist's true personality and their actual mental state.

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Izabela Chase

The thunder is getting louder. You know you need to get to safety, but the rain starts and it's like a weight is lifted.

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Veronika Conner

If a family or someone is in need of a home, I hope that they will be assured they will have a place to stay.

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Felicia Dominguez

You can show all of your emotions through art.

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Kassandra Duran

I learn something new every time.

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Deshawn Hathorn

It has no restrictions and no one meaning.

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Sophia Nograro

Behind every art piece are effort and feelings.

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Sai Nakoa

"No man has enough memory to be a successful liar."-Abraham Lincoln

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Carmelita Padilla

To try and capture the way the sun hit the car and the clouds.

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Charles Reece

Curse of the mummy on all who approach the sacred tomb.

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Katrina Reyes

Even looking through angry red eyes, greatness can be seen.

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Quiwaina Robinson

Art gives me a new perspective and outlooks on my environment.

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Cynthia Robles

There is a sense of beauty because of the unknown.


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Marissa Rodriguez

A society where color does not...

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Isaac Wenning

The vision needs to be positioned in the darkness in order to see true light.


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Benylene Whitehorse

You never know what a little bit of paint and a few objects can do...

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Emily Aquino

Where you can look at a piece of paper and not only see a picture but see the importance of what is shown.


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Shae Castillo

Cutting, knowing that they were once happy as the sun, but as blue as blue, their stability, loyalty, and trust is all gone.


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Roberto Jr Contreras

How much capability a human being has...

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Misipapa Faavae

My story is far greater...This painting depicts the island of "Havel."

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Anthony Fierro

I see art in everything I look at now. Using the dark room was probably my favorite thing....

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Daniel Flores

I am genuinely interested in creating the illusion of characters moving, rather than just drawing a static image.

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Gerald C Hadden

Silhouettes of things that bring pain, with red paint to represent a very real pain.

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Elijah Jones

This piece is called, "HOV." This isn't just any two handed triangle, this is a tribute to my favorite rapper, Jay Z's famous hand symbol...money, power, and respect.

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Mazin Khalil

Nobody would ever challenge this gang for they knew they would get killed. Some say they've killed over thousands.

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Sereena Roper

"Perspective from Above" is an image that represents the look of a tornado as if you were looking at if from the galaxy.

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Asia Morales

I love you, that small gesture can completely change somebody's life in a matter of seconds. It can also break someone, too.

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Erin Moss

Closing my eyes I imagined the fun late night adventures I had with my friends. My blue Honda Civic would drive up windy roads that lead to the beautiful city of Honolulu.

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Bretina Romero

I don't quite know why, but the sun always fascinated me...the colors and the unimaginable size and beauty.

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Ashley Sapien

The depiction of the negative side of beauty, representing how beauty can sometimes be defined by what is applied. Insinuating that it takes, numerous products, to be the ideal perception of beauty.

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Emma Siboni

Our hands represent the absolute symmetry, if they have exactly the same size. But htere they are not symmetric.

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Tytus Timoteo

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."

-Vincent van Gogh

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Hannah Tishlarich

This is the inside of my mind sometimes. It is full of different thought about family, school, friends, and especially volleyball.

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Salaya Torres

Life once filled the environment surrounding this tree, but that life ended when a natural disaster wiped out the world. Now there is nothing but darkness at this place.

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Jacob Valdez

Walking through a small ghost town, having an eerie feeling. Always feeling like you are being watched walking through the town just to realize you are.

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Monique E Willis

Discovering what pinhole photography is, was mind blowing to me. Taking a picture with a box, piece of metal, and light? I saw a pile of trash and thought if was worth taking a photo of.

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Rebekah Fletcher

I learned about techniques in architecture, which before I never realized was an art.

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Julio Andazola

It is in fact the act of understanding and studying not just the paintings, drawings and other forms of art....but also the techniques and styles...

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Nathaniel Woodruff

I tried to represent on a deeper level, something you know by just looking at it, rather thinking about it.

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Taylor Reece

I am the sun. I bring life into this world every time I rise. The birds praise me, the flowers adore me, and many animals wake just to see me.

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Robert Rodriguez

Artist are very open-minded and see further than their art, they see so deep into their art that some of the images do not stand out in the Art.

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The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur

Pronounce the word artist, to conjure up the image of a solitary genius. A sacred aura still attaches to the word, a sense of one in contact with the numinous. “He’s an artist,” we’ll say in tones of reverence about an actor or musician or director. “A true artist,” we’ll solemnly proclaim our favorite singer or photographer, meaning someone who appears to dwell upon a higher plane. Vision, inspiration, mysterious gifts as from above: such are some of the associations that continue to adorn the word.

Yet the notion of the artist as a solitary genius—so potent a cultural force, so determinative, still, of the way we think of creativity in general—is decades out of date. So out of date, in fact, that the model that replaced it is itself already out of date. A new paradigm is emerging, and has been since about the turn of the millennium, one that’s in the process of reshaping what artists are: how they work, train, trade, collaborate, think of themselves and are thought of—even what art is—just as the solitary-genius model did two centuries ago. The new paradigm may finally destroy the very notion of “art” as such—that sacred spiritual substance—which the older one created.

By: William Deresiewicz - Exercept from, "The Atlantic"