Escaping Flatland

I thought that this book was not hard to read but was really hard to just follow what the writer was saying throughout. He seems to bounce around from example to example which makes me a little confused. It really just does not make sense to me because he is just randomly talking about random things, object, and animals. I can't really see how the examples connect to his point that everything in our world is a flat object that we look at. Only thing that I can see that connects to the "flatland" is that the things he is talking about is possibly flat and thats the only similarity I could find to his point. It seems like he really doesn't support his point that everything in our world is flat or doesn't connect it to a higher idea. But then I began to possibly see how all of this space talk and scientific analysis began to connect to the dimensions and how it has created two dimensions. I like how it starts to touch a little bit on the fourth dimension. I like all of the cool diagrams and interesting figures that are scattered throughout the whole piece, I think it really helps the reader kind of grasp what he is saying. Overall I thought that this piece was fun to read and look at, but it was very difficult to grasp the concept and ideas that were being put forth. I feel like you would possibly need to read it over three or fours times to really get the point and facts the author is trying to get across.

Three Artists

1. Frank Stella
The reason I want to do Frank Stella is because I think that his style of art is awesome. I love the bright vibrant colors combined with the intricate patterns, it makes the pieces very psychedelic. Also Frank was the youngest artist to have the Museum of Modern Art do a retrospective on his work. Lastly, I really like how his work is extremely abstract and catches your eye making it open for lots of different interpretations.

2. Andy Warhol
The reason I would want to research Andy Warhol is similar to the reason I want to research Frank Stella, their artistic style is very unique and abstract. His work is filled with extremely vibrant and abstract colors combined with very recognizable images, making it an extremely interesting style. I would love to learn more about this iconic art figure and more about his artistic style.

3. Wayne Thiebaud
I would like to research Wayne Thiebaud because I find his paintings very pleasing to the eye. They are different from the normal art that I like to look at, the abstract and almost chaos looking. His work is very calming, even though some still have a lot of good color, they make me relax and pleasure my eyes. Also a lot of his paintings are of deserts and I would love to research and learn why he chose this as the staple of his pieces.