Nate Tom
Da Vinci Visual Arts Capstone
My name is Nate Tom. I am 14 years old and I am going to Grant High School next year. I really like eating ramen and skateboarding. I enjoy making both 2D and 3D art because I get to do my own thing and express my feelings in my art. I’m the type of person who talks too much in class, but I like being able to make art and I’m good at classes like history and language arts because I get to use my visual creativity in those classes. At lunch, I enjoy playing sports like basketball or soccer with friends.
My theme for my capstone is “my life in Oregon.” I’ve represented the Oregon coast in a couple of my pieces, like “lil boat,” as well as the skatepark with the big wave. My favorite subject to make in ceramics is faces and monsters because I enjoy being able to transform my dreams and creativity into physical objects and creatures. A Lot of my art and creativity is inspired by things that are happening to me or around me that bring me new inspiration and ideas. A couple of my artworks were inspired by native art after I went to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology.
Da Vinci Visual Arts Capstone
My name is Nate Tom. I am 14 years old and I am going to Grant High School next year. I really like eating ramen and skateboarding. I enjoy making both 2D and 3D art because I get to do my own thing and express my feelings in my art. I’m the type of person who talks too much in class, but I like being able to make art and I’m good at classes like history and language arts because I get to use my visual creativity in those classes. At lunch, I enjoy playing sports like basketball or soccer with friends.
My theme for my capstone is “my life in Oregon.” I’ve represented the Oregon coast in a couple of my pieces, like “lil boat,” as well as the skatepark with the big wave. My favorite subject to make in ceramics is faces and monsters because I enjoy being able to transform my dreams and creativity into physical objects and creatures. A Lot of my art and creativity is inspired by things that are happening to me or around me that bring me new inspiration and ideas. A couple of my artworks were inspired by native art after I went to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology.
Alexander Calder art review
By Nate Tom
Title: Cirque Calder Made in: 1931
By Nate Tom
Title: Cirque Calder Made in: 1931
This piece was one of Alexander Calder's earlier pieces made out of wire and scraps of fabric to represent a crazy circus with things like lion tamers, sword swallowers and contortionists. This piece has really enthusiastic and energetic qualities to it, because of the great amount of bright colors and characters. I love how he used wire to make the faces and body shapes and then basically gave them costumes with fabrics.
If this piece were mine I would probably title it, Cirque Du SoCrazy because it's got so much going on in the artwork. If this art piece were to come alive it would probably have the roar of a crowd and lions and honks from circus clowns as they do their act. I think Alexander Calder made this piece for a fun and active piece of art.
In this piece I’d say that orange is the most eye bringing and defined color in the piece, as it is used many times throughout the piece. I think that the most important aspect of this piece is actually the wire structure hanging above the circus because it really draws your eyes to it with the bright colors and flags all over it. If Alexander Calder were still here today and I had the chance to ask a question about this art piece it would probably be, What brought you this idea to make a funky circus and why did you choose to make it from the materials you made it from?
I really like how there is so many people and actions happening in the circus all at once and it almost makes it feel as if the show were really happening because there is so much going on in the piece. The one thing I don't really like about this piece is that it isn’t very large for how much things are going on in it.
I think people would like this piece because it’s like you’re the audience and your watching the Cirque Calder.