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Week 15

Reading the article was very interesting because it brings forward so many questions that I’ve never thought of. The sound is a unique topic because it’s not something that you’re able to hold physically like a photo or painting. And the most interesting part is that when “sound is gone there’s nothing left but a memory.” This makes the art of sound more enjoyable and intriguing as for we can’t look back on it (ex: a painting), we have to rely on our memories. As some of us know, memories may not always last forever, as for they tend to fade away. Also mentioned, there is no true way to put words together to describe a sound, we only try to mimic it or find a way to listen to it again. I also believe that because hearing is a physical process, we put our emotions into what we are listening to. Music, for example, if you listen to an acoustic version of a song that the artist intended on being sad then you’re more than likely going to feed into those emotions. This can be for any emotion, and while listening to any type of song without words but has an emphasis to feel a certain way, we tend to feel it also. The sound is a mental practice that we tend to question whether we know it or not. I think that sound is one of the most beautiful styles of art, but I just never realized it. I’ve always loved listening to everything around me, from the natural sounds in the woods to the river flowing up on the bank, even the people around me talking. I’ve also heavily relied on sounds, such as listening to music or poetry read out loud so you can hear the real emotion coming from the artist.

While reading the article I also listened to One Square Inch of Silence and it truly was amazing. The different natural sounds really reminded me of when I was younger and I’d go for hikes and listen to the world around me. The sounds themselves really show how much the world changes in a small timeframe. It also shows that there is always time in our lives to go out into the peace and listen to nature itself. The story behind it is also beautiful and I hope that someday soon we will realize how important the natural world around us is.

Susan Philipsz was born in Scotland and has continued her artwork in Berlin. She states that it is interesting to live in Berlin as for the history is still very new and fresh. She mentioned the train stations early on. She really likes to walk around and notice the places that have very nice acoustics as for she is studying in the physiological effects of sounds. She usually studies the history behind the places in which so goes to explore. She has the history behind the propaganda of the orchestra for the Nazis and “promoting” a happy lifestyle within the camps. She decided to understand more behind the orchestra to see how it makes others feel. I really like the way Susan works because I’ve always loved the history behind what I’m learning. And the way she thinks about the sounds is amazing. If I hear a train go by I try to block it out, but when she hears it she tries to take it in as much as she can. While doing so, she once again brings that history to the sounds she’s hearing (in this example the train she tends to ride take a route used to transport Jews during WWII.)

Picking an artist this week was very overwhelming because of the amount of artist we had to choose from. This week I picked Marcus Fischer who is an artist from Oregon. I listen to small pieces of some of his projects, and one of them I liked most was “Collected Dust.” I’m not really sure why, but I sort of liked the understand ring that changed pitches. I understand how this may be annoying to some but I thought was really interesting because its a sound most don’t like, but he found a way to make it into art.

https://acloserlisten.com/2017/09/12/sound-propositions-012-marcus-fischer/

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I do too agree with you that when we listen to certain music and the reason why we do is based off our emotions, how we are feeling at the moment, and the type of person we are. I feel that based on the music we listen explains a lot about us as individuals. I never realized how much power music has and how beautiful it is. Sound is literally everywhere and we take for granted of it, at least sometimes I do.

Week 15

Reading

Reading this article about sound started off interesting to me because I didn't that it was a complicated process. As described in the reading, "particles moving, objects moving, air moving, and sometimes liquids moving" is how sound is produced. The way they are talking about sound is a totally different view than how I see it on a daily basis. It is cool to think that sound is only a memory because obviously, it doesn't stay. I thought it was interesting to think that sound doesn't have a sound, it's only the things that make sound and that is how we refer to sound. The process of hearing is fascinating and it goes through this trail of things to get through the ear to get to the brain yet we don't know it's all happening because it is happening so quickly. I can tell that when I really listen and hear what is going on around me or if someone is talking to me that I create meaning with it. While I was reading, I learned that there are many questions to ask once we hear a sound and having answers to them help us have a better understanding of the sound. It is cool to think that listening is a form of art and is called sound art as described in the article. Sound benefits us in so many ways, better hearing, better listening, sharpens the ears and our imagination.

Video/Meida/Comparison

There are so many sounds around us that make us who we are. Sometimes we take for granted some of the sounds we hear every day because we are used to them. Because we may hear the sounds all day every day they draw a connection to us, the way we hear things, have perspectives, interpret other sounds, they affect us all around. Like Susan Philipsz was drawn to the sounds of a train which is why she lives in Berlin, people get drawn and drawn away from sounds every day. As I watched the video it brought to my attention that a lot of people get tuned into orchestra music. She uses sound testing to see how space reacts with her sounds that she is projecting. Things around you, when you make a sound, they bounce off the objects all around giving different sounds everytime. I think it is awesome how Susan is recording instruments that have been damaged in the war to still make sound and have a purpose other than just sitting around not being able to perform. She put them off into a room so people could listen to the sounds and soak in all the feelings and emotions. By projecting these sounds she is giving those who've died in the Holocaust a voice and it also reminds people of what happened.

I enjoy listening to nature and the surroundings that I am in. I do take for granted and don't fully listen. Listening to this clip picturing myself in a rainforest or at a park where they have exhibits of rainforest life. I think it is a very cool and calming thing to listen to while stressed, working on homework, trying to fall asleep, or plainly wanting to be an in a better mood. To me, it is cleansing my emotions and making me breathe in and out slowly relieving all my stress and worries.

Relevant Artist

Burke Jam is many things but more importantly, he is composer, artist, and educator. He completed his MFA at the Universty of Montana. He earned received a Fulbright Grant to Iceland to research more on the sounds of the surroundings and the ways of listening. He does his work all over the place all the time. He works as the Director of Digital Facilities as well as a college instructor of the Arts at Portland State University for Music and Art. He likes to listen to settle sounds because then they go out when your mind is in tune to what is to come next and then that makes your mind listen to the whole environment. The way he makes sound is so cool by using a wooden box outline with a rectangle cutout on the inside so that way the wind blows through it making a noise.

“Kids' Games & Activities.” Rainforest Alliance, Rainforest Alliance, www.rainforest-alliance.org/kids.

“Burke Jam.” PICA, pica.org/artists/burke-jam/.

“An Introduction To Sound Art.” Robert Worby - Writer – Composer – Sound Artist – Broadcaster, www.robertworby.com/writing/an-introduction-to-sound-art/.

Noise, Motion. “Burke Jam - ‘Generative Music Series : 12’ - Out of the Studio S1.Ep6.” YouTube, YouTube, 15 Apr. 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=00xCxP-y4W0.

One Square Inch of Silence

Week 13

Reading

I enjoyed reading the article about the introduction of Relational Aesthetics and Social Practice. It provided me with a basic understanding of the relational form of art. I learned that it can kind of be any form of art but also not. For instance, it can be made in any media, sculptures, and installations, poster handouts for viewers, many other unique forms of art. My favorite was the one about the "Snow Coffee". It reminded me of tailgating at a sports event, mainly football. Tailgating at a football game is where you place your vehicle or tents, whatever it may be and camp out in that parking space until game time. It is a good way to socialize and have a good time. Now relating to what it meant in this passage is similar because you are saving a spot in the parking lot for yourself by setting objects out that way people know the spot is preoccupied. That is how I made the connection and related to the information. In the second article, it is like the same idea and gives examples of different kinds of relational artwork. It emphasizes that the media is strongly involved. The creation between the viewer and the piece, how they react towards it brings out the pieces true value, meaning, and understanding.

Video/Comparison

In the video, Minerva Cuevas in "Mexico City", explains how her community comes together as one to celebrate and express the sorrows of the tragics that occur there. It shows different forms of relational art by posters, dancing, parades, anything and everything that come nature to them. She started taking an interest in art to empower people with her capability. Her art is mainly making something and making it more clear again to get to people. By creating relational art she takes an event that has happened in real life and makes it into art. Like her wall paintings. I liked her logic with the chocolate bar sculpture and how she created the effect of chocolate dripping from the ceiling onto her piece. She said that or everytime that the chocolate drips, one person dies from starvation... that is powerful to think about. By all the drips it forms a mound on the floor creating a chocolate sculpture. She is all about culture and history as it should never be dismissed or forgotten. Art is connected to us in more than one way.

Relevant Artist

Philippe Parreno comes into play with people questioning his work, relational art. His art looks so well done we don't know if it is real or fake by looking at it. He works in a wide range of media as well as branching out and getting a better understanding of what it actually is. Some background knowledge of Philippe Parreno is that he has French and was born, lives in Paris. He was the first ever to takeover 20,000 square meter gallery at Tokyo in 2013. He has a lot of highly important exhibitions. His work is presented all over the place in many museums. Looking at pictures of his work, his main points are simple and elegant. To me, they make me feel at rest, peaceful, and relaxed. I like how his work is colorful yet also all the same color. There is a time when it all can be the same color and I feel he has taken that very well. One of my favorites are the projects he made using balloons and how they all stayed stuck the ceiling randomly placed. I like how the detail was added to little simple objects.

“An Introduction to Relational Aesthetics and Social Practice.” Bad at Sports, badatsports.com/2014/an-introduction-to-relational-aesthetics-and-social-practice/.

“Relational Aesthetics: The Art of Sociability.” New Britain Museum of American Art, 24 June 2011, nbmaa.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/relational-aesthetics-the-art-of-sociability/.

“Minerva Cuevas In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s8/minerva-cuevas-in-mexico-city-segment/.

“Philippe Parreno.” Pilar Corrias, www.pilarcorrias.com/artists/philippe-parreno/.

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Week 12

The first article I read was Bree Newsome’s Superwomen-Style Confederate Flag Pole Climb. In the article, it talks about Sonya Clarks “Unraveled” and “Unraveling” art piece she made. Sonya mentions that she uses the “flag unravelling to show how racism was unravelled.” I think what she was doing to the flag was a little disrespectful but after I read more about it and realized what she was doing I thought it was actually kinda cool. I included the image of her creation below.

The second article I read was all about the Performance Arts. It talks about how performance art is usually when the artist performances the art piece live in person by themselves or with a partner. I found out that a lot of artists that want to try something new they usually will turn to performance to test “new ideas and attract new people.” I think its cool how art has different trends through the decades just like with the clothing trends. In the article, it talks about how the performance art had a good ride in the 1970s but then when the 1980s came around painting came back in full speed.

Media

I have to say that this weeks video was one of the confusing videos I have watched on art. The video was over the artist Nick Cave called “Chicago.” I really just don’t understand the point of the meaning behind some peaches of his art. I think its just really weird and different. It is not like I don’t like it, I just think his creations are just unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I do like the colourful creations he makes and how he’s not afraid of clashing colours together. I think its cool how Nick can get inspired by the smallest and simplest things such as a twig on the ground. The sound suit he made from the idea of sticks is just awesome. A lot of hard work and manual labour gets put into the creations he makes.

Comparison

I personally didn’t find a lot in common with the video and the first article. In the second article, I think that the performance art and the Nick Cave video had a lot in common. It was nice to read about the background of performing art and then seeing what it has developed into after watching the video over Nick Cave.

Relevant Artist

This week I decided to learn more about Adrian Piper. Adrian is known for very bold pieces of work that “treat race, gender, class, and identity.” I real reason why Adrian’s art drew me in was that of how honest and carefree it is. She doesn’t care about what people have to her artwork. Here artwork sticks out from other relevant artists I have read about in the past because she really focuses her artwork on the society and the social issues. One of my favourite peace she did was apart of her I am Locus 1975 series. This is an “oil crayon drawing she made from Polaroid pictures of herself in large crowds.” The polaroid pictures help make her art-piece stick out to me because I love the “vintage” look and how it makes it look like it has history to it. I think its cool how if you look at all the photos from being to end the text in the image gets better as if she’s talking to you personally and you can really feel and understand the point she’s trying to get out.

Works Cited

“Adrian Piper Pulls Out of Black Performance-Art Show -.” ARTnews, 25 Oct. 2013, www.artnews.com/2013/10/25/piper-pulls-out-of-black-performance-art-show/.Reading

“Nick Cave.” Art21, art21.org/artist/nick-cave/.

The Book

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I did to find it cool what performance art is and that artist uses that form of art as a way to explore new ways of art and to find themselves back if they have lost themselves. I think it is a great way to make a name for yourself and to help expand the artist overall ability. I enjoyed the video and thought it tied in really well with the performance art article. I enjoyed watching him use simple things and make them a masterpiece. He is very creative and colorful with his art.

Week 12

Reading

Starting to read about performance art took me by surprise. I didn't know what it was or what it had to deal with. I found it interesting that they use performance art as a way to find themselves again. Artist like to challenge the "everyday" art so they start doing this and that then gets them noticed in a different way because their art is different. I think it is creative and convenient how performance art is art that uses everything and anything. It takes different forms of art and unusual everyday things and makes it all one. For me, seeing art like that is more eye-opening and more fun to look at because it is unique. Onto the article about making statements, I feel a lot of people these days are always trying to make a statement to the public. Even though some stunts and statements don't stay changed permanently, it still brings an uproar to the public and they all start making changes and giving their opinions.

Video/Comparison

This weeks video was of Nick Caves art that he calls "Chicago". I kind of enjoyed his art. The long colorful hairy looking "creatures" really caught my eye. The colors and the way the costume flowed as the person moved around was quite satisfying for me to watch. However, I wasn't too crazy about the people in different designed suits with a box on their heads that had some fringe going around in a circle that was colorful. It reminded me of a spaceman suit. The way he interprets and comes up with his ideas is an interesting way and he makes pieces that have people wondering how he even thought of something so odd and different. His sculpture of the twigs made a cool sound that reminded me of instruments and how hitting or reacting to them all differently, even the same instrument, would make a different noise. They all had their own meaning. Going back to performance art where it's all into one, Nick develops sculptures that move, tons of color, texture, objects that are connected to them, literally anything he brings it all into one piece of art.

Artist Relevance

Tehching Hsieh was born in Nan-Chou, Taiwan in 1950. He grew up in a household where his parents did not have the same religion, his father was an atheist and his mother was a Christian. More about his family, his father had 15 children and they lived on a lot land so that meant everyone farmed. Not finishing high school he started his painting career. His first solo show was held at the American News Bureau and a while after he stopped painting. Interesting fact about Hsieh, he was an illegal immigrant for fourteen years. He was making art all the time and showing his works in different parts of the world. He received many "awards" for his pieces and even was nominated to represent Taiwan at the 2017 Venice Biennale. He now lives in Brooklyn. His work is about he explains life and change into art. He doesn't use objects but ideas that are in life. In 2000 he stopped doing art and started doing life.

“Nick Cave In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s8/nick-cave-in-chicago-segment/.

Other sources are the articles you provided us with on bright space

“Tehching Hsieh.” SKNY, www.skny.com/artists/tehching-hsieh.

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Week 11

When thinking of architecture I don’t generally think of an artist or art. But the best way to describe an architect is when the person(s) plan out building a piece on the ground (such as buildings) for anybody to see. Generally, I think of big public spaces for the piece to be seen, such as Maya Lin’s piece for the Grand River where she built the skating rink and other small parts of the park. Sometimes the pieces can be very unique in the way they were built and have their own style. And these styles continued to develop throughout the years and through different cultures. In some cultures, when they build these pieces some focus only on the beauty of the building, while other cultures try to focus on practicality (proper use) of the building. Today around our country we do a bit of both. Some buildings are only built for the beauty or only the practically (proper use), or both within the same building. Over time we have also learned how to create better and safer structures because this type of art is used often. Whether those structures were buildings or parks, every day we interact with them.

Listening to Maya Lin is very different compared to the other artists. She talks about her work and how some pieces she created. With some pieces, she considers herself an artist, while other pieces she says she is an architect. She mentioned this when talking about the Grand Rapids roller skating area and also in her studio when working with her atlases. Although she talks about being an artist and an architect separately, she doesn’t want “to practice architecture.” She also mentions the Vietnam Memorial. I myself have never thought about who created the memorial itself. She mentioned how she should have been or could have been, called an artist 5 years earlier but instead she was labeled as just building monuments. The glass pieces that she was working with, piling them up in the corner sort of confused me. This piece really wasn’t talked about but looking at it I feel it was more of a site-specific piece rather than an architecture piece. I also really like her piece “Playground” because she planned on making it out of recycled rubber for kids to play on. I think it is a good idea to show kids early on that recycling is important and we can get great use out of recycled items. Maya Lin is one of my favorite artists from the Art21 videos that we’ve seen so far. Although architecture is not my absolute favorite art style, it is very unique and Maya did a good job at making all these pieces interesting.

For my relevant artist this week I picked Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Now I picked him because his work is very modern and can seem sort of like a luxury. His work is one of those that don’t necessarily seem like artwork, but more like everyday pieces. His style has now come to be the focal point of the architecture world. And an interesting part about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is that he had few projects that were never finished. For example, he created the plans and blueprints for the Friedrichstrasse Office Building but the building itself was never built.

http://miessociety.org/mies/projects/

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I do like your idea of how architecture comes in different ways and styles. I enjoy looking at the ones that are made for beauty as for that is what they are made for. I think that it is important that architects keep improving ways to make the buildings more stable and have better support for the bigger extravagant buildings we continue to have. I agree with you that through Maya Lins pieces she wants to express recycling and how it can be used for different people like a piece of art and a playground like you explained.

Week 11

Reading

Reading chapter 13 about Architecture I learned that a lot of stone buildings can be carved to 10- to 15-ton rocks. Even the stones don't look like that are super close together, they truly are. Just like a lot of the topics we have already read, I didn't know that architecture deals with the same amount of principles like form, texture, line, space, color, repetition, variety, and emphasis. It was interesting to me that even though it's the same building, the insides, and outsides are both different. I like how big architecture building can get, how detailed, and how unique they are all from other buildings. Designers are artists because they are creating "art" like pieces, however, they are designing buildings, homes, to fulfill others, happiness and comfort like the book said so that makes them social servants and artists. I like how detailed some of the examples of architecture buildings are given in the book, especially the St. Basil's Cathedral. There is so many designs, textures, detail, color, patterns, and feeling involved in this architecture. I look at the image and my eyes keep wandering all over because there is so much. I this building makes me feel original, creative, and colorful. It has its own unique look. A lot of architecture needs to have a compressive strength, as stated in the book it means for the structure to have the 'ability to support pressure without breaking'. Building architecture deals with so many options and important details to every piece, to me that would be very overwhelming and hard to be an architect. It's simply amazing to me that people actually come up with these designs and really build all the buildings we have. Ones with different shapes, unique, colorful, huge, and a ton of detail are my favorite kinds.

Video/Comparison

Maya Lin in "Identity"

Listening to Maya, she really puts out that art is how you make it and what you want. I agree with her because it's all up to that one person. She was offered this little corner of a park to display her artwork. With objects surrounding her area, she was given to work with meant that she had to think about those, be an architect. Her piece she likes to think of it as liquid gas and solid and her overall piece is an ice rink. It relates to the chapter because there are more than one object and more than one thing going on at one time. I like how she put lights on top and then layered with a sheet of ice over it so that it gave it detail and color. To her, it's more than just a piece of art. It's about nature and looking back in time with landscapes and things that actually happened. I love how she resued her atlas books to make craters in them, it looks really cool! Just like most architecture, it is outside and large scale like a lot of her work. She loved building buildings and being an artist which is why she didn't choose between the two but she likes to keep them separate, which I like that about her.

Relevant Artist

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry was born February 28, 1929, in Owen Goldberg in Toronto, Canada. He is a huge well-known architect for the 20th century. His buildings mostly include bold, postmodern shapes and unique inventions. Examples are the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. He grew up in a Polish and Jewish family. While he was growing up he spent his time building little homes and cities being a creative little kid. He was married and then divorced with two kids, got remarried and had two more kids. He attended and graduated from the University of Southern California and dropped out of Harvard. He began making his move and building buildings. He became known for his uniqueness and the way he viewed architecture. With his work, he was professional and was attached to budgets. He realized his work wasn't meant for urban space. After he had his years of being an architect he took interest in being a professor at Columbia University, Yale, and the University of Southern California, (where he graduated). He was awarded the Pritzker Prize for how well done his work was.

Zelanski, Paul, and Mary Pat Fisher. The Art of Seeing. Prentice Hall, 2011.

“Maya Lin In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s1/maya-lin-in-identity-segment/.

Frank Gehry.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 18 Nov. 2016, www.biography.com/people/frank-gehry-9308278.

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Week 10

Reading

Chapter 11 was over craft media and “the topics were clay, glass, metal, wood, and fibers.” In this chapter, they talk about different ancient crafts. My favourite craft that I read about is fiber art. This category includes “ threadlike materials, usually woven or tied into larger wholes.” I never knew what tapestries were used for until I read the chapter. I always thought they were used for decoration because they are really cool to look at. They were actually used to “keep the chill off cold walls in castles. They make these tapestries by weaving heavy handwoven textiles right into the fabric.” I just personally like fiber art because you can see all the lines in the art piece and you can see the way it shapes the art. I just think they are all really cool to look at and you can see all the texture.

Video

The video I watched this week was called “ Brian Jungen in Vancouver.” After watching the video I can say that I’m not a fan of Brians art. I just think it looks weird. Like the meaning behind it is really cool and how he wants to show his Dane-zaa heritage through all the crafts he makes. A lot of his art seems really scary to me and like almost dark but all he is doing is showing the past. The photo I included down below is a picture of his sculpture made out of tents shoes called King Cobra. This sculpture reminds me of running and then on the sides, it looks like wings. So I think it’s telling me that running is kind of like flying. Then if I look at it for long enough the “horns” remind me of two snakes coming out from their hiding place.

Connections

While reading the book I found out that quilting was a “tradition evolved within poor African-American families.” They would use whatever scraps they had available to make the quilts to show their culture and their families heritage. Some things they used were “ old work clothes, cotton sacks, fabric samples, and suits.” This reminded me of how Brian Jungen gets a lot of his inspiration from his Dane-zaa heritage. Just like how the African-American families used old clothing or simple things they had around the house to make quilts is like how Jungen uses shoes and other things to make his sculptures.

Relevant Artist

My relevant artist this week is Piper Shepard. She is known for making cloth art. In an interview, she mentions that “ she is inspired by the rich and complex topography of lace.” All of her artwork she makes she cuts with her own hands. That takes a lot of dedication to cut out tiny pieces of lace. Shepard says “pushing cloth to a fragile threshold amplifies its physical qualities.” The photo I included below is called Only Their Silhouettes. I really like this piece because if you look closely you can see the dark lace and how it stands out against the light grey cloth.

Works Cited

“About.” Piper Shepard, www.pipershepard.com/about/.

“Brian Jungen In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s8/brian-jungen-in-vancouver-segment/.

The book

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As I watched the video for this week, I didn't see his work to be scary to me or weird, I actually found his art to be really cool using the most ordinary things to make a "masterpiece" out them. I think it’s interesting how differently you and I saw his art and had different feelings and perspectives over his work. Good connection from the video to the book with the African- American families and the way they grew up.

Week 10

Reading

Crafts are made of clay, metal, wood, glass, and fibers. Even though I knew what handmade objects meant, the chapter still reminds me and really drills in how much appreciation they deserve and I completely agree with it. I feel handcrafted objects are fascinating and have a story behind them. Do you look at the man/woman who created such a beautiful piece and think how? Being able to get the natural color, texture, look, and possibly smell is something I would have for furniture in my home. Out of the experience I've been in handcrafting objects is ceramics. To me, dealing with clay is a lot trickier than most people think. A form we worked with in class was a pinch pot. It was difficult to make the pot the same width all the way around to getting it too thick or too thin. The potter's wheel was a neat tool I used because it helped me shape the kind of pot I wanted. What was tricky was some people or even I didn't wedge the clay enough times to release all the air bubbles so when it got put into the kiln then it exploded everywhere. I love how clay has its own texture and look to the finished piece. From metals, I learned that gold is the most malleable and iron and steel are the hardest common but least malleable. I forget that any kind of jewelry I have is handcrafted and more than likely metal, that is so cool to me. Wood crafts are my favorite. The texture the smooth wood makes me feel and the way the colors are on a natural piece of wood appeals so real to me. More and more people collect wood crafted objects. There are homemade wood objects all around used for many important purposes like furniture.

Video/Comparison

Brian Jungen

One of his pieces of work he used white plastic chairs to make the while object. He said with people knowing that then sparkes their attention, to me yes because then you wonder how in the world did he start with something that cheap and simple to create this magnificent craft. When Brian turned 18 was his first time being in a city because he moved to Vancouver for art school. He grew up on a huge cattle ranch. He loved being back at home and felt the most comfortable there. He first started making shoes. He worked shoes and Native art together. His parents died when he was 7 so he used his imagination and artwork to cope with his grieving. I love his detail he put into the "drum chairs". He wanted to make it more than just furniture just like in the book, all the crafts are more than just their actual state before developing it further into art. I feel looking at his artwork he has created shows a lot of cultures and what his background was like. I really enjoyed Brian Jungen and his artwork! He the article, he quotes, "I like using things people can recognize that they see all around them every day".

Relevant Artist

Heather McCalla

Heather McCalla is from San Deigo, Flordia but currently works and lives in Richmond, Virginia. Like in the book, Heather is a designer in furniture. Her jobs before now were a finish carpenter and an independent designer. She taught lessons at the University of Wisconsin in furniture design and woodworking when she lived in Wisconsin. Her work connects with the human body and things we see around us all the time. She wants her art to feel comfortable so we express our feelings because we do these objects every day but not in the same form. When viewers don't recognize or feel that feeling of comfort to her, that means she failed and her art piece isn't common. I love her altered furniture pieces because when I look at them, I know what the original object was when she started but seeing it in a different form gives the object a whole new meaning. A majority of her altered work is dealt with chairs and each one is different, has a different look, texture, base, and how it connects to the other chairs. A lot of her crafts are wood crafts. With her piles and stacks pieces, no two pieces are the same and they are placed all differently to make the finishing object very detailed and memorizing.

Zelanski, Paul, and Mary Pat Fisher. The Art of Seeing. Prentice Hall, 2011.

“Brian Jungen In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s8/brian-jungen-in-vancouver-segment/.

“About.” Heather McCalla, www.heathermccallastudio.com/about.html.

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Week 9

Reading

The first two things I read were “Art Review: Installation Art - Five Wonder in New York.” And “Installation Art.” The articles were both over installation art and from them, I learned that Installation Art “is more commonly placed and seen outdoors.” Many installation arts are made to showcase the environment and social place around them. Installation arts are not limited to a certain object .“Much like other types such as film, painting, photograph, and sculpture.” A lot more people like installation art pieces because you can go outside and live in the real world instead of watching something virtual online. You can experience in person and have your own personal reactions.

Video

The video this week is about an artist that loves to bring Architectural designs to life. His name is Do Ho Suh. When I first watched the video I didn’t fully understand what he was doing. I thought he was just going to build another type of Korean house in New York City. I think that it’s really a different type of art that he is displaying here. At the beginning of the video, he talks about how he feels he “grew up in his dad’s shadow and how he wanted to do his own thing.” His dad was a painter so I think he found his own thing with the Architectural designs. I think that what he is doing is kinda cool but I’m not blown away by it. The thing that I like about some of his designs is the detail and how it looks like the house floating in the air and you can walk under it. Then some of them you can walk right into from the front door and invasion that you live in that house or apartment, I have an example of a picture below. Its so crazy and it looks like a life-size model like what you would see on a computer.

Connections

The connections I saw with reading and the media is when they talk about Robert Irwin who I did my relevant on. Robert Irwin did a few simpler things that Do Ho Suh did. They both made an art piece that hangs a few inches above the ground and below is a picture Robert Irwin did call “Scrim Veil.” Robert began as a painter and so did Do Ho Suh but Do Ho Suh didn’t want to be living in his father’s shadow so he went off and did his own thing. They both decide to “run-way” or just to explore the world to expand both of their horizontals and get more ideas to inspire them.

Relevant Artist

My relevant artist this week is Robert Irwin. He has been an artist for well over 60 years. He started his career off as an ordinary painter. Then in the 60’s he became “a pioneer of the Light and Space movement.” I’m personally not a big fan of his art. It’s not that I don’t like it. I just understand it and its confusing to me. One piece that I just can’t wrap my mind around is his “Miracle Mile” creation. I guess the fluorescent light and the engird going through them is supposed to represent the engird we put into working. I just see some cool bright lights all lined up on a wall.

Works Cited:

“Art Review: Installation Art – Five Wonders in New York.” Hamptons Art Hub, 14 Apr. 2016, hamptonsarthub.com/2013/07/12/art-review-installation-art-five-wonders-in-new-york/.

“Do Ho Suh In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s2/do-ho-suh-in-stories-segment/.

“Installation Art.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Aug. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art.

“Robert Irwin.” Pace Gallery, www.pacegallery.com/artists/211/robert-irwin.

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I personally really liked the video! The amount of detail and time he took into remaking the house that he remembers from Korea was really cool to me. That is a good connection between all three, the reading, video, and your relevant artist. I think it is important to not follow exactly in your parent's footsteps but to make your own unique path. Doing that kind of art that isn't on the ground is neat, I for one haven't seen anything else like it.

Week 9

Reading

Installation art is a three-dimensional work that is designed to transform the perception of the space. I like how installation art is projected everywhere and anywhere. It is not designated to one certain area but is seen all over. Many art installations to me, are used to make a statement and to make the area they are presumed in to make it colorful and breathtaking to the viewers as they visit.

I agree with the infatuation with installation pieces that aren't meant to freeze time but for us to intake all everything in the present and really absorb what is being presented in front of us. My favorite installation from the article was the Metropolitan by Imran Qureshi. He created the 'How Many Rains Must Fall Before the Stains Are Washed Clean'. I found it interesting that Imran created this piece by splattering red paint on the surface and then made it stand out more by adding the white paint to outline the red splattered paint. I like how his idea of this was to mix life and death and to me, that is what I see when I look at the surface he painted on. I feel there is no wrong or right way to look at this piece as it can mean many similarities to others depending on the way its interpreted to them.

Video/Comparison

Do Ho Suh explains that he hadn’t had a good night sleep since he was in Korea. He thought about bringing Korea to him so he could sleep well at night but knew physical that couldn't happen. So what he did, that was amazing to me is transportable fabric. He used three-dimensional art like with the installation to make his house more like his parents in Korea. His replica of the house is amazing to me and how detailed he made each wall remembering the house exactly like it was. To other people, it may just be fabric sewn together to model a house but to him, it holds a lot of memories he had even as a child remembering the times he spent in his parent's house. His personal space art piece gives off the emotions of what he's experienced in a city. It is so cool how he came up with the ideas to show how people feel walking down the sidewalk always bumping into people. I thought it was cool how the people were placed standing up in like a sandwich with glass on top that way people could walk across it. It gives the piece a three-dimensional look in installation. I feel all his statues and sculptures speak for themselves... breathtaking. I really liked the yearbook project because in order to see what it actually is and to get the full effect you need to stand right by it up close to see what it truly is.

Relevant Artist

Spencer Finch was born in 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut. He is an American artist and now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work includes watercolor, photography, glass, electronics, video, and fluorescent lights. He is best known for his crating installations using his experience of natural phenomena. He creates large-scale sculptures using natural light. With his experiences, he tries to illustrate the actual landscapes or whatever he may be replicating. He wants his viewers to see the rare material that he personally experienced. His work is super detailed and colorful to grasp the viewers' attention to look at his work.

“Art Review: Installation Art – Five Wonders in New York.” Hamptons Art Hub, 14 Apr. 2016, hamptonsarthub.com/2013/07/12/art-review-installation-art-five-wonders-in-new-york/.

“Installation Art.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 29 Aug. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_art.

“Do Ho Suh In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s2/do-ho-suh-in-stories-segment/.

“Spencer Finch - 115 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy.” Artsy - Discover, Research, and Collect the World's Best Art Online, www.artsy.net/artist/spencer-finch.

“Spencer Finch.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Apr. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Finch.

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Week 8

I will mention this later onion my post, but Kara Walker has definitely done her job properly when it comes to planning ahead of time, not the sculpture. Throughout the warehouse, there are multiple models of what the end piece is going to be. There is also plenty of research gone into the sculpture. Within the many ways of creating the models, I noticed Kara did do a few, but for me, the most notable was the clay. Sh never really showed any computer work as the book mentioned. When reading the chapter on the process of creating a sculpture, I realize that the most important part is planning. Nothing can continue on properly unless it has been planned out with good, helpful steps. Creating these sculptures, I’m honestly taken back as to how much work needed to go into these pieces just to make them so smooth, lifelike, and just perfect. The amount of time and dedication put into each piece is unreal. (Figure 10.10, Bust of a Young Girl.)

Now, with Kara Walker, one of the first things I noticed when watching the video is that she has never done a sculpture like this before. When asked what she doesn’t want it the piece to look like, she stated: “I don’t know, I’ve never done anything like this before!” And laughed. I think this is a big part of art that everyone needs to focus on, that just because you’ve never worked with a certain medium or haven’t done this one thing, doesn’t mean that you can’t do it to the best of your abilities. With art, it is based on personal creativity and what you do with it. Another example from Kara is during the interview when she mentions how she thought she wasn’t going to like or enjoy the book “Gone With The Wind” but when she started to read it, she fell involve with it. Kara did an amazing job at researching. She had to do this because she’s never really done a sculpture before, let alone work with sugar blocks. Another smart thing that Kara did was know her limits. She knew she couldn’t execute the actual sculpting to the exact way she wanted it, so she trusted others to create her vision. While looking in the background of the video, Karas vision was plastered everywhere. There were many replicas of what the piece would turn out to be in the end. One part that I never would have thought of with the sugar is how it is still subject to change, even when Kara is finished with the piece. This could be a big deal depending on the piece, having it be almost “make or break” the work. Although the sugar isn’t contained in powder form and isn’t able to move, it is important.

Petah Coyne is not only a sculptor but also a photographer. Uniquely, with her sculptures she uses creatively different materials, some that others may find disturbing and incredibly weird. Petah uses “trees, human hair, scrap metal, was, silk flowers, religious statuary, and taxidermy.” So Petah has experimented with many different styles of materials and created unique looking works from these. Petah wants to continue to let imagination prevail and create new pieces. To me, she creates this big, beautiful pieces that take time to interpret and create a story from. Her pieces are the definition of unique and I think that’s what makes it so special.

http://www.galerielelong.com/artists/petah-coyne

hannahschutteus-blog

I knew before reading and watching the videos of sculpting that it takes a lot of time and commitment. I like how you mentioned about her not knowing what to do or how she wanted the sculpture to go because she had never done anything like that. I agree that that is an important part in art. Not knowing what to do gives the artist an easy way to make it their own, unique, creative, and just how they want it. In doing that opens many more doors to new ways to develop their love for art in general.

Week 8 Sculpture

Reading

Reading chapter 10, I am now more knowledgeable about the term and technique sculpting. Such as creating a small model of what the overall finished product should look like. Artist use that as a layout so they can follow that and have a more hands-on way of learning than reading off a picture. These models can also be used as small-scale sculptures. I didn't know how many tools can be used in carving out an object. There are different techniques to use at different times when looking at an object. To me, I love wood cravings. They are beautiful, you can still see the original material, the patterns within the wood are super neat. I overall like the "rustic, old-fashioned" detail that wood cravings have. Continuing from the tools to craving, there are just as many for making the artwork smooth. I enjoy seeing that smooth shiny finished product. When I was in an art class, we worked with clay. The clay worked best in modeling in the hands when it was moist. It was difficult to get detail to the clay without making prints or markings that weren't supposed to be there. I didn't know wax was used in sculpting! The 'Horse Galloping on Right Foot' sculpture shows an awesome texture of how the wax was used. Probably my favorite sculpture is assembling. Where artist use used objects that they collect to make one giant piece together. You're taking something that someone thinks is garbage and making it beautiful again, or taking something simple and making it magnificent.

Interview

Kara Walker has presented the book "Gone with the Wind". Judge the book before she even read it but turns out she really enjoyed reading it. She was then told to do a piece of work based on the book. Since she read the book and went into reading it with an open mind, everything else even her artwork has been going with the flow and happened unexpectedly. Going with the unexpected she brings new pieces to her work which she enjoys. In the interview, she mentions of her sculptures and how it has so much detail to provide that to the audience to help relate to them what really is going on and what emotions they are feeling.

Video/Comparison

Kara Walker's sculpting artwork deals with history. She used the substance that was in the room that she was sculpting in, sugar. Walker did a ton of research about sugar and started coming up with her ideas based off the sugar history. She didn't partake in the sculpting but came up with the designs. I thought it was interesting that sculptures us a bow wire to crave in the material to make the certain curvature they are looking for. The mixed substance on the objects that included sugar gives them the glossy shiny look to the sculptures. I feel when reading about the modeling of wax from the book kind of refers to how the substance of sugar was made and used in sculpting. It obtains the same kind of texture and finished look to the piece.

Relevant Artist

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread was born in London, England and to this day she still lives and works there. Throughout her schooling, she studied painting and sculpting both at different schools. She is most famous for her larger sculping artworks, especially 'House' that got her the Turner Prize. Whiteread shows her work off in many museums. She enjoys producing graceful and poetical pieces that include many designs. Her ideas come from the human body, the objects we encounter daily, and the route like things that we do. She has a lot of sculptures and a majority of them are large scale.

“Rachel Whiteread.” Rachel Whiteread - Artists - Luhring Augustine, www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/rachel-whiteread/artworks/sculptures4.

“The Melodrama of ‘Gone with the Wind.’” Art21, art21.org/read/kara-walker-the-melodrama-of-gone-with-the-wind/.

“Kara Walker: ‘A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby’ (SHORT).” Art21, art21.org/watch/extended-play/kara-walker-a-subtlety-or-the-marvelous-sugar-baby-short/.

Zelanski, Paul, and Mary Pat Fisher. The Art of Seeing. Prentice Hall, 2011.

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Week 7

Reading Reflection

This week the reading was over chapter 8. It was about “photography and filmmaking.” I never really knew before today that filmmaking was a type of art. I love watching short films especially Disney short films. Something in the reading that really caught my eye, was how you could use your computer to digital edit an image. Artists like “Frank Noelker who is a photographer that takes photos in zoos around the world and makes hundreds of subtle changes with his computer to create effects he envisions.” Digital imaging can be used to “delete detailed works so they can change the focus of the subject” It’s kinda like painting but without the paintbrush, paint and canvas. (The Book) Another type of editing is Continuity editing show in the picture down below. “This requires that all shots be taken in a 180-degree rule.” (The Book) This is what they use when making movies or shows when they want to show you the conversation but from angles that show their facials better.

Media Reflection

We watched three videos this week. The first video was over an Artist called Natali Almada. Natalis work is all filmmaking. I really like how Natali took a very tragic memory from her life that she wasn’t present for and turned it around with an amazing short film that she used as her "masters thesis as a short film” (Natalia). The second video was called “Thunder Road” by Jim Cummings. It very clear that this guy was very overwhelmed while giving the speech and full of emotion. I did get teary-eyed while watching this just listening to all his stories. I think he had a very hard time saying goodbye to his mom and he was just trying to make her proud. In the video, it mentions “ everyone morns in there own unique way.” (Thunder) Just from watching that film I already have a lot of respect for Jim Cummings. The third video is called “Belly” by Julia Pott. I personally think Julia is weird after watching that last video. I did not like it as much as the other two. I just thought it was weird and strange and the sound effects made me cringe like a lot.

Connections

The video was over filmmaking. In the book, we also learned about filmmaking and editing. The ways that they are both similar are with the filmmaking. In the book, it mentions video and how there is little or no editing that goes on. The use of video and no other sounds really bring out the real meaning of the topic. This now connects with the short film Natali Almada made with the water and just using all the natural sounds that the kids made while playing in the water. Such as screaming, laughing, slashing the water, and maybe even crying. In the book, it also talks about using “ cloud tanks, painted backdrops, scale models, light flares, and computer-generated imagery.” All those things they use once or twice in the process of making a short film.

Relevant Artists

Wolfgang Tillman is a photographer. Tillman has expanded the horizon of work to include “diaristic photography, large-scale abstraction, and commissioned magazine work.” (Wolfgang ) A lot of the things Tillmans takes photos of are simple everyday ideas. I wouldn’t consider Tillman work something I would go to a museum to look at because to me it’s almost a little boring. I really like how Tillman can take a photo of something and it might have the different meaning to someone else. For example I really like one of his photos called “Moonrise October.” (Wolfgang) It’s just a photo of a beach with the sun already done setting. To me, it brings back all the good memories I’ve had at a beach and the sound of the waves hitting the sand. Others may just look at the photo and think its too dark and it’s just the ocean.

Works Cited

“More Stuff.” Vimeo, vimeo.com/blog/all/page:80

“Natalia Almada In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s8/natalia-almada-in-mexico-city-segment/.

“The Book”

“Thunder Road.” NoBudge.com, nobudge.com/main/thunder-road.

“Wolfgang Tillmans.” Claudio Bravo Biography – Claudio Bravo on Artnet, Pace Gallery, www.artnet.com/artists/wolfgang-tillmans/.

hannahschutteus-blog

I agree with all of your video thoughts of the three. I enjoyed how Natali Almada had a part of her life that was a tragedy and turned it into positive. Then going into the "Thunder Road", that was an emotional one as well. I thought it was awesome how to expressed himself like that as it always isn't easy to do that. I felt a lot of his feelings he was enduring which I feel that is what he wanted to happen. I personally did not care for the "Belly" video either. It was quite strange.

Week 7 Photography and Filmmaking

Reading

While reading chapter 8 I realized images are perfectly fine on their own, however, adding a little "strange" detail to the picture to make it stand out a little more can change the whole image entirely. Like the image of the four pears with red strings attached to them followed by a green background, uses complementary colors and has different reads to your eyes on what to focus on and when. I thought it was neat how photograms were produced using chemicals and revealing them to light. Before we had the technology to make black and white photographs separate from color photographs, black and white images were used as a base for colored ones as they used to add the color by hand. Thank god for the technology advancements now! I've always found it fascinating that pictures can capture the most settle images and the most complicated. Photographs catch details that our eyes can not, just like the image in the book, Clearing Winter Storm. Ansel Adams captured such satisfying detail that we normally wouldn't pay attention to. Reading about the film informed me so much that I didn't know about. I now enjoy the poetic image, mysterious and beautiful films. They show a lot of emotion and question yourself about how the artist was feeling at this time. Images can be taken by a different point of view and interpreted differently than the artist had in mind, that is what makes photography (art in general) so unique to me.

Video/Comparisons

Natalia Almada

I agree with her first connection to filmmaking as she referred to making films is showing your way of remembering. She used experiences from her family to develop a film that she could remember easily of detail for herself because she was not there to experience head-on. She is more into the television and video rather than photography itself. She learned a lot about her family returning to films and interviews of the members that were still alive. I thought it was interesting how she used her resources to understand her history. She developed a lot of films that shaped her personality and the person she is today. In her films, she makes connections and is always useful to her. I think it is outstanding how she can make films that are about her past, family, and where she's grown up because they are so personal.

Jim Cummings

I think it is awesome how he expresses his loss through a song his mom also enjoyed. He made connections that were obviously set on personal terms and had the courage to share with everyone. I've dealt with death myself and having that way to relieve the pain is important and shows you are coping with the tragedy. He has so many feelings and emotions throughout the whole video that really gets to the audience.

Julia Pott

I did not like this video that much because I felt the characters, detail, and acting was odd. There are a lot of detailed lines that represented motion like the waves. I really did not understand the layout or point of the video. Different environments that threw me off.

Relevant Artist

Richard Prince

Prince was born in 1949 in Panama Canal Zone. The way he expressed himself growing up in the 1960's era, he spent a lot of time in his room rearranging it and creating patterns in his carpet as he frequently vacuumed it. Going into his work, his usual works of art consist of borrowing, sampling, or copying others work. He has dealt with the consequences though. He likes to take simple images and make them different, that is his technique and is stronger for it. Prince's two most important works of his were Spiritual America, Cowboy, and Man Crazy Nurse. His images express a lot of bold neon color that really draw your eyes to detail as it talked about in the book. Along with other images like the Cowboy, his subject is not centered but has a lot of sky details to complement the cowboy riding the horse.

“Richard Prince.” Wall Street International, 8 Dec. 2017, wsimag.com/art/33734-richard-prince.

“Richard Prince Overview and Analysis.” The Art Story, www.theartstory.org/artist-prince-richard.htm.

Zelanski, Paul, and Mary Pat Fisher. The Art of Seeing. Prentice Hall, 2011.

“Natalia Almada In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s8/natalia-almada-in-mexico-city-segment/.

“Thunder Road.” NoBudge.com, nobudge.com/main/thunder-road.

“Belly.” Vimeo, 3 Oct. 2018, vimeo.com/46233381.

Vary, Adam B. “Inside The Heartbreaking Short Film That Won Sundance.” BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed, 4 Aug. 2016, www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/thunder-road-short-film.

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Week 6

Reading Reflection

The reading this week was over chapters 6 and 7. Chapter 6 was about “printmaking, relief, intaglio, stencil, Photocopy and Fax Art.”(Book) Chapter 7 was about “graphic designs, typography, and illustration.’’(Book) Before reading these two chapters I really didn’t know anything about those topics. I read something in Chapter 7 that caught my eye it was how “graphic designers have their fingers on everything the public is doing and changing.” (Book) They have to be so distinctive that people will be drawn to only them among a variety of competing products. Graphic design is all about “visual relationships.” A few key ingredients in graphic design is “illustration, letters, and images.” (Book) In Chapter 6 I read a lot about intaglio and that is is the “second major category of the printmaking method.” “An intaglio print is an image that is cut into the surface of a plate, then thin ink is applied to the plate with dabbers that force the ink into all the grooves.” (Book) That kind of reminded me of what a tattoo needle does when putting the ink into your skin. Below I included what an image looks like when they use the Intaglio engraving method.

Media Reflection

The artist in this weeks video was John Baldessari. John Baldessari is known for “Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language.”(John) Baldessari can “equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge the meaning of his art.”(John) He draws his viewers “attention to minor details, absences.”(John) The thing I found most fascinating about the video is how John Baldessari can make multiple pieces of artwork all with the same two things on it (furrowed foreheads/eyebrows) but has so many different ways of doing it. I’m surprised he doesn’t get tired of doing kinda like the same thing every day. I’m personally not a big fan of his artwork. I like to think its kinda simple in a way. I think he should make some of his artwork have bigger lips or ears like changing the focus from the same two things and give it some flare.

Connections/comparisons

I only found one connection between the video and the reading. It was over the processing of printing. It’s called the “four-color press: yellow, magenta, blue, and black.” (Book) The way this passage in the book connects with the video is when they are hanging up all of John Baldessari’s paintings. It’s not because they made the photos all in those colors. It is because he placed them in a row with 4 photos going horizontal or vertical. It was as if the paintings were all different colors and went together as one. That was the only connection I could find between the two. I just think the reading and the video were just very opposite from each other this week.

Relevant Artists

The relevant artist I chose this week is Cindy Sherman. She was born January 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She is an American photographer and film director. Cindy is best known for her “ Complete Untitled Film Stills,” (Cindy) which is just a series of “69 black-and-white photographs that show all the stereotypes of women in the media.” (Cindy) Below I have included one of her photos from her untitled film.

Works Cited

“John Baldessari: ‘Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads’ (SHORT).” Art21, art21.org/watch/extended-play/john-baldessari-raised-eyebrows-furrowed-foreheads-short/.

Wanczura, Dieter. “Intaglio Printmaking.” Artelino, Artelino GmbH, 29 June 2018, www.artelino.com/articles/intaglio_printmaking.asp.

“Cindy Sherman Overview and Analysis.” The Art Story, www.theartstory.org/artist-sherman-cindy.htm.

The Book

hannahschutteus-blog

I agree about not knowing the topics before reading the chapters so I learned quite a bit this week! That is such a great connection with the tattoo and ink being put onto your skin, I see the resemblance. I too enjoyed how John Baldessari only changed one detail at a time but made the image totally different and unique from all the others. I liked your suggestions on other details he could develop and as I was reading your paragraph I thought of enlarging the eyes or making the smaller, that would be different to see.

Week 6

Reading

Reading chapter 6 introduced me to woodcut print. As I read more about the art the more interesting it seemed to me because people in Japan used this technique to produce picture books. Printmaking is fascinating as the book said none of the same images will ever be the same. I feel printmaking is a very unique and special because it is all different in their own ways. I didn't know there was a way for printmaking to take place by not using ink, it's called, blind embossed. I personally would like to see how an image like that would turn out. Before technology artists relied on line and wood engraving to produce images. Intaglio was another method involving printmaking. It was interesting to me that there are different techniques and processes with one method. The process of how lithography works is quite different using greasy substances to create the print. My favorite printmaking process is stenciling. I like how it is a detailed stencil of an object with multicolor backgrounds to give it a unique vibe when looking at the picture. Like "A Set of Six Self-portraits", they are photocopied images with different colored backgrounds to show the differences.

The more I read about traditional art the more it seems to reach the media and increase the "old" processes by using the media we have. More and more graphic designer/two-dimensional users are becoming common. I learned that the reason is to catch the eyes of the viewer and leave an impact on them so they remember. It was interesting to me how graphic designers aren't just for us but used as actual art for artists in the media field. I learned that typography is for sizing and bringing letters together to form an image. I thought it was interesting how there are two types, serif, and sans-serif typefaces. They are used at different times for different reasons. In the designing era, their ways are endless on how to use those two techniques. The illustration is huge because it is how the artist wants to capture the viewer's eye. Making sure the illustration is interesting, better engages people with the artwork. Nowadays there are more and more ways to illustrate which only makes the artists that more creative and unique.

Media/Comparison

John Baldessari explains that art is anything and if you believe it, then it's art. He enjoys what he does now that he made the switch from being a painter. He now can express himself focusing on one element and changing the color, shape, or the way it appears and making a "collage" out of those similar images (a certain form of the stenciling). He sees how art is a form of communication as he learned when he was a teacher, his art had to do with what he was teaching. He often reminded kids to look in the middle of an image. He lets art come and go naturally, doesn't force it nor brainstorms too hard. The art will speak for itself, and it does! The way he incorporates the ear for a seat and the noses on the ways as hangings is incredible!! He cut out images but changed the person so you couldn't see their faces but rather now the actual image. I enjoyed his work and it spoke to me because every time he had the same idea but changed a detail each time to allow different prospectives to show.

Relevant Artist

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol directed himself towards the illustration business and grew up with working-class parents. He was a huge improvement and addition to the pop art with his media like painting, skills screening, photography, film, and sculptures. He submitted his work to many galleries and people enjoyed what they saw. His studio was "The Factory". It attracted the crowd he's always wanted. After he died, he was dedicated to a museum in which is the largest museum in the United States to just one artist. His work consisted of the stenciling printmaking style. With similar or different colored backgrounds, he made each picture stand out on its own capturing the value of the images.

“A Set of Six Self-Portraits, 1967 by Andy Warhol.” Art Print by Marvel Comics | King & McGaw, www.kingandmcgaw.com/prints/andy-warhol/a-set-of-six-self-portraits-1967-435324#435324::media:0.

Zelanski, Paul, and Mary Pat Fisher. The Art of Seeing. Prentice Hall, 2011.

“Andy Warhol - 222 Designs, Paintings, Prints, Photos and Sculptures.” Www.wikiart.org, www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol.

“John Baldessari In.” Art21, art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s5/john-baldessari-in-systems-segment/.

“Stonehenge (With Two Persons) Yellow by John Baldessari on Artnet Auctions.” Claudio Bravo Biography – Claudio Bravo on Artnet, Pace Gallery, www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/john-baldessari/stonehenge-with-two-persons-yellow-2.

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