The Lovely Insight

Welcome to my art blog. This was made for my Art lecture class. Don't mind my variety of urban and modern art posts! I hope you enjoy!

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Stunning illustrations by Alex Konahin

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Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheim, 2013

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Exhibition Critique

On October 18, the University of Texas at Arlington hosted the Sarah Williams and Amy Blakemore exhibition. Sarah Williams is a painter while Amy Blakemore is a photographer. Something interesting about these two visiting artists is how they used different techniques to capture their images. Williams’ uses her personal photographs and enhances them through her oil paintings while Blakemore approaches photography in a different way by the use of film.

            When I first entered the gallery, I noticed how spacious the room was and how the space was dimly lit. The bare white walls helped compliment the works of Williams and Blakemore as an emphasis through the strong contrast of light and dark. Through the set up, the gallery gave off an eerie and mysterious feel. The art pieces were displayed singularly and the audience were encouraged to explore the gallery space freely.

As I looked across the gallery, the first piece that caught my eye was Sarah Williams’ Brookfield Plaza. It felt as if the piece was glowing by how the artificial lights were angled towards the painting. The artwork gave off an eerie, yet romantic feel due to the colors and vibrancy of the piece. Williams use of warm colors in the Brookfield Plaza was successful and it created an inviting/calm atmosphere.

I really enjoyed the gallery exhibition because this was definitely really different experience from the rest I’ve attended. The atmospheric feel and the story behind the works during the artist talk really captivated me.  This exhibition is important because every artist has a voice and we all have something to share. It’s a way of communication and story telling through a person’s works of art. I’m really looking forward to attending more gallery openings and getting to understand more about the artist and their works.

    Sources

Beaty Richardson, ‘Painter discusses passion, technique.’, The Shorthorn (Oct. 31, 2013), http://www.theshorthorn.com/life_and_entertainment/painter-discusses-passion-technique/article_b54e816c-3cf6-11e3-8954-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=story. Web.

Sarah Williams, “Sarah Williams,” Brookfield Plaza Portfolio. Accessed November 26, 2013. http://sarahwilliams-paintings.com/artwork/3238436_Brookfield_Plaza.html. Web.

‘Amy Blakemore/ Sarah Williams.’, The Gallery at UTA (Oct. 14-Nov. 17, 2013), http://www.uta.edu/gallery/exhibitions/amy_sarah.php. Web.

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Live Loud by Nathan Yoder

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Film Critique

Although The Notebook debuted in 2004, it is still one of my favorite movies. I had watched the movie again over the weekend and it still was able to pull at my heart strings. The movie is based on an elderly man reading a love story from a notebook to an elderly woman in a nursing home. The 2 lovers, Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling) and Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) fall deeply in love but Allie’s parents wants to keep them separated due to social status.

Noah was a mill worker, while Allie came from a wealthy background. At one point, the two separated and lost contact because Noah left to fight in World War II. Seven years later, they were reunited and were given a second chance to rekindle the romance they once had. Towards the end of the movie, they revealed that Noah was the elderly man who was reading their own love story to Allie, who had Alzheimer’s disease. I have never cried watching a movie, yet The Notebook was able to achieve its goal by the heart wrenching and dramatic storyline.

Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did an ecstatic job at establishing how strong their relationship was in the movie. It was almost as if you could feel what they were feeling and relate to the things they went through. They were able to evoke many emotions throughout the movie and the transitions within it went very smoothly. The story plot was bittersweet and the transitions of the scenes jumping back and forth from young to old didn’t confuse me at all. The Notebook really can pull at your heart strings and get to you emotionally. Nick Cassavetes did an amazing job in producing this movie. Don’t assume that The Notebook is one of those “chick flick” movies until you watch it!

  Sources:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332280/

IMDb.com, Inc. "The Notebook." IMDb. IMDb.com, 25 June 2004. Web. 02 Dec. 2013.

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Without the F&F series, car culture today would be very different - F&F is the franchise that started it all. I grew up watching the films (god knows how many times) and it undoubtedly influenced the way I thought about cars and it definitely helped spur on my love for cars. I know for sure that it made me respect and appreciate all types of cars. For some, it’s inspired people to live their lives by cars.

For those who do not know that much about Paul Walker outside of F&F, off-screen he contributed a lot to the SoCal car scene and car culture in general through his passion for racing cars and managing a performance parts shop amongst many things. He is a guy that appreciated all types of cars, and as car enthusiasts we can look up to this. JDM, muscle, whatever type of car - don’t hate. Of course we’ll always know that he had an affection for Skylines ;)

Paul Walker. We all owe you a 10 second car.

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thru Jan 4: “Escape Escapism”  Ulrich Lamsfuss Lombard Freid Projects, 518 W19th St., NYC “During art school, watching people constructing artificial problems to solve them afterwards, I realized that my basic problem is that I don’t really have a real problem. Wherever I go, somebody has been there before. Everything is said—just not by everybody.” -Ulrich Lamsfuss, 2013

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Judith Geher

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Creature Ink / Artig, 

Frankfurt am Main, 2010, 

http://creature-ink.blogspot.de/

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opening reception Tonight, Nov 21, 7-9p: “Destroy Yourself”  Maria Chavez, Robert Deeds, Heather Dewey-Hagborg,  Michael Dominick, Aaron King, Wyatt Nash Kunsthalle Galapagos, 16 Main St., Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO) group exhibition of art with destructive tendencies. brings together artists who employ destruction as a means to create. Whether through physical acts, building work only to demolish it, or finding inspiration in the broken, misused or thrown away, the work by these artists celebrate the act of destroying and uses destruction as a vehicle to create art. - thru Dec 29

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Elevator Pitch! Done!

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closes Nov 16: “Absence”  Sophie Calle Paula Cooper Gallery, 534 W21st St., NYC The works, an ever-changing project, are inspired by the loss of Calle’s mother Rachel Monique. “Absence recurs in Calle’s oeuvre as a generative drive. These mementi mori demonstrate the artist’s deft weaving of photographic documentation, narrative texts, found imagery and personal iconography. Calle’s efforts to create a space for the deceased are both intimate and universally resonant acts of elegiac composition.” - Patrick Frey Also exhibited are a new series entitled Purloined, which is directly related to works in a concurrent show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Purloined continues Calle’s investigation of a set of thirteen works which were stolen from the Gardner Museum in 1990, and whose allotted wall space was subsequently enshrined with the missing works’ empty frames, following Isabella Gardner’s wishes that the museum’s installation remain exactly as she had originally arranged it.

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 Sou Fujimoto &  United Visual Artists : Serpentine Pavilion Intervention at  Serpentine Gallery (2013) 

Sou Fujimoto’s massive pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in London is a beautiful and sprawling piece of architecture. The delicate structure, made from 20mm steel poles, consumes nearly 3,800 square feet of the London gallery’s front lawn. On its own, it’s an impressive sight. But in the hands of United Visual Artists, a London-based artist studio that specializes in sound and light architecture, it becomes nearly awe-inspiring in its visual magnitude. Commissioned by the Serpentine Gallery and My Beautiful City, UVA transformed Fujimoto’s spindly structure with a light show that echoes the insane lightning storms you see in the natural world. “This piece specifically aimed to energize Sou Fujimoto’s architecture, which is representative of a somewhat serene Cumulus cloud,” UVA explains. “Our intervention aimed to evoke a terrific and comparatively overwhelming electric storm in the architecture, kind of simply aiming to bring it to life.” 

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Mind, Body & Soul, 

Frankfurt am Main, Gutleutviertel, 2013, 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/buethewarrior