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Our trip today was amazing. At first I did not know what to expect from visiting the New York Library because I have never been. When I arrived at the building it seemed like something out of the Christmas movie: Louise or Annie. Although it was a pretty monotone appearance, the structure just felt important. When we entered it was extremely beautiful. The ceilings were high and bronze with bright chandeliers hanging from their center. All of the statues and banisters were laced with Christmas reefs and it felt very tranquil.

When we entered the Picture Collection (room 100) there were rows of folders. The library supervisor explained that the collection head 12,000 subject heads and over half a million photos! These subjects ranged from “performance art” to “abandoned buildings”. I was so excited to get into the folders and see what has been preserved. For my “found” image project (a found image is an image of an image already documented) I wanted to do a college that is true to my culture and my goals. To be spontaneous I look through the folders labeled “water”, “religious art”, and “fairies”. I was not disappointed.

Although each folder contained a variety of pictures that seemed mostly distant in relation, I created stories. And that is what I want my collage to be. I want readers to understand more about who I am through the art. I cannot wait to go to the library again, I literally could spend all day looking through art history.

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Josh Smith

Josh Smith is a New York artist who does very expressive and abstract paintings, as well as collage and sculpture. He became well known as a result of his series of paintings that depicted his name painted in a abstract form. He mentions that his ontent in his work is to "The message is indefinable, but the gist of it is; we are alive and here together....Here is a group of painted poems if you like...take a look and absorb what you want from them"

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Our painting based on Agatha Gothe-snape’s work

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Agatha Gothe-snape is an Australian artist born in 1980. Some of her more famous works include POWERPOINTS, a lifelong series that she continually works on. With these pieces, she draws influence from concrete poetry, color field painting, and the emergence of the internet. Gothe-snape often explores emotional and historical responses to the reception of art and has exhibited in some major international biennales.

Sources:

https://thecommercialgallery.com/artist/agatha-gothe-snape/biography

https://thecommercialgallery.com/artist/agatha-gothe-snape/exhibition/4/powerpoints-2008-ongoing

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For part 1 of our painting exercise, we researched some artists who use text in their work. In regards to the perimeters of the assignment, our paintings should reflect on mood and how the text is played into the context, materials, process, effect and intent.

A great artist to look at is Glenn Ligon, who says “it’s not about me, it’s about we.”

He was born in the Bronx, and is still living and working in NY. His paintings draw of writings and speeches of many diverse figures. Essentially he reveals the ways in which slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

Some of his techniques include silkscreening, neon and photography. He layers text in an abstract way we’re it becomes difficult to read but exemplifies the context of layering meaning.

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John Baldessari

Many of John Baldessari’s paintings would consist of faces covered with a circle, a ribbon, a scissor, and many more peculiar items. He did this to make people focus on things that are usually put out of focus. We focus on faces and create our opinions based on how people but he wanted people to think outside of the box. Those works were created around 1953 and he was unsatisfied with his work therefore he proceeded to cremating them. From there he began word paintings he used this so that people could create there own meaning of the word without drawing it out for them. For example he painted the word “pure beauty” he wanted people to think of the constructs of beauty and think of the true identity of the word pure beauty. He wanted his word paintings to be a subjective experience that made people think outside of how they normally would when looking at a painting.

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Eve Fowler was born in 1964 and most of her art exhibitions are displayed in this most modern time. As for her word art, she used a 2 dimensional approach. She works with billboards, posters, prints and signs. And uses a variety of mediums: neon, paint, and vinyl (sound). In her collaborations with other artists, she ventures out into filmmaking, sound pieces and installations.

Sources: https://moranmorangallery.com/artists/eve-fowler/

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Jon Campbell is an Australian artist who has become a significant figure in Australian Pop Art. He makes contemporary word paintings with bright colors and intentionally makes the letters large and illegible. His letters are primarily geometric and he uses the technique of color blocking create contrast. Different spaces have unique colors to make them stand out

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JON CAMPBELL.

In groups of three, we had to reserach an artist, and create a work inspired by them. As I was working with Tim and Patrick, our group has strong graphic capabilities, and so we decided to create a work inspired by Jon Campbell, which can be seen here:

What stood out to us as a group about Campbell’s work was not only the colours he used or the sharp angualar lines at times of his letters, but the common yet odd words and phrases he would select to be the subject matter of his works. For this reason, we used the phrase “I’m Hungry,” and through the masking technoque created the letters before using four different shades we mixed to paint onto our canvas in an ombre manner.

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~ ROBERT INDIANA.

Born Robert Clark in Indiana, Robert Indiana took his native state's name after moving to New York in 1954, a gesture that presaged his Pop-inspired fascination with Americana, signage, and the power of ordinary words. In his studio on Coenties Slip at the tip of Manhattan, Indiana made assemblages of scrap materials and found objects, using stencils to introduce words into his art. By the early 1960s he was creating eye-popping paintings of text, numbers, and symbols that related to the hard-edge abstraction of the day, and included political and social overtones. Later he moved to the island of Vinalhaven off the coast of Maine, where he continues to work.

Indiana craetes prints, working in mainly in screenprint, lithographs, and etchings. work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT and HUG, however, he is most noted for his LOVE print, which was originally created as a stencilled Christmas card for MoMA in 1965. LOVE has appeared in prints, paintings, sculptures, banners, rings, tapestries, and stamps. IN 2008, he recreated a version of this titled HOPE, in red, white, and blue, and donated the proceeds to the campaign of then Democratic candidiate Barak Obama, totalling upwards of $1,000,000.

PSA: I been on the grind, but just a heads up I'm about to spam IG with work so apologies. (at New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Boh2rYoDrVw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a7yakuin0hli