Dehlia in 4D

Tumblr for my Studio 4D class. Neat stuff.

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Dehlia Calliste

I'm a student in Denver, Colorado. I spend my free-time traveling and creating art in many of its forms. "Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single...

And since this is totally separate and the end of class, here's my FlickR if anyone is interested. 

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Project #6 Open Work Photos If I had to label myself I would say I am a sculptor. So I decided to do the form of art I love most, and due to limit time I did a bust. Please ignore the unfinished base :) Most of my figure sculptures, including this one, are made from apoxie sculpt. However, this is the first one I have faux patinad.

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 I love this! It's great how, especially for a sculpture, it's so very animated. 

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4D Final

Artist Statement:

I'm not an art major, but I've always considered myself an artistic person. This class challenged my thinking and especially the ways I've created art in the past, and I'm glad for that. However, for the final, I wanted to come back to something I know and am familiar with, and showcase what it is I do, which is photography.

My approach to taking pictures has never been to set up a moment or a scene and create art from it, but more so to let these moments jump out at me as they exist and appear, and to capture them as best I can. That was my approach here, taking photos for the past couple of days with this final work in mind. They're little scenes, little moments of my everyday life where a tiny aspect of the world made itself beautiful to me and I seized it. 

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Artist Statement: You are beautiful. 

In todays society its almost impossible to find a woman without makeup. Whether is a layer of foundation or black stuff all around their eyes, most girls do not rock the all natural look. For this project I decided to reverse that idea and show the viewers that all that makeup isn’t needed. Its the art of ‘unveiling’ yourself. Yes, I know personally that I do wear quite a bit of makeup, but I just wanted to show that reversed process of ‘before’ and ‘after’. 

Side note: I would have loved to do this project outside in the woods but due to the weather I was unable to!

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It's kind of cool how our performances sort of supplement each other, with mine mostly putting things on and yours taking things off. It shows there's a lot within the spectrum of identity and how we choose to outwardly display it. 

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Project 5 The Artist is Present

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After reading your artist statement, I definitely relate to this one. 

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exercise 5

I wanted to use photographs for this project because i am a photographer and they speak to me more. I explored the idea of using my hands to show and explain certain actions. Hands are able to and do communicate so much throughout our lives so this was my ode to that.

(Sorry this is posted so late in the day. I have been trying to upload it all night but it was being a big pain.)

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Project #5: The Artist is Present

I did a lot of considering, reading, and viewing of performance art to figure out what it realty was and what it could mean in its various incarnations. I didn't want to incorporate a classic medium of art into it because honestly I'm not very good at any of those and I don't feel I could carry a performance that was centered around one, nor am I very good at facing an audience and letting them watch me do something. 

I did, however, always enjoy the idea of taking something ordinary and making it something not so ordinary. In viewing of different performance art pieces, I came across Bruce Nauman's "Wall/Floor" in which he recorded himself moving around his studio and made it viewable to an audience later. He said of the piece "If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product."

I don't have a studio, but I do have a bathroom which is the next best thing. It's an intimate place where cleansing and transformation happens, and I could turn an activity itself (such as my morning rituals) into the art, instead of having a product. It is also interesting because as it is captured here, it can never be captured again. Not only because this is the first and only time I'd let it be captured, but because I could never duplicate exactly what I do more than once. 

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Film Response: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

This is not the first time I've seen this film. In fact, the first time I did I managed to stumble across it randomly in a hotel room in the early morning hours when I  was unable to sleep. I found myself captivated and even shedding tears by the end of it.

What this film gave and continues to give to me is a sense of inherent meaning. In that, many forms of art and ESPECIALLY performance art is often criticized by meaning, and if it does not require a very trained skill or classical ideas, it cannot be "art". Marina Abramovic took a very simple idea and made it into something large and phenomenal, and I feel that this documentary proves that it has fulfilled its purpose. Viewing the reactions of the individuals who took part in her performance, and even those that didn't, shows that her work is  intrinsically valid in its existence, and really should be the ultimate goal of performance art. 

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Reading Response #5

Though I had some understanding of performance art before, reading this piece sort of solidified some of my thinking, as well as bringing about new concepts I never considered before. I think I was most struck by the idea that there are no confines to performance art, meaning it can be as closed off or as open as the artist wants it to be. As long as some sort of performance is taking place and is viewable, whether live or in some sort of media aftermath, it still qualifies as a performance. I always took the idea of the word "performance" so literally, when in reality performance art doesn't always necessarily need these theatrical attributes to be considered as such. What matters most is that it was, at some point, active and live in its creation and that being one of the most if not the most important element to the entire work of art. 

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Exercise #5

To create

To become

To smear

To rub

To blot

To sully

To tarnish

To begrime

To purify

To polish

To color

To spatter

To tint

To stain

To saturate

To wash

To ablute

To cleanse

To trim

To sanctify

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Butoh

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Butoh emerged after the second world war, the term covers a diverse range of activities but primarily it is a form of contemporary dance. Butoh revolutionised the view of what dance could be, drawing on traditional Japanese movements, such as the mincing steps that one must take when wearing a kimono, and allowing the body to speak for itself through unconscious and improvised movement. The photographs taken by Mitsutoshi Hanaga beautifully capture these radical movements and Butoh’s powerful imagery.

Printed in 1983, this book still remains in very good condition.

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Dairakudan American Dance Festival, 1982

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One of the most important and innovative artists in contemporary China, Zhang Huan (b.1965) brought the burgeoning Chinese art scene to international attention in the 1990s with a series of taboo-breaking performances

His artwork continues to explore the tragedies of the human condition and the spiritual essence of Buddhism in a range of media that includes photography, painting and monumental sculpture

Zhang’s work has been exhibited in the world’s most prestigious museums and international exhibitions, including the 1999 Venice Biennale, the 2001 Yokohama Triennial and the 2002 Whitney Biennial

This monograph is the first complete analysis of the artist’s entire career, from his beginnings in the communal art scene of Beijing’s East Village to his breakthrough in New York and his return to Shanghai, where he now runs a studio with over 40 assistants

The Evening Standard has regarded him as an only honest heir of Joseph Bueys in the 20th century, Zhang Huan presents the spiritual yet contemporary, political yet personal and subtle yet provoking work, like no other in his league. "When I was young, in the countryside of Henan, living with my grandmother and uncle, whenever it came time for the New Year, we would go to the cemetery and invite my deceased grandfather and ancestors back to the house to spend the New Years holiday with us. Before eating, we always had to place some of the food and offerings in front of the images of our ancestors as a sacrifice. We had to wait for them to finish eating before we started. When I was young, I would go to the temples with my family and light incense and pray to Buddha. Even though at the time I didn’t really understand it, it was already part of my life." Mysticism, Spirituality, Human body and Buddhism are the common heme through out Zhang work. His recent works include creating sculptures, images and installation from incense ash from temples in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang region.

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“Rhythm”, Marina Abramovic

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Leah Rich 2014

4D video art project

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I really like the subtle use of audio in this one. 

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Project #4: Vanishing and Becoming