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Blog Post - Week 13

Hello everyone! The video and readings this week really made me think a lot. I found social practice much harder to understand than previous practices we have studied but it also had a lot of meaning and things to dig up and learn about.

The video this week about Tania Bruguera was hard for me to follow and understand. After watching the video twice, the piece that stood out to me was Tatlin’s Whisper #6. In this piece, people were given 1 minute to stand on a podium and say whatever they wished. After a minute they had to get off the stage or were removed by two people who were dressed as soldiers. Audience members were also given disposable cameras. I think the meaning of this, besides hearing what people think, is to show how much people bottle up. One man said,” Why do we need a podium to say what eats up our soul?” This is a very true statement, not only to Cubans, but to people around the world. Why do we need a spotlight to say what we think and why aren’t we just comfortable doing so whenever? I do not know the answer to that question, and probably never will. It is just the way of our society.

The readings this week and the past couple of week’s readings have been challenging for me to understand. This is probably because social practice and performances aren’t subjects we discuss a lot compared to drawing and painting. The meaning that helped me most understand the meaning of social art was it is art based on social interaction. One of the articles had artists describe social practice in non-artistic terms. My favorite description was by Casey McGonagle. She said,” Do regular stuff, only it’s art.”

Untitled, by Felix Gonzalez-Torres stood out to me in the article, “Where Art Meets Life.” In this piece there are 175 pounds of multicolored, wrapped candies. He invites all the viewers of the piece to take a piece of candy. After a while, there will be no candy left. I think this is meant to say, there is only so much of everything. Eventually, if we aren’t careful, we will run out of resources. For example, a few years ago my grandparents visited Pompeii in Italy. At Pompeii there are many lava rocks scattered about, but visitors aren’t allowed to pick them up because if everyone were to take one, future generations wouldn’t be able to see them.

Another social piece I enjoyed reading about was Blue Boar, by Victoria Bradbury. Bradbury’s 10th great-grandmother was accused of being able to turn into a blue boar during the Salem Witch Trials. She was eventually beheaded. In this piece, Bradbury has the viewer’s face put onto a boar’s face using face recognition software, her point being to put the viewer into the place of her grandmother, to show how it feels to be wrongfully accused of a crime. I think Victoria’s meaning while creating this piece was to show yourself how you make others feel when you say they did something but they actually didn’t and to try to prevent false accusations from happening to others.

Rirkrit Tiravanija is an artist who has an interesting past, along with some interesting art. Tiravanija was born in Argentina, and was raised in Thailand, Ethiopia, and Canada. His art that focuses on social practice is a product of all the different people and cultures he has been in contact throughout his life. Untitled (free/still) is Tiravanija’s social practice in which he set up a lounge area where he cooked/served rice and curry to the visitors. Visitors were invited to stay and socialize with other, which was Rirkrit’s point in this piece. I think he wanted to create an environment that people would be able to feel comfortable to get off their phones and talk to their friends as well as with strangers.

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Hello, I really enjoyed reading your post this week. I also didn’t understand the video, one thing I did like about the video was how each person got one minute to say whatever they wanted. For me, this week wasn’t my favorite, and I’m thinking it is because it wasn’t on like paintings, etc. On the piece Felix did I like how you said that there is only so much of everything and I completely agree with you on that. Thank you for sharing.

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This week, learning about social practice wasn’t my favorite. It’s an art medium that focuses on social engagement, inviting collaboration with individuals, communities. Even though it wasn’t my favorite to learn about I think the concept of it is intriguing.

This week’s video on Tania Bruguera was probably my least favorite video. For me it didn’t catch my attention like other ones in the past. I do though like that she explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change I think that those things are very important in today’s world. I do like how she says at the end of the video that “Art is not for the museums it’s for the street and for people’s life.

Harrell Fletcher is an American Social Practice and relational aesthetics artist. One of my favorite projects he has done is called The Best Things in Museums Are the Windows. I didn’t understand this at all when I first read it, but after learning about it and seeing that he said, “The idea that you go to a museum and look at the paintings- which is great- but then you look out the windows and see how you can apply what you’ve learned in the museum to the world outside”. I really like that and feel that, that should happen with more than just art. Vanessa Beecroft is an Italian Performance artist, Photographer, and Painter. I love this piece by her. You can tell by her face that she loves those two babies. To me in a way she kind of looks like an angel that is protecting them, and looking out for them.

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Week 12 - Performance

Performance art consists of more than what I originally thought it did. Before reading the text and watching the media for the week, I thought that performance art was when an artist is in front of a crowd, such as a musical performance, dance, or drama. The text opened my eyes this week and made me realize that there is much more to performance art than just being on stay.

Performance art had five main original subcategories that many works could also be classified as. Action is one of the earliest and creates suspense, often relating the artist to the work itself. Body art positions the artist within the work or the artist’s body is used as a canvas or media. Happenings are influenced by Dada and are often characterized by improvisation. Endurance tests the capabilities of the human body, often being near the line of torture and abuse. Ritual art begins to make the work have a sacred meaning or background.

Bree Newsome is an African American contemporary performance artist (shown below) who is known for her activism for equal rights. Her works can be controversial. One of the most controversial is her removal of the confederate flag. She voiced her opinion and took down the flag, then was arrested for it. It is her right to voice what she believes in and she got arrested because what she did was illegal, however, removal of the confederate flag, in my opinion is not right. The flag is part of our history and reminds us of all the lives that were lost. We need to remember so history doesn’t repeat itself.

Our featured artist this week, Janine Antoni, is a performance artist whose work often closely resembles that of sculpture. Her work “Touch and Moor” was interesting to learn about. It is amazing that, although she may have wanted to anyway, Antoni learned to tightrope for this piece or one of similar design. When you think about it, tight roping represents our everyday life. Different events happen that throw everything out of balance, and we make adjustments to stay upright and keep moving. When we fall, as many tight ropers do, we get right back up again and try again. It is a balancing act where we have to make constant adjustments, and if that adjustment isn’t just right we fall back and have to try again.

One of Antoni’s pieces that really caught my attention, is Lick and Lather, shown below. I believe that she is trying to convey to us that the more we are used, and abused, the less we are recognized. We have to stay out of situations that will make us unrecognizable otherwise we will end up like the sculptures did, unable to be recognized.

The relevant artist I decided to touch on this week is Adrian Piper. She is an American performance and concept artist known for her works that provoke controversy over race, gender, class, and identity. She uses many medias and often features herself within her works. Both of her parents are of mixed racial background; therefore, she confronts many topics many wouldn’t consider.

Attached below is Piper’s work, I am the Locus #1. I find this work intriguing because the word locus is defined as a particular point, position, or place. The work is stating that the person is the point of consciousness. Consciousness can be described as having knowledge or awareness of something. This leads me to believe that the person knows something that nobody else does, and no one know it. Consciousness can also be worried or painfully aware of something. This could mean that he is worried for someone else. He seems to be lost in thought so either of these could be the case.

Sources:

https://art21.org/watch/art-in-the-twenty-first-century/s2/janine-antoni-in-loss-desire-segment/

http://www.artnews.com/2013/02/21/chocolate-self-portraits-by-janine-antoni-and-dieter-rot/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adrian-Piper

http://theconversation.com/bree-newsomes-superwoman-style-confederate-flag-pole-climb-was-an-artistic-statement-44050

Performance Art - the Art Story

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Hello! I love what you think about Jamie Antoni’s piece Lick and Lather. While I was doing some research on Jamie, I saw her piece Lick and Lather and I really didn’t know what to think about it. I love how you think what it means. I never thought about it as how you did and it really opened my eyes. It definitely changes how I look at this piece and I have a new appreciation for it. Thanks for sharing!

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I loved reading your post this week. It has a lot of great information and I learned a lot. I thought the exact same thing about performance art, I thought all it was, was standing in front of a crowd and doing something. I think that Bree Newsome was wrong for removing the flag also. I really enjoyed learning about Janine Antoni, I love the way she uses her art to express her feelings and opinions. Thanks for sharing!

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I had no idea performance was even involved in art, I didn’t even know what it was to be honest. Performers are able to portray many emotions and tell different stories that is one thing I love about performance. The video this week about Janine Antoni was very interesting. A lot of her pieces are very different and kind of weird. I really like the piece Moor, it has so much history behind it. The rope includes a little piece of her friends and family.

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic Philosopher. She began exhibiting her artwork internationally at the age of twenty, and graduated from the school of visual Arts in 1969.While continuing to produce and exhibit her artwork, she received a B.A. in Philosophy with a minor in Medieval and Renaissance Musicology from the City College of New York in 1974. Adrian produces artwork in a variety of traditional and nontraditional media, including photo-text collage, drawing on pre-printed paper, video installation, site-specific Sculptural installation, digital imagery, performance and sound works. One of my favorite pieces of hers is called Vanilla Nightmare #9. In this piece you can see that a bunch of Native American people are around a white man and one thing I notice is that at the top it says, “what if….?” Adrian has had a lot to say about racism, and discrimination. Some people look at this and see angry Native Americans, and others might see them fighting for what they want. I think Adrian is an inspiration to a lot of people.

Yoko Ono is a multimedia artist who became known worldwide in the 1960s when she married Beatles front man John Lennon. Ono developed an interest in art and began writing poetry. Her work was not well received, but she gained recognition after working with American jazz musician/film producer Anthony Cox. My favorite piece of hers is called The Doors. To me I see this as you have multiple doors through life not just one, so when one door closes another one opens.

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Blogpost Week 11

Architecture is the art and science of constructing buildings and other physical structures. The artist we learn about in this week’s presentation is Maya Lin. Lin is an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. In Identity, we quickly see that Lin is very involved in her work. In her case, her “assignment” is a little different because she is required to do certain things with her piece because it is property of the city. Not only does Lin design the piece, she also is brought on as an architect because of her piece’s relations to the surrounding buildings. I love the “pool” that she created because when frozen, it turns into an ice skating circle in which members of the community use as such - as we were able to see.

Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles. A number of his buildings, including his private residence, have become world-renowned attractions. From Gehry’s Fish Lamp piece, I can tell why his work has become so notable. His simple “fish lamps” turned out to be quite elegant and an un-ordinary - yet extraordinary - piece to have in a home. I Like the fish lamps and in my opinion, they are elegant and lovely.

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Hello Jay! I really liked Maya Lin’s piece the “pool.” I love when artists create something that people can use and find joy in. I love how the community can skate on this and get to see the beauty up close and personal. I also loved the relevant artist you choose this week. Frank Owen Gehry is a really cool artist and his fish lamps are really beautiful and unique. I would love to see them in person. Thanks for sharing!

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I really think it’s cool that people can actually skate on it when it freezes. And that people can actually enjoy it, by using it. I really like the fish lamps that Frank Owen Gehry created. it looks like it has a lot of detail involved in it, and it looks like he spent a lot of time on it. I really enjoyed reading your post.

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I found this chapter very interesting to learn about this week. The artist we learn about in this week’s presentation is Maya Lin. Lin is an American designer and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. You can see that Lin is very involved in her work. She can’t just do whatever she wants with her pieces because where she does her work it is property of the city, so she must get permission. When you think about it, it would be difficult to build it because she is not the one that’s building it. She has a crew that builds it, so something could easily go the way she doesn’t want it to. I have always wanted to visit Greece and look at all the architecture they have.

Renzo Piano is known for his delicate and refined approach to building, deployed in museums and other buildings around the world. Awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1998, the Pritzker Jury compared him to Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Brunelleschi. The Shard, also known as the London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey, mixed use tower located beside London Bridge Station on the south bank of the River Thames. A mix of uses residential, offices and retail create a building that is in use 24 hours a day. large floor plates at the bottom for offices; restaurants, public spaces and a hotel located in the middle; private apartments at the top of the building. The final floors accommodate a public viewing gallery, 240 m above street level. This arrangement of functions also allows the tower to taper off and disappear into the sky. Eight sloping glass facades, the “shards” define the shape and visual quality of the tower, fragmenting the scale of the building and reflecting the light in unpredictable ways. Opening vents in the gaps or “fractures” between the shards, provide natural ventilation to winter gardens.

Over the last 25 years, Andrea Zittel has developed an unparalleled practice that encompasses spaces, objects and modes of living in an ongoing investigation into what it means to exist and participate in our culture today. Zittel explores core questions of “How to live?” and “What gives life meaning?” through an examination of social norms, values, hierarchies, as well as the creation of new systems and structures for living. Since 2000, Zittel continues to develop her life project A-Z West in the Southern Mojave Desert. an evolution from A-Z East, as well as High Desert Test Sites, as testing grounds for her work and investigations of day-to-day living. The over 50-acre grounds, as well as numerous satellite properties, are sites for experimentation, where environment, structure, and elements shape an intentional context for experience. This is my favorite piece of hers to me it shows that not everything is even and straight in life like how the shelves have ridges and it shows that not everything is perfect.

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Craft Media

Craft media has been around for centuries. It was out of practical use when it first started. The development of technology has really taken a toll on the craft artist because machines can make it faster and cheaper. William Morris was a social reformer and argued that mass production was “crushing the creative soul of the worker” and that “the industrial revolution was dehumanizing for the working class”. But hand crafted work came at a price which only the wealth could afford. At the same time art nouveau was evolving. With the idea of creating “astatically pleasing objects” with a “Victorian appeal”.

“Hindola” Bikaner Palace

There are many different mediums of craft media. They include clay, metal, wood, glass, and fibers. Clay is also referred to as ceramics. Which was mostly used for functional purposes. It has been used since ancient times. There are many methods to form clay. Some of the methods have been used for centuries. They include pinching, slab building, could building and wheel throwing. Precious metals are handcrafted into ornamental objects. Because of their beauty and luster. Precious metals tend to be malleable which makes them easier to work with. Other metals can be forged into works of art. Forged in Fire is a great show if you want to see that kind of craftsmanship. Wood has also been used for centuries. It can be carved and manipulated into many different functional things like boats and bowls. Glass is also a fantastic medium to watch being made. Especially glass blowing. Look it up on YouTube. It is mesmerizing. I love watching marbles being made. Lastly, fibers are also a craft form. Tapestry and quilting are the most recognized fiber mediums.

Crystal Palace, To Breath- A Mirror Woman- Kimsooja

Our artist of the week was interesting. I love how she uses her culture in her art work. She shows her “family history of nomadic life” well in her works. I think that the Crystal Palace was my favorite piece by her. I love how she did not alter the inside besides installing a mirrored floor. She let the building speak for itself and used the light to bring the totality of the space together. The breathing was interesting. It seemed a bit labored. I think a deep meditative breathing would have been more relaxing. It creates this transcendence almost. It would defiantly be a place to experience. Also her work in the Belgium train station would be a place to experience. I love how she respected the traditions by playing the meditation music to create an experience for the travelers. My kids fall asleep to meditation music every night. There is just something that brings inner piece to me when I’m falling asleep to it as well. One thing I liked about Kimsooja herself is that she is always a work in progress. A piece is never really done. She sees people a needles weaving in an out of the fabric of life. She defiantly has higher perspective on energies and human behavior.

Kimsooja- Zone of Zero

As for the relevant artist I choose Beth Cavener Stichter. She uses metal, wood and clay for her pieces. She has a interesting prospective on human and animal instincts and nature. I love how she portrays those aspects in her work. This is the quote on her website “There are primitive animal instincts lurking in our own depths, waiting for the chance to slide past a conscious moment”. I love it!

Sentimental- Beth Cavener Stichter

Sources:

http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/

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Michelle, I too loved Kimsooja’s work in the Crystal Palace. Many of her works seem to combine either different religions and/or meditation music. I find something about this relaxing as well. Another type of music I think is relaxing is Native American Indian music. Something about the subtleness of the music just seems to help calm the soul and sets the mind free. I find Beth Cavener’s work interesting and very lifelike especially considering they are made of wood and metal and are not real animals. Great post!

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I really found the Crystal Palace absolutely stunning. I love watching glass being made on videos, they have some really cool techniques of doing it. I've always wanted to see it be made in person. Beth is an amazing artist, she makes all of her pieces look so real. I wonder how much time it takes her to make one of these? I just can’t get over how lifelike they look. I wonder how she got into creating these pieces? I really enjoyed reading your post.

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This week we learned about Craft Media. There are five different types of craft media. They are clay, metal, wood, glass, and fibers. I really enjoyed learning about all of them, but my favorite type would have to be clay. In high school my art class made a lot of things out of clay. One picture I really enjoyed looking at is in the textbook on page 353, figure 11.5, Maija Grotell throwing a pot on a stand-up wheel. I really like this picture because I see her dedication and her focus. I looked at it for quite some time thinking how much time she has spent just on this one pot. It makes me think about how much time and dedication my great grandma put into her sewing and quilting.

This week’s video was on Kimsooja, a South Korean needle worker. She was born in 1957 in Taegu, South Korea. She earned a BFA and MA from Hong-Ik University, Seoul. Her videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. Central to her work is the “bottari,” a traditional Korean bed cover used to wrap and protect personal belongings, which Kimsooja transforms into a philosophical metaphor for structure and connection she has interpreted themes of migration and social connection through meditative performances and videos, as well as large-scale, interactive installations. This image is my favorite of hers, I feel like I relate a lot to this image because having the person in the background not being close to everything and that’s how I feel sometimes.

Marie Watt is an American artist. Her work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism, and Indigenous principles, and addresses the interaction of the arc of history with the intimacy of memory. Blankets are one of her primary materials, are everyday objects that can carry extraordinary histories of use. She has a MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University, attended Willamette University and the Institute of American Indian Arts, and in 2016 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Willamette University. This is my favorite piece she has done Blanket Stories: Transportation Object, Generous Ones, Trek. Just thinking about how each one of those blankets kind of tell a story. Each one of those blankets mark important life events. I just thought that the concept of this is really awesome.

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Installation Art

Hey class,

Installation art is incredible! Artists from all over build these pieces from many different materials with one vision in mind-a large, abstract piece that takes up quite a bit of space. This type of art is often site-specific-meaning the artist knows the location of the piece when they are building and configuring the work. We have a large, permanent installation piece quite close to us in Chicago called the Cloud Gate or the “bean.”

However, some of these pieces can be quite temporary, built in museums or taken down like we learned with “Tilted Arc.” My favorite part about this type of art is the fact that viewers can often completely interact with the pieces. They are able to walk around or walk through them-visually sensing many different things around them. There is often so much going on with these pieces that we are never bored or uninterested in them. I found this to be very true with Do Ho Suh’s works.

Do Ho Suh is a Korean artist who moved to the very crowded New York City to further pursue his artistic career. Suh’s artistic abilities run in the family, as his father was a successful artist. He is most famous for his pieces that he makes out of transportable fabric, like the house shown below.

One of the installations that meant the most to Suh was the replica of his parent’s house made of the same type of fabric. He enjoyed the idea of being able to carry “home” with him wherever he went. He took his internal memories and placed them in real-life, for viewers to enjoy in a beautiful, unique manner. However, some of his pieces were somewhat depressing to me. In his artist interview, we learned that all boys once they reach middle school must be taught in military-like manner. At this point, they were no longer called by their names-but by numbers. Then, they were forced to shave their hair, which was quite traumatizing to many of these young men. The boys were also to wear military uniforms, which was the focal point of one of his installations. Again, Suh draws his installation pieces from very emotional places in his life. Magnificent!

Suh is responsible for my favorite piece of artwork I have seen thus far this semester, pictured below. This piece blows my mind. Suh intricately placed thousands of figures with the palms of their hands faced upward-to symbolize “bearing weight.” Then, he put what appears to be thickened glass over the piece for admirers to actually walk upon-to better grasp the symbolism. Each figure was meticulously placed to perfection.

I found the same type of perfection sought with Karen Black’s works. Karen Black is an abstract artist who uses very unique materials to create her work. Such materials include powder, soap, gels and pastes, as well as more stream-lined materials like plaster, chalk, paint and paper. What drew me to Black the most was the unique materials she created some of her pieces from. I could never pick up a container of gel and assume I would create a masterpiece from it. Oftentimes, she mixes interesting materials with more streamlined ones to complete the installations. Magnificent!

Thanks everyone,

Morgan

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I really enjoyed reading your post this week. I have always wanted to go to Chicago and visit the “Bean”. My sister has gone multiple times and I’m always jealous of her when she shows me pictures she’s taken. I also love the pieces you can interact with. I like the piece of Do Ho Suh’s parent’s house he created, I can’t imagine what it would be like to see it in person. I also liked the piece of the figures holding the glass up while people walk on it.

Week #9 installation

I learned a lot this week about installation. I never knew what installation was before this unit. Installation art can be either temporary or permanent. This kind of art has been constructed in exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries, as well as public and private spaces. Installation art is almost always large enough for us to enter with our whole bodies. One artist I found very interesting is James Turrell. He began a monumental project at Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in northern Arizona. He sculpted the dimensions of the crater bowl and cut a series of chambers, tunnels and apertures within the volcano that heighten our sense of the heavens and earth. If I look at it a certain way, it reminds me of a planet’s surface.

I really enjoyed this week’s video on Do Hu Suh’s installations, I thought it was very interesting. You could tell that he puts a lot of meaning behind each installation he creates. My favorite piece of his is floor. This piece has a whole bunch of little people holding their hands up supporting the glass and whoever walks on it. I really enjoy this that people can walk on one of his pieces. To me it makes me feel that if I were to stand on it, it would make me feel that I have so many people holding me up and that people care.

One thing I really like about installation is that it can basically be anything and everything. Nancy Holt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1938 and grew up in New Jersey. Shortly after graduating from Tufts University in 1960 as a biology major, she moved to New York. This is where she began working in film, video, installation, and sound art. With her novel use of cylindrical forms, light, and techniques of reflection, she developed a unique aesthetic of perception, which enabled visitors to her sites to engage with the landscape in new and challenging ways. As an artist exploring the human perception of time and space, earth, and sky. She built the Sun Tunnels as a unique art project completed in 1976. The four tubes laid out in an X shape, each drilled with holes to pattern the constellations of Draco, Perseus, Columbia, and Capricorn. They are nine feet high by 18 feet long. They sit in a remote valley in the Great Basin Desert, West of the Booneville Salt Flats. Two of the tunnels align with the setting and rising sun during the summer solstice and two line up during the winter solstice. It reminds me of when people say there’s always a light at the end of the tunnel.

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Sculpture

Kara Walker- sugar sculptures

Sculpture has been around for centuries. It is an art forum that can be made to last the test of time but also it can be made ephemeral. Sculpture can be used in various ways to portray beauty and pain. Also, it can be used as a way to portray something greater then ourselves.

In planning to do a sculpture there is a lot of work. Many molds, sketches or models can be used before the final product comes to life. Carving is a forum of sculpture. Michelangelo along with other artist feel that carving is just a form of releasing or liberating the inner form from the block. Different materials can be used for carving, from wood to ivory and stone. Plaster is used for modeling. Examples of modeled work would be head bust or the terracotta army. Casting is also a forum of sculpture. It is one that I have done in high school. It involves taking a mold and pouring a hardening substance into it. In high school we used bronze and aluminum. Kara Walker used sugar. Another forum of sculpture is Assembling. This forum is wide ranging. Artist use a multitude of object to create one 3D work. It is fascination what the artist can create out of mundane objects. One forum that has been around since ancient times is earthwork. These are typically landscapes that used the natural resources to convert the ground. As seen in Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.

Robert Smithson- Spiral Jetty

Installations are works that take up the whole space. They are site specific works. One forum that is also used is performance art. This reminds me of the street performers on city streets. The ones painted all in silver portraying the thinking man or some other famous statue. This is also a forum of shock art. One where it can have extreme action taken. It can be spontaneous an improvised.

Diana Al-Hadid

I love the idea of Ephemeral works. The fact that they are fragile and not meant to last. It is a reminder that we are fragile and not meant to last as people. Time is short and over time we morph into other things until we are gone. I love Diana Al-Hadid’s works. This piece reminds me of the Iron Thorne after the white walkers come in season eight of Game of Thrones. It hasn’t been released yet but this is what I envision, with Cersei in there in bedded in it. Diana uses simple fragile materials that are found at any hardware store. Her inspiration is mythology, architecture, cosmology and physics. Which I think she does a wonderful job of portraying in her works.

Kara Walker-Stories

Kara Walker is fascinating as an artist. She portrays history in her works. I love her quote in the interview, “Whiteness is just as artificial a construct as blackness is”. She perceives herself and her work that of a Negress. Defined as real and artificial, line between fiction and reality. The word stems from a book, one of racism. And in the book the Negress is the vixen. I love how she turns the derogatory term into power. Which her works do the same. They are iconic, powerful and unexpected in her words and I would have to agree. They can make a person uncomfortable, but understand and change are uncomfortable. So was history. If you confront what makes you uncomfortable you are more open to seeing what is really there.

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Very well written post! I am also very interested in Walkers work. For one, I am what I have come to realized very privileged, if you were to go back how many years ago my ancestors were privileged. I couldn’t imagine going back and facing what her ancestors had to do. To me, I feel like just being in that sugar factor would make me uncomfortable. After learning more about Walker, I would love to go see some of her work in person someday. Even when Im not in this class because like you said her work is the uncomfortable things of the past. I think her work is empowering, and makes her artwork so great. Not only that but her work, and her materials in the sugar factory were changing. Some of her pieces were actually melting by the looks of it in the video. I would think it would be hard to see the work almost melt away, but in order to get her point across she still did it. She still made it work, that is amazing to me.

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I really enjoyed reading your post this week. You had a lot of very interesting things to say about each thing you wrote about. I also think Kara Walker is a very fascinating artist, I never even knew that you can make sculptures out of sugar paste. In one part of your post here you talk about Diana Al-Hadid, I love how you said that we are fragile and not meant to last as people. It made me think about everything in a different perspective.

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I really enjoyed watching this week’s video, this was something that I have never heard about. Kara Walker was a very interesting person to learn about. She is a contemporary African-American artist known for her exploration of race, stereotypes, gender, and identity throughout American history. She is best known for her large-scale tableaux of collaged silhouettes amidst black-and-white pastoral landscapes. She received her BFA from Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and her MFA in painting and printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design three years later. Success came just out of school, with Kara, becoming one of the youngest recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship at age 28. I had no idea making sculptures out of sugar paste was even possible. The ingredients used to make it are corn syrup, sugar, and water. The sculptures actually melt in the sun to give them a weeping appearance. I couldn’t even imagine making these, I would love to see the sculptures in person and watch them make one in person.

For my relevant artist this week I chose Damien Hirst. He is a British artist, he is known for his work of dead animal displays and spin-art paintings. He was part of the Young British Artists movement that rose to prominence in the early 1990s he went on to win the coveted Turner Prize in 1995. In 2012, he showed what went on to be one of his most controversial work in decades, the installation In and Out of Love, which consisted of two white windowless rooms in which over 9,000 butterflies died in them. His works are held in the collections of the Tate Gallery in London, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., and the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. One of his most famous pieces is called A Mother and Child divided. To be honest I found this very disturbing, I actually found most of his pieces disturbing. The piece is four tanks, two of them contain half of a cow each and the other two contain half of a calf. To be completely honest I didn’t pick this artist because I like his art, me personally I don’t like his art, and that’s why I picked him. His ideas are very creative I will give him that. But his pieces just don’t appeal to me.

I learned a lot while reading about sculptures this week, again, like the past weeks I never realized how many different topics are involved in each one. There are four types of creating sculptures which include carving, modeling, casting, and assembling. Carving is the type of sculpting my high school uses in art class. When I was reading about them, casting caught my attention, I had never heard about this kind of sculpting before. Casting is easily shapeable materials that are used to create a negative mold. One of my favorite types of sculpting would have to be carving this is when you take a larger piece of working materials such as stone, ivory, or wood and you cut pieces off to make sculpture.

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Blogpost Week 7

I want to start off by saying that photography/film-making are wonderful forms of art that - in my opinion - are centered around capturing a moment or a theme. In connection to our assigned videos, I felt like they were effective in doing so.

In Short Film: Hot Beach Babe Aims to Please, by Jillian Mayer, I felt like she greatly depicted how sex is something that humans gravitate towards. Fruit flies are attracted to sweet things such as banana and peaches . For them that’s their source of energy. This video is simply simplifying life and how sex is something that humans gravitate towards. The girl in the video is like a banana. Although the theme of this video is very simple The next is quite opposite.

In Short Film: Belly, by Julia Pott, the theme was much more complex. I had to re-watch this film a few times. Initially, I was just confused, deciding that the film was just weird with unique animations, but ultimately I decided that it outlines the complexities of different individuals. Contrasting the defining principles of empathy and care. Pott primarily used 3 different characters in order to ouch her theme: Oscar - little brother and owner/friend of “The Beast”; Alex - Typical teenager and Oscar’s older brother; and lastly “The Beast” - Oscar’s pet and best friend. For me, Belly retains it’s mystery.

The first couple short films are much different than Jim Cummings’ Thunder Road. In my opinion, Thunder Road begins in a funeral that quickly goes downhill when Jimmy Arnaud - main character - decides to give an unprepared speech at his mother’s funeral. The speech quickly turns into a comical dance recital in which a family member in the front pew begins to record on Snapchat. A couple themes from Thunder Road are love your mother while you still have time, and don’t proceed to publicly “reminisce” at her funeral if you didn’t!

I Chose Wolfgang Tilmans’ Peas as my Relevant Artist Piece. This short film most resembles the “hot” babe film by taking a simple and natural approach to providing mental stimulation. As the peas boil, the bubbles fade creating a oddly stimulating moment.

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I really enjoyed reading your post this week. I agree with you on a lot of the things you said. In the short film Belly I also had to re-watch it a couple of times to understand it. At first I just found it disturbing, but I realized it had a lot of meaning to it. And I also liked how you said photography and film are wonderful forms of art. And that it’s centered around capturing a moment.

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I really enjoyed learning more about photography/ film. I have always loved photography for as long as I can remember. I never realized all the different terms for photography like resolution, Tonal range, and dynamic range. The short film by Julia Pott, honestly, I found it very disturbing at first, but I also found it emotional on how they must leave each other even though they love each other. The short film by Jillian Mayer, was very real a lot of things in this world are clickbait I think it teaches you not to just click on anything that pops up and catches your eye. The film that stuck out to me the most was the one by Jim Cummings, this film had really good acting, at some spots during it I got teary eyed because I felt his pain he was giving off. Some people can have mixed emotions about this some may see it as comedy with the way he dances and acts and others can feel remorse for him losing his mom. The first artist I chose to talk about is Carrie Mae Weems, she is considered one of the most influential contemporary American artists. She has studied family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Carrie has developed a complex body of art employing photographers, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and video. She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at major national and international museums. She has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships. She was presented with one of the first US Department of State’s Medals of Arts. She is currently Artist in residence at the Park Avenue Armory. She lives in New York, with her husband. One of the pictures from her dreaming in Cuba collection is the picture of a couple. This reminds me of my grandparents and how much love they have for each other. It just makes you stop and think for a moment, that I would want a relationship like this someday. And it gives you hope that love does last no matter the age.

The other artist I chose to talk about is Cindy Sherman, she has built a name as one of the most respected photographers of the late twentieth century. She photographs the role of woman, the role of the artist and many more. There are very few clues as to Sherman’s personality in the photographs. Each one is so unique and ambiguous that the viewer is left with more confusion than clarity over Sherman’s true nature. This picture caught my eye of hers I see a rich lady who thinks she is better than everybody else.

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Week 6: Printmaking/Graphic Design

This week’s chapters seemingly took me by surprise. Prior to the readings, I thought I had a pretty decent idea as to what printmaking and graphic design were. When I thought of printmaking, I thought of designs being put on t-shirts and other articles of clothing. And when I thought of graphic design, I thought of the computer aspect of graphic design. Now, after reading, I realize how narrow minded those perceptions actually were. Even though we are in week six, I still find myself shocked at how in depth art gets. It’s not just one simple definition for each type of art; there are several different types of each art! The type of printmaking that I found to be really interesting was etching. It has such an in depth process to create such beautiful pieces. My favorite etching piece would have to be The Three Crosses by Rembrant van Rijn on page 255. I am by no means religious, but the piece itself is so detailed and concise, it’s hard to not appreciate it.

This week’s video on John Baldessari was very interesting. His art work really made me think about what he was trying to portray. Although, I may not fully understand his work, I definitely found myself able to appreciate it. I really liked how blunt and honest John is about his work and how he perceives art. What he said about art being about communication relating it to teaching was truly beautiful, after watching his interview, my outlook on his art really made me appreciate it more. My favorite piece by John Baldessari is Studio. His images that are like this make me wonder what the purpose of his art is. What is he trying to say? Is he blocking things out because we choose to see what we want to see? Is he trying to draw a focus to a particular aspect to the images?

The relevant artist that I chose this week is Kara Walker. I soon as I looked her up, I was drawn to her work! I love the way it’s almost like silhouettes in her antebellum prints. Her work reminded me a lot of some tattoos I’ve seen people get. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Like the silhouettes of an Alice in Wonderland theme or the Peter Pan ones! I just love the work that she does. When looking at some of her antebellum prints, I noticed a very dark theme going on. Perhaps she is trying to express something deeper within? Or maybe she is trying to state that there is more than meets the eye when we look at people. I’m just completely in awe by what I have seen! A lot of these prints seem to have more than one thing going on in each of them, so at times I had a hard time trying to depict what she was possibly trying to say. After a little research, I did find out that she has a lot of pieces that depict the Civil War era, so things started to make a little more sense. My favorite piece by her would have to be the one below (I couldn’t find the exact name of the piece). When I first saw it, it appeared to me to be a slave carrying someone on the end of a stick. I’m not sure if the man on the stick is supposed to be the slave owner, or perhaps a fellow friend he is helping carry away? What are your thoughts?

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I am also surprised by how in-depth art gets. I also found etching to be interesting. I understand what you mean by the silhouettes, one of my favorite things to paint are silhouettes of elephants. The piece you picked out is very interesting, to me this piece has a lot of meaning Kara was trying to tell. I agree with you, I think the slave is carrying a friend or a family member. I really enjoyed reading your post this week.

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I really like that in about printmaking and graphic design this week. I was actually going to go to school for graphic design, at the beginning of my senior year if someone asked me what I was going to do when I graduated I always said graphic design. Now I have no idea what I want to do.

Printmaking has usually been defined as a method for creating multiple identical copies of an image by repeatedly inking and printing a worked plate. I found monotype and dressing, it's a printmaking process in which the artist paints and image directly onto a sheet of metal or glass with printers ink or paint and then presses paper on to it to transfer the image. What I really think is cool is that each time the image changes, so no monotype is exactly alike.

graphic design is usually and directly at consumers, though there are often and art director and marketing team between the designer and the end user. Graphic designers must be aware of the images and iconography a popular culture, but also must have knowledge of past Traditions, Styles, symbols, and pictorials. The two major ingredients of graphic design are letters and images.

Melanie Yazzie is a printmaker, painter, and Sculptor. As an artist, she works to serve as an Agent of Change by encouraging others to learn about social, cultural, and political phenomena shaping the Contemporary lives of native peoples in the United States and Beyond. Her. Her work is in the Phippen art museums, the National Gallery and then Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, print collection, Providence. Melanie is a professor in the department of Art and art history at the University of Colorado. She strives to create safe, non-toxic methods of printmaking where toxic chemicals are commonly used. I really like the blue bird monotype. a purple and green octopus. It's different than any other piece I have ever seen.

I also found John baldessari really interesting. He was born in National City, California and 1931. He attended San Diego State University. His work has been featured and more than 200 solo exhibitions and then over 1,000 group exhibitions. His projects include artist books, videos, films, Billboards, and Public Works. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Va lencia, California from 1970 - 1988 and the University of California at Los Angeles from 1996 - 2007.

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I also did not realize how many different forms art has. I have always found collaging interesting, we did a lot of collaging in my art class during high school. I was really shocked when I read that Frank was painted with acrylics. If I would’ve guessed I would’ve said that it looks like it was drawn with pencil. Or it also looks like a photo was taken of him. I really enjoyed reading your post this week.

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