Thursday, February 25, 2010
about scanning in my journal sketches
I hope that I am not docked points because I don't know how to use a scanner. I know that I need to learn how to use it but I end up just getting extremely frustrated with the whole thing. I did take photographs of my journal sketches, but I felt like they turned out horrible because they were blurry and very hard to read. Oh well I guess I will see how the blog will be graded. maybe I can just personally show you my sketch book because I feel like a put a lot of work into it and It is unjustified by the photographs.
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry is one of today's most acclaimed architects. His buildings are very individual in style and push the boundaries of what we normally associate with buildings. his structures are not straight up and down rectangles that are symmetrical which we are used to seeing but rather made from many shapes and angles to create a design that is unlike any other artist. he changed what people think of building. i can see how this his work can be related to the first project that we had, which was drawing paper in different ways. His structures almost look like they could be based from manipulating paper.
Robert Hughes assignment
Jeff Koons
1. Jeff Koons utilizes his material in an srt historical context in the fact that he is part of a certain style which is kitsch/ conceptual art. Were ever kitsch is heard Jeff Koons should be mentioned.
2. I am going to use Jeff Koons piece Michael Jackson and Bubbles because I think that the materials used definately create a meaning. He used ceramic and gold paint to create this piece. When you see a picture of it, it resembles a small figurine but it is actually very large. small figurines are popular in our culture not popular by any means that relate to being classy but more of a trailer park popularity. very kitschy.
3. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
4. The fact that his art is displayed in a fine art museum makes people upset because they don't define Koons to be an artist. People have very split views on Koons while some people think that he is a fine artist and has importance to art history others dismiss his art all together.
1. Jeff Koons utilizes his material in an srt historical context in the fact that he is part of a certain style which is kitsch/ conceptual art. Were ever kitsch is heard Jeff Koons should be mentioned.
2. I am going to use Jeff Koons piece Michael Jackson and Bubbles because I think that the materials used definately create a meaning. He used ceramic and gold paint to create this piece. When you see a picture of it, it resembles a small figurine but it is actually very large. small figurines are popular in our culture not popular by any means that relate to being classy but more of a trailer park popularity. very kitschy.
3. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
4. The fact that his art is displayed in a fine art museum makes people upset because they don't define Koons to be an artist. People have very split views on Koons while some people think that he is a fine artist and has importance to art history others dismiss his art all together.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Conceptual art questions
1. The viewer is extremely important in conceptual art because it is the viewer who asks the questions. There are questions like "what does this mean?" and the answers are particularly individual. They are individual because the answers will vary depending on the circumstances of the viewer. It is the meaning that is important in conceptual art, and not so much the materials or how it is arranged. With out the viewer's intake or questioning the concept wouldn't exist.
2. I think that it was hard for people to accept Fountain by Duchamp as art because it is a urinal. A ready made and not something that he crafted. a urinal is an everyday object (well for men anyway) and people don't go to a public bathroom and associate a urinal, something that is used to relive one's self, as a work of art. When people saw this piece in a museum it raised the question "Is this art?" and made veiwers look at an everyday object in a not so everyday way. Duchamp forced people to look at a urinal as a piece of fine art and I think that the traditional people had a hard time recognizing it as art.
3.Duchamp posed the question, "Could this urinal be an artwork?" with his Fountain and he asked the viewer to "Try and imagine this reproduction of the Mona Lisa with a beard as an artwork, not just a defaced reproduction of an artwork, but as an artwork in its own right." with his LHOOQ. People assumed that art would have to be either a painting or a sculpture but when his readymades came out it forced the viewer to have to redefine art.
4.It is difficult to categorize conceptual art in the context of traditional art because it is not defined by medium or style but rather the concept the viewer has upon seeing the piece. conceptual art is reflexive - "I am thinking about how I think." it represents a state of continual self-critique. ---page 5
5. Page 7 - "It is, arguably, a tradition based on the critical spirit, although the use of the word 'tradition' is paradoxical given the opposition of much Conceptual art to the very notion of tradition. Although I seek in the following pages to give a clear, lively and honest introduction to the continuing history of Conceptual art, I can not and will not want to be prescriptive. in the last resort you will have to decide what you believe, just as in engaging with any example of Conceptual art it is the response of you, the viewer, that defines the work."
This is in the last bit of the reading I really like how the author ended this because obviously he can not decide what is considered art to the reader. He leaves it open for the reader what is considered art. What do you define as art? He leaves this question open with a last piece by Annette Lemieux (which is at the top of the page).
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Jeff Koons
people have a hard time with this artist because they don't recognize it as fine art. It is disturbing to them because it is kitschy. This is a reflection of American culture. If you hate this art then you might as well be saying that you hate American culture. Yeah sometimes it isn't the most beautiful thing ever and I think that is what Jeff Koons is trying to express. It is gross and not as pretty as you would want it to be, but it is a part of us and an everyday thing. I think that Jeff Koons could be considered a Conceptual artist because it goes against the traditional definition of art and it raises questions with in the viewer.
Sara Lucas
Sarah Lucas is a wizard of cigarette manipulation. It is so funny that I have never heard of this artist yet she also had the idea of making a pair of cigarette heels. I am wondering if she just glued the cigarettes to the heels or if she actually made the heels out of the cigarettes. today in class i attempted to start my project. I am thinking that it may be easier for me to find a pair of heels that i can just glue the cigarettes to instead of trying to craft them myself. I am kind of sad that this has already been done. I also was thinking that making wedge heels may be easier to make and now I see that Sarah Lucas has done this. I will have to figure out how to make a cigarette bend to the extent that Sarah Lucas was able to do. How funny! Thank you Erin for the reference.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
journal exercise transformation
I have been thinking of some ideas for this upcoming project.
here are three ideas and the journal exercise for each
1. list the words that best describe your project formally - color, shape, texture ect
2. list the words that describe original function or meaning, does the context (time and place) change its meaning or function?
Top Hat made from Tortillas
1. color would be an orange color from the corn tortillas, it would have the texture of hard corn tortillas, tortilla would be a fun medium because when you cook them with oil they are malleable until they dry out then they are brittle and hard. the tortillas would be formed into the shape of a top hat
2. tortillas are a traditional food that comes from Mexico and south America. they are used to wrap barritos or make a taco. a top hat is not traditionally a Mexican or South American attire. Top hats are something that is worn in a very formal setting and top hats are not normally worn anymore but more warn in the past. This could be contextual art that shows an image of western ways but with something that is traditionally not western.
Wig made from Gummy Bears
1. I have a choice with color here i could either do a multicolor wig or pick one color of gummy bear and go with that. it depends if i decide one color is better then the others. I dont think that i would do a full wig but more of a decorative head piece that goes over the hair. I would string the gummy bears with fishing line then i would attach them to something, maybe copper wire to form to the head.
2. gummy bears are pretty, pretty like jewelry, when they hit the light they can look like gems. why not make a pretty head piece out of them? well i can think of a couple reasons first reason would be gummy bears can melt and who in there right mind would want melted gummy bears in there hair?
Stilettos made from Cigarettes
1. the shoes would be made out of cigarettes glued together with mod podge glue. so they would be white and brown and would have the shape of a pair of high heels.
2. I think that this is by far my favorite idea. it could have many concepts. remember reading the article "Cigarettes and High Heels" I remember reading it but i would like to re-read it to get a better idea. I would like to incorporate some of the concepts of that article into the art work. also, I am a smoker right now so the concept could be something like look at what i could be buying for myself if i wasn't spending a gazillion dollars on smoking cigarettes or the fact that when i am dead from lung cancer what are high heels going to do for me. anyway there is so much that i could write for this one i would just have to see how it turns out and think about it when i am putting together the project.
here are three ideas and the journal exercise for each
1. list the words that best describe your project formally - color, shape, texture ect
2. list the words that describe original function or meaning, does the context (time and place) change its meaning or function?
Top Hat made from Tortillas
1. color would be an orange color from the corn tortillas, it would have the texture of hard corn tortillas, tortilla would be a fun medium because when you cook them with oil they are malleable until they dry out then they are brittle and hard. the tortillas would be formed into the shape of a top hat
2. tortillas are a traditional food that comes from Mexico and south America. they are used to wrap barritos or make a taco. a top hat is not traditionally a Mexican or South American attire. Top hats are something that is worn in a very formal setting and top hats are not normally worn anymore but more warn in the past. This could be contextual art that shows an image of western ways but with something that is traditionally not western.
Wig made from Gummy Bears
1. I have a choice with color here i could either do a multicolor wig or pick one color of gummy bear and go with that. it depends if i decide one color is better then the others. I dont think that i would do a full wig but more of a decorative head piece that goes over the hair. I would string the gummy bears with fishing line then i would attach them to something, maybe copper wire to form to the head.
2. gummy bears are pretty, pretty like jewelry, when they hit the light they can look like gems. why not make a pretty head piece out of them? well i can think of a couple reasons first reason would be gummy bears can melt and who in there right mind would want melted gummy bears in there hair?
Stilettos made from Cigarettes
1. the shoes would be made out of cigarettes glued together with mod podge glue. so they would be white and brown and would have the shape of a pair of high heels.
2. I think that this is by far my favorite idea. it could have many concepts. remember reading the article "Cigarettes and High Heels" I remember reading it but i would like to re-read it to get a better idea. I would like to incorporate some of the concepts of that article into the art work. also, I am a smoker right now so the concept could be something like look at what i could be buying for myself if i wasn't spending a gazillion dollars on smoking cigarettes or the fact that when i am dead from lung cancer what are high heels going to do for me. anyway there is so much that i could write for this one i would just have to see how it turns out and think about it when i am putting together the project.
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