Thursday, December 12, 2013
Reflection
In the beginning I was really anxious and didn't know what I was getting myself into. I must say after looking back to my blogs and the pictures that I put up of especially art exploration is really exciting to see. This whole class was inspirational, showed a different side of me. I had NO idea what so ever to accomplish all the things ive done in this class. I guess i needed some kind of push or dedication for me to explore of what more I can do. It was ALOT of work, but well worth it to see what I was able to do!
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Self Portrait
This self portrait was pretty fun. I tried to look for something different and inspirational. This is a picture of myself and my son was he was just born. I remember this day to the fullest with every bit of detail. It was one of the most important days of my life.
I wanted to pick something that wouldn't make me give up easily and something that can motivate me to draw to my fullest potential. After I finished I felt like I could actually put this piece into a museum. It is actually hanging from a bulletin board at home, something that I can hold on to forever. I didn't know something as simple as this can remind me of such an important day.
The challenge I had was the immense amount of pressure. I overcame by this by taking lots of frequent breaks and rests. I put lots of shadow into this portrait. I was going to put color but I felt like it would ruin the moment. I am completely satisfied with this piece and didn't want to touch it any further so I just stopped here.There was a LOT of erasing!
Art Critique
My favorite part of this project was looking at other exhibits and comparing to my own. I really enjoy thinking and contemplating about how others came up with their own idea of a museum. This was a complicating, and challenging assignment for me. I had to open up my feelings and emotions to see how I would be able to relate to such paintings and artworks. I reviewed bunch of projects and compared to them. There were many simple and complicated ones. It was kind of easy to figure out who was serious and tried to make the best out of their museums and who didn't. People who did put lots of effort into it was very noticeable.
I selected the exhibit the related to Love because I took in quite interest from one of the first assignments for this class. It had to do with aesthetics and the meaning of beauty. Aristotle and Plato had lots of sayings for the term beauty.
The only challenge that I had for this critique was how I would imply my emotions and judgement toward the curator and artwork without expressing it too harshly. I definitely had different opinions from the curator on some artworks, which were completely different and some we though alike.
I would definitely like to read the critique people made on my project to see and open to how others reacted. It would be a total different kind of approach. I would rate my article about a 8-9 out of 10. I tried to minimize about what I can say since there was a page limit. I had to write down brief notes and comments about each paintings. The best part was how I was very free and open to share about what I thought compared to the curator.
The best part of working on this project was looking at other peers works and their museums.
I selected the exhibit the related to Love because I took in quite interest from one of the first assignments for this class. It had to do with aesthetics and the meaning of beauty. Aristotle and Plato had lots of sayings for the term beauty.
The only challenge that I had for this critique was how I would imply my emotions and judgement toward the curator and artwork without expressing it too harshly. I definitely had different opinions from the curator on some artworks, which were completely different and some we though alike.
I would definitely like to read the critique people made on my project to see and open to how others reacted. It would be a total different kind of approach. I would rate my article about a 8-9 out of 10. I tried to minimize about what I can say since there was a page limit. I had to write down brief notes and comments about each paintings. The best part was how I was very free and open to share about what I thought compared to the curator.
The best part of working on this project was looking at other peers works and their museums.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
TJ Clark and Renaissance
First of all TJ Clark's interview was a very laid back and open to the interview. When I read interview I thought of more professional and a formal setting. This was definitely not the setting. I was listening to the interview and TJ Clark was cursing "Damn" in every other sentence and smoking cigarettes right in the middle of the interview. I couldn't take my eyes of this and was pretty distracted by this.
First Pollock started his paintings as drips. The function of painting was between easel and the moral. The easel picture was a drying form and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall piture or moral. The time isn't right to blend them in from the wall or moral.
The pictures are interpreted as a halfway state and an attempt to point out direction of the future without arriving there completely. Discipline is most important in art. It had something to do with good paintings and bad paintings. For example, Lavender and mist are great sucesses but Blue Poles is a failure.
Michaelangelo never could've painted great without learning from earlier masters. There has to be an artist from all the artists that learned from the first. Giotto was one of the first. Discoveries of Giotto represented the first stages of Renaissance rebirth of great art. Roman artists had great appreciation of nature and beauty. They sculpted painted and made mosaics based on what they saw around them, for hundreds of years. The Roman Empire provided enough stability for the arts to fully flourish.
I learned about mosaics and descriptions in a different class. I think it was Art History. It helped me a lot in this class because the terms were familiar such as Baroque and the Goths.
First Pollock started his paintings as drips. The function of painting was between easel and the moral. The easel picture was a drying form and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall piture or moral. The time isn't right to blend them in from the wall or moral.
The pictures are interpreted as a halfway state and an attempt to point out direction of the future without arriving there completely. Discipline is most important in art. It had something to do with good paintings and bad paintings. For example, Lavender and mist are great sucesses but Blue Poles is a failure.
Michaelangelo never could've painted great without learning from earlier masters. There has to be an artist from all the artists that learned from the first. Giotto was one of the first. Discoveries of Giotto represented the first stages of Renaissance rebirth of great art. Roman artists had great appreciation of nature and beauty. They sculpted painted and made mosaics based on what they saw around them, for hundreds of years. The Roman Empire provided enough stability for the arts to fully flourish.
I learned about mosaics and descriptions in a different class. I think it was Art History. It helped me a lot in this class because the terms were familiar such as Baroque and the Goths.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Project 4
This is a very thoughtful and time consuming project. I started off with a paper and a pen and started to write down my strongest themes. I wrote down science fiction since I was able to combines aliens and lots of paintings that came with it. I thought it was interesting because I don't see many exhibits with some kind of extraterrestrial themes. I submitted my theme for the discussion dropbox, but started to look at different themes in the meantime. I came up with colors or Comical themes. When I read the comments and replies, people really agreed with my choice and was actually excited to see what I would use for my exhibit. So I continued with it.
Friday, November 22, 2013
Module 13 & 14
These videos were quite interesting and had similar themes and topics for each video. It was about museums and curators. How ironic since we have to make our own museums and become a curator ourselves. This is quite thrilling and nerve racking since I don't know where to begin. These videos painted a picture and brought ideas to my mind. As I was watching the videos I wasn't only taking notes but definitely blanking out and day dreaming about how my museum would become.
Tate modern exhibits correspond directly with the chronology of our course which is 1900 to the present. This is called International Modern Art era. Theres a collection which is relatively traditional in terms of its focus on NATO Alliance, Western European, North American Art, emphasizing the canonical movements, surrealism, abstract expressionism, constructivism and pop.
A history embodied in a collection which principally excludes non-western discourses principally excludes art that is politically engaged and consistently ignores the contribution of women artists throughout 20th century so there is a very partial collection.
The way that we look at modern art is partly shaped by art historical concerns. Museums of modern art have played no less a role in framing our values and judgements.
MOMA which is the Museum of Modern Art in New York is powerful and prestigiou institution that pioneered a new form of display that was to dominate the exhibition of modern art for over half a century. This system for exhibiting what we were recent artistic tendencies was largely the product of museums first director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Barr's view of art was in significant ways a response to artistic modernism, the form that he used to display come to be seen as the characteristic type of modern exhibition. Barr displayed artworks that are primarily other responses of art and it traveled on a direct path to the present. Barr believed that art was ultimately self contained and bore little relation to social, political or intellectual history.
Art movements evolved from one another with experience we can see time based work like performance and video, ephemeral works that do not resemble the museum's commodity the museum usually housed.
There are four themes that curator use to organize the museum which is landscape, still life, history and the nude.
Tate modern exhibits correspond directly with the chronology of our course which is 1900 to the present. This is called International Modern Art era. Theres a collection which is relatively traditional in terms of its focus on NATO Alliance, Western European, North American Art, emphasizing the canonical movements, surrealism, abstract expressionism, constructivism and pop.
A history embodied in a collection which principally excludes non-western discourses principally excludes art that is politically engaged and consistently ignores the contribution of women artists throughout 20th century so there is a very partial collection.
The way that we look at modern art is partly shaped by art historical concerns. Museums of modern art have played no less a role in framing our values and judgements.
MOMA which is the Museum of Modern Art in New York is powerful and prestigiou institution that pioneered a new form of display that was to dominate the exhibition of modern art for over half a century. This system for exhibiting what we were recent artistic tendencies was largely the product of museums first director Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
Barr's view of art was in significant ways a response to artistic modernism, the form that he used to display come to be seen as the characteristic type of modern exhibition. Barr displayed artworks that are primarily other responses of art and it traveled on a direct path to the present. Barr believed that art was ultimately self contained and bore little relation to social, political or intellectual history.
Art movements evolved from one another with experience we can see time based work like performance and video, ephemeral works that do not resemble the museum's commodity the museum usually housed.
There are four themes that curator use to organize the museum which is landscape, still life, history and the nude.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Video Reviews
The first video that I watched was the Modernity and art. The second video was mostly about Andy Warhol's method of printing. The first video made me reflect on how far our civilization have came. There were much centuries ago where painting was very different from what we call painting today.
Even in the Greek times shapes of men they were reflecting was a man , an idealized version of themselves which have the spark of divinity within themselves. Art has its own memory in itself. It has its own psychic strata. For example, you can see human consciousness changing a civilization altering itself. We see higher realm being, idealized versions of what we could be if we were better than ourselves.
There's some kind of spine-chilling if we connect art to the past. We sense some awesome and unquestionable set of values being carried on through art, but then art changes because everything changes. For example, during Industrialization man is separated from nature. Machines took over and they were the rule work. Science challenges religion. What eventually rises is modern life. The old illusions shattered and the new ones rule us. Our new freedoms pictures to us in advertising. Art describes us when we have freedom to be whatever we want it to be.
Present life is in the uncertain present. There is no single code for living. The burning issue right now is the uncertainty. The future will look back and look at us as a society defined by change, living constantly with oddness. Now art is about questions. For example, bricks piled up are about form. You don't have to make a cut into the sculpture to make it a sculpture but the bricks make a cut into the world. It shows different theories and points of view what the brick is really presenting about.
Andy Warhol gives such a great quote in the beginning of the video. He says department stores are modern day museums. This is somewhat true! Department stores and clothing lines use so much advertisement. These include manicans which act as sculptures. Andy Warhol is one of the famous artists who is integrated in the advertisement world. He is most famous for silk screen shots of Marilyn Monroe. The one that is most popular is the Cambell Soup.
Even in the Greek times shapes of men they were reflecting was a man , an idealized version of themselves which have the spark of divinity within themselves. Art has its own memory in itself. It has its own psychic strata. For example, you can see human consciousness changing a civilization altering itself. We see higher realm being, idealized versions of what we could be if we were better than ourselves.
There's some kind of spine-chilling if we connect art to the past. We sense some awesome and unquestionable set of values being carried on through art, but then art changes because everything changes. For example, during Industrialization man is separated from nature. Machines took over and they were the rule work. Science challenges religion. What eventually rises is modern life. The old illusions shattered and the new ones rule us. Our new freedoms pictures to us in advertising. Art describes us when we have freedom to be whatever we want it to be.
Present life is in the uncertain present. There is no single code for living. The burning issue right now is the uncertainty. The future will look back and look at us as a society defined by change, living constantly with oddness. Now art is about questions. For example, bricks piled up are about form. You don't have to make a cut into the sculpture to make it a sculpture but the bricks make a cut into the world. It shows different theories and points of view what the brick is really presenting about.
Andy Warhol gives such a great quote in the beginning of the video. He says department stores are modern day museums. This is somewhat true! Department stores and clothing lines use so much advertisement. These include manicans which act as sculptures. Andy Warhol is one of the famous artists who is integrated in the advertisement world. He is most famous for silk screen shots of Marilyn Monroe. The one that is most popular is the Cambell Soup.
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