You have two choices.. this is due by beginning of class Friday December 19.
Option 1:
Choose an artist from the book or the lectures. Do a little research. Create a work of art that reacts to it in some way. Here on the blog I'd like you to write a little about your project. What did you do? Describe it. What was your inspiration? Give a little background information. You may include links to images.
Option 2:
Choose two works from either your text book or from topics covered in class to write an essay. Research well... you must use a minimum of two sources outside of the text. Compare and Contrast the two works discussing similarities and differences. Be sure to include a detailed description of each work, background information like when and where it was made. What was the political and religious context? How did the climate and geography influence the work?
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For my Final piece I have decided to follow the steps of Leonardo Da Vinci. Out of all of his drawings I find his ruff sketches (charcoal drawings) to be the most fascinating and inspirational. The great detail and capture-meant of the muscles and characteristic of the subjects that he has presented are amazing.
So for my project I have drawn a nude male figure, which shows the beauty and artistic forms of the human body. Like Da Vinci, I used charcoal to capture the image, with as much detail as I could. I am very satisfied with my creation and enjoyed it creation.
I have decided to explore and compare the works of two influential photographers of our time: Guy Bourdin and David LaChapelle. Each of these visionaries have permanently changed the way we look at everything around us.
Guy Bourdin was born in 1928 in Paris and in the 1950s became the photographer for the French Vogue. His personal life was quite disturbing with his first wife committing suicide, his mistreatment of the models, and his refusal to accept the Grand Prix National de la Photographie. Guy Bourdin also wanted his work to be destroyed after his death.
Nonetheless, his photography told grand stories, that to this day inspire photographers around the world. His use of color, composition and most importantly ability to capture a moment produced images that really left an imprint in the mind of a viewer. Guy Bourdin's legacy was instrumental in developing future great photographers such as David LaChapelle.
David LaChapelle was born in 1963 and in the early 1980s caught attention of Andy Warhol in the Studio 54. He got a job taking photographs for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. Over the decades he has become the most sought after and the most defining photographer of modern times. He truly embodies the post modern art form. Just like Bourdin, David LaChapelle tells some grand stories through his photography. His sets are as elaborate as movies, but David LaChapelle gives enough info to the viewer in one photo, that they can create the rest of the story in their mind.
Both of these visionaries are the great story tellers of post modern art. They use photography to capture enough information to plant the seed of our own novel. Each one of their photographs are related directly to us and our own imagination, and once viewed, they become part of our own life story.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Bourdin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_LaChapelle
http://www.guybourdin.org/gallery/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/01/sunday/main2529341_page2.shtml
or this final I decided to pick one artist from the book and compare it to one artist that is not in the book but whom i find extremely inspirational to me. I decided to pick Andy Warhol's Race Riot , and Kis Banksy's sing Cops.
Andy Warhol , race riot 1963 oil on canvas depicts the events on may 13th in Birmingham , Alabama. On this day the police commissioner Bull Connor sent deadly attack dogs and fire hoses onto a civil rights demonstration lead my the late Martin Luther king Jr. here Andy warhol is recounting the horrific incident that is still and may always plague our society. As light hearted and fun as most of Andy warhols works are I believe that he reacted so fast and so harsh is because he has compassion/ eye opening work of art for those who are tormented. For those of you who don't know Warhol was a homosexual who was very harshly criticized for while growing up. It is my personal beliefs that Andy used the colors of red white and blue to symbolize not only America ; but to provoke the question of “ Is that what America, the land of the free has come too? that after almost 200 years we as a nation judge individuals based on their sexual preference, and there skin color?
Banksy - kissing cops 2006- side of a building, spray paint There’s not much written about the mysterious Banksy, but this graffiti art speaks volumes. From what I have seen of Banksy a majority of his work consists of painting a controversial subject along buildings for the public to take notice . I decided to choose Banksy's Kissing Cops; I realize that this is not in our modern history book, but to me to closely related to Warhols work, but is vastly different. Banksy depicts two male cops in uniform kissing. Although this is 2008, there is still a lot of people that view homosexuality in the way people did in 1963. That is wrong un Godly and terrible. I believe Banksy isn't just like every other artist. In the way he chooses to depict his pieces is a way that makes everyone stop look and possibly even re evaluate the social issue shown.
These two pieces in my eye are only different in their art form and the subject matter but to me there meanings are almost exactly the same. Warhol and Banksy and two artists that step out from what everyone else in the art field was doing and make their messages clear. Both these artists chose to start out there careers doing art that would attract my masses in a light hearted way then steadily moved into controversy. This is good controversy in fact. It is the kind of controversy that should stop and make people think , that these are issues going on are wrong and should not exist in the land of the free.
SOURCES:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/3455337/BANKSY-KISSING-COPS-copy-street-art-8841t-berlin-62008-1500x-www-everywear-de
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Warhol
The Statue of Liberty and Nike of Samothrace are both incredibly elegant statues originating from France. The women represent liberty and victory and are draped in flowing cloth that wraps around their body and originally both had their right arm raised.
Although they are both from France, The Statue of Liberty was given to the U.S. to commemorate the Declaration of Independence as well as represent the friendship of the two countries that was established during the American Revolution. The French sculptor Frederic Bartholdi was commissioned to design a sculpture with the year 1876 as his goal for completion. The first model was built on a small scale for the statue and was created in 1870 and is now in Paris, then a second model was built and it was brought to the city Maceio in northeast Brazil. Once the models were built, Bartholdi went to visit Egypt and was deeply inspired by the Suez Canal which was current project of a friend of his. After his stay, he had decided that the project would best be created not on just a grand scale, but a colossal one. Construction began and was taken on as a joint effort by France and the United States and the American’s were to build the base while the French were responsible for the statue itself and its assembly once in the U.S. The head was put on display at the Paris Exposition in 1878 while the rest of the statue was still under construction. There was much debate over who the face was modeled after and Bartholdi never confirmed nor denied that the face was perhaps the image of his own mother. The head was described as having “classical, yet severe and calm features” and it was noted that the body is “thrown slightly over to the left so as to gravitate upon the left leg, the whole figure thus being in equilibrium”. The statue was finished in France in 1884 and was brought to New York Harbor in 1885 in 350 different pieces.
Nike of Samothrace, also known as Winged Victory of Samothrace, is a marble sculpture built in the third century B.C. Although the statue rests in the Louvre in France, it was found in Greece and was most likely of Rhodian origin. In Greek mythology, Nike was known as the bestower of victory, both in war and in contests. As a war goddess she was often represented standing alongside Zeus, Athena and Ares and as goddess of contests, she typically is portrayed presenting the winner with a victor's wreath or sash. After the discovery of Nike in 1863 by the French consul and amateur archaeologist Charles Champoiseau, it was suggested that the it was erected by the Macedonian general Demetrius I Poliorcetes after his naval victory at Cyprus between 295 and 289 BC. Since 1884 it has been displayed at the Louvre while a plaster replica stands in the museum at the original location of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace. The statue’s outstretched right wing is a symmetric plaster version of the original left one. The arms and the head of the statue were never found although in 1950, a team led by Karl Lehmann found the missing right hand and there is evidence that it was raised to the mouth to deliver “the shout of Victory”.
Both statues display an air of perseverance and determination and where Lady Liberty seems to be standing her ground in defiance, Nike appears to be walking with her chest out with confidence as she shouts for victory for her troops. They represent courage, boldness, and independence almost daring someone to challenge them while never abandoning their elegance.
http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-Greece/history-of-ancient-greek-art-60.asp
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http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Statue_of_Liberty.html
My inspiration for this final project is the photographer Cindy Sherman. Sherman is known for her conceptual portraits. In most of her works she depicts the stereotypes of women reflected in the media.
With that in mind I decided to take a picture of myself and make some modifications to represent the stereotype of a Trophy wife. I made modifications to my face to look like I had plastic surgery done. I am smile with no facial expression too give the impression I had botox done on my face and lips. I made my breast biger too look like I have silicone and made my hair blonde. I also added a trophy on the back on purpose. And of course I am in the kitchen cooking.
For my final I revisited a piece of work that I already commented on (Pablo Picasso's Guernica, 1937.) My original comment was while the overall work of art is beautiful I think it lacks emotion because he was so far away from the revolution of his country. The reason I chose to revisit this piece is because there is something going on right now in the world that I wanted to try and capture. The Mexican drug wars have left more people dead than the entire Iraq war in just a few months. Now I know me doing a poster in no way compares to Picasso's painting, except in one way. My poster also lacks that emotion, because what is going on in Mexico does not directly affect me. The poster is okay, but lacking and does not do the crisis justice.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32385890@N07/3119479600/sizes/o/
"Final Project"
Jennifer Polk
Option 1
"Smaller Universe"
This photograph is my reaction to the Romanticised Landscape paintings that we covered earlier this quarter. All of the paintings focused on how big and magnificant Nature and our world is. My piece focuses on the smaller aspects of our world, it is meant to show that there can be worlds inside worlds and that our world and Nature is not as big as it seems.
http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a107/jpolk2104/?action=view¤t=DSCN1466.jpg
I decided to research and compare the work of two artists after reading a quote by David Carson. Carson said that for inspiration sometimes he would go back to the work of Wassily Kandinsky to trigger an idea for any area of art for him. I thought it would be interesting to research these two artists because of their impact and innovative success during two totally different time eras.
Wassily Kandinsky was born in 1866 who became a Russian painter. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. It wasn't until 1896 that Kandinsky decided to seriously study art. Kandinsky was considered a synaesthete, meaning that he could see sound as color, and vice versa. Like music, his paintings were renderings of emotional states, Kandinsky's work would communicate the same feelings without incorporating representational elements. It was his amazing use of color and shape in his abstractions that could provoke any emotion. His innovative and different approach to art at this time is what really separated him from other artists.
Today, someone who has really separated himself into a league of his own is graphic designer David Carson. Carson is best known for his innovative magazine design, and use of experimental typography. He has worked as art director for Ray Gun, and Transworld Skateboarding and is perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the nineties. When comparing the two artists there are a few obvious similarities. Carson’s use of color and design look very similar to that of an abstract expressionist. Breaking almost every rule of design and legibility, Carson pushes the boundaries and creates some of the best design. It is Carson’s abstract use of typography and mixture of color with design that forms his own abstract expression.
Both of these artists are innovators of their time. It is their unique approach and different way of thinking that separates them from the rest. While creating art in completely different times the similarities in their art and characteristics as an artist is what I find to be really inspirational.
As a graphic designer I choose to make a project that reacts to Andy Warhol Campbell soup. Warhol is a "pop artist" that revolutionized the world with a modern sense of culture,and has changed traditional preconceptions into something extraordinary. What I did to respond to his creation was a copy of a picture of a female oriental descent. My way to recreate the picture was by using type. As a graphic designer I work with typography all the time and I love it. I use couple of Chinese proverbs to create it. I think is a very unique way to represent the image.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_UYJlt0-ySmE/RyVaeyXfgJI/AAAAAAAACxY/UPjXkFt1t8U/P+635bw.jpg
My inspiration for my final design comes from a couple of Architectural designers, Le Corbusier with his church, Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, France, 1950-1955. Natural light is filtered through stained glass windows. Frank Lloyd Wright's various buildings at the Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida also show use of natural light in his architecture. Seeing images and actually seeing FLW's architecture I was inspired to design a space along the same lines.With the growing interest in sustainable design, I designed a bedroom that takes full advantage of the natural light and hopefully show an asthetic value as well. The media I used for my bedroom design was 3D Max.Denise Hutchins
"Comic Olympia"
By Ben E Benson
Comic books and graphic novel art has been nearly overlooked in the art books. They have played a really elaborate role that combines both story telling and art like never before. We only owe it to the hyroglyphics of Egypt and the epic tales carved into the collumns of Rome. So here, I present you with a more comical response to the ever infamous-for-art-responsive Olympia by Manet... with a bit of humor of course.
http://maprookie.com/random/comicolympia.jpg
For this assignment I chose to do my own Jackson Pollock painting. Jackson Pollock was an abstract expressionist Paint. He is famous for his use of splattered paint on canvas. My piece will try to reflect the drip period (1947- 1950). Instead of just random marks, I will attempt to create motion, and rhythm. When it is displayed, the viewer will see what he or she imagines. After attempting my own Pollock from the drip period, I stuck with my conclusion that his drip paintings are famous only because of his name. There is no real foundation to any of his drip painting, which makes it difficult for me to consider it art. The fact that anyone can splash paint on a canvas does not make it a style, technique, or a movement.
http://posting911.blogspot.com/
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