Thursday April 26th

I have no assignments left in art 108 so I will tell you about the work I am doing in Art 107, it is a rainy day so I might as well finish my final project early. I am currently looking for an appropriate size box to create my self portrait sculpture. As I was researching Joseph Kosuth, I began to develop a idea for my project as seen above. His use of neon lighting made me think lighting would be a nice touch to my dark box.

Piet Mondrian

Composition in 

Red, Blue and Yellow

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Piet Mondrian

Piet Mondrian was an influential artist in the style known as De Stijl, within this style primary colors as well as non-colors are used, meaning black and white. Horizontal and vertical lines are used to create rectangles and squares as well, this style is striped down to the basics of art. It functions as a means to observe negative and positive elements as well as provide a non-objective lines and shapes.

Joseph Kosuth

It was it

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Joseph Kosuth

Joseph Kosuth is a conceptual artist who focuses on the fringe of art rather than producing art itself. He says, "The 'value' of particular artists after Duchamp can be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art." The piece above is a definition with a neon sign in front, he often used neon signs to create a stark contrast in his pieces. 

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party 

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Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago was part of a handful of feminist artists that pioneered the expanse of females in the art world. She even taught a class that was specifically for women. She is known for large installation projects like the one above that examine women's role in society. She includes stereotypically feminine art means as in needlework, but also contrasts that with the stereotypical masculine work; metal work, welding, etc. 

Guerilla Girls

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Guerrilla Girls

The Guerilla Girls are an activist group that we have discussed in class before, they began in the 1980s in response to the gender inequality displayed within visual arts. An exhibition was held at the museum of modern arts which featured 169 male artists and only 17 female artists. The unequal representation prompted the formation of this anonymous group of women that wore guerrilla masks and preached for equality within the arts. 

Jean Arp

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Jean Arp

Jean arp aka Hans Art was a French sculptor, painter, and collage artist.

"He was a pioneer of abstract art and one of the founders of Dada in Zurich, but he also participated actively in both Surrealism and Constructivism. While he prefigured junk art and the Fluxus movement in his incorporation of waste material, it was through his investigation of biomorphism and of chance and accident that he proved especially influential on later 20th-century art in liberating unconscious creative forces."*

*Source: Oxford University Press

Museum Critiques

We critiqued all of the museum projects not only from our class but also others. I believe our project was relatively successful in comparison to the others, what really threw ours off was being placed to the Red Museum because it was so well done and had many artifacts. I think that the Red Museum, Sharpie Nation, and the excavation museum were the best overall. Ours was nothing to sneeze at though. I did notice most groups needed larger fonts or tidier cuts on their plaques. 

Final Project Musuem

Art 108 Final

This project was a collaborative effort, my group consisted of Megan, Jeff, Ashley, Chris, and myself. Our initial concept was a post apocalyptic world where all the silly theories of the end of 2012 would bring. Well that idea changed when our project was chosen but then drastically revised into a whole other project. It became Earth 2060, the Last 38 Years. We each provided a piece to add to our museum display , I contributed the Baby Bjorn instructions which simply put,  showed what it is used for now and what the future inhabitants would use it for. 

Adrain Piper

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Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper was one of the first women in the boom of woman as artists. Her conceptual installation pieces create a meaning behind the thoughts of the artist rather than just what is represented within the work. Her early work was very psychedelic called LSD paintings, these were done while she was still in high school. She then moved on to self conscious awareness works which inspired her short lived street performance career. 

Final Project

 Art 107 Final 

I am currently taking another art class thought by the same teacher. I have been assigned to create a self portrait with a cardboard box as the canvas. For this project I have been inspired by some works and arts found in art 108 as well as my art history class. I am in the process of constructing it currently using photoshop as well as copper piping and recycled box material. Above is my rough sketch that has kind of a deeper meaning to it. My father passed away right before I was suppose to go to college and the gradient within the piece represents my family and friends pushing me to quickly move on. The bars represent the painful memories fading away then re-accuring.  

Donald Judd

Untitled 

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Donald Judd

This work by Donal Judd was one of the earliest out of the minimalist movement. I highly appreciate simplistic art like this due to its clean structure and varying sizes. I have even been inspired by this particular piece for my own work as my final in Art 107. The main purpose of this art is to show off the construction of the piece as well as the space it provides.  Judd began his career as a painter through surrealism then moved onto working with woodcuts.  These woodcuts went from figurative to very abstract, then the concentration of the work was as stated above the construction of the piece rather than a particular representation. 

Salvador Dali

Persistence

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Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali was one of the most well-known surrealist painters, his painting Persistence as seen above is widely well known. "He took over the Surrealist theory of automatism but transformed it into a more positive method which he named `critical paranoia'. According to this theory one should cultivate genuine delusion as in clinical paranoia while remaining residually aware at the back of one's mind that the control of the reason and will has been deliberately suspended."*

*http://www.duke.edu/web/lit132/dalibio.html