Monday, October 18, 2010

Review!


Art Review
Picasso showed women is his art- as his personal feelings
Emotional belief that one’s culture is superior to others is egocentrism
Avant-garde means to be at it’s forefront or ahead of the game-true*
Works of art that are large outside are “earth pieces”
Overall theme of works for Chester Arnold- impact on the environment by human destruction
Pete Modreme art-tree artwork-“the tree”- abstract
The fine art medium that mostly directly affects people is architecture
Christo & Gene Claude-”the gates”-seeing the world in new innovated ways
Aesthetics is Universal or *defined by different cultures*ßanswer
Picasso work lace demoblahblahblah(French) was inspired by what culture-Africa(masks)
What elements are used in the civil rights memorial-the quote “I have a Dream” water…writing.
According to the nation endowment for the art what should Artist’s do? Educate the public
The study of symbolic art within a culture is called-iconography
Maya Lin is inspired by environment
Semiotics is the study of SIGNS
The controversy in Enrique Chagoya and somebody’s else book is a standpoint behind-religion
Which artist saw their art getting destroyed-Richard Serra
*Maya Lin*-how is her art similar to Edward Malay and somebody else-Misunderstood by the public
Enrique Chagoya and ________?art was both defaced
Barbara Cougar used what two elements to make her art? Photos and texts
Materials ad methods used to make a work of art is called a “Form” or Medium
The artwork of Sheppard Fairy would be classified as- Postmodernism
The ability to think and speak critically about art-Visual Literacy
The way that we assign meaning to visual imagery through culture and traditions-seeing conventions
According to Maya Lin-The purpose of the Vietnam Memorial and civil right’s memorial-Individual Pain and suffering and reflections
Name 3 characteristics of postmodernism…remixing, rejection of objective truth, global cultural narrative
GO TO: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1907324/7_steps_to_understanding_the_characteristics.html?cat=4
What were the two components that had to be added to the Vietnam Memorial-the statues and the flag
Who painted and what’s the importance-This is not a pipe-Rene Margritte
Leonardo Davinci-Mona Lisa-As a recorder-recording people in time

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Picture Project








My first initial theme were four angled shapes(squares) as seen in 5/6 of the pictures I took. But I truly love the different colored lawn chairs I found in the West Street Market.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Visual Conventions

John Taylors depiction of the signing of the peace treaty is more a representational piece of art, as for Howling Wolf's piece is more abstract. From the pieces i see from the two artists, they are both on i would say, different ends when it came to depicting this event. Howling Wolf's background is white but he fills in space with what he is accustomed to; such as the tipis, the river and trees along with more drawings of the natives compare to the "US Government." Taylor's work like said in the book, is more drawn just towards the grove area in which the treaty was signed. Taylor's work compare to Howling Wolf's drawing is a lot more organized and shows he's had some education in art and is familiar with drawing the eyes of the critics to the center; where as Howling Wolf's the eyes are bouncing back and forth, up and down, side to side to see what is happening.
Taylor's work shows basically meshed groups of Native Americans, not being able to distinguish the difference between the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and the Kiowa. Yet also, the drawing is in black and white. As for Howling Wolf's drawing in color, you can see the difference in tribes with what they are wearing and the color the tipis they sit by. Because Howling Wolf's drawing depicts mostly women, it shows that to Native American's Women have a huge role for their society to grow and run efficiently. Native American women cooked, scavenged, built baskets, were very much involved with the communities. As for Taylor's depiction, all characters drawn were men showing, women had no grasp of what was happening and were not included at the signing. It shows a huge cultural difference from Native Americans to Americans.