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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

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.

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.

Role 4

I went through my art book about 10 times trying to find a piece of art that would catch my eye, and somewhat relate to role 4) 

artists give form to the immaterial – hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings.

Then finally, after flipping individually through the pages I found on pg. 461, "Hundred of Birds Admiring the Peacocks" by Yin Hong of the Ming Dynasty (late 15th century-early 16th century)

http://amica.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/AMICO~1~1~36599~100506:Hundred-Birds-Admiring-the-Peacocks?sort=INITIALSORT_CRN%2COCS%2CAMICOID&qvq=q:AMICOID=CMA_.1974.31+;sort:INITIALSORT_CRN,OCS,AMICOID;lc:AMICO~1~1&mi=0&trs=1

This piece was created during a time where there were emperors, the way that I saw the art work was, the Peacocks were the royal family and all the birds "admiring" were the chinese people, depicting how life was back then. I couldn't find much information on this artists since it was created such a long time ago. But some information on the piece is located on the left side of the link above.

Thy Will be Done by Chester Arnold

When I first walked into the Museum, I want expecting much and I've been there a few times, so I headed directly up to Chester Arnold's exhibit. When I got to the third level, I was pleasantly amazed at what I saw. I actually enjoyed it, usually Art to me is over done to a point where the artists' really don't want to be understood and the more understood you were, the better it is appreciated. But in Chester Arnold's exhibit, There were oil paintings of everyday things that anybody can see on an everyday basis. Such as the turf of grass, the trees, a dumpster site, a river full of garbage. Images that I would never expect to be "artistic" yet he made them look better than real life.
The piece that actually caught my attention was "Thy Will be Done" even before I knew it was the Art Piece we were suppose to breakdown the meaning of. The reason it caught my attention was because of the goriness of the painting. At first glance, even To Candace Nicol, she thought nothing of it, but if you really look at it, there were murders happening, a lady coming out of a bomb shelter, slaves, police men, military men, construction workers, men drinking beers, even perhaps grave digging.
To me, the title for the painting," Thy will be Done" is simple, it took me 3 minutes to figure out what I believe Chester Arnold was trying to depict- No matter how much we rebuild society and cover what has happened in the past and how we try to learn from our mistakes, we will still have poverty, wars, murders, bad cops,  basically havoc. History repeats itself, "Thy Will be Done" no matter what.
I listened in on what other students in the class had to say about the painting and what they thought the title meant, in which I thought they were going too in depth of every little detail of the painting. I looked at the painting as a whole and because of that, I feel a tad bit more artistic. ;)