Vija Celmins: time
'Builds a painting' rather then 'paints a painting.' She makes a structure. Her paints have these allusions as if you're right there. For a while she painted things that could be turned on like hotplates and lights (things that were around her studio.) Always thought that it was impossible to go right from nature. She tests herself and pushes herself to make things. She doesn't only draw, she's used lithographs as well. The images that she picks are already surfaces and later inspire her. I think she said that she tries to neutralize emotion...Celmins work is incredible. She knows what she wants her work to do from the beginning (an image of how she wants it) I relate because what she does is so perfect and seems like a perfectionist just like me. However, I know that I would never be able to have the patience to do what she does.
Elizabeth Murry: humor
Makes something happen with a fluid material (paint). Primary thing that paint is about is harnessing it. Shapes are carton-y, lumpy, rounded, inflated, wacky and connected. It never directly said it, but from what I saw, she didn't paint on canvas, it was on like wood with maybe canvas over it? But it each painting had holes and wasn't just a solid. She said that she lets the cards fall and see what they make in the end. She likes to used intense color and tries to make it work with everything else in her paintings. Conflict and tension, she wants them to 'live together.' Just like us, she has an art book type thing to have a place for her to start from. As much as she always wanted to be an artist, she also wanted to be different. I think that that's what makes me relate to her the most. Had trouble finding herself, but this one painting called 'Excavation' really started to make her 'feel her body and her mind.' Once her hand is in control, she lets her feeling come through. She loves quiet, and sometimes, I need to be by myself too. Not because I don't love talking, but because sometimes it's nice to just think.
Showing posts with label The World of Art. Show all posts
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Art 21 Reflection #2
On your blog name the artists you learned about and describe what their work is about. What is the artist trying to do with their work? What do you think of their work? How do you relate to it or not?
Andrea Zittel: Consumption: makes homes and clothes that challenge the viewer.
Zittel created furniture that would function as everything that she needed because she didn't have much room in her first house. Her sink functioned not only as a sink, but also as a bath. She had a revalation that no one really wants perfection but that people really want hope for a 'new or improved better tomorrow.' Her work is influenced by where she's lived. She believes that her main issues of art work are human values and perceptions. A lot of her work is about creating intimate personal controllable situations. She says that a lot of her work is humorous and dark at the same time. Zittel creates clothing as well that she wears. She crochets dresses and wears them for a 'season' of four months. I'm not completely sure if she only wears that garment or if she used to only wear it. That part was a bit tricky to understand. Zittel seems like a very personal yet complicated woman who I feel sort of an emotional connection to in addition to really enjoying her art and creative way of thinking.
Michael Ray Charles: Consumption: paintings with pop culture references.
Likes to question.
Mel Chin: Consumption:
Loves making things with his hands. Stops and listens to learn. SPAWN=special, projects, agriculture, worms, neighborhoods. Conceptual art. Believes that "making art is not about one track, one method but the reversibility of mediums and techniques is minor, but the versity of ideas and how they survive and the methods they are transmitted is very important."
Andrea Zittel: Consumption: makes homes and clothes that challenge the viewer.
Zittel created furniture that would function as everything that she needed because she didn't have much room in her first house. Her sink functioned not only as a sink, but also as a bath. She had a revalation that no one really wants perfection but that people really want hope for a 'new or improved better tomorrow.' Her work is influenced by where she's lived. She believes that her main issues of art work are human values and perceptions. A lot of her work is about creating intimate personal controllable situations. She says that a lot of her work is humorous and dark at the same time. Zittel creates clothing as well that she wears. She crochets dresses and wears them for a 'season' of four months. I'm not completely sure if she only wears that garment or if she used to only wear it. That part was a bit tricky to understand. Zittel seems like a very personal yet complicated woman who I feel sort of an emotional connection to in addition to really enjoying her art and creative way of thinking.
Michael Ray Charles: Consumption: paintings with pop culture references.
Likes to question.
Mel Chin: Consumption:
Loves making things with his hands. Stops and listens to learn. SPAWN=special, projects, agriculture, worms, neighborhoods. Conceptual art. Believes that "making art is not about one track, one method but the reversibility of mediums and techniques is minor, but the versity of ideas and how they survive and the methods they are transmitted is very important."
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Art 21 Reflection #1
Florian Maier-Aichen,
Florian Maier-Aichen is a photographer who uses a computer to combine images and also to draw and add images. He says that he likes to take an end product and take it to an unfinished photo again. In one photo he used the tri color method by taking three black and white photos with different color filters and sandwiches three photos together to make a colorful image of clouds. He doesn't like photos that are too precise and he also believes that each photo needs to have it's own scale. I enjoyed watching this video because I enjoyed just seeing his and other photos because photography amazes me and has always interested me. The only thing that I didn't relate to was adding background that a viewer might not realize was painted or added in because I think it's kinda like cheating the viewer in a way?
Jeff Koons.
Jeff Koons art is all about themes with flowers and central images. He works with information with different views of life and aspects. He usually creates his images on the computer with a bunch of different sources/pictures. He himself mostly works on the computer working on perfecting the image while others mix/actually paint the picture for him. Sometimes he works with wood. Wants to communicate strongly though art with power, and veral quality. Believes that others people's rights are the same as yours and that there is a moral responcibility with art and that part was meant for public interaction. I really enjoy his paints and the detail that he puts into his work. I noticed that a lot of his work reminds me of childhood memorys like animal baloons and broken easter egg shells which relates to me because in reality, I'm still a kid.
Mary Heilmann
Mary Heilmann started out doing ceramics in collage. A while after, she started to do abstract expressionest ceramic sculptures in large scales. In the beginning she did art beautifully by herself then realized the most important thing was communication though the art. She wanted responces of antagonism causing trouble. Wanted to be on the edge and original. Later on, she decided to become a painter. Objects became pictures for her. Every piece of art has background stories and the titles are like, "three word poems" she says. Scale, relation of parts to whole pice give feels to the painting according to her. She likes different spaces which she got out of Asian artwork and has different shaped camvas. She says her "simple ideas become her addiction." I think I enjoyed watching this episode most because Heilmann was soothing in a way and when she told stores of her youthful day it sounds kind of similar to me. She likes to be be edgy and original like I do. Abstract paintings are my favorite because they hold significance for the artist though the viewer might not fully understand the image. Though I love abstract art and think it looks amazing, I don't know if I would be able to create a simple piece of art that holds a ton of significance like some arts do.
Florian Maier-Aichen is a photographer who uses a computer to combine images and also to draw and add images. He says that he likes to take an end product and take it to an unfinished photo again. In one photo he used the tri color method by taking three black and white photos with different color filters and sandwiches three photos together to make a colorful image of clouds. He doesn't like photos that are too precise and he also believes that each photo needs to have it's own scale. I enjoyed watching this video because I enjoyed just seeing his and other photos because photography amazes me and has always interested me. The only thing that I didn't relate to was adding background that a viewer might not realize was painted or added in because I think it's kinda like cheating the viewer in a way?
Jeff Koons.
Jeff Koons art is all about themes with flowers and central images. He works with information with different views of life and aspects. He usually creates his images on the computer with a bunch of different sources/pictures. He himself mostly works on the computer working on perfecting the image while others mix/actually paint the picture for him. Sometimes he works with wood. Wants to communicate strongly though art with power, and veral quality. Believes that others people's rights are the same as yours and that there is a moral responcibility with art and that part was meant for public interaction. I really enjoy his paints and the detail that he puts into his work. I noticed that a lot of his work reminds me of childhood memorys like animal baloons and broken easter egg shells which relates to me because in reality, I'm still a kid.
Mary Heilmann
Mary Heilmann started out doing ceramics in collage. A while after, she started to do abstract expressionest ceramic sculptures in large scales. In the beginning she did art beautifully by herself then realized the most important thing was communication though the art. She wanted responces of antagonism causing trouble. Wanted to be on the edge and original. Later on, she decided to become a painter. Objects became pictures for her. Every piece of art has background stories and the titles are like, "three word poems" she says. Scale, relation of parts to whole pice give feels to the painting according to her. She likes different spaces which she got out of Asian artwork and has different shaped camvas. She says her "simple ideas become her addiction." I think I enjoyed watching this episode most because Heilmann was soothing in a way and when she told stores of her youthful day it sounds kind of similar to me. She likes to be be edgy and original like I do. Abstract paintings are my favorite because they hold significance for the artist though the viewer might not fully understand the image. Though I love abstract art and think it looks amazing, I don't know if I would be able to create a simple piece of art that holds a ton of significance like some arts do.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Visiting artist: Hamlett Dobbins.
My question is why he chose to work with the mamterials that he uses and what gives him inspiration the most (is he just inspired when he is moved or does inspiration hit him from nowhere and he crates for the pure joy of it?)...and what the meanings are behind the paintings...and why I can't click on all of the pictures...didn't understand Hamlett Dobbins' chronology...do you sketch, put it on the computer, then onto canvas?
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