Artwork

This is my artwork for the class. I wanted to do a Popart so I thought about objects that have a large and profound impact on modern life. Naturally I thought of smart phones, and naturally after that I thought of the smart phone war between Apple and Samsung. So I lined up the Iphone5s and the Samsung Galaxy S4 against each other, but for me it wasn't enough to line them up. I decided that it needs more violence, something that symbolizes war. At first I made the background red. It wasn't really doing it for me. So I finally decided to have a picture of "No man's land" from World War I as my back ground.

MoMA Museum Trip Essay

Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso. It was used to revolt against society and the first world war. There are two features found in every Cubist artwork. The first is ambiguity between the background and foreground. An object or subject's location in the painting is questionable. The second is that Cubism takes multiple view points of the object or subject and shows those perspectives simultaneously. This is what gives Cubism it's signature look and feel.

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE I, GALLERY 2, FLOOR 5

Here we see Juan's Gris' Jar, Bottle and Glass created in 1911. As with all Cubism artworks we can see the multiple view points of each object simultaneously. We also see a lack of subject matter with the background, which leads us to observe the perspective of space through shading, but which shade is in front or behind which? This is the ambiguity.

Surrealism developed out of the Dada activities during World War I. It is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to contradict reality. Artists painted illogical scenes, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE I, GALLERY 12, FLOOR 5

Here we see René Magritte's The Empire of Light, II. The style of the painting looks very accurate to reality. The street scene is believable however to contrast the sky is bright. The artwork portrays day and night simultaneously, which is where the Surrealism takes place.

Online Assignment - Week 8

The artist I selected is Cai Guo-Qiang. He was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China, and lives and works in New York. He studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 and attended the Institute for Contemporary Art: The National and International Studio Program at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City.

His work features the beauty of destruction and the aesthetic of pain and decay. His art is primary composed of gun power, a dangerous and unpredictable substance. He finds confidence in the unpredictability he lets the material take him to where it wants to he and embraces the challenges associated with it.
His art strides to provoke a strong, visceral emotion in the observer. For example his tiger sculptures that are covered in arrows. It invokes that emotion in the aesthetics of pain. Another example is his plane sculpture made out of sharp objects and weapons, like scissors, pliers and knifes. It seems complete contradictory and again shows that pain aesthetic. He believes that not everything should have an answer, that sometimes should be left unresolved and open to questioning.

Missing Billion Euro art collection Seized by Nazis Discovered

I thought I might post this, it was an interesting read.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486251/1bn-haul-art-Picasso-Renoir-Matisse-squalid-Munich-flat.html

Online assignment- Week 7

1. Describe a Dada Artwork. What world event influenced this style? How?
The Dada movement was brought about by the events of World War I. Dada protested against the violence and society, it rebelled against traditions and conventional art forms. Artists used cheap material to achieve humor and irreverence.

This artwork, called "Bottle Rack"created artist Marcel Duchamp in 1914. This artwork is an example of a "readymade", a term used to describe ordinary, manufactured objects not commonly associated with art. It rebelled against conventional artworksand  instead focused on a more nonsensical nature.

2. Describe the work of Jacob Lawrence in the video. What were this artist's influences?
The three artworks shown in the video have a central theme of a 2D space as well as the re-occurrence of African Americans. The first picture I would define as Chaotic, as it appears that there is a lot of motion in the artwork but it doesn't appear to make sense. The second and third I would say are more unified in the motion of the women in both artworks. Lawrence was influenced by artists such as Goya and Orozco as well as the Harlem renaissance and African American history.

3. See this page for my comment.
http://kharyandart.blogspot.com/2013/11/between-world-wars.html

Online assignment- Week 6

Impressionism
A new style of art that focused on the beauty of the world, what the eye saw. In contrast to the past where the focus was on emotions or the divine. Landscapes and outdoors became the focus of impressionism. Artists painted quickly, under changing conditions outdoors.

Post-Impressionism
Post-Impressionism was a free interpretation of nature, to see things deeper that just the appearance. Post-Impressionism was heavily influenced by Japanese art, and is cropped on the edges.

European colonization and Industrialization caused large changes in art styles. The dawn of industrialization created the middle class. Art was no longer just for the wealthy. A change of attention turned to the middle class. Colonization also saw the extermination of native american art and culture

Homework: Assignment #4

Renaissance Art

At the end of the middle ages came the Renaissance, a period where a shift occurred as religious power was challenged by critical thinking. Lost knowledge was discovered and yearned, the classical ideals of the past begin to resurface. The focus in art changed from the flat and emotionless, to the return of one point perspective and sensuality.

Mars and Venus United by Love

Here we see an example of Renaissance art by Paolo Veronese. He was an Italian painter who lived in Venice. Venus and Cupid are both naked, representing the sensuality of the Renaissance. The painting serves as a allegory and celebrates love and nurturing. In the painting Cupid binds Mars to Venus with a love knot. Mar's horse, a symbol of war is being restrained in the background, while milk a symbol of nurturing, flows from Venus's breast.

Baroque Art

After the Renaissance period came the Baroque period. Artists in the Baroque period used the same techniques in the Renaissance period. Art moved from the divine and religious to being more dramatic and splendor with motion and color. Baroque art gives more of a feel of great energy and feeling.

 Wolf and Fox Hunt

This is an example of early Baroque art by Peter Paul Rubens. One of the first things an observer will notice is the sheer scale of this painting. It is a very large canvas measuring ninety six inches by one hundred forty eight inches. This painting appears to have lots of motion between the animals and hunters. The gesture of the hunters and is animals is much more dramatic. As well as the observer will notice there is no mention of the divine.