Michelle Marin
March 18, 2014
Introduction to Philosophy
Professor Octavio Roca
I must admit when were given this aesthetics assignment, I figured it would be a piece of cake. I was wrong because I had to find a piece that kept my attention and left me in awe. In the lectures earlier, we discussed what we thought was beauty was and the ideas bought up were original, universal and captivating. I agree with the ideas brought up, but what about crafty, colorful and eye catching. My ideas mentioned of beauty all came to my mind when I walked into the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Midtown and noticed the contemporary piece, Abandoned Places by Nick Gentry. Nick Gentry, British artist from London, is best known for his floppy disk painting, which places emphasis on Abandoned Places is a mixed media piece that consists of oil and used computer disks on wood. His newest works are composed by layering collages of x-rays and film negatives between sheets of plexi-glass backlit by LED strips. With sensitivity of the use of x-rays and the gratitude towards people sharing them with him, he’s also elected to donate ten percent of the show’s sales to the Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation.
You probably think I’ve lost my marbles, but this piece is intriguing because the artist used floppy disks to make up images of two people facing each other. The piece is crafty with its use of color from floppy disks to blend and showcase different colors of the disks used to make up the piece. The art that is produced promotes the reuse of personal objects and recycling obsolete media. This piece is timeless because the use of floppy disks as one of the main objects in this works takes you back in time. Maybe not for current up and coming generations, but ...
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...is influenced by the development of merchandising technology and cyber culture in society, with a main direct focus on obsolete media. The “Abandoned Places” floppy disk artwork made an impact on recycling and the protection of the environment and because of this the reuse of personal objects or even things that you see can benefit the world with a help hand to bring to as a central theme. Such artistic works of social influences commentary have been featured in galleries in the UK, USA and in cities throughout the world. And have been recognized by many faces, seen with by many eyes, and analyze by countless minds. No wonder people can say this artwork bring inspiration to them. Only because this work has been exhibited alongside established street artists whose work been view by many all over the world and as such has been linked to the urban art scene in London.
Gallery 19 of the Museum of Modern Art features Pop Art trailblazers of the early 1960s, ranging from Roy Lichtenstein’s “Girl with Ball” to Andy Warhol’s “Gold Marilyn Monroe.” Alongside these emblematic works of art, there hangs a more simplistic piece: a six foot square canvas with three yellow letters, entitled “OOF.” The work of art, created by Ed Ruscha in 1962, is a painting that leaves little room for subjective interpretation as does the majority of his work. Ruscha represented the culture in the 1960s through his contributions to the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art, efforts to redefine what it meant for a painting to be fine art, and interpretation of the Space Race.
Max Dupain’s selection of the letters and the hoover vaccum clearly links the photograph to the tradition of still life. The main subject in this photograph is the large, bold arrangement of letters that are selected and carefully placed to create beautiful shadows that are cast across the page by the light of the hoover vacuum. Unlike other artists Dupain has not used other studio lighting, but intead has used the hoover vaccum, behind the objects. The lighting from the hoover vaccum creates immense and elongated shadows that are cast off the page. Dupain uses the perfect alignment of the objects to create a powerful and a potent advertisement for the Hoover.
“Deep Sea Drifters II” didn’t stand out because it wasn’t a photograph but because the style of art seemed like something like a nine-year-old’s crayon work. Of course, when I looked closer, the piece...
Graphic Design has been around for generations giving it a vibrant history. For this, the case study was going to specifically look at the London Underground. Starting from the 1920 when the avant-garde posters were created, all the way to 1940 during the Second World War. The idea behind this study is to see how the design has changed depending on the time period. The time periods this case study will observe are 1920’s, 1930’s and finally 1940’s. This will give a variety of posters to discuss. In addition, we will look at how the design embodies the look, mood, aspiration, and technology, historical, social and
Many might have been working on Good Friday, but many others were enjoying The Frist Museum of Visual Arts. A museum visitor visited this exhibit on April 14, 2017 early in the morning. The time that was spent at the art museum was approximately two hours and a half. The first impression that one received was that this place was a place of peace and also a place to expand the viewer’s imagination to understand what artists were expressing to the viewers. The viewer was very interested in all the art that was seen ,but there is so much one can absorb. The lighting in the museum was very low and some of the lighting was by direction LED lights. The artwork was spaciously
In the twentieth century, many artists worked with non-archival materials. Acrylic house paint, enamel paint, latex, and fiber glass are just a few of the synthetic and semi-synthetic polymeric materials that became common because of their immediacy, availability, and seductive qualities. Works by artists such as Jackson Pollock, Eva Hesse, and Anselm Kiefer have created complex pr...
Fairey, an American Artist from South Carolina, graduated from Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. During his young adult years, Fairey “realized his desire and interest in the street art culture and graffiti movement” while he was working in a skate shop as a part-time job. As seen and described in his documentary, Obey Giant, Fairey’s first piece of work, the Andre Posse, was the sticker he used as an example to teach his friend about printmaking. This sticker once simplified and made into what today is known as the Obey logo. Fast forward to the presidential election of 2008, Fairey produces the Hope poster. The poster almost immediately turns into a global icon which is still recognized and even derived from today. This is the second art piece, to be discussed in this essay. Shepard Fairey’s Artwork, and Shepard Fairey’s influence on the world, each with their own various sub-topics such as the global iconography and impact within the means of copyright law. These pieces stress that from the smallest pieces within an artist’s portfolio to the largest can have a major impact on the world around us.
Comparing different works of art from one artist can help a person gain a better understanding of an artist and the purpose of their artwork. An artist’s works of art usually have similarities as well as differences when compared together. Sandy Skoglund is a photographer that stages entire rooms to create a scene for her photographs. Skoglund uses painting, sculpture, and photography to create her artwork. Due to the fact that most of her photographs are created in similar ways, almost all of her photographs have similar components represented throughout the photographs. Differences can be found in her artwork as well. Skoglund’s Revenge of The Goldfish, 1981 (Figure 1), is a popular work of art that is represented at the Akron Art Museum
The trip to the Orange County Museum of Art was both fascinating and insightful of the current exhibitions from modern artists. The OCMA was currently exhibiting artwork from Marilyn Minter (Pretty/Dirty), We were here: Absense of the figure (of various artists), and The Pacific Project (Yuki Kihara). The museum was of small size but spacious enough to encompass the 3 exhibits, of which Marilyn Minter’s Pretty/Dirty was the largest. I will be explaining Marylin Minter’s background and artwork.
Alperovich, Ana Lisa. Hiroshima Fuji makes a Dazzling Art Installation in Tokyo Using 50,000 Recycled Toys. Inhabitat. 13 November 2012
Vincent Van Gogh’s strive towards new and interesting compositions of the same object is something relevant to my own work. Though, the same object repeated has been done before, the current work is set on solving the problem of what is seen inside of another object. The relationship from the viewer to the object to the object within the object creates a new sense of direction, an opportunity to explore. This is also seen with pumpkins in a previous series, which worked more from the view of the same object various ways. My paintings relate to the observations of Vincent Van Gogh and Philip Guston.
Universally, the medium is a significant component in the media frequently used to convey a particular message in the world of art. This is particularly true of one of the most prestigious, world renowned paintings. Research has been conducted on artworks focusing on the origins of a piece rather than understanding the meaning of recreating an artwork. Frequently used methods, such as visual technologies, reproduction images, and the copy of works, are ways of sharing works in mass media. The Mona Lisa, a painting created sometime between 1503 and 1506 by Leonardo da Vinci, is one of the most celebrated, extraordinary, paintings in the world. This is an excellent example of an artwork that demonstrates the process of continuous reproduction. The Mona Lisa became a revolutionary ideology of mass media in popular culture. In this case study discussion, the Mona Lisa oil painting will be used as an example of reproduced works, how the painting developed its prestigious reputation, and how it has dramatically influenced society and culture throughout modernity.
For my final source of media I used a painting by Kristen Bailey. Her piece called “Tree” supported the theme individuality perfectly. It gives off the message that the most different one is always the most beautiful. I knew that I definitely wanted to use a piece of art by Kristen Bailey because every painting she has gives off a certain message.
Le Corbusier was serious when he suggested that a “truly modern street will be as well equipped as a factory. In this street, the best equipped model is the most thoroughly automised with no people except for those operating machines. In the city of the future, cafes and places of recreation [public space] will no longer be the fungus that eats up the pavements of [the city] the macadam will belong to the traffic alone” (See Figure 1). This comment seems drastic, though as the modern world develops into a society that is more introverted and private, these spaces of public display and freedom, one day may turn into those envisioned. Throughout history, public space has formed the backdrop to public life, accessible for all, for both commercial and social exchange. While public spaces can take many forms, the common grounds on which they stand is general. It’s where people have gathered for centuries through the presence of music, art, food, discussion and festive celebrations or simply a place for a person to purely exist. Whether the public space comes in a form of streets, squares, parks or public buildings, it is in these places where the drama of communal life & human social exchange unfolds (Slessor 2001, Perrem, 2011 & Carr, 1992). Needs of these types of spaces have been displayed throughout history and their existence has defined and shaped the cities at the centre of their social organization (Cuthbert 2003 & Slessor, 2001). Today, the private places of work, domestic life and technology advances in movement and communication are consuming the essential counterpart of private existence (Cuthbert, 2003) Society lives in a very nine-to-five characterization which has created a large separation of public and private spher...
Artists’ are always looking for something new and different, the best possible way to communicate their ideas. Cynthia Beth Rubin is an artist who is interested in how in all of us there are embedded cultural traditions merging and colliding. She feels she has benefited from new technology, “New technology has expanded my visual vocabulary, and all of my work, both video and still imagery, is now produced through the computer…echoing the ambiguity of memory, the computer is the instrument for allowing some images to sing, some to come forward as clear images, others to fall back into barely representational dreams of textures and colours.”