Foundation Art Masks February 16, 2016
3-D Mask Project Name: Colleen Woodhouse
Part 1: Artist Analysis Hour: 5
Research Minimum Requirements:
You must use a minimum of THREE research sources total:
1. One of the resources must be from a museum site
2. One of the resources must be from a hard-copy book
3. Third source is up to you (book, article, .org, .edu site, another museum site)
Go to a major museum website such as (these are just a few): http://www.artic.edu/ http://www.moma.org/ http://www.metmuseum.org/en http://www.getty.edu/ http://www.lacma.org/ http://www.sfai.edu/
Other online sources
-Open the following link to research the artist who created the work you have determined to research
http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.php/art-history
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He was also inspired by other graffiti artists. He said that graffiti was even more inspiring to him then art in an art gallery. (Bunch, Craig)
Events in their immediate life- Haring grew up in Pennsylvania he loved Dr. Seuss and cartoon as art as a child. He college in New York City at the School of Visual Arts. He started using the city as his canvas and was drawing all subway stations. He was arrested more than once for vandalism. (Biography.com)
One event (social, political, industrial, scientific, cultural, etc) that was happening within the environment (the artist lived in)
Title and date of artwork: Act up, 1989
Description: The piece shows three people with the letter x in all of there bodys. The piece reads ignorance = fear, silence = death, fight aids, act up. Haring lived with aids and later died from it. This is very much a social and cultural topic and the time in which he created this art. He was raising awareness for aids and helping to protect
The Chivo mask is from Mexico, typically found in the state of Guerrero. The mask was first created and used in the village, Zitlala, after the Mexican Revolution. It is used for the ritual dance called “La Danza de los Chivos” or Dance of the Goats. However, the dance is now used in many other celebrations and festivities throughout other areas of Mexico, as well.
He got a lot of his inspiration from his mother. She loved painting with water colors and making
... previous jobs to convey a welcoming and educational message in his work. He makes his art clear, educational, and unconventional to express his individuality and help children in their development. Had it not been for his first couple of jobs, the teacher that showed him the banned painting, and his love for children he probably would not be the memorable artist that he is today.
In the past there were two types of shamans, the good and the bad. The good ones
Jackson Pollock was an American abstract artist born in Cody, Wyoming in 1912. He was the youngest of his five brothers. Even though he was born on a farm, he never milked a cow and he was terrified of horses because he grew up in California. He dropped out of high school at the age of seventeen and proceeded to move to New York City with his older brother, Charles, and studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League. Thomas Benton was already a great artist at the time in which Pollock studied with him. Benton acted like the father figure in Pollock’s life to replace the original that wasn’t there. Benton was known for his large murals that appear on ceilings or walls. “Jack was a rebellious sort at all times,” recalls his classmate and friend, artist Harold Lehman. He grew his hair long and helped pen a manifesto denouncing athletics, even though “he had a muscular build and the school wanted to put him on the football team,” says former teacher Doug Lemon. Pollock always was upset with himself in his studies because he had troubles drawing things like they were supposed to look. From 1938 to 1942, Jackson joined a Mexican workshop of people with a painter named David Siqueiros. This workshop painted the murals for the WPA Federal Art Projects. This new group of people started experimenting with new types of paint and new ways of applying it to large canvas. People say that this time period was when Jackson was stimulated with ideas from looking at the Mexican or WPA murals. Looking at paintings from Picasso and the surrealists also inspired Jackson at this time. The type of paint they used was mixing oil colors with paint used for painting cars. Jackson noticed that the shapes and colors they created were just as beautiful as anything else was. Jackson realized that you didn’t have to be able to draw perfect to make beautiful paintings. Jackson started developing a whole new way of painting that he had never tried before and his paintings were starting to look totally different from before.
The poem We Wear the Mask by Paul Dunbar is filled with many powerful statements. Dunbar talks writes about how there is so much hurt behind people’s smiles and so much pain in their past. He also asks why society should be “over-wise;” it tries to act like it knows what is best for people. The play An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins has a lot in common with this poem. Nataki Garrett who was the director of this play at the Mixed Blood Theatre saw how well this poem went with the play, and she added it into the program. Both the poem and the play talk about how it was like for African Americans to live in a white dominated society.
In the twentieth century, the United States of America has transitioned into a more diverse nation. Immigrants arriving from around the globe combined with African Americans to challenge the American identity. As a result, prominent figures including Theodore Roosevelt believed every American should indeed be Americanized. Throughout the twentieth century, Americanization, which means to sacrifice an old culture in favor of American culture, remains an issue amongst authors in particular. Authors in the twentieth century expressed their stance on the battle between cultural heritage and American assimilation. Some authors such as Langston Hughes supported diversity and pride in their culture. On the other end of the spectrum, others like Booker
Stokstad, M., Michael, W. and Asher, M. F. (2010). Art History, Volume 1. California: Prentice
.... I like the Gran Fury’s Kissing Doesn’t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do, 1989 the best. The significant of this project is not only to offer visual appealing, but also to leave instant impact. Firstly, it is a movable artwork travelling by buses that can catch more audiences’ attention. It is not limited in one specific site causing inestimable influence. Secondly, the visual effect of the poster is strong. There are three couples, which are young men and women in biracial and multiethnic heterosexual kissing on the poster. The sidebar depicts the topic of HIV/AIDS disease. Thirdly, after the instant view, audiences can keep thinking by the strong visual impact: people misunderstand the spread of HIV, and it is necessary to respect and think equality of race, gay and lesbian. It is a smart public art that through social power to get government’s and people’ notice.
Goldwater, Robert and Marco Treves (eds.). Artists on Art: from the XIV to the XX Century. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945.
1. Hunter, Sam and Jacobs, John. Modern Art, 3rd Edition. The Vendome Press, New York, 1992.
Have you ever worn a mask before? Maybe the mask wasn't a costume mask, but it was a mask to make you seem happy, or seem cool, or anything that made you feel like something than you are not normally. Chances are you have. Trying to fit in with the crowd, a mask is used to obtain the things we cannot reach on our own. Masks are especially common today because of the pressures to belong to the 'in'; group, or the pressures to succeed. Books, using masks, commonly show the many connotations of masks. They are used to find out what people are for real, on the inside of the mask. The imagery of masks is used throughout the book of Twelfth Night. Shakespeare uses the imagery of masks to reveal characters true emotions and to express the power of raw beauty. Shakespeare uses this imagery through all of his characters in the play, but especially the two characters of Viola and Feste.
Cumming, Robert. Great Artists The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work. New York : DK Publishing, 1998
the genius of the artist and the method of the scientist, I find many of
researching about different artist of our times and who made an impact in our world such as