The artwork "Bob", 1970 by Chuck Close has a very strong meaning. "Bob" has a clear message due to the ideas that are represented, the use of Elements and Principles in Art to create a clear idea to the audience and it also depicts significant cultural events that happened at the time. Therefore, Chuck Close's "Bob" does have meaning.
An idea being communicated through Bob by Chuck close is that you should always be yourself. In an interview done with Close, he stated “I had taken a break and was walking back into the studio. Looking at the painting, I realised that a highlight in one of the eyes was too bright. And I said, 'Damn it, now I'm going to have to take his glasses off'. But when I realised what I had said, I pivoted on my heel and walked out leaving the lights on, the compressor on and the airbrushes full of paint. When you start believing in your own illusion, you're in serious trouble”. In summary Close thought because of the reflection in the glasses, he would have to do another photo shoot and re-paint the painting but then realised that was useless and he should keep “Bob” true to himself.
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“Bob” features organic shapes because it is a portrait of someone and people are organic as we are natural and naturally made things (organic shapes are described as natural calm/calming smooth lines). Another Element of Art that “Bob” features is its black and white colouring. “Bob” has been coloured with different shades ranging from black to white (using ink). A Principal of Art used in the making of “Bob” was (and still is) proportion. This is an obvious one as proportion fits in with the subject of portraiture as it is key when creating a portrait so it looks
The third symbol is Bobby spray painting the wall. Bobby paints a self-portrait of a “Pale Ghost Boy” referring to himself and he is also holding a faceless baby in a carrier. The faceless baby could represent feather lack of identity because he’s new to the world. And Bobby painting himself as “pale” and “ghostly” because he could be scared and could feel like no one supported him. This symbol is important because it shows how he isn’t fully mature because he is spray painting but it shows how lonely he feels being a single parent taking care of Feather.
The Brick wall symbolizes Bobby and how he is disconnected from friends and family, "Everything is clean brown brick, and off in the shadows of some brownstone. Where the hell
Though people can look into color and composition, others can still even look into the source of the art itself. Cole goes deeper, delving into the source of the art, looking in particular into the idea of cultural appropriation and the view a person can give others. Though it is good for people to be exposed to different opinions of a group or an object, sometimes people can find it difficult to tell the difference between the reality and the art itself. Sometimes art can be so powerful that its message stays and impacts its audience to the point where the viewer’s image of the subject of the art changes entirely. Cole brings up an important question about art, however. Art has become some kind of media for spreading awareness and even wisdom at times, but in reality, “there is also the question of what the photograph is for, what role it plays within the economic circulation of images” (973). Cole might even be implying that Nussbaum’s advertisement can sometimes be the point of some media, and that sometimes the different genres of art can just be to make someone with a particular interest happy. One more point that Cole makes is that “[a]rt is always difficult, but it is especially difficult when it comes to telling other people’s stories.” (974) Truthfully, awareness and other like-concepts are difficult to keep going when a person or a group is not directly involved.
Pollock’s Flight of Man and Picasso’s Head of a Woman are two diverse pieces of art when visually compared to one another. However, both pieces possess similar qualities that together convey one universal concept; humans all contain a true self and a false self. Inspired by the studies of Sigmund Freud, delving into the mind’s underlying subconscious was of high interest to both artists. False selves can be considered façades, a non-permeable membrane that separates the inside from the outside. On the other hand, true selves are often buried deep inside under inorganic layers of turmoil and deception. Sometimes, humans lose themselves in their false self, but the true self always exists within. Often to uncover one’s true self, it is necessary
..., the broader feel of the scene. He wants us to take in the entirety of the painting but have a moment to catch the individual scenes within it, like the couple dancing, the man in the corner rolling his cigar, or the women in the front talking to the man. We do get places where our eyes can rest, but in general your eye takes in the swirl of modern life and pleasure.
Though most works of art have some underlying, deeper meaning attached to them, our first impression of their significance comes through our initial visual interpretation. When we first view a painting or a statue or other piece of art, we notice first the visual details – its size, its medium, its color, and its condition, for example – before we begin to ponder its greater significance. Indeed, these visual clues are just as important as any other interpretation or meaning of a work, for they allow us to understand just what that deeper meaning is. The expression on a statue’s face tells us the emotion and message that the artist is trying to convey. Its color, too, can provide clues: darker or lighter colors can play a role in how we judge a piece of art. The type of lines used in a piece can send different messages. A sculpture, for example, may have been carved with hard, rough lines or it may have been carved with smoother, more flowing lines that portray a kind of gentleness.
This piece is acrylic, oilstick, and spray paint on wood panel that is 186.1 centimeters in height and 125.1 centimeters in width. This piece features a human-like figure in the center that is mostly half red and half black. This figure has a gray head with one yellow eye and one light gray eye and above its head is a black halo. The background consists of patches of various colors such as light blue, black, dark red, light green, beige, turquoise, pink, and yellow. On the bottle left corner there is a figure drawn that looks like a fish and has a strip of mustard yellow painted through it. Also towards the bottom right of the artwork, there is some drawn on letters that almost look like words but are messily painted over with a desert sand color. This piece is my favorite because I find it aesthetically pleasing. There is a lot going on in this piece that makes looking at it genuinely interesting. The colors that Basquiat choses for the background go very well together and overall compliment the figure in the center. I like how incredibly expressive this piece is and it makes me want to buy a canvas and start painting that I desire. I also like how the human-like figure is drawn. One could see what looks like an outlined ribcage on the figure, which makes me believe that the head is actually a skull. Upon further research I learned that Basquiat was
Chuck Close was born on July 5th, 1940 in Monroe ,Washington. He went to the university of Washington school of art. Then soon transferred to Yale University of art and architecture. Chuck was discovered or became famous for his art in the late 1960’s. He always had dyslexia from the day that he was born. He didn't play much sports.
...h what the world is looking for. The only hard part about using someone, so new in this industry is that he doesn’t have a lot said about him, if anything at all. It is a shame that on his site he does not give any reasons or intent about his pieces. He just has the titles of his pieces and a lot of it is assuming what he means by what he is trying to imply. “By trying to decipher the painting in this way, I was doing what I suppose most people do when they look at art, seeking a narrative or at least enough clues to one that I could begin to assemble a story out of what I was seeing. With all art, from the representational to the abstract, one tends to look for correspondences to what one knows; even before learning the title (Michael Milburn: 2009),” which means that I was trying to “to find something recognizable in (Michael Milburn: 2009)” the Great Romanians.
...the eye because the fabric of his shirt and the roughness of his jeans appear to have texture but they do not. If you actually touch the painting, you will find it to be flat and it does not have that feeling of thick application of paint.
The book was written by Sean Penn entitled, “Bob HoneyWho Just Do Stuff” was published by Atria Books, contains 176 pages, and cost $24.
Andy Warhol’s Gold Marilyn Monroe is a canvas with a silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe’s face. It is placed behind gold background. Warhol produced this painting of Monroe to imitate how the public perceived the film start. The image portrayed in the painting also shows the side of Monroe that is not seen when not in the medias eyes. It can be portrayed as a sad figure, one who’s life is not all that it seems to be. The painting is reflected in a time when media has an influence in the people’s perception of life, how they should live and what to strive for.
Although a picture is worth a thousand words, I believe one could only tell truly what goes around if he/she her faces it. I object the idea of taking pictures of the artwork. When I was at the museum it was hard for me to take a picture of the Interior. The colors would not appear the same as compare to how they actually were in person. I could not even get the details of the artwork in the picture. Before visiting the museum, when I looked up the images for the painting I could not really tell artists truly feeling behind the work of art. Even though artistic elements such as composition, form etc were available in an image of a painting; the image altered the paint color, the skill and style with the medium, and our perception of reality. We can not depict the genuine identity of an artwork from it 's digital image or print. In essence, this made me realize how a person needs to see an artwork in person to really know what it looks
...at I get from the painting is that the men are getting a mirror image of them self’s, that makes them see what they are afraid of. In turn when I see the painting it allows me to see my fears. I felt that my fears changed with in two days of being in the program. I loved meeting new people and having new teachers.