Presentstion Response #2

The two artsts (or groups) that I picked to talk about are George Grosz and the Guerrilla Girls.

I thought that George Grosz was pretty interesting because of his subject matter. He really seemed to combine the dark side of things with the more pleasurable things. Although his paintings were pretty graphic they never really seemed emphasized (except for this self portrait, but that's different). His works seemed almost like they could exist in todays world with maybe the same types of characters and color schemes, but I thing the perspectives of the landscapes and objects within them would probably be better, a few things seemed almost impossible, or like they were floating.

The Guerrilla Girls seemed almost like a rebel uprising. With the name spelled like guerrilla as in warfare and not gorilla as in the monkey type thing really helped. because guerrilla refers to like surprise attacks or using unusual people, and with the masks and the seemingly harmless signs they seem to accomplish surprise attacks on people. The fact that they use old art and just edit it shows their knowledge of art history, and the having people all around the world only helps their influence.

Presentation Responses

The artists that stood out to me and started good conversation, in my mind and in the class itself, were Kiki Smith and Nikki Lee.

With Kiki Smith it was more of an internal conversation with myself trying to understand why she did the things the way she did. I wanted to understand why her sculptures were so unlike her drawings, and why she chose to work in so many different mediums. Her sculptures were solid colors with almost no facial recognition except maybe a nose and eye sockets (with a few exceptions). Her drawings however showed all the features of the face and much more detail in the bodies too.

Nikki Lee on the other hand sparked a bigger conversation in the class, with different people opposed to and defending the different projects she did. I asked a few people how they would feel if she did an artist project and they said they would probably just laugh, so why not laugh at all of the projects I ask? I feel like she did a good job portraying the different groups of different areas and it would be interesting to see the rest of the projects to see if she changed the way she looked within a certain group. It would be interesting to see if she showed the different types of people in that group itself or if she was just the same "character" over and over again in different poses.

Project Proposal

My project based on the book Bones of the Master by George Crane will be some what of a comic type deal I think...Probably of key points in the journey (that I haven't read yet)...Maybe 4 or 5 (or more) panels depending on the amount of parts that stand out maybe about 11 by 17 in size (really depends on the number of panels)...Most likely digital media...Maybe with some collage aspects and scanned images...

I have not entirely read a lot of the book because I just got it..

I feel like my idea will expand and become more clear or elaborate as I read more of the book...

Words to Describe Book:
-Quiet
-Calm
-Dark
-Peaceful
-Serene
-Organized
-Detailed
-Sad
-Confusing
-Savage
-Proud
-Mystic
-Mean
-Determined
-Disciplined
-Obedient
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Colors:
-Yellow (He said it / River)
-Green (Grass)
-Brown (Mud)
-Gray (Stone)
-Black (Ink / Gobi)
-Blue (Ice)
-White (Face / Paper / The overall feeling of it)

Swatches Makeup for Missed Lecture

For my new picture with the swatches I chose "Bad Day on the High Sea" by Brandon Bird...



Here are the swatches I made from this picture...




I realized that some of the colors in the picture are the same as the first picture I chose...And sorry for the late upload, pictures were not working last night...

ICA

I could not pick between two pieces that I found at the ICA. One I really like because of it's originality and that is the line of Kidrobot toys. As far as I could tell from the description, every set of toys they come out with is limited edition and after that they are no longer manufactured. So rather then thinking of the toys as toys you can think of them as collectors items. Most of them all have the same shape, sometimes with accessories, but the difference between them is what is printed on the figure itself. None of them have movable parts which also helps to differ them from your average toy.

The other piece I liked was the conceptual model for the Museum of History in California. Originally I liked the piece because I thought it was for something else and I over analyzed it and thought it was a lot cooler and had deeper meaning then it really does. Then i saw the actual comments for it and realized what it really was so it lost a lot of meaning to me, but I still thought it was a very cool way to represent something. I had never seen an architectual model made with only straight lines, let alone strings. I thought that the piece was very interesting, and a new twist on an old concept.

The pieces I picked really stood out to me, but it is hard to write about my first reaction to them because I had already seen them when I went to the ICA for my form study class.

I was also wondering if I could do 5 sketches / drawings from each and do half and half for the original pieces too...

If this isn't sufficient for a write up please let me know and I will write more...

Oops...

So yeah...I don't know when you read these...But I was checking the bog today to see wht was due Monday and I realized that the Tibetan painter guy lectures were this week when I thought they were next week...I know we were supposed to attend one of them and I was wondering if there was something else I had to do to make up for missing it...

Grid

Here are the swatches for my color assignment...