So far I have just started sketching thumbnails and cutting up newspaper to use in my paper mache. I was absent the day that we started this project, but hopefully I will be entirely caught up by next week!
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across in a clear manner. One thing that was said in the article by the members of The Guerrilla Girls was that they “…try to be different from the kind of political art that is angry and points to something and says ‘This is bad.’ That’s preaching to the converted…” (p. 7, The Guerrilla Girls Are Still Relevant After All These Years). Reading this forced me think about the art that I have seen and agreed with the content of, and wonder if this art effects other people in the same way that it affects me. I think that this is hard to avoid when you are passionate about what you are talking about, especially through art because there is so much that you have to assume that the viewer understands or knows before trying to influence them through your work. I think that the Guerrilla Girls are effective in this way because the present facts and information in clear and clever way that present their point of view. Making your work less straight forward and still allowing to appeal to those who don't necessarily agree with you is likely much more difficult, but I'd love to see more work that is conscious of this problem and tries to address it in interesting ways. I thought that these two articles were very interesting and were able to expose me to different artists that I was not familiar with. I after being exposed to art that is also functional, such as the Inflatable Cobblestones created by the Eclectic Electric Collective in collaboration with Enmedio collective. This fusion of function and content was very interesting to me as I was reading about the inflatable cobblestones used a barriers at a protest. As we discussed whether or not a piece of art being functional diminishes its artistic value during our Socratic Seminar, I found it interesting that so many people thought it did. I personally don’t think it does, and I think that as long as you approach the creation of this functional art piece from a place of innovation and creation, that fact that it is made to serve a purpose doesn’t inherently diminish the artistic value of a piece. Of course it could just be a bad piece of art, but that is possible whether or not it is a functional piece of art. It also might be harder to approach a functional piece of art in a way that allows for it to be seen as art, and not just an unusually designed object, but when it succeeds, I think this functionality adds something extra to the piece of art. I loved this reading and there wasn’t any part of it that I would remove, but I would add some more information about protest are found in other parts of the world. We may have less context for these works if we don’t know about the history or political climate of that specific country, but more information on a wider range of protest art and artists would be very interesting to me. I think that more specifically, performance art would be really interesting to look at. One person who I found, Petr Pavlensky, create very interesting, sometimes disturbing, protest performance art using his body. He is very controversial, and is seeking political asylum from Russia in France. Recently set set a bank on fire. When does art become not art. Is this art?
Below is an interview with Petr Interview Link! Setting a building on fire Carli Holcomb is a Wyoming based sculptor who examines the world using origin stories, the macro & micro, autobiography, memory, cosmology, landscape, and space. She drew inspiration for this exhibition from her time spent in the out doors, and the unfamiliar terrain of a new home, and the dislocated experience that emerged from this transition. Through her work you get a feeling of natural vs. synthetic, person vs. place, and public vs. private. These ambiguous relationships are for visitors the explore and interpret. The sense of mystery in her work mimic the mystery of "after dark," hence the name of the exhibition. I really enjoyed viewing her work, especially the way that it made you think about what it was and what she was trying to convey. The imagery that she uses has a familiar quality to it, but it doesn't have any really explicit meaning at first glance. One other thing that I really like about her work is the way that she it is hung/placed in the gallery. I think that the way the work is presented in the gallery is very interesting and influences the way that that I personally think of the work and its content. I want to use this to think about how I would like my work to be hung in the gallery and how it influences the meaning of the work, if it has any influence at all. I also really enjoy how even though these works aren't all exactly the same, they all work together and have some unifying features. I like this because not all of my works will be paintings or sculptures, so I hope to find some commonality to use in all of my work so they have the same unified feeling as After Dark does.
I started gathering posters to created piles of posters. I will soon shape the pile by cutting into it. I am planning to cover the final shapes with plastic, and then melting the plastic, but I need to figure out a safe way to do this without setting the paper below it on fire. Some of the posters that I am making copies of are shown below.
I started working on the painting of the hearts and have finished creating the holes that the thread will go through. The holes have taken me the longest, but I think that I will be done with the painting shortly. I like how the painting is going so far, but I need to work on some of that shadows that I have placed in the wrong spots.
I was sick on Monday, but on Wednesday I used these paper templates I created to figure out what I wanted my composition to look like. I then marked where I wanted to place each heart and started making the curves, focusing on their placement and starting to hammer/drill in some holes.
This week we started working on our first in-class project of the year. On Monday I started sketching and planning my project in my sketchbook, and on Tuesday I started sketching on my canvas and started trying to get the right composition for my painting.
Progress a of 5/15/17 I have finally completed assembling this piece, and it took quite a long time to do. I had the most trouble assembling the middle/top of the arch piece because it was the least stable and had nothing underneath it to hold it up. I didn't have an armature within the piece, so it was a little tricky trying to figure out a way to make it work. I did think about building as armature at one point, but decided against it because I wasn't sure if I would want to keep that shape as I continued to work, or if I wanted to change the shape of the piece as I went along. This turned out to be a good thing because I did end up changing the shape a bit, not too drastically, but enough to fit what I felt was the most effective way to create a stable structure. When I have a chance, I would like to go back to the sculpture and work on polishing/cleaning some of the pieces of mirror and getting rid of some of the glue that is visible. I didn't think that getting rid of the glue would take so long, but it is everywhere!! Progress as of 5/8/17 I have come up with some more ideas for this sculpture, including using keys in my composition. I think that I finally have enough mirror to finish this project and I am pretty excited to finish it!! I am pretty close to completing my bases, and after I finish them, making the top part should go by much faster! Progress as of 4/28/17: I have been experimenting a bit more with some of my materials to try to figure out how I want to approach assembling this piece. I am planning on changing this shape to become a little flatter so that I can use it as a side for my sculpture. I am going to start working on the bases that my sculpture will sit on in the upcoming week. I will try to make the bases a bit wider than I made this piece because I think that it just seems a bit too small. Progress as of 4/21/17: So far, I have worked mostly on planning, but I have also been gathering supplies. I am excited to start working on this sculpture, but need to determine how big I want to make the sculpture. This depends mainly on how much mirror I am able to find.
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