Lillian Schwartz and Robert Lazzarini
They both presented a lot of good background information for both artists.
Schwartz is really interesting. She started her work in the 70s, i believe. I really like IT IS I (Mona-Leo). It's a very interesting concept and I think it's really amazing how she did this before photoshop or anything like that. I also really liked how they kept her photo up in the background while discussing her work. Simple observation but I think it's a very good approach. Night Scene was also interesting because its so new and so advanced (for that time period at least). Her UFO piece, though kind of seizure inducing, was really an amazing technological advance. I actually like the second, and earlier, video they showed. I feel that the music and everything really fits together. It doesn't make me want to shake around all over the floor.
Lazzarini is also really fascinating. i actually like him better than Lazzarini LOVE the tea cup work. I think its really fascinating and cool...tempted to buy them from MOMA... the Knives piece is also really cool. I do agree that seeing some of the images live is very important because you can really get the effect of it. Pay phone was also really cool.
I liked how they compared the context and how one has effected the other. To see two different artists form the same area, and how she helped him come to the point where he is, is very interesting and I would most definitely go to this exhibit.
This group was really quite excellent. They gave a lot of great information and more importantly, made it all very interesting. I really liked how they organized and set everything up. VERY well done.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Lucy Henry's presentation
Lucy did Eva and Franco Mattes, who created avatars, and Adrienne Jenik and Brennes, who created desktop.
Mattes' "Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur" shows a Japanese woman as a geisha, perhaps? She's obviously Japanese because of her eyes and she is part of an exhibit. I really enjoyed the Ameshin Yossarian (which is a triptych! yay!) Aimee Weber is another avatar by the Mattes and again, i find it very interesting because it shows how people want to be and not necessarily what they look like. it show society's impression on what perfection is. they also use a photographic way of taking the pictures by using the beautiful angles of photography.
Second Life is another thing that the Mattes invited which is basically a second life in which you have to take care of yourself, just in a virtual world. Reminds me of the SIms. So they were, I guess, the founding parents of avatars
Jenik and Brennes helped create desktop theater. This allows the characters to interact, chat, stage performances, etc. It's almost like a chatroom except with idealized (i suppose?) people where they can interact without any fear of judgement.
I really liked the Icon War with sounds. It was amusing and creative.
Overall, I felt that Lucy has a lot of interesting information but needs to organize it better so that we can understand it better. Like I said before, the information was great and fascinating and i felt she herself talked about it well. However, the organization of the power point was a little bit unclear. Would the exhibit be filled with computers with people making their own avatars and having them interact all together? I feel that this would be a very successful exhibit, if in fact, this is what her idea was.
Mattes' "Annoying Japanese Child Dinosaur" shows a Japanese woman as a geisha, perhaps? She's obviously Japanese because of her eyes and she is part of an exhibit. I really enjoyed the Ameshin Yossarian (which is a triptych! yay!) Aimee Weber is another avatar by the Mattes and again, i find it very interesting because it shows how people want to be and not necessarily what they look like. it show society's impression on what perfection is. they also use a photographic way of taking the pictures by using the beautiful angles of photography.
Second Life is another thing that the Mattes invited which is basically a second life in which you have to take care of yourself, just in a virtual world. Reminds me of the SIms. So they were, I guess, the founding parents of avatars
Jenik and Brennes helped create desktop theater. This allows the characters to interact, chat, stage performances, etc. It's almost like a chatroom except with idealized (i suppose?) people where they can interact without any fear of judgement.
I really liked the Icon War with sounds. It was amusing and creative.
Overall, I felt that Lucy has a lot of interesting information but needs to organize it better so that we can understand it better. Like I said before, the information was great and fascinating and i felt she herself talked about it well. However, the organization of the power point was a little bit unclear. Would the exhibit be filled with computers with people making their own avatars and having them interact all together? I feel that this would be a very successful exhibit, if in fact, this is what her idea was.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Marina Abramovic and Lynn Hershman
This presentation introduced the artwork of Marina Abramovic and Lynn Hershman. It addresses the role of women in society and aspects of feminism. The group, so far, has provided a plethora of biographical information and it is all very useful. They are a really great team. I like how they don't use words but rather just show work].
Abramovic's "self mutilation art" is very interesting and disturbing...but in a good way. She focuses mostly on her individual self and the intervention from the part of the audience. I think it's very brave, controversial and emotional.Julie explained her artist's projects incredibly well. My favorite piece is the "Awkward Situation" in which people had to squeeze in between both of the artists to view the exhibit. Only lasted 90 minutes because of the police intervention...Kind of made me angry that art has only certain limits and people are too prude/closed minded to enjoy somehting as beautiful as the human body. I really like a lot of Abramovic's work. She has a lot of powerful statements.
Cassie's introduction of if Hershman's project is very well done. Her project which involved documenting a woman who is an hermit and it really is a powerful piece, saying that women are being repressed and forced to be alone. I really like that she makes powerful statements but i feel that her work isn't as powerful or emotional as Abramovic. I really did like "Paranoid Woman" though. I think it's really an interesting piece and kind of, in a way, creepy.But my favorite piece of hers is the one where she rented a hotel room and puts the things people left over. i think its a very interesting statement of people.
Abramovic's "self mutilation art" is very interesting and disturbing...but in a good way. She focuses mostly on her individual self and the intervention from the part of the audience. I think it's very brave, controversial and emotional.Julie explained her artist's projects incredibly well. My favorite piece is the "Awkward Situation" in which people had to squeeze in between both of the artists to view the exhibit. Only lasted 90 minutes because of the police intervention...Kind of made me angry that art has only certain limits and people are too prude/closed minded to enjoy somehting as beautiful as the human body. I really like a lot of Abramovic's work. She has a lot of powerful statements.
Cassie's introduction of if Hershman's project is very well done. Her project which involved documenting a woman who is an hermit and it really is a powerful piece, saying that women are being repressed and forced to be alone. I really like that she makes powerful statements but i feel that her work isn't as powerful or emotional as Abramovic. I really did like "Paranoid Woman" though. I think it's really an interesting piece and kind of, in a way, creepy.But my favorite piece of hers is the one where she rented a hotel room and puts the things people left over. i think its a very interesting statement of people.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Johann as an Avatar!!
Today we had to post an image that we altered in Illustrator. Mine is what I would look like with plastic surgery. And if I were blue...kind of like an Avatar
Enjoy
Enjoy
Monday, March 8, 2010
Post about three artists
Marina Abramovic has a very interesting take of self image and the portrayal of women. In the piece “Balkan Erotic Epic: Women in Rain 2,” she exposes the women’s genitalia (perhaps representing that women are simply sex objects to many in society) while other women attack and murder each other. The way I personally saw this piece was that women attack each other extraordinarily harshly when they should be united as one. In “Self Portrait”, she exposes her breasts but completely covers her face with her hair and is holding a skull. This concept is extremely powerful because it shows that people see women for their body, almost as objects and the face, or who they really are, is not important. It’s extremely profound and deep. Abramovic really uses her art to show the role of women in society and discusses her sense of self worth.
Frida Kahlo has very similar ideas to Abramovic. She really wants to symbolize the place in society that women hold. In “Without Hope,” It shows Kahlo herself being force fed food and a skull. This represents, to me, the things women are forced to believe in, forced to do, and forced to act in a society that basically run by men. The skull represents the inevitable death of oneself if she allows to be controlled as such. In her painting “Little Deer,” her head is attached to a deer’s body, and shes desperately trying to run away from hunters who are penetrating her with arrows. I felt that this represented the abuse and mistreatment of women in society. Not necessarily physical abuse, but in an inequality abuse. She is being persecuted and tortured. Most of her paintings show herself depicted, which makes it more personal and more frightening. To watch a recognizable face being tortured like herself in the paintings shows a life of pain, grief, and inequality.
Cui Xiuwen usually uses a beautiful, extraordinarily thin Asian woman in all of her pieces of work. The pieces are from an angel series, in which all the women are dressed in white and look extremely angelic. Despite the surroundings, like in “Angel No. 10,” which has a broken down background, the woman appears to be absolutely perfect. And she is repeated in the picture quite a few times. To me, this shows how women are becoming a brand rather than an individual self. It also shows the obsession with a certain look, which can be seen in “One Day in 2004.” There is the repetition of one model throughout the entire picture with the same exact outfit. This represents, again, the obsession with perfection and idealism. She’s trying to convey that women should be an individual and not what magazines or movies portray them to be.
Frida Kahlo has very similar ideas to Abramovic. She really wants to symbolize the place in society that women hold. In “Without Hope,” It shows Kahlo herself being force fed food and a skull. This represents, to me, the things women are forced to believe in, forced to do, and forced to act in a society that basically run by men. The skull represents the inevitable death of oneself if she allows to be controlled as such. In her painting “Little Deer,” her head is attached to a deer’s body, and shes desperately trying to run away from hunters who are penetrating her with arrows. I felt that this represented the abuse and mistreatment of women in society. Not necessarily physical abuse, but in an inequality abuse. She is being persecuted and tortured. Most of her paintings show herself depicted, which makes it more personal and more frightening. To watch a recognizable face being tortured like herself in the paintings shows a life of pain, grief, and inequality.
Cui Xiuwen usually uses a beautiful, extraordinarily thin Asian woman in all of her pieces of work. The pieces are from an angel series, in which all the women are dressed in white and look extremely angelic. Despite the surroundings, like in “Angel No. 10,” which has a broken down background, the woman appears to be absolutely perfect. And she is repeated in the picture quite a few times. To me, this shows how women are becoming a brand rather than an individual self. It also shows the obsession with a certain look, which can be seen in “One Day in 2004.” There is the repetition of one model throughout the entire picture with the same exact outfit. This represents, again, the obsession with perfection and idealism. She’s trying to convey that women should be an individual and not what magazines or movies portray them to be.
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