Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Art of the Pilgrimage
This reading was based on how the way to view art has changed. It has changed a lot. Art may come to us too readily now. If we live in near cities with museums, little sacrifice may be required on our part to see it. It is seen as if art is not taking as serious as it uses to be. I mean most stuff you can find online now; there really is no need to go anywhere to go see anything. Even in the age of traveling art it is unlikely that this most riveting of all German Renaissance paintings will ever go anywhere, fortunately: it’s too big, too precious. To see art in its context is always useful-we forget how misleading it may be to confront a painting conceived for a specific chapel in Venice on the wall of, say a museum in Vienna or Paris-but that is a separate issue from Colmar and Grunewald. Art use to be a piece of gold long time ago. You would have to go through crazy thing to create art and also to go see it. People are not like that anymore. Lots of people are very lazy and just do whatever. We did lose something during the last century, although it was not, as Benjamin said, a craving for the original. It was a sufficient appreciation for the virtues of the pilgrimage. The Web and mass media flood everyone with the same images, and museums shuttle much of the same art from place to place.
April 13,2010 CAM
Ruchama Lubin
April 15, 2010
April 13, 2010 we as a class visited the Contemporary Art Museum to go see the 3rd year MFA Exhibition. This was the very first time I have gone to CAM. I thought it was interesting. It was a lot smaller then I thought it was. I thought it was a whole lot bigger then what it was. The exhibition itself was pretty interesting as well.
Ariel Baron-Robbins, a university of Mississippi grad, did the multi-layer drawing. She had a three or four of her work up; with a video of herself, and they were all different in their own way. I enjoyed her work. It was messy at the same time very created. In her video all I can remember thinking was how thin she was. Classmates made commons about her needing something to eat. In her video she was dressed in all black. Form head to toe. And she was making a lot of moments in front of a white sheet. Like she was showing how she created her work.
Stead Thomas, a Ringling College of Art and Design grad, had a video playing that you could sit and listen to. In the video it showed him climbing a tree and doing other things. He also uses technique to make where he was intertwine with another place. He also used layers in the video to act like he was standing in the middle of two room but he was able to destroy things from both room. This one I really did not understand nor did I like much. When I put the headsets on to listen to what was going on in the video, there was nothing but background noises. Like the noises that he made to climb the tree. or the noises he made when he was destroying the room.
Victoria Lee Skelly, a University of Montevalla grad, did a great project, in my opinion. She made this installing that had all the emails that she had got while trying to do this project, which were all the negative things. But on the inside she had a park-like thing that you can go in to sit or stand and just see what she wants you to see or feel. She, I believe, is all about the community. And I really believe she showed us that. I love the fact that she had pictures of the trees in the park and stuff, but she had real grass in the installation.
Carmen Tiffany, a Minnestota State University grad, made a video that had to do with her experience as a child and the experience of children now days. In the video she used a lot of, what I believe was, clip art. She also had a lot of old children commercials, mostly toys. I understood what she is trying to say but I really did not get the video. It was going back and forth from the story that was going on to the old children commercials. It looks like there was a lot of work and thought put into this final project but I really did not like it that much.
Andrew Nigon, a Minnesota State University-Mankato grad, made a really big elephant with junk. I found this project to be very interesting. He made the base of the elephant with wood, I believe, and use anything and maybe everything to make the rest of the elephant. The reason I like this one is because it was a very simple project but not. He could have made the elephant out of anything. He could of use just one material but he didn’t; he got very creative with it and went crazy with it. To me it looks like a screen out of a movie. Like an elephant came running though someone’s bedroom and left with all those stuff on it.
Toni Danette Billick, a University of Akron grad, was dress as a drag queen. I really didn’t understand her final project as well but I think it had to do with a day in a drag queen/transgressor life is like. She has a make-up mirror, where I guess whoever you get ready for the night. Then next to that was a installing of a women private part with a video in it; which is normal, since in that life style a lot of people are look up in that area. Next to that was a nasty, dirty looking pay phone, which could be where they make a call for a taxi or their pimp?
Maxim Maximovitch, a West Virginia University grad, did a virtual tour. Which I think was impressive. It was like a tour of his thoughts. And it was interactive. He made it where you could control where to go. I’m a big fan of video games, so I really like this one.
After going though the exhibition, we got a tour of the background stuff by Peter. We were shown were the art work was delivered and unpacked. Then we were shown where they make the fame for the art work that is mounted on the walls of the museum. Peter told us how after every exhibition how they have to reprint everything and start over for the next exhibition.
It was a great experience. I enjoyed seeing the hard work that the 3rd years are doing. And I was happy to hear about all the voluntary opportunity there are in the museum.
April 15, 2010
April 13, 2010 we as a class visited the Contemporary Art Museum to go see the 3rd year MFA Exhibition. This was the very first time I have gone to CAM. I thought it was interesting. It was a lot smaller then I thought it was. I thought it was a whole lot bigger then what it was. The exhibition itself was pretty interesting as well.
Ariel Baron-Robbins, a university of Mississippi grad, did the multi-layer drawing. She had a three or four of her work up; with a video of herself, and they were all different in their own way. I enjoyed her work. It was messy at the same time very created. In her video all I can remember thinking was how thin she was. Classmates made commons about her needing something to eat. In her video she was dressed in all black. Form head to toe. And she was making a lot of moments in front of a white sheet. Like she was showing how she created her work.
Stead Thomas, a Ringling College of Art and Design grad, had a video playing that you could sit and listen to. In the video it showed him climbing a tree and doing other things. He also uses technique to make where he was intertwine with another place. He also used layers in the video to act like he was standing in the middle of two room but he was able to destroy things from both room. This one I really did not understand nor did I like much. When I put the headsets on to listen to what was going on in the video, there was nothing but background noises. Like the noises that he made to climb the tree. or the noises he made when he was destroying the room.
Victoria Lee Skelly, a University of Montevalla grad, did a great project, in my opinion. She made this installing that had all the emails that she had got while trying to do this project, which were all the negative things. But on the inside she had a park-like thing that you can go in to sit or stand and just see what she wants you to see or feel. She, I believe, is all about the community. And I really believe she showed us that. I love the fact that she had pictures of the trees in the park and stuff, but she had real grass in the installation.
Carmen Tiffany, a Minnestota State University grad, made a video that had to do with her experience as a child and the experience of children now days. In the video she used a lot of, what I believe was, clip art. She also had a lot of old children commercials, mostly toys. I understood what she is trying to say but I really did not get the video. It was going back and forth from the story that was going on to the old children commercials. It looks like there was a lot of work and thought put into this final project but I really did not like it that much.
Andrew Nigon, a Minnesota State University-Mankato grad, made a really big elephant with junk. I found this project to be very interesting. He made the base of the elephant with wood, I believe, and use anything and maybe everything to make the rest of the elephant. The reason I like this one is because it was a very simple project but not. He could have made the elephant out of anything. He could of use just one material but he didn’t; he got very creative with it and went crazy with it. To me it looks like a screen out of a movie. Like an elephant came running though someone’s bedroom and left with all those stuff on it.
Toni Danette Billick, a University of Akron grad, was dress as a drag queen. I really didn’t understand her final project as well but I think it had to do with a day in a drag queen/transgressor life is like. She has a make-up mirror, where I guess whoever you get ready for the night. Then next to that was a installing of a women private part with a video in it; which is normal, since in that life style a lot of people are look up in that area. Next to that was a nasty, dirty looking pay phone, which could be where they make a call for a taxi or their pimp?
Maxim Maximovitch, a West Virginia University grad, did a virtual tour. Which I think was impressive. It was like a tour of his thoughts. And it was interactive. He made it where you could control where to go. I’m a big fan of video games, so I really like this one.
After going though the exhibition, we got a tour of the background stuff by Peter. We were shown were the art work was delivered and unpacked. Then we were shown where they make the fame for the art work that is mounted on the walls of the museum. Peter told us how after every exhibition how they have to reprint everything and start over for the next exhibition.
It was a great experience. I enjoyed seeing the hard work that the 3rd years are doing. And I was happy to hear about all the voluntary opportunity there are in the museum.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Final Project
The Way It Use To Be
The forbidden door
Oh the forbidden door
My heart pounds as I walk though this Forbidden Door
As I remember the way things use to be
The first thing I remember is the bathroom
The bathroom’s door was kind of where the room door is now
This was not in the old room, whatever this is
The closet was here, man that was a small closet
And look at them now, one for her and one for him
I remember this dresser bring here, I think, but a little longer
Oh the TV
I remember the TV was not here, it was here in front of the bed
I remember the TV bring really far from the bed
Hahaha….. The bed
I remember scary rainy night sleeping in the bed
I remember sitting on the bed watching movie with my daddy
I also remember jumping on the bed when I was bored
And having to fix it afterward
The way it use to be
The Art of Making Art Without Lifting a Finger
This story was about a man name Ray Johnson that killed himself by jumping off a bridge. The story talks about how his lover, a sculptor name Richard Lippold who knew Johnson best felt as if he didn’t know Johnson as well as he thought he did. “Now that I think of him after his death, I don’t think I really knew who he was. It very hard for me to say that. But who was this man? He kept so much of himself to himself.” Johnson was found with 1600.00 dollars in his wallet, which was surprising to many people because he always talked about being broke. But the true of the matter is that he had 400,000 in the bank. Most of the story is talking about his life and questioning why he would kill himself. The story also talks about death being a form of art, as well as life. Neither is life, of course, and we may learn from these artists something about how to conceive of our own ordinary existence-about how to live and die, more constructively or at least alertly. I really do not agree on the whole death being a form of art.
April !, 2010-Rebecca French
Rebecca French and her partner talk about all the work that they had done and are still working on. One of the projects that they talked about was when they were work with a flower shop own. And every time that someone would come and buy some flower they would record them and asked them who they were buying the flowers for and why. The other project that they talked about was when they visited a meat shop owner and observed the people around him and put them in different groups. I really like this project because they came here to finish it and I got to help. They were here for a week and while they were here they spoke with the class and asked a lot of questions about different group that we were in. we had to think outside the box and think of group that we were in that we would not think of them as a group in our lives. I surprised myself by being able to think of several group of people that I didn’t think of as a group in my life. I also got to help them with another project that they are working on right now. They had asked the class to take pictures of sign that had something to say about direction. They wanted signs in the school and also outside the school. I really enjoyed them being here as well as working with them. Thanks a whole lot Ceasar!
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