Project 2

Today we viewed the work of South Korean artist, Do-Ho Suh.  Here is what we came up with:

Denotations:

Military artifacts, Home, Little statues, Korea, Portraits yearbook, Uniforms, Fabric 

Connotations:

Everyday person, Collective whole, Individualism, Crossing and Overlapping of lives, Different personal space in every culture, Contrast of cultures, Repetition and monotony 

How do the materials he chose show his personality? Views of society?

Using own cultural lens, Mass production, Artistic take on his compulsory experiences

Please think about how he (and other artists) are filtering their work through their own cultural identity.  They are looking critically at their past experiences and the physical reminders of these experiences.  If you can begin to think this way, it will improve not only your art work but the sense of yourself in the world.  And that rules.

To celebrate, let us watch St. Vincent kill it live:

Themes and Article Responses

To recap, here's what we found successful and troubling about the articles we have read so far:

The Cheese Monkeys:

Agree/Like:

Funny

Imagery

Audience is engine/virus

Rushed

Left to Right

Big and Small

Front and in back of

Top to bottom 

Disagree/Confusion/Problems?:

Unfocused

Confusing

Can’t imagine what we don’t know to be true

The Heresy of Zone Defense:

Agree/Like:

Description at beginning

Rules make sport better

Rules are adaptive

Pollock and Jefferson

Disagree/Confusion/Problems?:

Basketball example relates to rules?

This or that?

More examples for how rules adapted

And here are our responses to the two artists we have seen so far:

Cai Guo-Qiang

Materials:

Gunpowder/Rocks/Sharp Items from Airport/Everyday Objects (Car, Buddha)/Cardboard/People/Cloth/Matchbox/

Tracing Paper/Stuffed Tigers (FAKE)/Sketchbook

Generative Ideas:

World Politics/Father/Cultural Perception/Chinese Philosophy/

Themes:

Pain/Lack of Control/Power and Beauty of Destruction/Sex/

Janine Antoni

Materials:

Soap/Rope(Everything from friends and family)/Body(Herself)/Cows/Lard/Weaving/

Rawhide/Chocolate/Scissors/Bath Tub/Bucket

Generative Ideas:

Past experiences/Motherhood/Childhood/History/

Crime Scene/Past Art/Social Norms/Greek Myths/Relationships

Themes:

Deviation from social norms/Circle of life/Self-identity/Balance and fall/love-hate relationships/exhibition

Very good start to the class right now.  Keep paying attention and this will all matter in the end.  Now, to celebrate lets have our faces melted by Zach Hill:

Our definitions of art

So today in class we defined what art is.  Here are some of the summarized responses:

Visual Expression/Commentary-Individual

Self-Expression

Visual/Many Interpretations

Sound/Cultural Ties/Imagery of idea or thing

Controlled Expression/Context

Physical Expression

Expression of ANYTHING meaningful to the creator

We also listed a bunch of examples of art and where we have seen it.  Here are some of those responses:

Poetry/Music/Food

Photos/Behaviors/Clothes/Architecture/

Sculpture

Street Art/City Planning/Tattoos/Painting/Drawing

Smells

Ads/Web Pages/Home Décor

Hair Style/Writing/Book/Fiction/Piercings/Craft/Chalk

Sewing/Dance/Technology/Cars/Carving/Land Art/Theater

Film/Memorial 

Keep in mind how varied this list is and how it might push your notions of what art is.  

And for now, here is a live performance from one of my favorite albums of last year (Yes, I still buy records and yes, I know how easy it is steal it on-line and yes, this is what the apocalypse might sound like).

My mic sounds nice

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