Thursday, January 19, 2012

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:

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