Sunday, January 8, 2012

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/

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:

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