The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art
-Lowbrow appeals to the masses because pop culture, culture, folk art have all had major influences in the genre. This art is most relatable.
Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach
- Modern art in the MOMA from 1929 onwards was displayed primarily in chronological order, representing each art movement
-By the 1970s, traditional ways of displaying modern art are questioned. Art came off the walls to become busy and noisy
-The Joseph Beuys room in the Tate Modern creates a church-like atmosphere. Visitors do not materially understand what they see. They transition to the next room where art consists of waste and junk
Bones of Contention: Native American Archaeology
-Native Americans' bones were collected as a scientific curiosity during the U.S. genocide against Indians. Anthropologists differ on whether or not the remain should be returned to their ancestors
-Burial mounds are thought to be too civilized to have been built by Native American.
-In the 19th Century Samuel Morton M.D. studies brain size and conclude that the size of one's cranium is related to intelligence
An Acquiring
Mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan
-Philippe de Montebello, who served for 31 years as Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Mr. de Montebello guided the acquisition of more than 84,000 works of art, demanded innovation in conservation techniques, and oversaw the doubling of the physical size of this world-renowned cultural institution
The films were all very different to me. They seemed to go over what they thought was the most important about their topic or section. The videos are always very informative and have a lot to say about specific topics. I think the films help understand the readings a lot more.
The videos really help with understanding the project more thoroughly. Some go into more details than others, but it makes what your doing have a reason and a quick link to help you if you get stuck on something or new further help.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
I choose these two videos because they seemed the most interesting to me. The 50's and 60's have always been a time that I was very interested in and wanted to learn more about. The second video I didn't know that much about so wanted to see if something in the video sparked more of an interest for me.
Uncertainty: Modernity and Art
- Modern art is contemporary society's version of the Delphic Oracles. Art has its own memory of itself, its own psychic strata. Modern art documents the metamorphosis of mankind.
-Modern art is a complete break from art of the past that was inspirational, idealized
-Modern Art is a tradition that revs up in the late 19th century. It takes off in the early 20th century. Modern Art keeps responding to modern life
-In abstract art, surface appearances, the look of the world, is left behind. Abstract artists present an experiment, one in which the viewer participates. Abstract art asks questions, and it provides no answers.
Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the '50s and '60s
-Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character
-In the 1960s Andy Warhol is pop art's most famous son. This is never a very clear movement but is the first 20th Century art movement since Futurism
-Both Warhol and Rauschenber become art icons of the 60s by paving the way for pop artists in their use of everyday objects
I really enjoyed the videos about Andy Warhol because I have been learning about him since middle school. The videos bring to life what the text cant. You are able to visualize and understand there points more because you are actually looking and seeing what is happening with the art and how it can evolve. I usually always enjoy the videos because they go more in depth with the topic and lets one visualize rather than imagine.
Uncertainty: Modernity and Art
- Modern art is contemporary society's version of the Delphic Oracles. Art has its own memory of itself, its own psychic strata. Modern art documents the metamorphosis of mankind.
-Modern art is a complete break from art of the past that was inspirational, idealized
-Modern Art is a tradition that revs up in the late 19th century. It takes off in the early 20th century. Modern Art keeps responding to modern life
-In abstract art, surface appearances, the look of the world, is left behind. Abstract artists present an experiment, one in which the viewer participates. Abstract art asks questions, and it provides no answers.
Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the '50s and '60s
-Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character
-In the 1960s Andy Warhol is pop art's most famous son. This is never a very clear movement but is the first 20th Century art movement since Futurism
-Both Warhol and Rauschenber become art icons of the 60s by paving the way for pop artists in their use of everyday objects
I really enjoyed the videos about Andy Warhol because I have been learning about him since middle school. The videos bring to life what the text cant. You are able to visualize and understand there points more because you are actually looking and seeing what is happening with the art and how it can evolve. I usually always enjoy the videos because they go more in depth with the topic and lets one visualize rather than imagine.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Albright Knox Art Gallery
When I walked into the art gallery I went to the left where it seemed to have the bigger exhibits.
When I walked down the stairs I was immediately drawn to a room or section that had a lot of color and lines where the pieces seemed to jump off the wall and come at you like they were 3D in a sense.
Step 2: The Gallery
Questions about the physical space:
1. What type of lighting is used? The lighting that was used in this space was on the dimmer side. The lights were on the paintings but they were not that bright. There were lights that were directly shining on the art work, while others were facing them but off to the sides top or bottom, to create a shadow
2. What colors are used on the walls? The colors of the pictures were so fun themselves that the walls were plain white. I feel like this was so you could see how vibrant each picture was and how each color worked off one another.
3. What materials are used in the interior artchitecture of the space? The room was completely empty, in the sense that there was just the pictures on the walls and nothing next to them or around them.
4. How is the movement of the viewer through the gallery space? There was a lot of movement in that room because of the pictures themselves. These pieces were all lines which looked like a lot of movement.
Step 3: The Artwork
When I walked down the stairs I was immediately drawn to a room or section that had a lot of color and lines where the pieces seemed to jump off the wall and come at you like they were 3D in a sense.
Step 2: The Gallery
Questions about the physical space:
1. What type of lighting is used? The lighting that was used in this space was on the dimmer side. The lights were on the paintings but they were not that bright. There were lights that were directly shining on the art work, while others were facing them but off to the sides top or bottom, to create a shadow
2. What colors are used on the walls? The colors of the pictures were so fun themselves that the walls were plain white. I feel like this was so you could see how vibrant each picture was and how each color worked off one another.
3. What materials are used in the interior artchitecture of the space? The room was completely empty, in the sense that there was just the pictures on the walls and nothing next to them or around them.
4. How is the movement of the viewer through the gallery space? There was a lot of movement in that room because of the pictures themselves. These pieces were all lines which looked like a lot of movement.
Step 3: The Artwork
1. How are the artworks organized? The room that I walked into only had three pieces that were on three separate walls. They seemed to be evenly spaced and well organized.
2. How are the artrworks similar? Each of the pieces have a distinct feature and that is the use of lines. The lines made each piece jump off the wall and seemed to move when you did
3. How are the artworks different? The things that separated them was their sizes as well as their colors.
4. How are the artworks framed? Two of the art works were framed with a gold frame while the middle piece had no frame at all.
5. How are the artworks identified and labeled? The works were not labeled next to the piece like a lot of others ones were, their titles materials, and artist were all labeled on a separate wall.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Module 11 Video Review
I choose these two videos honestly because of their titles. To me they both seemed the most interesting, and I knew little to nothing about either of them.
Expressionism
-Munch's uncompromising portrayal of emotion caused deep offense to the bourgeois mentality but won him acclaim. He often translated his work into other media like lithography.
-Animals are the hallmark of 20th century painter Franz Mar. He painted "The Tiger" in 1912
-Between 1913 and 1915 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted a series of works featuring "tarts" on the streets of a busy city. They appear to be hurried and seem to turn the viewer into a voyeur
-Like a lot of contemporary German painting the technique is often brutally rough
-Influenced by the works of Cézanne, African tribal art, and the art of the Iberian peninsula, Cubism—the most influential style of the early 20th century
-Gris reveals his independence using spiritual elements and the imagination
-Boccioni is inspired by the cinema screen to paint a fractured vision of modern city life synthesized in many moods
-Delaunay explores the inner laws of light and color in an abstract approach. In "circular forms" he uses color as the subject of the painting to guide the spectator's perception of the picture as a whole
The videos go more in depth about the people that were actually related to those times and forms of work. The films can be very dry, but depending on the video some can pull you back in with an interesting fact or piece of information that wasn't known.
Expressionism
-Munch's uncompromising portrayal of emotion caused deep offense to the bourgeois mentality but won him acclaim. He often translated his work into other media like lithography.
-Animals are the hallmark of 20th century painter Franz Mar. He painted "The Tiger" in 1912
-Between 1913 and 1915 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted a series of works featuring "tarts" on the streets of a busy city. They appear to be hurried and seem to turn the viewer into a voyeur
-Like a lot of contemporary German painting the technique is often brutally rough
The Impact of Cubism
-Influenced by the works of Cézanne, African tribal art, and the art of the Iberian peninsula, Cubism—the most influential style of the early 20th century
-Gris reveals his independence using spiritual elements and the imagination
-Boccioni is inspired by the cinema screen to paint a fractured vision of modern city life synthesized in many moods
-Delaunay explores the inner laws of light and color in an abstract approach. In "circular forms" he uses color as the subject of the painting to guide the spectator's perception of the picture as a whole
The videos go more in depth about the people that were actually related to those times and forms of work. The films can be very dry, but depending on the video some can pull you back in with an interesting fact or piece of information that wasn't known.
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