Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Art Controversy
Tattoos are hugely popular and equally controversial form of art in the modern world. On one side of spectrum people who are pro tattoos say they are for self expression and art. However, other people say that they ruin the body and are trashy.
The Yellow Christ
The Yellow Christ
Recording History: Frederic Remington
Through many paintings and sculptures, artist Frederic Remington recorded the events of what is known as the Old West. He portrayed the differences and rituals between The Native Americans and cowboys, or Native American hunting parties,cowboys surrounding a fire, etc. It documents the condition of the west, the tension between two cultures butting heads, and offers a look into both side of the conflict. Most of the time they were highly detailed and dramatic.
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Jacob Lawrence
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Assemblage Art
Assemblage Art
Group Six
What is it???
Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects.
Why Was It Created???
As one familiar with the word "assembly" might assume, assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a piece. These objects can be anything organic or man-made. Scraps of wood, stones, old shoes, baked bean cans and a discarded baby buggy - or any of the other 84,000,000 items not here mentioned by name - all qualify for inclusion in an assemblage. Whatever catches the artist's eye, and fits properly in the composition to make a unified whole, is fair game.
Time Period
The origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes. However, both Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso had been working with found objects for many years prior to Dubuffet. They were not alone, alongside Duchamp the earliest woman artist to try her hand at assemblage was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Dada Baroness, and one of the most prolific, as well as producing some of the most exciting early examples, was Louise Nevelson, who began creating her sculptures from found pieces of wood in the late 1930s.
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
Joseph Cornell was an American artist whose assemblage work primarily took the form of box
sculptures - found objects arranged in glass fronted wooden cabinets.
Cornell used broken fragments of more delicate items, producing a nostalgic atmosphere. The
seemingly irrational juxtaposition of these objects drew on surrealist ideas and techniques
Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - present)
Rauschenberg is an American artist born in 1925. Although historically associated with the Pop Art
movement, his work has progressed and developed from before that time right up to today. He has
worked in a number of different media but the assemblages he produced from the 50s to the 80s -
which he called "combines" - are of most interest to myself. Rauschenberg used discarded objects such as car tires and license plates, stuffed animals, doors,
bed quilts, electric light fixtures and other urban debris, and combined them with painted surfaces.
Louise Nevelson (1900-1988)
By the 1950s, she had begun making assemblages, a form of work Nevelson is well known for:
shallow box-like units filled with industrial waste wood. By spraying these units a uniform color --
black, gold or silver -- she disguises the soft texture of wood to achieve a solid assemblage. Louise
Nevelson showed at the Venice Biennale in 1962. She has since been widely viewed as one of the
most important American artists of this century.
Exhibition
In 1961, the exhibition "The Art of Assemblage" was featured at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition showcased the work of early twentieth century European artists such as Braque, Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, and Kurt Schwitters alongside Americans Man Ray, Joseph Cornell and Robert Rauschenberg, and also included less well known American West Coast assemblage artists such as Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Edward Kienholz. William C Seitz, the curator of the exhibition, described assemblages as being made up of preformed natural or manufactured materials, objects, or fragments not intended as art materials
Legacy
Assemblage art may be described as bridging the gap between collage and the Pop-Art sculpture of Jasper Johns. Its use of non-art materials anticipated the use of “popular” mass produced objects and cultural imagery of Pop-Art, and was an important influence on Arte Povera and contemporary Installation art.
Works Cited
http://fragileindustries.com/what_is_assemblage_art.html
http://arthistory.about.com/od/glossary/g/a_assemblage.htm
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/assemblage-art.htm
Group Six
What is it???
Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three-dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects.
Why Was It Created???
As one familiar with the word "assembly" might assume, assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a piece. These objects can be anything organic or man-made. Scraps of wood, stones, old shoes, baked bean cans and a discarded baby buggy - or any of the other 84,000,000 items not here mentioned by name - all qualify for inclusion in an assemblage. Whatever catches the artist's eye, and fits properly in the composition to make a unified whole, is fair game.
Time Period
The origin of the word (in its artistic sense) can be traced back to the early 1950s, when Jean Dubuffet created a series of collages of butterfly wings, which he titled assemblages d'empreintes. However, both Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso had been working with found objects for many years prior to Dubuffet. They were not alone, alongside Duchamp the earliest woman artist to try her hand at assemblage was Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Dada Baroness, and one of the most prolific, as well as producing some of the most exciting early examples, was Louise Nevelson, who began creating her sculptures from found pieces of wood in the late 1930s.
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
Joseph Cornell was an American artist whose assemblage work primarily took the form of box
sculptures - found objects arranged in glass fronted wooden cabinets.
Cornell used broken fragments of more delicate items, producing a nostalgic atmosphere. The
seemingly irrational juxtaposition of these objects drew on surrealist ideas and techniques
Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - present)
Rauschenberg is an American artist born in 1925. Although historically associated with the Pop Art
movement, his work has progressed and developed from before that time right up to today. He has
worked in a number of different media but the assemblages he produced from the 50s to the 80s -
which he called "combines" - are of most interest to myself. Rauschenberg used discarded objects such as car tires and license plates, stuffed animals, doors,
bed quilts, electric light fixtures and other urban debris, and combined them with painted surfaces.
Louise Nevelson (1900-1988)
By the 1950s, she had begun making assemblages, a form of work Nevelson is well known for:
shallow box-like units filled with industrial waste wood. By spraying these units a uniform color --
black, gold or silver -- she disguises the soft texture of wood to achieve a solid assemblage. Louise
Nevelson showed at the Venice Biennale in 1962. She has since been widely viewed as one of the
most important American artists of this century.
Exhibition
In 1961, the exhibition "The Art of Assemblage" was featured at the New York Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition showcased the work of early twentieth century European artists such as Braque, Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Picasso, and Kurt Schwitters alongside Americans Man Ray, Joseph Cornell and Robert Rauschenberg, and also included less well known American West Coast assemblage artists such as Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Edward Kienholz. William C Seitz, the curator of the exhibition, described assemblages as being made up of preformed natural or manufactured materials, objects, or fragments not intended as art materials
Legacy
Assemblage art may be described as bridging the gap between collage and the Pop-Art sculpture of Jasper Johns. Its use of non-art materials anticipated the use of “popular” mass produced objects and cultural imagery of Pop-Art, and was an important influence on Arte Povera and contemporary Installation art.
Works Cited
http://fragileindustries.com/what_is_assemblage_art.html
http://arthistory.about.com/od/glossary/g/a_assemblage.htm
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/assemblage-art.htm
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
New Custom
Okay everybody so I just found a hot new feature to add to our "blognowledge" about blogs and to help richen up the negative space in it as well. I hope everybody likes this addition to our banner and can figure out this on each our own. Hope everybody has a bubbly, bright, blogtastic day
I must begin on the fact that my diorama project took me only 30 minutes! I made a replica of a Badger Creek, CO to represent the danger our society faces with cutting down trees...I had to use shredded lettuce for the vegetation, chocolate cocoa for the dirt trail, granola cereal for the rocks on the sides, and green tissue paper for the mountains and the environment background of the shoe box ;)
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
RaeAnna's Diorama
I created a diorama on a heavy subject. AIDS. HIV/AIDS is prevalent in Africa, especially South Africa. A lot of people are miseducated on the topic. AIDS is not only transferred by homosexual intercourse, but mostly through unprotected heterosexual intercourse. It can also be transmitted, and is very often, during birth from an infected mother to her unsuspecting child. In just one year an estimated 2,500 adults die of AIDS related illness... just in South Africa.
Lakesha's Diorama
My diorama is about the issues surrounding the health care plan. People are split on the issue. Some are for it and others are not. I think its important to have good health regardless. The House Energy and Commerce committee has already approved a bill for health care reform and the House is expected to take up the debate after Labor Day. Anti-health care reform protesters are trying to use violence as a way to stop it.
Wilson's Diorama
It was hard for me to pick a certain topic that I feel strongly about, (I was going to pick the economy but that didn't pan out) so I sort've improvised--I've packed my diorama with hints of different things I feel strongly about. Censorship is a HUGE no-no to me. I also am constantly thinking about the uncertainty of the future. I also hate it when something is taken and contorted to portray another message. I've taken these concepts (and my lack of artistic skill) and made this diorama. It portrays New York City...burning. It is a testament to how we as Americans take life for granted and keep polluting our world with our expansionistic ideals, and ethnocentric views. (not merely physically polluting our atmosphere, which is bad as well!!) Everything can be taken away quite swiftly and in any number of horrible ways. In the diorama, I placed a few buildings that appear to be scorched, and are surrounded by flames and the remains of a forest. The fire is, in a way, a metaphor for censorship--The entire city is burning...but look at how pretty those flames are! Taking something, contorting it, and twisting it to show something that contrasts with its true meaning, and censoring all who are being affected by it. The trees are almost additional. I wanted to show something that looked natural, that was a part of the world, torn down by us who use it to further taint and spread. They also happen to be the one true 3-D aspect of my diorama. Here's a picture of it (Sorry I only have a low-fi camera-phone)
-Wilson
-Wilson
Monday, August 31, 2009
Music Made Fun!
I just recently found this little invention on another blog. It combines a looping device with a shiny interface that makes it an addictive music-making...game! You should try it!
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
--Wilson
http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix
--Wilson
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Oklahomaaa
I just got back from Oklahoma, visiting extended family. It. Was. Awesome. Sooooo hot, like 105 everyday, but still really cool.
I climbed Mount Scott.
I went to the Indian Festival and opening parade.
I visited the Oklahoma City bombing site.
I drove past miles and miles of wide open prairie.
And I hiked all over the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge.
*RAEANNA
I climbed Mount Scott.
I went to the Indian Festival and opening parade.
I visited the Oklahoma City bombing site.
I drove past miles and miles of wide open prairie.
And I hiked all over the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge.
*RAEANNA
Flying Car!!!
Flying Car!!! This is so cool...I didn't think they were out there...who knows what is yet to be discovered in our future! Just check this thing out ;) It is still in product shows and not being released for the market for awhile...enjoy!
G-rant
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