Art Curator Project

1.) I looked at Antony Cancemi's landscape project and Joshua Vail's Lowbrow exhibit.

2.) I chose to review Antony's project because we both used the theme Landscapes and I wanted to compare our styles.

3.) I didn't have any problems except picking which project to review because there were so many good one's to choose from.

4.) I don't mind critiquing my peers but i think its better if you don't really know them because it allows you to be more honest without worrying what they will say about your review.

5.) I think it's nice to see what others think about your work because whether they have good or bad things to say it's a learning process.

6.) I would rate my paper as being a 7 because I think i could have done more but seeing that it's the end of the semester I am very overwhelmed.

7.) Yes I had a lot of fun creating this project.

Week 16 Video Review

The key concepts in the video Greenberg on Art Criticism: An Interview with T.J Clark: There were only a few things that i found interesting in this video one was the Greenberg said that it's harder to write about visual arts than anything else. Also when he was talking about critics Ruskin and Sylvester and he said that they knew the nature of the value judgement.

The key concepts in the video Pollock : An Interview by T.J Clark are:

• 1947 Jackson Pollock created his first splatter drip painting.
• He won the Guggenheim award.
• He never cared for easel painting and yet he created his own paintings by using an easel.
• Jackson said that his paintings were transitional works from easel to mural.
• Pollock says his paintings are far from containment and orderliness but yet Greenburg argues that their is a lot of order in his work.
• Jackson was tied to Dionysian painting he felt isolated in the art world and remained a solitary figure.

The key concepts in the video An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance are:

• The Renaissance was a time of renewed enthusiasm in art and same people credit Giorgio Vasari.
• Rome created art based on natural beauty while Byzantines puts focus on religion.
• Giotto used a realistic style shown in architecture and landscapes.
• Ghiberti was an apprentice of Giotto and he created Biblical scenes in a realistic human form.
• Piero created a new way to view human and animal figures while Masaccio creates figures based of physical and phychological depth.
• Francesca created "The Madonna and Child"
• Botticelli created the "Adoration of the Magi" and "The Birth of Venus"
• Leonardo da Vinci created "The Last Supper" and the figures are created naturally in their surroundings.
• Raffaello creates "The Transfiguration" with control and balance.

The key concepts in the video The critics: Stories from the Inside Pages are:  Letting people know just how important critics are and why they do what they do. A book critic said he sees his job as helping readers make good choices when it comes to picking books. The same goes for movies critics they are helping the views stretch their money and pick good movies. Criticism can change media while it not only keeps artist on their toes it also can help an artist gain attention from. Emotional impact plays an important role in if someone is for or against the art or artist. Good critics write with a specific target audience in mind and create pieces that are well written and constructed.

In the video The Colonial Encounter : View of Non Western Art and Culture are:

• Dahome art is created with visual beauty but it;s usually not thought of as art.
• In 1900 the Paris fair ran for eight months and part of it was French Imperialism and the rest was other colonies showing their artistic styles.
• Colonialism was justified by showing African people as savage beasts.
• The transformation into tourism occurred at the end of the 19th century.
• Europeans justify nude photos of women as scientific and artistic studies
• The colonial exhibits at the fair display racial differences.
• Palestinian costumes are shown in a contemporary way and the political context is important. This helps expose cultural erosion and resilient transformation in light of the Palestinian and Israeli conflict.

In the video Jackson Pollock: Michael Fried and T.J Clark in Conversation are:

• Both Fried and Clark agree that Pollock is a modern master and yet his work raises many questions. while they also think Pollock has been used as a negative reference as well
• Clark focus on Pollocks historical role in modern art while Fried focus's on his independence of aesthetics's.
• Fried wrote an article on Pollock talking about how he thought his work was optical and not tactile. he has changed his ideas because they were not very constructive.
• Clark talks about Pollocks "Lavender Mist" and his idea of quality is the ability of a painting to show conditions of human beings at a certain moment.
• Pollocks "Autumn Rhythm" is something neither one can agree on Clark says he shifted towards complete abstraction that shows desire to communicate subject matter. While Fried says he is focused on pictorial elements.

These video's were all right I didn't really care for the interview ones with Greenberg but besides that they were very helpful for me. They remined me to just keep my focus on being open minded and to not judge base on my personal feelings.

AED Reflections

Looking back and reading my first blog and discussion group I can say yes all of my expectations have been met and then some!!! I love Blogs now (who would have thought) at first like I said I was unsure about it because there just more stuff i have to check. I'm a blog for my final in a different class and that one is all about setting up a blog and a podcast. I know that if it was not for this It would be a lot harder for me to do that project but because I already knew about it and was comfortable with it It's a breeze.
I never knew that much about art until taking this class in the beginning I thought art history whats there to know...Well there is a lot to know and learn about because it has shaped art into what it is today. Art to me now is much like it was at the start of this class- Its a form of expression of one's thoughts, feelings, or actions through many different types of media. I never knew that all the media types were considered art such as digital art and architecture.
I do know have a favorite artist and it's Salvador Dali I really fell in love with his work during the project 4. I had a lot of fun doing this class and yes at time the work was overwhelming but I learned a lot and sometimes that's hard to say when taking an online class. I still love Angel classes because with my family it's much easier to do the work at my own pace and it allows me to be home with my two younger children who are not in school yet.

Questions about AED

1)The assignment i enjoyed the most was the creative art projects i liked being creative so every time one came up I was excited.

2)The assignments that i didn't enjoy were the video blogs I liked that that helped back up the information in each chapter but after a few weeks they were a pain because it was always the same as before.

3)I don't mind Angel because i have taken many online classes before this one. I do love that I only have to go to one site to obtain information about my classes.

4)I would keep almost everything in this course I found most of it to be fun and informative. I liked the chapter questions and discussions, I liked the projects, and creating a blog was a lot of fun. The only thing i would change would be the video blogs like i said in question two. They helped with learning the materials but after a while I didn't like doing them because, they were so long and to have four to watch its a lot on top of the other assignments for the week. I would not add anything because I know that for so weeks I was over whelmed because there was so much to do.

5)Yes I would recommend this course to a friend because its a lot of fun!

Project 4

I had a lot of fun creating this project. At first i didn't think it was going to be so difficult be as I got into it I was wrong. I changed my outline of artists and paintings many times which took me forever. I knew that if I didn't do it the way I wanted I would not be happy with the out come. I really got into the artists that I picked because I didn't want to add just any picture. I took my time going through and picking just the right landscapes that I loved. My favorite out of all of them is Salvador Dali I think I could have done this entire project just on him. It really takes a lot of work to put somthing like this together and I have a new appreciation for art curators.

Video Review

The key concepts of the video Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach are:

·         MOMA art started around 1929

·         Henry Tate’s International museum opened and within the first 47 days it had 1 million visitors and within one year 4 million people and visited.

·         Art was displayed in four sections Landscape and that also included matter and environment, Still-life and that included object and real life, History included memory and society, and last was nude which included action and body.

·         There is controversy one Long’s and Monet’s art work because they are very different and yet they are placed together in the same room.

·         Sometime when visitors go to the Tate museum they are hit with an abrupt transition between rooms.

·         Some critics say that art should be more than a form of entertainment and that visitors who go to the Tate are required to have no prior knowledge of art due to its presentation of art.

·         Joseph Beuys room creates a church like atmosphere and some people have a hard time understanding it especially since the next room is so completely different.

I like this video because it was full of information which focused on one museum and its art work. This one also helped me with learning about art curators.

In the video George Eastman House: Picture Perfect the key concepts are:

·         He was born in 1854 and he was the father of photography.

·         Eastman and his company have made many achievements in art, science, and the phenomenon of photography.

·         He is the founder of Eastman Kodak and the inventor of motion picture films.

·         1949 his house was opened to public and they could go there to study the history and medium of photography.

·         Treasure Trove contains about 400,000 photos, 25,000 films and many different machines for film making.

·         There are about 14,000 amateur and professional photographs.

·         The collections have many types of photos from famous to obscure and documentary to fine art.

·         In 1882 the first photo of lighting cause captured by William Jennings and he did this because he wanted to show people what lighting actually looked like.

·         The Eastman house holds the largest Daguerreotype collection outside of France.

·         Daguer was the first commercial camera created to be sold to the public.

·         The first camera sold in 1846 to Samuel Beamish for $76.

·         2 million went into the restorations of the Eastman home and it was redone just the way it was when he was alive due to the get photo’s Eastman took of his home.

·         140,000 images of Eastman’s collection are viewable online.

·         He killed himself on March 14, 1932.

I found this video very informative about the entire process of the development of photos and the camera and I never knew that this place existed and that it’s so close to Buffalo.

In the video The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art the key concepts are:

·         The dictionary meaning for Lowbrow art is a person regarded as uncultivated and lacking in taste.

·         Robert William says he invented the term but he doesn’t like the definition.

·         Some people like the term while others like the term lowbrow surrealism.

·         This art type appeals to many different cultures, pop, car, folk, and comic. These different cultures also helped influence this style of genre.

·         Rock posters fit into this genre of art and they were shown in museums all over Europe but not in the U.S.

·         Underground comics began in the late 60’s and Robert Crumb was the one who really set it off.

·         Lowbrow art was not easily accepted so the artist’s would create their own scene.

·         Female artists increased in Lowbrow because it was more open to women than any other movement.

·         The Internet really helped lowbrow artists get their art out there.

·         Lowbrow art exploded with punk rock because artist could use album covers to get their work out to the people.

·         Pop Tarts are a group of women lowbrow artists who held shows in California

·         Lowbrow art has been highly recognized over the past 10 years.

I enjoyed this video because I had no idea what this type of art was called until I watched this video. I learned a lot about Lowbrow art and what types of art work would fall into this category.

In the video Bones of Contention: Native American Archaeology the key concepts are:

·         Back rooms of museums and universities are full of the remains of Native Americans who many of them have been victim of Genocide.

·         Native Americans want their remains back and researchers fear that history will be forgotten or lost forever.

·         Hidden graveyards reveal Anglo remains that are buried and they were taken for science to be studied.

·         Maria Person fought for the return of the bones and a law passed in Iowa 1976 the protection of Native American’s and soon other states followed except California.

·          David Van Horn was charged with criminal possession of Native American remains.

·         California laws against the possession of Native American remains hurt archaeologists and museums everywhere.

·         Burial mounds were considered too civilized to be created by Native Americans but research shows that it was in fact the Native Americans who created them.

·         Brains were studied to relation of intelligence and studies showed that whites were larger Native Americans were middle size and African Americans were the smallest. This was obvious racism against other cultures.

·         Susan Harjo fought to have Native American remains to be returned.

·         18,000 Native American bones were stored in the Smithsonian’s inventory.

·         Lifestyles and manufacturing led to the death and decreased birth rate of Omaha women.

·         New York opens a museum N.M.N.A and that holds the largest exhibits of Native American artifacts.

·         Native Americans were allowed to design and set up the exhibits within the museum. It’s a show case of their culture past and present.

This video was a little sad because I never knew that all of this was going on and there was such a fight for the return of remains. I learned a lot from this video.

Video Review

For this week’s video reviews I just randomly picked four for our list and just like last week I decided to use bullet points instead of writing in paragraph form because it’s a nice change. All of this week’s video’s that I watched relate to our readings this week because they help reinforce art styles, mediums, and movements that artists used in their art work as a reflection of them and their feelings towards certain things.

In the video Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the 50’s and 60’s the key concepts were:

·         During the 50’s and 60’s abstract expression was born from combining the attitudes in America and European art, but it was soon rejected because it had nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric characteristics.

·         Franz Kline’s painting was used to compare figurative and abstract art.

·         Kline’s starts off with creating his paintings based off of mood and expression but eventually moves towards using color t create imagination with sensual impact.

·         His paintings can be viewed as impact painting because shapes are used to create emotion this is meant to allow the viewer to constantly be discovering new things. The outcome of this process is what leads to a world of color and form.

·         Another artist by the name of Frankenthaler is known for creating art based off of feminine and mystical influences. She has impacted a new generation of artists.

·         Willem de koonig’s work “Women One” was also a clear example of what an action painting should represent.

·         His work “Morning: The spring” shows movement with examples such as the plant forms, light, and falling water.

·         Andy Warhol was pop arts most famous during the 1960’s

·         Pop art was never a well defined movement but it was the first movement since Futurism in the 20^th century.

·         Warhol and Rauschenberg were icons of the 60’s and helped create a pathway for future pop artists because of the use of everyday objects.

In the video Hockney on Photography the key concepts were:

·         During the 19^th century the camera was not created it was only the chemical process and painters would use this to create an image to paint from.

·         David Hockney played around with photography during the 1980’s for five years and he shows examples of this through picture collages.

·         His first collage was created with a grid-like form but them he later moves towards free form.

·         Hockney’s photo’s show the same multi-perspective philosophy as Cubism.

·         Cubist pictures were the first set of photo’s that confused viewers because they were “only perceptions of reality and that are pictures, not reality”.

·         Hockney painted a chair for Van Gogh’s foundation.

·         Equality is present in every one of his photos because he says “Everything is related to everything else.

·         When he moved from Polaroid’s to 35-mm he had to know keep compositions in his head because he was not able to view each photo individually before taking the next one.

·         In the 80’s he created a painting of the Grand Canyon and to appreciate the painting the viewers had to look at it just as they would the real thing.

·         He then created another painting of the Grand Canyon which showed his mastery skills with color

·         Hockney created a series of collages of things close up the perspective one would see if they were doing it themselves.

·         With collages there is really no limit to what a person can create or use.

·         Hockney has a love hate relationship about his photography life.

·         He has done work for Vanity Fair and Vogue magazine.

In the video Andy Warhol: Images of an Image the key concepts were:

·         Andy Warhol was a commercial artist in the 60’s until he started experimenting with advertising images until he died in 1987.

·         He was very interested in Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor.

·         In 1962 when Marilyn Monroe died Warhol took an image of her cropped it and printed a series of this image colored it, discolored it, etc. This is what made him famous.

·         He created a huge image of Elizabeth Taylor using one image and repeating it over and over again. It was called “Blue Liz”.

·         The “Ten Lizes” was created in 1963 and Warhol used a 5.65 meter canvas each face was 1 meter wide and he placed ten images of the same picture on it, because this is such a huge canvas the viewer is forced to move around while looking at it.

·         Silk- Screening is when you take a photo and blown up onto silk screens they use transfer paper, canvas, ink, and paint.

·         He created a silk screen of Elizabeth Taylor in 1963.

·         Warhol used repeat images as a way to make money.

·         Warhol used his art journalism to talk about things such as riots, the cultural revolution of China, the conquest of the moon and many more.

In the video Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces the key concepts were:

·         Isamu Noguchi uses his childhood memories and feelings when he creates his sculpture gardens.

·         When he was young and lived in Paris and the US he lived in poverty.

·         He redesigned Bayfront Park in Miami and his sculptures help show just how versatile his art work is.

·         Noguchi uses the medium such as water to create a new approach to his sculptures. Through his “Expo ’70” and others you can see how he uses that space around his sculptures.

·         The “Black Water Mantra” is an example of how he can create something useful to people.

·         “Water Stone” is an example that shows us that nothing is perfect and yet nature is always perfect even with its imperfections.

·         In his Japanese residence the gardens surrounding it are made of metal, stone, grass, and earth which he calls “Celebration of life”.

·         In 1988 he creates his final work which is created within a 40 acre park in Japan and he uses three dimensional models.

·         This park is described as going into another realm because of the way he created it and it will forever be a monument to him and his visions.