For the blog I decided to blog about the mapping of origins in the shapes of time galleries. At first glance you see yourself in the strange shaped mirror, but then you start to see the outline of the walkers shapes of time exhibit. There are flags in the galleries that represent the artist’s country of origin. As you look at it I believe that the mirror is meant to show your refection into your origins. I think that this project was somewhat successful; at the same time it could have been clearer. While the flags seem to placed in the location of the artwork they are not with seems to be somewhat confusing when looking at it. It seems that the largest amount of the artwork is from American artists, which is where I’m from so I can relate to it.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Big Self-Portrait
This is the second time I chose Close, because I think its is amazing that he can get such great detail and clarity from a painting. In the late 60’s Close was part of the super realists and they made photo real paintings. This is his first piece that was shown in the walker, and now part of their permanent collection. Although Close has done amazing super realistic paintings he has also shifted to the other end of the spectrum and has done abstract portraits. I think that this painting is men to show Close’s View of him self and everything around him, because his paintings and done step by step and square by square. I like this painting and his other paintings because of the difficulty and skill involved in making the complex paintings.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Kiki By Chuck Close
Kiki is a painting done by Chuck Close it is portrait of Kiki Smith; it was added to the walker’s collection in 1994 from the collections of Judy and Kenneth Dayton. Chuck close is know for his paintings and got his fame in the photo realist movement for a self-portrait done in 1967. I am actually a big fan of Chuck Close, even though my passion is photography it’s amazing to see that he can create a portrait of him self as good or even better then a camera could. And in many of his painting he is using a super realism to make it look like a photograph. Painting individual squares with abstract shapes and different colors makes up Kiki and a self-portrait of Close done in 2000. Close painted them this way because in 1988 he had a spinal blood clot, which left him a quadriplegic, unable to move either his legs or his arms. Because of this he dramatically changed his style of painting, from super realism to a more abstract type of work. Despite the disadvantage he might face I still think he is an amazing artist.
Viewing Kiki From different angles and distances the picture seems to move and change. This happens because of the way it’s painted. This painting allows the viewer to be involved as well, and it creates also most a game of sorts. You can stand up next to it and see a large abstract painting or go far back and see a large woman’s face. I think that the artists intention with this paint was to show a portrait in a new an exciting way. It creates a sense of chaos in what would be a normally mundane portrait. Yet the colors and shapes come to greater and form a greater whole. This painting different from other is the fact that by were you stand the whole design changes from abstract to realism.
My Experience with the kiki painting is that the closer and closer you get the more distorted the image get which might relate to a life experience that Chuck Close might have had with Kiki Smith. I think that the point of it was that if you look and see somebody from a distance versus close up, you cant see what they are made of or what they are all about as a person and individual.
http://artsconnected.org/resource/90830/13/kikihttp://www.artsconnected.org/artsnetmn/identity/close.html
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Mining the MIA
For my installation I would use " The Pine" by André Lhote, "Pastoral Landscape" by Claude Gellée, and The Bodhisattva Kuan-yin. I would use these art pieces to show how Buddhism works by taking a crazy situation and calming it down. Its having peace with ones self. I would like people to understand this as they enter the room where my instillation is. The room will be dark except for the three spotlights shining on the 2 paintings and the statue. "The Pine will be on the left, the bodhisattva in the middle and the "Pastoral Landscape" on the left. I would like this to show a picture with a verity of colors and shapes, which almost makes it chaotic painting. Then it comes to the bodhisattva which represents Buddhism and it can help you reach a state of nirvana which leads you into the "Pastoral Landscape" which is a very calm and stable picture which I believe represents happiness.