The Stickman Collection vol. 1

These drawings started out as doodles and I liked them, so here they are.

James Turrell

James Turrell is a known photographer who mainly known from how he captures light and space. He has done a lot of architectural photographs that capture light and space as well. He finds the right angles to show everything he wants to. Here are some pics:

Damian Hirst

Damian Hirst was also very interesting. I remembered him from lecture where he was enclosing an enormous tree in a greenhouse. Not gonna lie, it was pretty weird at first. However after looking through his other work, I am very interested in his work to come. He has an odd outlook on preserving death and I can appreciate it. Here are a few of his pieces.

Annette Messager

I'm not real big on installations but Annette Messager's work is pretty interesting. You can definitely see the hard work that goes into her art. I remember the slides of the birds that were set up in rows from class. But, I was not able to find a lot about her online but I google image searched her work and she has some pretty cool stuff. I chose three of my favorite pieces from her.

Paho mann

Paho mann was interesting to me. He is definitely a different type of artist than what I am used to. However, he has advice to offer pertaining to our latest project for class. Most of his art is exhibited in a museum style appearance of collected items. My favorite one that he had was the Re-inhabited Circle K's. It was kind of cool to see the stores that are there now.

The Anne Frank Memorial

1.) The memorial is located at 770 S. 8th St. There are rocks, water, concrete, statues, and engravings with text.

2.) I think the Anne Frank Memorial represents faith in Humanity, not only from Anne Frank but many other "famous" human rights activists.

3.) The visual elements that were most dominant for me were the writing that were engraved throughout the rockwalls above the stream. I read through it and remembered how much I like text in art. Its beautiful.

4.) I think that the memorial is site specific. I think it was designed to be in this certain space and stay there.

5.) Greg Stone was one of the creators. Kurt Karst, an architect from Idaho, was the designer. The memorial was funded by Albertson's Supervalu, Fundsy, Officemax, individual doners throughout Idaho, and also by Idaho school children.

6.) Statues, Rocks, Water, engraving on stone, Audio boxes, and concrete were all used to create this memorial.

7.) I love the way the text functions. To me it is needed to help emphasize the rest of the art. The text functions as a way to help people understand the why the art was made.

8.) I think that there is a strong communication of equality. The title is somewhat questionable because there are so many people that are referred to and some of the quotes are stronger than any of the Anne Frank quotes. However, I think that the majority of quotes are from Anne.

9.) I think that the memorial is very successful because of the way it pulls you in. There is beautiful art around, architecture and sculpture, audio boxes, great quotes and everyone is welcome to it.

OK GO

I like Ok Go's music but, I like their music videos even more. It seems like they put as much or more work into their music videos than their music. For the 1st video, I guess they hired engineers to help them make the rube Goldberg machine. All of their videos really keep my attention. Here are a few of their videos but, they have a lot more on youtube.

Pablo Picasso

Guernica

Igor Stravinsky

Guitarist

I know throwing Picasso up on your Blog is probably a little cliche, but he is one of my favorite artists. I love his art and also love his quotes. When we were watching the video on copyright infringement for art, I remembered a quote from Picasso that a friend told me. It was, "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal." I've always interpreted that to mean art done by taking ideas from others and putting your own twist on it to brand it yours is good. This is very true in almost all art. There's really nothing you can do that hasn't been done before.

Antoni Gaudi

Gaudi is one of the architects from the art nouveau movement. He has made some amazing pieces of architecture that will be recognized forever. Among them is Casa Mila, it is my favorite pieces by him. It looks so rough from a distance, but there are so many places that he made rough concrete smooth. It is a rock palace. It was finished in 1912 and is still around today. Someday, I will see it.

Casa Mila

Atrium of Casa Mila

Roof Top of Casa Mila

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier is an amazing architect. He did many great works but like most people, Villa Savoye is my favorite from him. I loved his idea of making an architectural promenade where you could move through and experience architecture. Also most of his building were up on columns or pilotis. He is truly inspiring to any artist or architect.

Villa Savoye

looking out towards the ramp

Corb

Gustave Courbet

Gustave's self portrait is one of my favorite pieces from a realist artist. His painting are all pretty amazing though. I feel that he spent a lot of time choosing what he wanted to paint rather than making a bunch of realistic paintings. But, he has made a lot of paintings. He is one of the innovators of realism and anyone can see why. Here's some pictures:

Self Portrait

The Wrestlers

The Stonebreakers