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Takashi Murakami (not Kanye West)

We talked briefly on Takashi Murakami this semester, so I decided to look him up for my last sculptor. However, I like most for his cover art for Kanye West and some of his designer stuff. I wan to make it clear that I don't like Kanye West. He's kind of a Douche. Yes, I am a hater of Kanye. Anyways, I like Takashi Murakami's work on the cover of graduation and the single stronger. Its pretty cool. I like his use of color. They are very vibrant and loud. His has a distinct style that looks like it is mostly influenced from culture. I also included a museum looking exhibit that he put together that is influencing for our museum project. They are little toy sculpture. He also uses a lot of vibrant and loud colors on the toys.

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois' work is also very amazing. My favorite from her is probably her most famous one but I think its pretty amazing. Its the huge spider resembling sculpture. It is very creepy and cool at the same time. Plus, it looks amazing in front of Gehry's Guggenheim. She, like most amazing sculptors has a great attention to detail. I did not find a lot of other work that I could appreciate as much as the spider, so I chose just to put a pic of her and two pics of the spider at different locations. Not gonna lie, the picture of her is a little weird. But whatever. I bet she's got a great since of humor. This might not be what she was going for but, I see the huge dick sculpture that she's holding and the pubic hair looking coat to maybe connect that way...

Rodin

So, Rodin is pretty amazing. Probably one of the oldest sculptors I have thrown up on this amazing blogesphere. He has incredible attention to detail for his time. However, I don't know a lot about him and am not at a period in my life where I want to study about a lot of sculptures. So my favorite piece by him is the Thinker. This is mainly because of the Will Ferrell sketch on Saturday Night Live. Will Ferrell is a nude model/homeless person who has two positions: The Thinker and The Stinker! Sorry to say but that's why. Also he probably worked very hard and I can definitely appreciate his work because of that. Here are three that stuck out to me:

Powerhouse Exhibit (Possibly some Extra Credit)

So, I was in class one day and heard Laurie say that she would offer some extra credit to people who attended a powerhouse art event. Naturally I thought, hey I may need some Extra Credit so I'll go. I'll be there, I won't be squared. So, not wanting to go alone, my friend Hyun Kim and I went. It started at 6pm so we decided to be fashionably late 6:30pm. Then we walked in, only to find a bunch of "older people" standing around, conversing and drinking wine. I looked at Hyun and I don't know what he was thinking but it could have been along the lines of what the hell are we doing at an older people's swinger party... Alright maybe that was me. So, we hung around for a bit, and did not find any art. granted we were on the 1st floor, we didn't see anything but a bunch of older people. We hung around for another 3 or 4 minutes and then decided that we were not going to be the fresh meat of the party. Just joking. But seriously....

Japanese Graphic Design (Extra Credit)

This Extra Credit was assigned long ago.... However, I'm gonna talk a little about it anyways. I was a graphic design event at the VAC. Which was pretty cool because I got to drink some New Castle and check some art out. I'll be honest, I did not get what I expected out of it. I went in expecting some pictures that were altered and maybe some ridiculously altered videos like the stuff in the move the Grudge. I dunno why, but that is what I expected. When I got there, there was only one person's work that somwhat resembled that. There was a girl on the right who had pictures of herself blown up enormously that were altered with color. I thought they were great examples of rendering in photoshop. The coolest project that I saw was an interactive video with bouncy balls made by one of the girls there. It was pretty cool. Her video drew everyone in to participate and through bouncy balls at the wall of the room while a video showed her and a few other people throwing bouncy balls to. It was my favorite part of the night. Those were the 2 projects though that stuck out in my mind.

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy was one of my favorite sculptors that we studied this semester. He is definitely one of the most unique ones out there as well. When we first started watching his video in class, I started to get a little bored but, then I saw his ice sculpture. It was totally amazing. Then I started to get more interested in the rest of his work. All the time and patients that goes into his work is just incredible. The thing he was doing with the sticks, I would never dream about trying. Kinda funny how he would still get a little pissed off when something fell or something like that. It just shows how dedicated he is to his work. He is inspiring to me because of his craftsmanship. Also his will to never give up and to be patient. Here are some ice sculptures and a picture of him:

Molotov Man Response

On the Rights of Molotov Man

This article is written about copyright laws. This article is also about context. Joy Garnett chose random photographs off the internet that captured “images of figures in extreme emotional or physical states.” She began her quest to replicate “riots” by creating a six-foot tall painting of a man throwing a flaming Molotov bottle. She later found out that her painting was a derivative of Susan Meiselas’ photograph of a Nicaraguan rebel. Due to copyright infringement, Joy was requested to pay fees and give credit to Susan any time she were to display or replicate the painting.

Due to the letter Joy had received, she requested help from bloggers on a website discussing copyright issues. The Molotov man was then taken by on-line users and altered slightly in many different ways creating a mockery of the copyright law; mirror images were made, sections were made, and even t-shirts were made. This occurrence was soon known as the “Joywar.” At the end of Joy’s section she gives a quote from a blogger, nmazca “Who owns the rights to this man’s struggle?” When you think about what happened according to Joy, the quote fits perfectly. Who owns the rights to the Molotov man’s struggle? Who owns any emotion? Is every emotion copyrightable?

Susan mostly describes the man in the photograph and the history surrounding what he was doing. She also describes how monumental this photograph became as a symbol to the people of Nicaragua. The Molotov man was used for a large amount of political propaganda, t-shirts and for religious affiliations. Susan also tells us who the actual Molotov man was, Pablo Arauz. She said that she was not using the copyright laws to own the emotion, but to preserve the context of the photo within history. She wanted to reserve the history surrounding it. Molotov man was not an “emblem of an abstract riot,” he was a symbol to an entire people and history.

Willow Socia (Extra Credit)

Everything that was ever Lost

This was another Art Gallery at the Good Damn Projects Exhibit in the Locker in the PAAW Building. I think that the exhibit works really well. At first I almost thought that it was too simple. It could have been how I was feeling that day. While going through the pictures today though, I think its pretty "Damn Good." Obviously that is why its in the locker. lol. Alright I probably could've left that out. Oh well, its already written. Anyways, The exhibit is pretty much a 2 layer graveyard inside of the locker. I guess, When I walked past it, my attention was not immediately grabbed. I had known about the locker this whole semester and it didn't quite pull me in the way the other 2 did. I think that along with the artists statement, its simplicity works very well. There is a lot of hard work on the craftsmanship and I can appreciate that.

Lists for Book Project

I have taken pictures of the End result. They are posted in the March tab on the right under Dead and Broken/Scars and How I got them.

Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis' art is pretty interesting. She is very comfortable with herself and expressing herself too. I like how she can make her sculptures into such creative shapes. I thought her piece; "Smile" was pretty funny. There are just so many ways of interpreting her art. I don't know exactly what her reasoning is for some of her wax sculptures are but, I think of some different ideas when I look at them. She definitely shows how hard she works on her projects. The chicken wire seems very difficult to use and was somewhat inspiring while I was working on my project "Life." Here are some pictures:

Vik Muniz

Wow! I was very surprised when I visited Vik's website. His work is pretty amazing. I've never seen anything like what he has done. You can really appreciate all the hard work and time he puts into his art. The work I was most impressed with was his work using garbage and "junk." Its just very crazy to see something so gross become so beautiful. I saved his site on my browser and will probably keep watch for new stuff that he does. Here are three of my favorite pieces that I saw on his web page:

I HATE JEFF KOONS

All right, I've grabbed your attention not much different from how Jeff grabs everyone else's attention. But hey, he is good at doing that. Otherwise, everyone else who works for him does his job. I don't really have a lot to say about him because I wasn't lying in my title. Here's some images, all oddly enough from the same collection: Made in Heaven

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono seems to be really influenced by Peace. I'm not extremely interested in her art to be quite honest but, there is definitely an interest in who she is and her life with John Lennon. While looking through what art I could find from her, I found myself mostly reading about their life together. Here's some of here work and a picture of her and Lennon in 1969:

Marcel Duchamp

I have no idea why this is blue????? Duchamp is another conceptual artists that, if I remember correctly had a strong influence on DADA art. For some reason I remember the Dada artists stating that their art was more of a protest on a war at that certain time period. I think they said something along the lines of: If this war is going to be weird and odd, our art will be weird and odd. That's in my own words and I could be mixing it up with something else. Just had to get it off my chest! Here's some of mister Duchamp's work:






She has a fire down below... someone told me thats what it meant...

Tom Friedman

Tom Friedman was one of the conceptual artists we studied earlier in the semester. Again, I'm not terribly into conceptual art but, he is one of my more favored conceptual artists. I can somehow relate to his art in the fact that we both put a lot of time into it and sometimes it is not very understood. He mostly uses very inexpensive household items and turns them into artwork. In a way, he inspires me to use those same items to build models for architecture projects. Here's 3 pics from Friedman: