Mapping Project

The project that I critiqued Kate's, Red's, and Kayleigh's mapping project. They choose to take the artist from the Midway Contemporary Arts and then found were they currently live around the world. Then they would connect string to the artist and there homes. They also put on their map the medium the artist used in their pieces at the Midway Contemporary Arts. So along with the string that attached them to midway and their homes they had another string to the medium they used. Some of the artist shared the same medium and homes so a lot of the strings overlapped. so a lot of the artist had things in common somehow. Their main Map was an outline of the state of Minnesota. I like this idea. their map in the end looked crazy and it was cool to see how some of the artist were connected. i thought it was hard to follow at time but the main idea was great. good job guys. i mean girls!!!

the Walker

We are supposed to talk about a piece that were either liked or had a hard time understanding. i found one under each of those descriptions. first the one i liked was by Michelangelo Pistoletto the piece is called "Tre Ragazze Alla Balconata (Three Girls On A Balcony)". I had never seen a piece like that. Painting on mirror polished stainless steel with oil, graphite, and tissue paper. the clever twist of putting the audience in the piece i thought was great. the idea maybe simple to some but i thought it was inspired. i was drawn to it as soon as i saw it. its a nice allusion that you don't expect when you first see it.
second the piece i had a hard time understanding or just agreeing with was Sherrie Levine's "Fountain After Duchamp". the reason i think i mainly had trouble understanding it is that i don't understand the original idea by Duchamp. i guess to be honest i have trouble thinking outside the box and i don't understand how a urinal is art. ok going back to Sherrie's version of Fountain, i don't understand why she has to use other artist works to make her own. i know shes taking it out of context i just feel it one thing to use another artist idea but to take there piece and just alter it seems like cheating. i know they call it appropriating but just because you label doesn't mean its not cheating or uncreative. im not trying to offend anybody i just personally don't agree with it. so that is my thoughts on those pieces and my trip to The Walker.

Midway research into an artist

This is Anne Collier's Slide 1, slide 2 c-prints. this piece was in the bathroom of the Midway Art Gallery. the only reason i found this piece because i happened to need to use the bathroom. i think that the placement of this piece is wrong. i have looked up information on Anne Collier , her pieces, and her views. First however, i had to find out what a c-print was. i tried to google it but there answer didn't make sense so, i went with another resource our 2-d professor Steven Stenzel i knew he would have the answer. A c-print is a colored photograph made from film exposures. Collier seems to like this medium since a lot of her pieces are made with it. I find that the fact that she chooses c-prints over digital refreshing. today people want the easiest and fastest way to get things done. Collier could probably take the same photos in digital and possibly get the same effect but instead she takes the old fashion approach,which takes more care and precision. from a article by Marc Foxx he talks about how Collier doesn't try to portray a mood instead she uses an attitude. I'm not really sure what the difference is but he says, "that an artist's attitude i can be genuine or not all that matter is that the audience is evinced". Where in a mood the audience can get too caught up in it and not be able to shake it. which to me isn't necessarily bad. "Collier has a knack for picturing a middle ground of emotion. Her works refer to fear, anger, despair, guilt, hope, joy, love--but all are kept in check. In fact, the aforementioned emotions are literally packaged in one image of labeled self-help audio-tapes, which Collier has photographed still in their carrying case.", says Marc Foxx. In this piece i didn't really feel a particular mood it true. really it just left me thinking what is she trying to say with theses photos of cassette taps. too me still she does have all theses emotions in check as Foxx but it but they are also emotions that we all deal with on a daily bases. maybe in the end they choose to put this piece in the bathroom because it doesn't have a mood like a lot of other pieces in the gallery so it was off by itself like the idea behind it. I applaud Collier for her works. shes has pieces displayed all over the world from Germany to New York. I again find her technique refreshing from the fast past of today's art.

the secret life of object

piece 1. Anne Collier Slide 1/slide2,2004 c-print
35x41 in. 22.5 x 22.5 inches

piece 2. John Carter ,untitled, 2002 fabric 35x41 in.

For this blog we were supposed to pick art pieces from the Midway Secret Life of Objects one that we responded positively about and one negatively. so second piece by John Carter is the one is was confused about. im not sure how i see this as art. i mean i like the mediums they used the paint on the fabric but the subject throws me off. im not sure why someone would want to capture a moment like this and think it art. ok its art just not a subject i understand. i mean i guess its natural process just a bit awkward to me. but who says awkward isn't art. in the end im just saying i don't understand and i personally wouldn't pick this subject. the first piece is by Anne Collier. i responded positively to this one. each of the cassette taps say anxiety, discouragement, discipline, guilt, anger, apathy, and fear. im not sure what her meaning was behind these pieces but i just like what i got from it. i got that each of these cassette tapes had these negative context on them because it represents all the negative things we hear everyday. things that we recorded and keep at the back of our heads like these cassette tapes. maybe its a stretch but thats what i got from it. im not sure i like the location of it since it is currently located in the bathroom. i think it puts it off a little but there it is the piece i responded to postively and negitively or confused about.

M.I.A

War is the subject i choose. these three inlaid together to represent war from the 12th century to modern day of 1941. the first one is a shirt made with steel and brass with a sword in front made in the 12th century to 15century. it shows more about war as a normal thing that you have to protect yourself and during war. its more midevil sort of amor. the second piece is by Henery Moore made in 1864 and shows a man completely exposed except for a shield. he seems to be trying to curl his body as much as possible behind the shield. he has unfinished legs and arms. he is faceless. showing that all that is not important. i seems to be helpless besides it shield. hes so exposed. finally the last piece is called Raw War by Bruce Nauman. this peice shows war as a scary thing that is more mencing and evil. it show war is raw. they all correlate war as a scary thing but show it in a different way. you need to protect yourself in the first two pieces but the third show it with just words. words that explain war as bad. where the other just show war as something that needs to be done. it just interested me how the three represent war but in there own way.

Gallery show at Concordia

Today i went to the university of Concordia to look at there gallery. The gallery is very new, the art works were just made this last year. The piece that interested me the most was titled "Strange Fruit" , it was made by Alonso Sierralta with the assistance of Lisa Loundon. It was made with steel, fabric, and embroidery and was made in 2009. This work was very long and its frame was made by the steel wiring. then it was covered by a deep pink fabric with embroidery on it. it was about 5 feet long and maybe a foot tall. it is an exaggerated look at a piece of fruit. it wasn't the same boring piece of fruit that you pick up at the market. it had cure and carvings into that made it's own. from a postmodern view point id say it definitely brought a new idea nad theory to the way a typically piece of fruit would be represented. its definitely not objective. its nothing i've ever seen before. im not really sure what the artist is trying to say if anything. maybe its a hidden meaning that there are some strange people out there but in the end were all just fruit. im not sure but if thats true then he would have a hidden meaning to his art work which a lot of postmodern artist did. they might find the piece a little to out there but they would be happy thats its off the tracks of boring ordinary works. 

hello

Hi this is Kayla Velst or kayla #2,

i don't know what to write...this is a blog for oad. i will be entering my blog assignments on here. um...ok about me... im only five feet tall and hate it very much. umm... yeah thats it.

thanks

kayla