Online Assignment #8 Mike Kelley Exhibition

 This piece is called "deodorized central mass satellites" I think why he called it "satellite" because the pieces are hung from the ceiling and floating and that's just my silly thoughts.

 The pieces are made by a lot of stuffed dolls that are sewed together over wood and wire frames. He uses stuffed dolls for metaphor and there also a lot of ironies on this installment piece.

It may look cute and colorful because of the stuffed dolls and all the colors. This installation is actually have a really deep meaning. Kelley is bringing the audience to fantasize. He's not only seizing cultures, but it is about the American cultures. The cultures which he thought he understood but the culture itself barely understood it.

The use layers represents the America's consumer. The multiple collection and varieties of colors is for luxury and life styles meanwhile, the irony of it all is that he used the cheapest stuff and lowest quality to create such a meaning for this installment.

How does it make me think about the world in a new way?
What I think about the world is what the world see is what they get when it's not really IT!
For example, when my eyes see this piece it's just layers of stuffed dolls and pretty colors when it's not really it. It's something that has a really deep meaning about a cultures but only a few people want to analyze it.
And it applies the same thing to people. They need to stop judging by how it looks like or how it's made, the world need to start seeing WHY it's made.

Online Assignment #7 Youtube Video - Art Thoughtz - Performance Art

The video is about performance art which began in the early 1960s. Unlike DADA period when artists used everyday object to create art, performance art performers started doing extra-ordinary things with themselves in order to stand out so that it's called performance art. 

I like his definition of "Performance Art". It's so much easier to comprehend. He's saying the things for the people who also think the same way he thinks of performance arts or any type of art movement. It's not make to make fun of, I just think it's to give a clear vision of what are performance arts. Because sometime, in this type of way, people would understand it better than reading the definition from books.

Homework Assignment #7 MoMa Museum Report

1.Pop Art -

Pop arts began in late 1950s and that's when the world was already introduced to Television. Pop artist like Andy Warhol came up with an idea, connecting the fine art traditions with pop culture base from TV or cartoon. To push boundaries but not forgetting about the tradition of art, Warhol combined the material from painted gestures and photography, handmade and readymade, and object and image and sometimes text.

Gold Marilyn Monroe done by Andy Warhol was made in the same year she committed suicide. Warhol painted the canvas gold and silkscreen inked her face in the center. This is a very famous piece by Andy Warhol and have a strong characteristic of Pop arts by using the neon of primary color and a commercial system like silkscreening.




2. Abstract Expressionism -

This painting is by Jackson Pollock. What he was trying to do about this painting is that he wanted to try something new, something that no one ever tried before. He did this painting by dripping the paint to the canvas. He laid the canvas on the floor and then just started spreading and dripping the paint. A painting that he did with no sketches needed.

Homework Assignment #6 Pop Art

Self Pop art!

Online Assignment #6 Art 21 summary

Homework Assignment #5 DADA Artwork

The mind that can't stop thinking.

It's about the mind that can't stop thinking. The idea is to stop thinking. I have the two umbrellas on top of the head to avoid all the things that people talk about me and put it all behind me. The bubble chat represents the words. The newspaper background represents the people. The cigarettes and the coffee cups represents relax, it's just what I'd do to stop thinking for a moment and relax by drinking my hot latte while smoking a cigarette. 

Online Assignment #5 Dada Art

1. Dada is an art movement to criticize or make fun of society through art which began in the first World War. It's a way to say that the world that we live in is dangerous and doesn't make sense anymore.

Marcel Duchamp and his Readymade created by using the everyday and ordinary object "based on a reaction if visual indifference, with at the same time a total absence of good or bad taste..." he said. The snow shovel that he hung from his ceiling is called "In Advance of A Broken Arm" He picked the shovel because he was so unfamiliar with it. Moved from France to the United State, he had never seen a shovel before in his life. This piece refers to the shovel's function to remove the the snow from the ground, with the idea or an assumption, if the snow doesn't get remove from the ground, people might fall down and break an arm, that's why he called this "In Advance of a Broken Arm".


2. The painting by Jacob Lawrence from the "Migration" series describes about the biggest migration in the US. The painting is called "There Were Riots", it seems to me that they were fighting. At that time there were still a lot of racism going on and also labor. Looks like the white men were trying to harm the black people. This painting shows how much struggle they have to go through during migration period.

All the paintings that Lawrence did including the "Migration" series were influenced by Goya, Orozco, Harlem Renaissance and African American history.