Cover Project Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman was born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is a contemporary american artist that has worked with different types of mediums such as sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. He went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison obtaining a bachelors degree in mathematics. He completed his master's degree in art from the University of California. He as received numerous awards through out the years, both locally and worldwide, for his art work. Some of these awards include the Larry Aldrich Award and Wolf Prize in Arts which he received for his work as a sculptor. His most significant or famous work includes "Laair" (1970), "Vices and Virtues" (1988). "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truth", "Setting a Good Corner" among other.

For my cover project, I choose Bruce Nauman and his first piece the neon sign “The artist helps the world by revealing mystic truth”. The initial idea for this piece came from a beer sign display at a grocery store in San Francisco. He then re-did this neon sign and displayed it at the front studio of a  grocery store on the windows facing the street. The purpose behind the neon sign was to catch the eye and interest of people walking by, to display something that did not look like art but had a deeper meaning of art. It was a text to see who would pay attention and letting the viewer have there own take on the art work. I choose this artist because he deliver strong messages in the most unusual way.

My plan in remaking this piece is to construct a collage using images of nature, since spiral images are often used to represent different design in our environment.  I will place these pictures in a spiral and inside of it I will write, using paint as my medium, the definition of art "arte" in Spanish. Bruce Nauman as obtain interest in communications and languages and displayed it in his art pieces. We have been discussing in class that art can be interpret in many different ways by having different cultural backgrounds. I decide to deliver a message in another form of communication in which can be interpret in a different culture.

Movie Poster Project " John"

In a small town high school student called Meghan creates a fake facebook profile by the name of John. Start a ciber relashionship with Sarah one of her classmates. She convinces Sarah to send nude pictures. Soon  to find out that the images have been spread all over the internet. Her life begin a spiral downward where it ends in suicide. Upon her suicide an investigation begins to find out what is truth in this so called "John" persona

Sherrie Levine Art

This is an example of Sherrie Levine art appropriation. Where she as use one of the Mondrian art piece ( After Piet Mondrian)and converted and made her own. By repainting it and adding watercolor giving a feminist field to the piece.

Technical Reproduction and Its Significance pgs 197-213

This medium as existed for a long time and as been introduced in different forms.The first technical reproduction tool “woodcut” was invented in the fifteenth century a printing devices which was used to replicate images and art but not with a good quality.

Then other printmaking tools were invented such as “lithograph” were produced endless copies.

In 1830 photography came to its rising point and gave a new development in technical reproduction. Postcard been the first popular item where presented a picture of a famous person or a tourist sites. Which was defined as publicity or tourism. Soon after that came newspaper, cinema, magazines, radio, television, CD's, and DVD's. In the 20^th century computer and internet added a new spin on technical reproduction.When in comes to television or film the viewers obtain a more active and psychological response rather than with newspaper or magazine its approach is one with authority. Every type of medium projects to the viewers a different meaning it can also obtain different responses.

The reading also present various point of view were Baudrillard suggest that what is real as been replaced by something else where as debord point that everything as been commercialized in every aspect of our life. From cinema we get a thrilling and psychological reaction.Setting us to believe or obtain a reaction which make us believe that we have experience something when in fact we have not experience it. When it comes to film we obtain a stronger reaction very different from a painting.

There is a strong differentiation of the old a new technical reproduction. Technical reproduction as change our minds regarding what is real or not.

Appropriation Artists

Anna Therese Johanne Hoch "Hannah Hoch" w born November 1, 1889 in Gotha, Germany.
Nationality: German
Education: Berlin College of Arts and Crafts majoring in glass design and graphic. She also took  a graphics class in the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts.
Movement & Field: Dadaist,  Photography,Photo-montage, In her work of art directly applied images from newspaper, magazines,etc and set them as collages with an influence by cubist painters.
Art Main Theme: Women, Women right, sexual orientation (same sex couples), and social discrimination.
Famous Art Work: " Cut with the Dada kitchen Knife through the last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany.

She past away in May 31, 1978 in Berlin at 88 year of age.

 Cindy Sherman
January 19,1954 Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Age:56
Nationality: American
Career: Photography & Film
Field: Photography
Education: Buffalo State College
Art Work: Untitled Film Stills, Historical Portrait, Fashion Photography, among other work
Award: MacArthur Fellowship

Francis Picabia
Born January 22,1879, Died November 30, 1953 at the age of (74)
Nationality: French
Field: Painting
Movement: Dadaist and Surrealism
Influence: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp
Art Work: Star Dancer on a Transatlantic Steamer, 1913, Hera, c. 1929, and Self Portrait







Dara Birnbaum
Born 1946 in New York
Nationality: American
Field: Installation Artist and video artist
Art Work: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman.



Sherrie Levine
Born:April 17, 1947 in Hazleton, PA
Age: (63)
Nationality: American
Field: Photography and appropriation artist ( Photographs taken out of textbooks)
Education: University of Wisconsin Madison (MFA)
Art Work: After Walker Evans", Walker Evans Photography, 1991 Fountain, and Van Gogh

Art Manifesto ( Dia de Los Muertos)

 

Art Manifesto

I am for an art that is simple

I am for an art that is unique

I am for an Art that represent life

Which represents its beauty

Which is reflected with the variation of Color

Which for the viewers is Breath taking

Which it could be projected as Glorious

I am for an Art that represent death

An art which is could be dark

I am for an art that is Mysterious

I am for an art that is Scary beautiful

I am for an art that is Wicked

I am for an art Impeccable

I am for an Art

That celebrate a holiday such as the day of the dead

I am for an Art That honors

I am for an Art that respect

I am for an Art that remembers ,worships, and honors our ancestors and love ones

I am for an art that represents love

Each year on the First of November

We come together as whole

 We all reunite with our family members

Share stories and great memories

We bring you flowers

We send our love in the form of prayers

for our love ones that have past away

I am for an Art that has meaning

I am for an Art that has depht

I am for an Art that has emotion

I am for an Art that is powerfull

I am for an Art that as History

An art that transforms a part of everyone life

that is unpredictable

which natural part of been human

And becomes a transformation

that could be a way to bring light

Closure, peace and unconditional love

Murakamis and Courbet Similarities and Differences

Courbet's project and Murakami's similarities and differences

Murakami's and Courbet are expressing what society had to overcome. Both artist are making very different statements of the society and culture in very distinct period of time .

Courbet Western style painting captures the rural and contemporary society of the 1850. This rural class struggled to get their needs meet. They were a hard-working class that depend on their hard labor to live. The painting show a realistic view of social mores. As, in his painting it demonstrates a young boy and older man breaking stone .
Which clearly states that neither of them are fit for this kind of labor. As shown in the painting the older man can barely handle the hammer and the young boy cant barely lift up the bucket. Courbet painting reflects a more direct use and understanding of realism. Which can be appreciated on the image and the use of color and tonality.

Murakami's sculpture is also portraying political and social struggles , but particularly in Japanese society.  His art represents as an index as a  abstract dark cloud rises to the sky which reflects the atomic bomb in Japan an ending product of WWII. Which lead to struggles withing society and changed their political system and views. The sculpture take a direct and clear representation of the people that experience and struggles after WWII

Murakami's art piece which was inspired by the visual culture of Japan and combines them with western contemporary art ideas. Which techinique such as magna  turn  that art work into a cartoonist approach into a “post-Japonisme” Murakami's style is cartoonist, nerdy, abstract, cute  but with a modern twist. He turns struggles that people where over passing at that time into a cartoonist form making that art piece play full, colorfull and also with a sense of imagination

What meaning do you arises from the contact?

In placing Murakami's art in Versailles it brings a new concept of popular art by making a powerful statement. Murakami's presenting his modern art piece in Versailles is a huge accompleshment. As well as, a huge achievement as the only Japanese artist at Versailles.He states a new approach of art in combining Oriental and Western art techniques and ideas and making it his own creation. By showing it in Versailles,It present a new art movement and technique to the world. It is also making his art pieces have the chance to be express differently as every viewers have their own takes, apporach on the piece or different meaning.Having his art surrounded by western art it makes it stand out from the other art work been that is very different from other art pieces present in Versailles. Having a sculpture as big as Murakami's which as strong tonality of colors such as the gold, reds, and black. It makes it a focal point and overlaps other work of art surrounding it. Almost not giving justices or presence to the other pieces of art which where produce by prestigious artist.