Final

Mariely sostre                                                                                      

Professor Joan Harmon

                When I went to the museum of modern art there were two paintings that grabbed my attention. I was looking around at the pieces to see if I could find anything catches my eye. Well I saw two paintings that I found very interesting and made me think about a lot of things. One of the paintings that I found interesting is called “Collective Suicide” by David Alfaro Siqueiros and the other painting is “Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita” by Diego Rivera. These two paintings made me question about what they mean and etc.

            The painting “Collective Suicide” by David Alfaro Siqueiros is124.5 x 182.9cm and because it is pretty big it made me feel a couple of things one after the other. The reason why this painting made me feel a couple of things because the painting is so dark which feels like doom and death. You are not able to stop even if you tried like it starts making you feel like its inevitable. The painting has two groups of people which you could clearly see that are different from each other. Where the group is standing at you could see that there are some fallen soldiers from both sides and it looks like they are fighting for land. Which there is an empty space between them and that makes me feel gloom, despair and unhappiness because they are fighting for land. They are also losing people lives because one group wants to keep their home while the other group is just being greedy. I feel like there is so much going on and we can’t describe it just feel what’s happening, then you start to wonder what would you feel if somebody came and took your home, what you stand for basically everything that you have ever known. Then you could start picturing yourself in their place and starts making you feel like if you were there. Then it made me feel like if I was there watching everything get destroyed because the other group doesn’t know what it is to live in harmony.

            The other painting “Flower Festival: Feast of Santa Anita” by Diego Rivera which made me feel peaceful and relaxed because the colors look so warm and inviting. Like you see the three girls sitting there and makes you want to feel a part of it and join them. It also makes you wonder what the red and white flowers mean because in some cultures a white flower would mean peace and the red flowers would mean love but it could mean something completely different. It also makes you feel like you are part of something that not everybody knows about and you get to show them a piece of who you are and your culture. I think about why the young girls are sitting down while the older women are standing up and have flowers in their hands. To me it feels like the flowers are symbolizing maturity because the young girls are sitting and there is a person right in front of them giving them this big bouquet of white flowers. Which could mean many things but I think that it means that they are young girls who have reached one step closer to become a women. I also think that it could mean that they have become a maiden and have to take the role they are supposed to be in. This painting made me think of why would they choose flowers and what is the true meaning of the festival? Why they choose to have those colors and why are there no men at all in the painting? It could also be a symbol of fertility; this festival could be celebrating fertility. I also have noticed that the first girl has her hair down and has a bouquet of flowers in her hand and the other two have their hair in braids which makes me think that they are going in order and she was the first to be congratulated. I have found these two painting of how they look, made me think and how they made me feel. To find  out what they could mean changed my perspective a lot.

Assignment # 11

When I went to PS1 I saw a lot of interesting collections. There was one that was called Airport Windheld by Ankunft, their piece was a stair and a chair that is connected to it. What I found interesting about the piece is the fact that you was able to sit on the chair and it was like a little ride. The chair went all the way to the top and it stops right next to a small t.v which has a black cloth covering it and you have to lift it up and look at the t.v. In the screen they have these two women who have their finger in each other mouths. There is a projection playing and of a video which was switching into different images. I found that very strange and I start to question and wonder what does the whole piece mean?What is the message the artist is trying to convey in their work? It makes me start thinking about the different possibilities of what it could mean.

Presentation Outline

Intro I will be briefly discussing the artist how he started to begin making land art.

Works I will be talking about he works and the techniques he used in his works. I will also show a few of his art works that I found really interesting.

 Conclusion I will talk about what I liked the most about his art work.


Bibliography 

 http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/goldsworthyinfo.shtm
http://d-sites.net/english/goldsworthy.htm#.U355EigoGBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9xygwtP6SQ

assignment # 9

     The Video that I saw was "On Beauty" by Hennessy Youngman he talks about how art is visual and he thinks what really makes art is the beauty that is capture in the painting. He talks about how beauty shows different types of goods that is in the world, he doesn't mean good as in products but the positive things the world gives to us. He also says that when you see the beauty in the paintings you could see the good in things and make you feel appreciative. He talks about how not everybody could make art that somebody would want to see but also that some viewers dwell to much on the painting and they take away the true meaning when they think too much of it.There were a couple of paintings that he discusses in his video which one of them was a girl crying and he said that he could be sympathetic because he didn't know the reason why she was crying. He also said that he was trying to look for different things and scenarios that would make her cry and find different solutions for them. The other painting that he spoke about he said that he couldn't be sympathetic because he already knew why the woman was crying, which was because the body that was in front of her that had the blood. He also says that he already know what happened and that he can't guess what happened. The way he used satire to communicate his ideas is that he said that every painting should be beautiful and which is not true because in different types of paintings they have different types of styles. For instance the baroque paintings have a dark background and has a little light showing in it, while there are drip painters where you won't be able to see or decipher what they really mean. So therefore he talks about beauty a lot in the video but I think beauty is the eye of the beholder.

DADA

assignement # 7

    The artist that I have chosen is Nancy Spero because I like the work she created. Nancy Spero likes to convey messages through her artwork because she feels, she shows how she really thinks and feel of how the world looks to her. Her art is considered to be protest against the world because the way she portrays it is different then people would see it. She mostly paints chronicled wars, apocalyptic violence, visions of ecstatic rebirth, celebratory cycles of life and women prehistory that describes how she views these types of themes. She paints about all of these topics because she shows the true nature of these events and she don't sugar coat it. One of the chronicled war she painted a lot about was the Vietnam War and the war machine but mostly in those paintings she had a helicopter in it because she felt that there were the main focus of the war. Her husband was a big influence in her art work because of his point of view of politics. She wanted her paintings' message to be complicated and than simple that anybody can just look at it and know what its about. She wanted people to think about what the message could be and have different ideas of what the people thought was the message. One of her famous art work is in 66th street Lincoln center subway station where she drew different types of women who were real or myths, which varied from many things such as religion, real life and etc. In the painting in the subway she used a lot of red and yellow which compliments one another and gives it a warm feeling and the white surrounding it gives it also a sense of peace.