50 artists part 2
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Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
ArtHouse
This was my first year participating in ArtHouse and I can honestly say it was very fulfilling. Overall, the event it was a big success. Our group was in charge creating a dream zone that was part of the whole concept of childhood and adulthood. I feel like many of the people that came in the room were kind of confused at first about what was going on but they enjoyed themselves. Also, I believe the dream zone was a big hit and it work very efficiently as a transition from childhood to adulthood. In general, it was interesting seeing so many different people showing up and interested in art.
Project 2
For this project, I decided to use photography as a source of cultural documentation. My inspiration for this work were two photographers, Ami Vitale and Massimo Vitali. I wanted to show the social activities and the interaction of different gander, race, ethnicity and age in the public sphere. I found interesting their social interaction and how people presented themselves in public spaces, therefore I wanted to find a way to depict that. Furthermore, I was interested in portraying the transformation and growth of a specific place of social gathering, in this case Saint Petersburg downtown.
The first image is my representation of all those things.
Storing Memory
There is a photograph from a family gathering that brings up memories every time I look at it. On the picture are my cousins and I playing dress up. It is a snap shot just taken in time but when I look at it, it reminds me of the fun we use to have and the strong bond between my youngest cousin and me. Almost every Christmas party we had, my cousin and I would dress up clothes and materials that lay around the house. Every Christmas we would change rolls, so it would be fair to both of us. One year I would be Santa and the next my cousin Lilly would be Santa. In this particular picture the three of us Lilly, Nadia (my older cousin) and I are in my aunt’s living room. I am dressed up as Santa, wearing a big red jacket, three times my size, a red hat and a white scarf. Also I have a beard I made from cotton balls and tuck neatly under my hat. I am holding a bag that contained all the Christmas presents, ready to give them to their true recipient. Lilly is smiling and as usual talking and not paying attention to what is going on around her. My older cousin stands behind me ready to take a picture with us and sit back with the mature people as she would say. She has been very serious even at a young age. Therefore, I believe my younger cousin and I formed a stronger relationship than she had with her sister.
Every Christmas we had at least one picture taken as we were dressed up. Most of them, I still have placed in a photo album I had since little kid. We used the camera to record every holiday, Christmas, Easter, Birthdays, vacations and etc. All of the pictures take would be printed in doubles. One would be placed in my album for me to keep. The copy would be given to my grandparents. My grandmother loved and still loves to put pictures of us in the frame of another picture that is hanging from the wall. On family gatherings, my dad would stand behind the camera but not preoccupied with taking pictures yet he would always catch the right moment.
I do not believe photography has played a big role in my family. When I look at this particular picture I think of what the photograph reminds me of. The photograph is a projection of my bond with my cousin. Sixteen years after the snapshot was taken we are still as close as on that picture. We grew up together as people and individuals sharing the same values, interests and desires. We still do everything together. When I look at the picture it is hard for me to imagine that one day we might separate and each one of us to go her way. If this happens, I would have only the pictures to remind me as memories of the closeness I once shared with someone. This is what the photograph reflects the memory of a certain time and space. The moments of emotion experienced early on that still evokes feeling in me when I look at the picture. With certainty, I can declare that the feelings this photograph evokes in me are the same one that evokes in my cousin Lilly. However, I am positive that if her sister looks at the picture it would be a totally different reaction to ours.
The photograph I picked it might look like a simple snap shot of children playing to a viewer. Nevertheless, it has deeper meaning for me hidden from others. It clearly reveals a beginning of closeness that would last eternally. It also takes me back in time that was careless and genuine. This photograph brings fond memories that remind me to celebrate the people I have around me in my life. We hold on to old pictures to be reminded of the things we love and do not want to lose.
Every Christmas we had at least one picture taken as we were dressed up. Most of them, I still have placed in a photo album I had since little kid. We used the camera to record every holiday, Christmas, Easter, Birthdays, vacations and etc. All of the pictures take would be printed in doubles. One would be placed in my album for me to keep. The copy would be given to my grandparents. My grandmother loved and still loves to put pictures of us in the frame of another picture that is hanging from the wall. On family gatherings, my dad would stand behind the camera but not preoccupied with taking pictures yet he would always catch the right moment.
I do not believe photography has played a big role in my family. When I look at this particular picture I think of what the photograph reminds me of. The photograph is a projection of my bond with my cousin. Sixteen years after the snapshot was taken we are still as close as on that picture. We grew up together as people and individuals sharing the same values, interests and desires. We still do everything together. When I look at the picture it is hard for me to imagine that one day we might separate and each one of us to go her way. If this happens, I would have only the pictures to remind me as memories of the closeness I once shared with someone. This is what the photograph reflects the memory of a certain time and space. The moments of emotion experienced early on that still evokes feeling in me when I look at the picture. With certainty, I can declare that the feelings this photograph evokes in me are the same one that evokes in my cousin Lilly. However, I am positive that if her sister looks at the picture it would be a totally different reaction to ours.
The photograph I picked it might look like a simple snap shot of children playing to a viewer. Nevertheless, it has deeper meaning for me hidden from others. It clearly reveals a beginning of closeness that would last eternally. It also takes me back in time that was careless and genuine. This photograph brings fond memories that remind me to celebrate the people I have around me in my life. We hold on to old pictures to be reminded of the things we love and do not want to lose.
Museum of fine arts
I went to the museum of Fine Arts at the beginning of the semester. But it was such an exciting place for me that I decided to write about it. The museum current exhibition is Legends in Photography: Major Works from the Museum’s Collection. All of the artists’ art works were very different. Most of the major figures in the history of the medium from 1900 to 1975 are represented. All of them are pioneers in one way or another. All of them have left behind them meaningful and notable art for generation after generation to enjoy. Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Paul Strand, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, W. Eugene Smith, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstadt, Weegee, Barbara Morgan, Minor White, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Aaron Siskind, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Diane Arbus, Gary Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, and Jerry Uelsmann.
However, I found two of the photographs to be much more interesting than the others. Alfred Stieglitz, the Steerage and Diane Arbus, Girl in a Shiny Dress. He was an American photographer of modern art. He was married to painter Georgia O’Keeffe. The Steerage is printed in 1907. It is Photogravure on vellum and it is 12 11/16 x 10 3/16 in. This can be as easily, the first modernist photograph. It is straightforward depiction of everyday life. It is objective rather than illustrating a subject or a concept. It looks like a cubist painting because of all the bold lines and forms shifting around. Everything is alive and moving. The men, women and children that are on the lower level, the funnel leaning left, and the stairway leaning right. The detail of this photograph is vivid and full of shapes. This motion in this picture creates closeness of space.
The other photograph is by Diane Arbus. I love her work so I was immediately drawn to it. She is an American photograph born in 1923 and committed suicide in 1971. Arbus developed her own unique documentary eye. Most of her pictures are of people who are physically unusual and live on the edge of social acceptance. The photograph is a Silver gelatin print done in 1967 and it is 14 ½ x 14 ½ in. The Girl in a Shiny Dress to it represents her version of the woman. Her view of the woman is kind of abstracted and very controversial. There is something pulling you to this picture. I think, the photograph is crisp and provokes a strong reaction. It is in a square classic style. The light is dim and kind of mysterious. Also, the black and white and the gray tones compliment it. It is a way find beauty in the ugliest people and unconventional places.
I enjoyed my visit to the museum very much. All these exciting artists gathered together in one place was an emotional and eye-opening experience. A little imagery hideaway from the busy and polluted reality of everyday life. Photography is an art form that allows us even if we cannot draw or sculpture with our hands to create a way that we can express ourselves. This creative process allows us to feel more connected with all the other artistic mediums. We can enjoy colors, shapes, buildings, people and everything else through the realistic view a photograph creates. We connect with visual arts better because it is more realistic and we can feel empathy to the creator’s artwork.
However, I found two of the photographs to be much more interesting than the others. Alfred Stieglitz, the Steerage and Diane Arbus, Girl in a Shiny Dress. He was an American photographer of modern art. He was married to painter Georgia O’Keeffe. The Steerage is printed in 1907. It is Photogravure on vellum and it is 12 11/16 x 10 3/16 in. This can be as easily, the first modernist photograph. It is straightforward depiction of everyday life. It is objective rather than illustrating a subject or a concept. It looks like a cubist painting because of all the bold lines and forms shifting around. Everything is alive and moving. The men, women and children that are on the lower level, the funnel leaning left, and the stairway leaning right. The detail of this photograph is vivid and full of shapes. This motion in this picture creates closeness of space.
The other photograph is by Diane Arbus. I love her work so I was immediately drawn to it. She is an American photograph born in 1923 and committed suicide in 1971. Arbus developed her own unique documentary eye. Most of her pictures are of people who are physically unusual and live on the edge of social acceptance. The photograph is a Silver gelatin print done in 1967 and it is 14 ½ x 14 ½ in. The Girl in a Shiny Dress to it represents her version of the woman. Her view of the woman is kind of abstracted and very controversial. There is something pulling you to this picture. I think, the photograph is crisp and provokes a strong reaction. It is in a square classic style. The light is dim and kind of mysterious. Also, the black and white and the gray tones compliment it. It is a way find beauty in the ugliest people and unconventional places.
I enjoyed my visit to the museum very much. All these exciting artists gathered together in one place was an emotional and eye-opening experience. A little imagery hideaway from the busy and polluted reality of everyday life. Photography is an art form that allows us even if we cannot draw or sculpture with our hands to create a way that we can express ourselves. This creative process allows us to feel more connected with all the other artistic mediums. We can enjoy colors, shapes, buildings, people and everything else through the realistic view a photograph creates. We connect with visual arts better because it is more realistic and we can feel empathy to the creator’s artwork.
Art & Fear
Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
I read this book for my photography class and I found it fascinating. Art and Fear is a book of things we already know but need to be reminded of. I liked that it explains how we have to pursue our development as artists. It is written in a straightforward manner, easy to read and understand. The book gives you inspiration to fight for being an artist and not to quit even when feel like it.
What I found interesting was common sense things we forget about and need a book to remind us. For example, the authors remind us that art making can be learned. Most of the succeed artists are ordinary people like us, not some kind of prodigies. We are all flawed and that makes our approach to our artwork unique. Another reminder was that by making work we learn how to make it and start to understand ourselves. What I found most true about myself in this book was the idea that most often vision races before execution. My ideas are so much better in my head than when executed.
Even though, I am just starting being an artist, I have already been through the whole head–in-my-hands thing, wondering what should I do and how would be accepted by the others. This book helped me realize that the essential idea of being an artist is understanding yourself and believing in the process that leads to your finished work. Criticism might hurt but it shapes you and your art. Moreover, what does not kill us makes us stronger (or makes us do better artwork).
I read this book for my photography class and I found it fascinating. Art and Fear is a book of things we already know but need to be reminded of. I liked that it explains how we have to pursue our development as artists. It is written in a straightforward manner, easy to read and understand. The book gives you inspiration to fight for being an artist and not to quit even when feel like it.
What I found interesting was common sense things we forget about and need a book to remind us. For example, the authors remind us that art making can be learned. Most of the succeed artists are ordinary people like us, not some kind of prodigies. We are all flawed and that makes our approach to our artwork unique. Another reminder was that by making work we learn how to make it and start to understand ourselves. What I found most true about myself in this book was the idea that most often vision races before execution. My ideas are so much better in my head than when executed.
Even though, I am just starting being an artist, I have already been through the whole head–in-my-hands thing, wondering what should I do and how would be accepted by the others. This book helped me realize that the essential idea of being an artist is understanding yourself and believing in the process that leads to your finished work. Criticism might hurt but it shapes you and your art. Moreover, what does not kill us makes us stronger (or makes us do better artwork).
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Artist Lecture
John Mann
John Mann was the artist I when to see speak on March 25. He graduated from University of New Mexico with an MFA in Photography. Now he lives in Florida, where he teaches and creates his art. He is a faculty member in the same school as Meg Mitchell, Florida State University.
His work is internationally exhibited it’s been in London, Portland, New York, Miami and also published in couple of magazines. In his “Folded in Place” photographic series we can see interesting methods he incorporated to describe the landscapes. Mann uses mapping, drawing and sculpture as well with photography to depict those landscapes. The images have abstract familiarity. All the images of places we have seen but he replaces the experience of being there with a photograph. The photo puts a distance from the actual experience.
In his other projects “The Cut Path” and “The Travelers” he followed the path of telephone lines moving into the landscape and hitchhikers. The telephone poles he photographed were the ones that were not mapped out. And in the case of the hitchhikers, Mann photographed the length of the trail they walked. This was not a documentary but a showing of the unmapped journey and distance they traveled.
Overall, all of his work was really interesting and he gives a different perspective of how we look at photographs. The way Mann shoots his images is very innovative and the photographs are aesthetically beautiful.
John Mann was the artist I when to see speak on March 25. He graduated from University of New Mexico with an MFA in Photography. Now he lives in Florida, where he teaches and creates his art. He is a faculty member in the same school as Meg Mitchell, Florida State University.
His work is internationally exhibited it’s been in London, Portland, New York, Miami and also published in couple of magazines. In his “Folded in Place” photographic series we can see interesting methods he incorporated to describe the landscapes. Mann uses mapping, drawing and sculpture as well with photography to depict those landscapes. The images have abstract familiarity. All the images of places we have seen but he replaces the experience of being there with a photograph. The photo puts a distance from the actual experience.
In his other projects “The Cut Path” and “The Travelers” he followed the path of telephone lines moving into the landscape and hitchhikers. The telephone poles he photographed were the ones that were not mapped out. And in the case of the hitchhikers, Mann photographed the length of the trail they walked. This was not a documentary but a showing of the unmapped journey and distance they traveled.
Overall, all of his work was really interesting and he gives a different perspective of how we look at photographs. The way Mann shoots his images is very innovative and the photographs are aesthetically beautiful.
Artist Lectures
Meg Mitchell
Meg Mitchell is a former student of USF that graduated few years ago with a BFA in sculpture. Currently she is a faculty member at Florida State University where she teaches digital media.
She creates diverse work from performance pieces to video and mechanical installations. Her early work was collaboration with another artist. Together they crated alter egos called “Ian and Jan.” They used their bodies as creator of meaning, expressing how they felt about art and inserting themselves into art history. The performance piece was recreated in an installation where Meg Mitchell and her partner in this project used objects and videos from their performances. Another project of hers that I found to be very intriguing was the Base Pair Browser. She used programming to show the difference of avian genome data in different bird or animal species.
Meg Mitchell uses different systems of representation to express the image and the meaning. What I found most intriguing about her was her thirst to learn something new. Mitchell experiments a lot and that is what helps her create new art. She keeps on teaching herself new things and applying them in her work. The way she works is by combining different systems and materials into one piece. I’m glad I saw her lecture it was fun and I learned from it to be open minded and that everything can be used as art. Moreover, she coming to our class afterwards and giving us objective feedback was very helpful. It was motivating and valuable to see someone outside our class critic our work.
Meg Mitchell is a former student of USF that graduated few years ago with a BFA in sculpture. Currently she is a faculty member at Florida State University where she teaches digital media.
She creates diverse work from performance pieces to video and mechanical installations. Her early work was collaboration with another artist. Together they crated alter egos called “Ian and Jan.” They used their bodies as creator of meaning, expressing how they felt about art and inserting themselves into art history. The performance piece was recreated in an installation where Meg Mitchell and her partner in this project used objects and videos from their performances. Another project of hers that I found to be very intriguing was the Base Pair Browser. She used programming to show the difference of avian genome data in different bird or animal species.
Meg Mitchell uses different systems of representation to express the image and the meaning. What I found most intriguing about her was her thirst to learn something new. Mitchell experiments a lot and that is what helps her create new art. She keeps on teaching herself new things and applying them in her work. The way she works is by combining different systems and materials into one piece. I’m glad I saw her lecture it was fun and I learned from it to be open minded and that everything can be used as art. Moreover, she coming to our class afterwards and giving us objective feedback was very helpful. It was motivating and valuable to see someone outside our class critic our work.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Definitions
Derive – a rapid passage through time in everyday life.
Situationist – group of people that believed that the external factors of their lives is more important than the internal motivations. The roots of the situationist ideas are in Marxism.
Flanuer – a person walking through the city in a way to experience it.
Guy Debord - a Marxist theorist, French, wrote Society of the Spectacle.
Detournement – a media work that changes the original media work to convey a new message.
The Spectacle – critical theory by Debord and the central notion of the Situationists. Something artificial that grabs your attention.
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