Mapping

I really liked the map that was based off of the dolphin at the walker art center. I thought that the idea the group picked was a good one. I liked the layout that they had, but I think that they could have taken it deeper and add more visual interest to it by adding pictures or adding more questions to the project. I also thought that the line connecting everything looked good form far way but when you go face to face with it you could tell that the craft could have used a little work. I also really enjoyed the black background with the white lines on top it made it look nice, as to where if they had done a lot of colors or any color I think it would have taken away from the project. The one thing that I didn't get tell they told use was that the questions were placed to make it look like a clock. I saw it after they told me but i didn't see it tell then. Over all I liked this project a lot but I wish that there was a little more to it.

The Secret Life of Objects

"Every nude betrays its author", written by Carlo Mollino in 1959. Carlo Mollino was a very successful artist and designer. He did photography, Polaroids, and he designed furniture. Most of Mollin's furniture is one of a kind because he normally just made if fro peoples house's that he was designing for them. Mollino was very big on imagination he used it a lot when he work on his photography. He said " everything is allowed, imagination is always saved" that how he felt about photography that it was your imagination at work. Mollino did a lot of photography, but it was not tell he die that his Polaroids where to be well known. Most of his Polaroids were of nude women that he started to take in the 60's. The two piece that where at the Midway Contemporary Art in The Secret Life of Objects where Polaroids of nude women taken between 1960-1973. I really liked the two Polaroids because the two women seemed so real. The women looked so beautiful and natural like this is who I am and I don't care what you think, which was the mind set of many young people, especially a women of that time. Below is a link that shows a lot of his work and discusses Mollino's life http://www.designboom.com/world/mollino/.

Andy Warhol - 16 Jackies

16 Jackies is the piece of artwork that i had the most positive responds to. The reason that i think i liked this piece so much is because it is so simple and yet it get a point across and make people feel emotion when they see it. This piece is simple in the way that is just photos taken by the media repeated in a line and two of the lines are black and white and two of the lines are black and blue. The reason the this piece gets a point across is because it is pictures of Jackie Kennedy but they are pictures of her being a normal person not as someone that is in the media all the time. The reason the this piece is emotional for some people is because the pictures that are use of Jackie are form when her husband died.

Midway Contemporary Art - The Secret Life of Objects

The piece that I like the most was Tulsa by Larry Clark. The reason that I liked that piece the most was because of the emotion that the pictures had. You could feel everything that he was try to get across in the photos the pain, the need, the love, and the hate. The two pictures above are some photos from Tulsa

The piece that I was confused about was Untitled by Ken Price. The reason that this piece confuses me is because it is clay with paint on it. The piece didn't really look like anything to me and I think that's why I think it confuses me and why I don't really like it.

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Head of Aphrodite-Greek (right) vs. Woman by the Sea-Pablo Picasso-1922 (left)

These two pieces of work are similar but they are very different too. They are both women that look like they are Greek or they are Greek. The Woman by the Sea is modern but is looks as if its inspired by the Greeks because of what she is wearing. The face angles are also very similar in both pieces. They are both very different in the way that they were made. The Head of Aphrodite is a very idealized which is the style of the time period. As to were the Woman by the Sea is more realistic . I think that these two pieces of work put in the same room would work well because they have a lot in common with each other but are different so that they would pull from each other.

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Sande Society Mask-Mende- 19th Century(right) vs. Constructed Head No.2-Naum Gabo- 1916 (left)

The Sande society mask is made of wood and hair. It is African art. The constructed head no.2 is made fully of metal. this pieces of art are the same in the way that they are both views of heads. They are very different in the way that they were made. They are also different in the way that represent the artist life and culture. I think that if these two pieces where put in a room that they would work well with each other because they are the same kind of form a head so they would show how much things change for areas of the world to other areas as well with the different time periods.

Concordia Univeristy-Saint Paul Faculty Exibition

Its a picture taken at an angle with very natural colors in the background is a building, which is older and stone. Along side the building runs a pipe that is red and green which looks to be form construction. The red an green pipe really pops form the building background as the main point in the photo.