artist essay

This next artist that I view on the Art 21 series was Kara Walker. In her childhood years, she used chalk to create art. She was an African-American artist, who had many contriverial pieces about racial issues. She discussed these issues through her art work. Some of those where the idea’s of the deep south and slavery. For her art she made exhibitions of slioets that covered large white walls. They had a very cartoon feel to them that support the black stereotype for how slaves were seen. She used a overhead projector to project the silhouettes on the walls. She then used the overhead projector to splash moving color onto the wall.
I liked art work because she discusses important issues that should be acknowledged to people in their lives. I liked how she was comfortable with being African American and being so strong about an issue that once degraded her own race. I liked the fact that she used the overhead projector and used color to make her art more interesting and vibrant while bringing up important issues. I was interested in the way that she presented her artwork. She never beautified the subject, but showed it in its actual horror.

artist essay

the artist that I viewed in art 21 series was Andrea Zittel. Her childhood consisted of living in the suburbers. The common medium that she used was paint and scultupting. She felt that society was looking for something new. Many of her pieces that she made were pieces that were used in homes. She made her own clothes that were only made of rectangles. She wore one outfit for four months straight. She lived on an island that she made for a season or so. She believed in human values and preseptions in her work.
I really did not like her work because it made little sense to me. I respect her as an artist for her ability to express herself in the way she wants to, but at the same time, I do not understand how she could wear one piece of clothing for four months.

artist essay

The artist that I viewed on art21 was Tim hawkinson. His form of medium that he used to produce his work I was known as mechanincal art. He used a digital camera to take pictures of people’s reactions to different unique sounds. Some of the music that he studied was music from church rythems. Some of the ways he formed sound was through water drops and building sculptures that were made out of large twisted plastic sheets that he assembled with a drill and mechanincal knowledge. He based an entire exibit of sound through pipes. He viewed that music was used as an escape for some people, like myself, as a form of relaxation.
I really liked this artist because he helped me out with my most recent project for my class. He gave me the idea to use music as an escape. Through that project i related my experience with music to how I have used it as an escape as well. It was creative how he used the plastic sheets to created different types of sounds and music. It was interesting to see the drill spun and formed the plastic tubes.

Image Essay #10

Comics are seen as a low art, having established as a form in the late 19th and early 20th century. Whilst preceding works have are seen as sharing certain techniques, most notably the conveying of a narrative through imagery, most commentators are agreed that the form was established in the the humorous cartoons and comic strips found in newspapers and magazines of the late 19th and early 20th century, and was fuelled by the boom in publishing technology. Early precursors include Trajan's Column and the Bayeaux Tapestry, as well as works by William Hogarth, Rodolphe Töpffer, Wilhelm Busch and George Cruikshank. Discussion of the form is even more recent, especially in the United States; although early criticism can be traced back to the 1920s, it is only in the latter half of the 20th century that serious examination of the form was begun. Definitions of the form are rather loose in their approach; some claim its printed format is crucial, some emphasize the interdependence of image and text, and others the sequential nature of the images.

Image Essay #9

Drawing is a visual art which makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.
A small amount of material is released onto the two dimensional medium which leaves a visible mark - the process is similar to that of painting. The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard, or indeed almost anything. The medium has also become popular as a means of public expression via graffiti art, because of the easy availability of permanent markers.
Drawing is a form of visual expression and is one of the major forms within the visual arts. There are a number of subcategories of drawing, including cartooning, and certain drawing methods or approaches, such as "doodling," may or may not be considered as part of "drawing" as a "fine art."
In simplistic terms, drawing is distinct from painting, perhaps more so in the Western view; East Asian art, which generally only uses brushes, has historically made less distinction between the two. Critics may praise a painter's ability to draw well, meaning that the shapes, especially of the human body, are well-articulated, or a drawing may be considered painterly.

Image Essay #8

A collage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Use of this technique made its dramatic appearance among oil paintings in the early 20th century as an art form of groundbreaking novelty.
An artistic collage work may include newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored or hand-made papers, portions of other artwork, photographs, and such, glued to a piece of paper or canvas. Techniques of collage were first used at the time of the invention of paper in China around 200 BC. The use of collage, however, remained very limited until the 10th century in Japan, when calligraphers began to apply glued paper, using texts on surfaces, when writing their poems.The technique of collage appeared in medieval Europe during the 13th century. Gold leaf panels started to be applied in Gothic cathedrals around the 15th and 16th centuries. Gemstones and other precious metals were applied to religious images, icons, and also, to coats of arms.
In the 19th century, collage methods also were used among hobbyists for memorabilia.

Artist Essay: Pepon Osorio

The artist i viewed for the Art:21 was Pepon Osorio. He was a contemporary artist, who made live scenes as his art. He was Puerto Rican and had and African Descent. At one point of his life, Pepon Osorio was a social worker. His artwork was very family oriented. His pieces that he showed was everyday living environments mixed in a history of a family. A large part of his work is his Latino heritage. The recent piece was a homage to his father. It featured a barbershop where his father used to work. He was afraid of getting his hair cut and had been terrified there after since. It is called “scene of a crime” it is supposed to be sacred. It had a lot of caution tape, broken glass, and broken dreams. There were many family pictures presented around the various rooms. The pictures told stories of his happy childhood and what the outcome was later in his life.
Overall I enjoyed this artist because he step outside the box and was not something you saw every day, something you could interact with, and you could get the full effect.