Just for giggles

Wanted to see what it would do if I uploaded my "Kiss to far" animation video that wasn't "web streaming"

Kiss too Far

Week 7 day 3: Kiss to(o) far

Yes during the title you can see my improper use of grammar. I said "to" instead of "too" but here is my daily ritual a archive or collection of lips where beauty become mundane. Answer this question for yourself, Can too much of a good thing be BAD?

Matthew Barney and Janine Antoni

Week 7 Day 1: Matthew Barney and Janine Antoni

Today in class we watched Art 21 (link) and a couple of the artists that inspired me the most are Janine Antoni and Matthew Barney. Although I found most of Matthew Barney's videos and make up grotesque and made me uncomfortable and nearly nauseous, I also saw how he was using that over the top make up to send a message. It made me wonder if I could make an over the top message about feminine beauty and the standards media has today. I wonder if making my own face nearly horrible and something no one would want to look at, and watching it melt away or washed away, showing what I really look like...could that be almost a glimpse into my inside? Don't Judge a book by it's cover. I plan to do more research on Matthew Barney to see if his style is something I could see myself doing, or if another artist would fit my personal style/message better.






Such as Janine Antoni. I have to admit, I love her work! How she whole heartily emmerses herself into what she is working on and brings a simple element but making it enchanting. We watched as she made rope out of a cellection of other people's belongings or clothing. Her Grandmother's Christmas dress, a friends hammock, tieing each to the other. It was very symbolic and gives the viewer many chances to take what they will out of it. One of her pieces that stuck out the most to me was when she sculpted or molded her face both out of chocolate and soap. She would lick the chocolate bust and wash with the soap bust, and both slowly disolved. She talked about how this piece was about her own difficulties looking in the mirror, and watching her face dissapear gave her new insight into her views and perspective of herself. That spoke to me as that is a large part of my personal message, I want to ask why as American's and why as Women are we so obsesed about our appearence? I am one of the biggest women out there so consumed with vanity and image that I guess the art is more for me then anything. But if others can share in the feeling I am trying to express, then I hope what I create can help. I never really viewed this message as being a feminist, I never really viewed myself as a feminist, I suppose that this struggle and fight could be considered as such, but mainly it is a fight with myself and hopefully the creative outlet is a therapy and reliese that may someday help others who might be like me.

Andy Goldsworthy

Week 6 Day 1: Andy Goldsworthy response paper



Today in class we watched a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy Rivers and Tides, Working with Time. I at times found him to be so focused and involved with his art, that it seemed like his mind had little space for anything else. He creates pieces within nature, with nature, using tools he finds in the environment. It's clear he loves being outdoors, though difficult and rough on him, it seems he tries to be one with the realm he is in. Allowing his surroundings to depict what the art will be. Most of his works are temporary lasting anywhere from minuets, hours, to perhaps a few years. He views the destruction of his art not as destruction (unless it falls apart before he is finished) but as a gift to nature. His method is old fashioned, however revolutionary if looking at it in a "green" perspective. Never introducing something man made into his art, simply natural elements and media.




Goldsworthy main inspiration would be water and how it flows from the river to the sea, parts are rough and strong while other parts are still and quite and smooth. He allows the river to inspire his line work. He often creates a line fluid and moving back and forth like a river bends. One of my favorite scenes would be when he linked at least 200 hundred green leaves together creating a long line and places them in a still section of a river, and the current slowly drifted the long strand down the flow of water creating this almost dance. I became nearly hypnotised with the fluidity and femininity and grace of the leaves in the water(Link). Water to me is the most beautiful thing in our world. The way it is harmful and harmless. It's slow, and fast, gentle and hard. Life giving and life taking. There is a tragic beauty in water and the way Andy Goldsworthy uses it in his art is unique in today's art scene.

Public Art Context Piece

Week 5 day 7: Public Art Context Piece

Our third assignment is to create a finished sculpture with the idea it would be viewed by the public. My very first thought was to create mine with Recyclables, most likely with water bottles. I drink water constantly and though I try not to, I seem to accumulate empty plastic water bottles. To send a message that things don't have to be trash, I want to use watter bottles and other recycled items to create something unique and attractive. However I am still in the sketching fazes of figuring out what I want to make. Most likely I would try an abstract design, but not a huge one.

Doing research I came across a designer Michelle Brand. Using the bottoms of water bottles Brand created back drops for Weddings and receptions. A site called "Everyday glimpse" (Link) showed many options of recycled opportunities. And Miwa Koisumi has brought life in the plastic by making them into sea creatures.

Push

My very first animation was when I was 15 and it was about a bald bunny. However, 7 years later I worked some long hours for my 4-D assignment. Here is my second animation "Push"

Tara Donovan : Mundane Beauty

Week 5 day 1: Tara Donovan : Mundane Beauty



Things we see every day and possibly taken for granted are put together by Tara Donovan creating masterpieces. Donovan was born in New York City, New York in 1969, and attended School of Visual Arts New York, NY. Then after attending BFA, Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC, her artistic career was launched when Donovan had an exhibit in 1997 and 1999 and her medium has stayed consistent through out the years . Taking everyday things from paper plates, to buttons and creating stunning visual shapes and sculptures.







Tara Donovan will use one common daily item over and over again. Most would consider this mundane, however once the piece is complete its is a work of art (not meant as a pun). Donovan takes inspiration from the objects she uses. These domestic everyday items are lost in the full view of a piece until looked at closer.In an interview (Link) Donovan said she was drawn to the scalloped edges of the paper plates, and how plastic cups absorb and diffuse light. Using the same item and doing the same action in making her massive sculptures gives a sense of time passing in the repetitive action.Once one sees the details one can really appreciate the time and amount of work it took in making these. Please go to this site to view incredible pictures of Donovan's art(link).

My daily ritual art project for 4-D studio though not as massive or impressive as Donovan's is similar in method. Taking an everyday object (lipstick) and an everyday common body part (lips) I kiss a piece of paper multiple times. I have found doing this is mundane, but will eventually come together. Scanning it into my computer every day to show stages and eventually animate to show the passing of time is also part of the project, as I create an archive or collection of the same image. Lips may be found originally more interesting then say a button, but I always was fascinated on how the American culture puts quite a bit of focus on lips. My original goal was to take a mundane action and turn it beautiful...but now I wonder if the lips were beautiful to begin with, why not take something beautiful and make it mundane? Since I am still in the middle of the process, the art hasn't made up it's mind.

William Kentridge Response

Week 4 Day 1: William Kentridge Response

Today in class we watch a video documentary about William Kentridge and his work. Since I had just done research on him I was actually excited to learn even more. Late in the film he made the comment that while younger and in his studies Kentridge had a difficult time deciding between Film, Drawing, and performance or Theater. As he result he never chose one over the others. Since he still flips back and fourth between all three, he is constantly seeing things in new perspectives and it aids in what ever project he is in. Theater could inspire a drawing that later relates in one of his films. Whatever the case you will often see Kentridge intertwine film, drawing, and theater within each other.

I was fascinated with how Kentridge created his animations. By taking one drawing he alters it many times instead of redrawing the same drawing on different pages similar to cell animation. Taking one drawing he captures it on film, then erases and redraws on the same page the next frame in his animation. Once finished he again captures it on film and starts the process again. Although the end product isn't as clean as cell drawing I find the rough, loose gestural drawing conveys his messages better then clean cell animation would. His animations are rather dark and dismal, creating emotions in me of guilt or shame and confusion. If he used many different pages in his animation instead of the 20 some odd he uses and reuses I believe the general feel of his animation would be different. Plus the media of his choice, charcoal, aids in his fluid loose gestural quick drawings. During the video Kentridge made the comment that if he gets caught up in a frame and trying to make it a nice drawing, he intentionally will rough it up. Combining his type of drawings, his media and his process you are left with an animation that is personally his. 100% his style and message. Without a doubt William Kentridge is leaving his mark in the 21st century.