John Baldessari's ABC Art

This piece was created by Willie Cole in the year 1993. Willie Cole was born in America in 1995. I found this piece in the contemporary art section. I believe that this piece caught my eye because of how huge it was, it was exactly 49 x 96 inches. This piece was so huge that it almost took up an entire wall of the museum. This piece of artwork was made out of oil stick, chalk, and latex on masonite and wood. To me, it kind of looked like chalk on a chalkboard with nothing else. The way that the word “America” is placed out on the canvas gives just enough room below each letter to write words that begin with each of the letters that spell out the word America. I was unsure as to why this piece was created the way it was but with further research on the piece I realized that Willie Cole created this art piece while sitting in front of the television and writing down words said by the news reporters that contain the first letters of “A, M, E, R, I, C, A” he also obtained the words by searching through the New York Times. “How Do You Spell America #6” is also one of the eight works that Billie Cole uses a chalkboard for. The letters that contain the letter A that were popular in the news are “Authorized, At, Abortion, Ask, A, After, Ambushed, Annual, Asprin, Angered, African, An Activist, American, and Able.” The words that contain the letter M were “Mood, Medical, Murderer’s, Me, Multi, Midday, Motorist, May, Motorist, Mother’s, Melting Pot, Minister, Malaise, and Men.” For E the words were “Enhancing, Emergency, Error, Eleven, Ethnic, Entire, Exits, Expenditure, Even, Excitedly, Embryos, Empire, Espouses, Eases, and Everywhere.” The words that make up the letter R are “Remedy, Rooms, Ravaged, Reasons, Rule, Remaining, Roadway, Report, Relieve, Ripped, Remain, Rejects, Rightwing, Right, and Rate. For I the words are “Improves, Inadequate, Infant, I, isn’t, Inventory,

At its core, art is about creatively expressing ideas that otherwise could not be expressed. To do so properly, an artist must be able to think differently from the common human being. In some cases, these different ways of thinking stem from mental illness. Three examples of such artists are Richard Dadd, a 19th century English painter, Jacks McNamara, the subject of the documentary Crooked Beauty, and the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper. For all three of them, their insanity did not hinder their ability to succeed artistically. Instead, it gave a deeper context to the brilliant works that they produced.

The presentation of many creations of art presented at Fresno art museum were amazing paintings done by many distinct amazing artists. Each of the paintings were well done to pursue people’s attention. Many authors used different techniques which were applied to their paintings, many of them innovating and contemporary; others display a story. Certain maintain at the perma transmit a category of feelings and thoughts as well. It is extremely surprising how thea variety of art creations such as the painting can be done for a single purpose. Each of the creations are immensely beautiful and interesting. Often certain people appreciate the great work that was put to make the paintings really popular. One of the painting that attained

The children will review the elements of art, specifically focusing on shape. They will be encouraged to identify the various shapes in Paul Klee Conqueror. Also the children will be introduced to my own original art that represents the element of shape. Together we will review the various shapes that are observed and have a discussion. For instance, we will discuss Klee’s use geometric and dramatic shapes. Then the children will be asked to make their own creation inspired by Paul Klee Conqueror. As they engage in the activity we will discuss the shapes they observe in their artwork.

Matthew Ritchie and Susan Rothenberg are both flourishing artist’s that have set forth numerous collections of artwork. Each piece that they have created are based off of different experiences they had throughout their life. Although most of their artistically creative career continues to grow, many pieces that have been established individually by the two were developed using many different techniques, structures, and thoughts.

Daniel Heyman has become a recognizable figure in the fine arts building. When he is not here giving artist lectures or working on the project he is back home in Philadelphia teaching at Princeton and RISD. He worked on this project with two great professors from UND, Lucy Ganje the Graphic Design Professor on campus and Kim Fink a Master Printmaker. They brought Heyman to the university to form a team on this important project.

Many discover life in the paintings of a dead artist in the most miniscule details: the number of colours used in a painting, the size of a flower, or the expression of a model. Looking back, one can remember how middle school art teachers would indulge our imaginations with lectures on the curiously complex intentions behind every colourful stroke of the painters brush. However, letters exchanged between artist reveal the truth behind not only the intentions of an artist but also the tactics used to create the sacrosanct works of art produced by one. Currently there are 844 surviving Vincent van Gogh letters, over 900 paintings, and over 1100 drawings. One man's life has been compiled into a medium sized pile of canvas, wood, and paper,

In our daily life, we are constantly bombarded with imagery, navigating through the chaos of, web pages, textbooks, etc. These images are being infinitely reproduced and distributed, passing through our perceptual filters to either be kept indefinitely in our memory or to be ignored entirely. This summer, Miami-born artist Chason Matthams works with Thierry Goldberg to put on his first New York solo show, ‘Advances, None Miraculous’, exploring the idea of delving further into the chaos to create non-linear narratives, making comparisons that might otherwise be ignored.

Conceptual art is essentially an art form opened to interpretation. A painting or musical piece can be heard and seen by many but could meaning completely different things. The great thing about conceptual art is that anyone regardless of artistic background could be able to participate and share a different viewpoint from those already stated. Conceptual art is all about ideas and meanings rather than works of art. This art form emerged during a period of social and cultural upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the first episode of “Ways of seeing”, John Berger explores the change of people’s judgement and understanding of art after the invention of the camera. Throughout the video, Berger explains how a camera’s angles, distance and features, such as zoom-ins and zoom-outs can affect one’s perception of fine art and how art has become ambiguous. This essay is going to explore how the invention of the camera and its features can provide several interpretations to art pieces and images.

James Welling is commonly lumped in with the group of artists referred to as the Pictures Generation – the generation of artitsts that were coming of age in the late 70s, as the first generation to be strongly defined by the omnipresense of mass media, and who created works that were critical of this nature of media (CITE).1 During his time at CalArts, Welling was producing collage work that was very much in line with his fellow artists in the group. His MFA thesis work, And Should (1974) was a series of photo offset immages centered around the photography in the ads of Winston Cigaretes. However, he quickly abandoned this style of art making in favor of producing photographs of his own. Since his work no longer makes use of appropriated

It was my pleasure to look Motherwell’s artwork and explore deeper meaning to understand his artistic world through a flat canvas. Motherwell tried to create an image that can represent our world and people’s psychological mind toward to that surroundings in his own artistic way.

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks states, “Art Hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home” which is true for many viewers when experiencing Bruce Nauman’s work. Nauman is classified as a contemporary American artist whose works also incorporate ideas of post-modernism and minimalism. He has been making art since the early 1960’s and has moved through many different mediums as his art progressed and his style changed. At first Nauman was a painter who soon ended that career and turned to sculpting, photography, film, and video. Bruce Nauman’s works of art have interested me and inspired my final assignment by his professional legacy, inspirations, and techniques.

Ici by Joan Mitchell is an iconography piece of art work. The artist composition and details thru her form of lines, space and color. The Ici art piece expresses Joan's style of abstract expressionism with on defined meaning or reality. As a nonrepresentational piece of art, Ici is pure expression, not intended to represent reality.The bold and vibrant coloration expresses the emotional complexity in an interconnected way. Bold blues, pinks and yellow grab your attention as you follow the curvy lines you study the space and density, light and color, tension between brush strokes form a explosion of colors leaving you to determine what may have been the inspiration.Looking at the Ici artwork the iconography of the piece you can see a style of

The use of geometric shapes in this painting allows the subject to be viewed in both a recognizable and unrecognizable state at the same time. Overall, geometric shapes and patterns play an essential role in what the viewer sees, which is further supported by a powerful color palate.