Museum blog entry

Well I didn't get to go to a museum since out in Bliss there really isn't anything like that. So I am going to use a store display as an example since it functions in somewhat the same principle. The store I went to was Hobby Lobby and they have all kinds of displays. The purpose of displaying things in a store is to sell the product and the nice displays draws attention to it. I chose a display of glass bottles, perfume bottles, jewel looking paper weights and other glass objects. I chose it cause it was the most eye catching to me it looked pretty. But in this particular display (and all other displays around the store) like things were put together, like the paperweights with paperweights, glass bottles with other glass bottles. The display itself was just a multi tiered shelf.

basic idea of what the shelf and its contents looked like.
This display was in the middle section of the store along with many other shelves that looked like this one, they all had different products on them.

Artist #6

Louise Bourgeois born in 1911, she studied art in several schools in Paris. She first started off engraving and painting, in the 1940's she turned her attention to creating sculpture. She was influenced by European surreal artists, using many organic and abstract shapes carved from wood in her work, she later moved to using rubber bronze and stone in her work. She uses the role of her relationship with her parents and the role sexuality played in her early family life. She purposefully makes some of her work to make the viewer feel uncomfortable, the female and male body are continually references and remade, they are charged with sexuality and innocence and interplay between the two.

Artist #5

Kiki Smith was born in Germany, and is the daughter of American sculptor Tony Smith. She grew up in New Jersey, as a girl she helped her father build models out of cardboard, this was some of her first experiences with art. Smith uses sculpture, painting, and printing in her art. She uses the idea of story telling, belief and knowledge. she bases a lot of her art on organs, cellular forms, and the human nervous system. She incorporates animals, folktales and mythology in her works. Her work "Lying with the Wolf" "Wearing the Skin" and "Rapture" are all works that have symbolic meaning of realtionships between humans and animals each one portrays different interactions with the animal, speaking with a wolf, taking shelter in its pelt, and being born from its womb. "Art is something that moves from your insides to the physical world, Art is just a way to think"

Artist #4

Do-Ho Suh is a Korean Artist with a BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting. He is best known though for his sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site specifically, he draws attention to how a viewer occupies a public space. His work "Some/One" the floor is completely covered in polished dog tags, evocating that the individual soldier is part of a larger body. "Do-Ho Suh’s sculptures continually question the identity of the individual in today’s increasingly transnational, global society." One of his projects he replicated a fabricated version of his parents house because he wanted to be able to transport his home with him, like a snail. He has made several works where he makes a floor with several small human figures with their hands up like they are holding up something, people are then allowed to walk across this floor. Yet the figures do not have an expression like they are being oppressed like the work would suggest is its meaning. he leaves it up to the interpretation of the viewer.

Tim Hawkinson and Yinka Shonibare

Tim Hawkinsons work he uses the idea of the body rather than putting the actual body in his works. as he says that when his work is finished it no longer looks like the body more like an abstracted version of it and you no longer feel able to identify with it. "It's not about my identity its about our identity, our experiences within our body, and our bodies relationship to the external world." Hawkinson uses sound in his a couple of his works, but the sound often uses a rythym that you can dance to, this is more seen in his Drop installation. He does not very often do preliminary drawings of his work because he says he never can get the full picture until he is actually working on his work and watching it transform.
I actually really like Yinka Shonibares works. He uses a wide range of mediums in his gallery from painting, costume, photography and film. He uses the body a lot in his works obviously in the films there are the actors so the body is physically in the work. Though he does express the issue of race and class in his work as seen in many of his cotumes works, the one thing they all have in common is that they are faceless, so no one can identify with race. Odelia and Odette one of his films I find very beautiful and interesting, the costumes were very colorful and the idea was that they are one, but differnet. Odette being the white swan Odelia is the black swan.

Some Art stuff

Well I guess I'm able to get some more work at the Treasure Valley Digital printing shop, they've already had given me a job to draw something for a lawn company since they needed a design advertisement I believe it was, for their Christmas season, they really liked how it turned out and I am now one of the artists that can be commissioned at the shop, I gave them a portfolio of my work and everything. Right now there is the possibility that i will have to redraw some illustrations for a children's book but it hasn't been decided if they need me to do it yet or not.

Project update

So finally figured out what im going to do for my project and I have started on the main part of it. So in short I am going to be personifying...or embodying however you want to put it, water. So basically the costume is consisting of a dress in this really pretty blue fabric that I found at Joann's it reminded me of water so thats why I got it, and so far I have put together the main components of the dress now I am cutting the skirt into strips so it gives in a more flowy feel to it especially if I walk in it. But I am also going to be making some sleeves to go with it that will extend past my hands also cut into strips for that flow ripple effect.

what is done so far obviously it doesn't look so great right now but its not finished so there....

New Project

So we got our assignment for our new art project needless to say i am stumped, I have a good idea what the project is about but its now just getting an idea thats the problem. I'm sure something will pop into my mind. Guess for now I'll just look for inspiration