https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/593060
I chose this podcast because I'm making a tiny series of people whose funerals/celebrations of life I've attended and this podcast is an interview with a woman whose husband had passed. I thought it was interesting because while her husband is in a coma, she discovers he's had an affair and blown through much of their money. He passes away without ever getting to confront him or talk to him. I think many people believe it is inappropriate to speak ill of the dead, and that when mourning someones death, people always discuss the happy times and admirable qualities they had. It was interesting to hear about someone who had to go through mourning while also dealing with the betrayal. Death must be so much more complex and difficult to deal with when you have so many questions unanswered.
Monday, April 11, 2016
Post 12: Inspiration
1 Naked Group Collaborative Painting
On Saturday I brought this large sheet thing that I was fortunate enough to come across to Sunny Sands during the 8th Annual Florida Young Naturists Naked Spring Bash. I go to many of the bashes and bring supplies to create art with anyone who would like too, but this was the first time I got to do something large scale. I left it up from Saturday at noon until Sunday morning around 10 am. It was really interesting to see how it evolved.
2 Grace Passerotti
3 Angelique Price
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Post 11: Inspiration
1 Alphonse
I love the circular aura design around the figures and the cohesive design that carries through each portrait. A circle, a color, a flower, a woman.
2 Rittstein
I like the idea of diptychs and triptychs but when I see them I wonder if the painting would be just as effective in one piece. This piece interested me and makes me want to separate the top piece and bottom piece an inch or two.
3 Pauli
I was attracted to this painting because of the beautiful light that filtered through he trees on the white table cloth and the shiny silver teapot. Usually I don't like still life style paintings but this one is amazing. I like that there's a figure, but the figure isn't the focus which is uncommon.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Post 10: Podcast
wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand1584685
After My Brother Avonte Disappeared
This was the next story on this particular podcast list which is why I chose it. I also enjoy shows like Law&Order on occasion, and this had that kind of feel. Even though it was a terrible story about Avonte's disappearance and death, the story about his brothers life was really heart warming. It reminded me of the incredibly popular radio talk show host, Delilah. I used to listen to her talk show religiously with my mom and little sister every night on our way home from my moms restaurant.
I liked that the story about his disappearance inspired change in the school system to keep more children with disabilities safe. It was also inspiring that his brother was moved to go to law school to help make this kind of change happen.
After My Brother Avonte Disappeared
This was the next story on this particular podcast list which is why I chose it. I also enjoy shows like Law&Order on occasion, and this had that kind of feel. Even though it was a terrible story about Avonte's disappearance and death, the story about his brothers life was really heart warming. It reminded me of the incredibly popular radio talk show host, Delilah. I used to listen to her talk show religiously with my mom and little sister every night on our way home from my moms restaurant.
I liked that the story about his disappearance inspired change in the school system to keep more children with disabilities safe. It was also inspiring that his brother was moved to go to law school to help make this kind of change happen.
Post 10: Inspiration
1 Tanaka Yasushi - Nude
I've been wanting to do a natural hairy female nude and I found this one and thought it was beautiful.
2 Agostino Brunias - Leeward Islands Carib Family Outside a Hut
Both my older sisters are currently nursing there first borns so I was also was interested in paintings featuring mother and baby nursing. The social media uproar about nursing also made me curious to see if nursing was something suitable for a portrait back in the day. There wasn't many paintings on google archive, but I thought this one was the most beautiful. I think its the sharp lighting that appeals to me.
I've been wanting to do a natural hairy female nude and I found this one and thought it was beautiful.
2 Agostino Brunias - Leeward Islands Carib Family Outside a Hut
After spending a couple days with my family over spring break, and talking to you(Laura) about doing a series of my siblings, I looked up oil painting portraits of families and this one stood out to me. Mostly because traditional family portraits on google archive are rich, white families in a lot of fluffy garb, and this family isn't white, over dressed and is posed more naturally.
3 Bernardo Cavallino - The Nursing Madonna
Post 9: Podcast
wnyc.org/radio#/ondemand/579727
Falling in Love...With Heroin
This podcast appealed to me because of people in my life who have struggled with heroin addiction, and other addictions. It was about a couple that struggled with addiction and eventually became clean. It was really depressing because you want to be happy for them that they came clean, but the obvious harm they did to their family, and children, makes it hard. Also the charges they reveal about the man in the relationship, was rough.
I think its interesting to hear about addiction from people who have recovered and I think stories of recovery in any form always provides a feeling of hope. I like to hear them because I've definitely been on the other side of hope, which is being hopeless and bitter.
Falling in Love...With Heroin
This podcast appealed to me because of people in my life who have struggled with heroin addiction, and other addictions. It was about a couple that struggled with addiction and eventually became clean. It was really depressing because you want to be happy for them that they came clean, but the obvious harm they did to their family, and children, makes it hard. Also the charges they reveal about the man in the relationship, was rough.
I think its interesting to hear about addiction from people who have recovered and I think stories of recovery in any form always provides a feeling of hope. I like to hear them because I've definitely been on the other side of hope, which is being hopeless and bitter.
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Post 9:Inspiration
Okeechobee Music Festival Installations (various artists)
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This piece was my least favorite of the installations but still really fun to check out. It was interactive and sturdy and played with a lot of geometry and color that created a kaleidoscope aesthetic.
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I liked the use of recycled materials (Coffee cans, food cans, other metal) in this piece. It was decorative, an interactive stage, and created a metallic jingling that carried through the campground.
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This piece was really interesting because of the carnival-like component. Almost like a ride at a fair, there was a line to get in closer to this metal structure and sit on several bull-riding shapes that stuck out around the bottom. Once enough riders were seated they were instructed to bounce on it. The more you bounced on it the more fire would shoot out of the holes of the snowman shaped metal sculpture. It was fascinating and demonic to witness such a show.
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This piece was my least favorite of the installations but still really fun to check out. It was interactive and sturdy and played with a lot of geometry and color that created a kaleidoscope aesthetic.
Friday, March 18, 2016
Cost Materials/Spring 2016
Thrift Store Paintings : 20$
Large Canvas: 40$
Oil Paint: 15$
Brushes: 20$
Large Canvas: 40$
Oil Paint: 15$
Brushes: 20$
Sunday, March 13, 2016
Post 8: Inspiration
1 Ana Mendieta
Finally looked this artist up after a couple people have told me that I would find it interesting. Ana Mendieta's work often consists of her body and nature which I found really cool because I've experimented with similar ideas. It especially reminded me of my beach performance that I failed at and when I attempted to paint myself into concrete.
2 May Medina
Thought this piece said a lot about gender roles. I love the expression and detail in the face/hand with the combination of flat shapes of color .
3 Charles (Pretty sure a female artist with Charles as a nickname/alias)
All of this artists work uses a heavy black outline which I usually don't go crazy over but really enjoy in this work and found it to be really unique.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Post 7: Inspiration
1 https://society6.com/lifelesssatellite
Ran across this society 6 page, couldn't find a name but really enjoyed this artists' fantasy style and femininity.
Ran across this society 6 page, couldn't find a name but really enjoyed this artists' fantasy style and femininity.
2 Daniel Segrove http://www.danielsegroveart.com/
I like the balance that Daniel Segrove has, and admire it because I really lack the ability to uses negative space or empty space successfully.
3 No idea whose this is
I really enjoy blue/green and orange together. I think that quality in these is what makes me like them so much.
Sunday, February 28, 2016
Post 6: Make up a story about a painting
Sleeping Nude - Gustave Courbet
The Good Life
Many moons ago, a woman who lived very much alone, came home from work and made a delicious meal. She got comfortable, read a chunk from a book she'd been enjoying, and passed out early in a very comfortable bed with clean white sheets.
Post 6: Inspiration
1 David Irvine
I was interested to see if other artists were painting on other art and this guy is. David Irvine buys thrift store paintings and paints well known characters into them. I think there pretty funny and I would think he sells a lot of them because of collectors and people who are obsessed with fictional characters.
2 Wayne White
Wayne White is the only other person I can find painting on paintings. He buys them at thrift stores, and paints block letters of funny profanity's, or sayings that are inappropriate. It is very different then what I'm doing but I think the playful juxtaposition is similar. He has a documentary on Netflix about this project and how it brought him a lot of success in the art world.
3 Emily Kell
I enjoy Emily Kell's subject matter. Her paintings of women are really nice and I like that she has armpit hair and embraces femininity in a natural and positive way.
Saturday, February 27, 2016
Friday, February 19, 2016
Post 5: Art and Fear Response 1
1. What work have you made that seems the most yours? why?
I think the work that is most mine is the work I've made most recently in BA, especially my hookah painting and the found painting I altered. I think my reasoning for this is because I agree with the book, every time you create you learn something new. You learn how to make things better or learn more about your style or the content you want to portray and like a spiral it eventually brings you to the center of you.
2. Who are artists that are making work that relates to you? Are there other influences? How are these other influences connected to your work?
I really like Jaclyn Alderete's work and think it does relate to me. I do think shes more talented but I envy the way she paints and would like to master that style. I think her content relates to me because I like to paint women, and cats, and intimate moments. (I know you haven't seen any of my work with cats) Other influences that inspire my work is nudism, music, friends and lovers. I know its probably not the right thing to say, but I think I get far more inspiration from those things then other artists. I do love art and paintings but I think I get the most influences from my experiences.
3. Discuss in your own words, why you think this is so.
I think the author is making a point that, where there are people there is art and creation. Humans (at least some humans) see that the world as it truly is, a miraculous, magical accident full of joy and pleasure. Whether it is still lives depicting the brightly colored fruit that literally grows on trees, or our own naked bodies, or nature, or the geometric shelters we create, we can't help but create images of it, sculptures of it, take photographs of it, because its amazing!
4. Which of these ideas resonates most with you? Why? If they all resonate, how do they differ?
I think all of these ideas resonate because I've felt this way about art at different times. Art is something you do out in the world, we spray paint cement walls with radical political nonsense or just beautiful images or people we've lost. Art is also something you do about the world, about the injustice we face in the world, the power we have in the world, the way we feel about the world. And many times art is something you do for the world, whether its a sketch on a napkin for your favorite bar tender or a mural in an inner city school or a portrait for an orphan, its a skill we want to use to make others feel good.
5. What do you notice about yourself? What are your methods? Subject matter?
I notice things about myself, but I think I notice the same things over and over. I notice that I love people and there stories and painting them. I love nudism and I enjoy painting nudist scenes or the human body. I love music and painting and combining the vibe of music and festival culture into my work. I'm very comfortable with myself and who I am and I like to communicate that through my work and hope to inspire people to be confident with themselves.
6. What do you care about?
I care about my family first and fore most, I am really close with my 5 siblings and parents. I care about my friends and there stories and happiness. I care about music and going to experience the energy musicians put off and supporting there art. I care about the earth, animals, and empowering women.
I think the work that is most mine is the work I've made most recently in BA, especially my hookah painting and the found painting I altered. I think my reasoning for this is because I agree with the book, every time you create you learn something new. You learn how to make things better or learn more about your style or the content you want to portray and like a spiral it eventually brings you to the center of you.
2. Who are artists that are making work that relates to you? Are there other influences? How are these other influences connected to your work?
I really like Jaclyn Alderete's work and think it does relate to me. I do think shes more talented but I envy the way she paints and would like to master that style. I think her content relates to me because I like to paint women, and cats, and intimate moments. (I know you haven't seen any of my work with cats) Other influences that inspire my work is nudism, music, friends and lovers. I know its probably not the right thing to say, but I think I get far more inspiration from those things then other artists. I do love art and paintings but I think I get the most influences from my experiences.
3. Discuss in your own words, why you think this is so.
I think the author is making a point that, where there are people there is art and creation. Humans (at least some humans) see that the world as it truly is, a miraculous, magical accident full of joy and pleasure. Whether it is still lives depicting the brightly colored fruit that literally grows on trees, or our own naked bodies, or nature, or the geometric shelters we create, we can't help but create images of it, sculptures of it, take photographs of it, because its amazing!
4. Which of these ideas resonates most with you? Why? If they all resonate, how do they differ?
I think all of these ideas resonate because I've felt this way about art at different times. Art is something you do out in the world, we spray paint cement walls with radical political nonsense or just beautiful images or people we've lost. Art is also something you do about the world, about the injustice we face in the world, the power we have in the world, the way we feel about the world. And many times art is something you do for the world, whether its a sketch on a napkin for your favorite bar tender or a mural in an inner city school or a portrait for an orphan, its a skill we want to use to make others feel good.
5. What do you notice about yourself? What are your methods? Subject matter?
I notice things about myself, but I think I notice the same things over and over. I notice that I love people and there stories and painting them. I love nudism and I enjoy painting nudist scenes or the human body. I love music and painting and combining the vibe of music and festival culture into my work. I'm very comfortable with myself and who I am and I like to communicate that through my work and hope to inspire people to be confident with themselves.
6. What do you care about?
I care about my family first and fore most, I am really close with my 5 siblings and parents. I care about my friends and there stories and happiness. I care about music and going to experience the energy musicians put off and supporting there art. I care about the earth, animals, and empowering women.
Post 5: Inspiration
1 Alex Grey
I really enjoy Alex Grey's painting style and how unique it is. The way he paints the metaphysical is really inspiring. I especially like his pieces about birth and love. The way he illustrates the figures internally shows how humans are interconnected.I also like how he paints the energy and auras that surround the figures.
2 Jaclyn Alderete
I love the way she handles the paint. It's very fluid and painterly. She lets the paint be paint. Its thick and the brush strokes are visible. I like that most of her work is women, because I too like to paint the female form.
3 Rob Rey
I like the content in a lot of Rob Reys' work, I like the relaxed, intimate, nature of his paintings and the broad brushstrokes.
I really enjoy Alex Grey's painting style and how unique it is. The way he paints the metaphysical is really inspiring. I especially like his pieces about birth and love. The way he illustrates the figures internally shows how humans are interconnected.I also like how he paints the energy and auras that surround the figures.
2 Jaclyn Alderete
I love the way she handles the paint. It's very fluid and painterly. She lets the paint be paint. Its thick and the brush strokes are visible. I like that most of her work is women, because I too like to paint the female form.
3 Rob Rey
I like the content in a lot of Rob Reys' work, I like the relaxed, intimate, nature of his paintings and the broad brushstrokes.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Art 21: Eleanor Antin Response
Eleanor Antins video was inspiring to me because of how radical she is with her art. I feel that in my own work I like to take chances, and show my feminist side and I appreciate how shes unafraid. As a female artist or as any artist really, your just opening yourself up for criticism. Performance art is already controversial and not well-known by any means to the general public, the risk you take when undergoing a performance piece is higher than other art mediums. Will people get it? Will they hate it because they don't understand it? Will they view it as art? I think most performance art pieces require the viewer to use deeper thinking and research most of the time. Listening or watching the artist talk about there work is the fastest way to get to the meat of it all. Once you do get it, it almost hits you over the head and leaves you dumbfounded. I think Eleanor Antins work had that affect on me. I did have some back ground knowledge from Art History III, but when I watched the video I felt that I hadn't gotten the full picture from my class at all. Her exploration of different personalities through performance cuts to the heart of what it is to be a woman and what makes a woman. I think the end result shows you that gender is just superficial.
Art 21:Marina Abromavic
Marina Abromavics' work always leaves me with a weird feeling. Her performances always puts out a cold, dark, and violent tone through potential and endurance that sets me on edge. I feel like to create work in that manner you have to value your work and your concepts over your life, which as inspiring as that is, makes me feel like the artist is almost unstable. I know Van Gogh cut off his ear which is way more extreme but the way she throws herself to the wolves reminds me of that. The gaze that reoccurs in her work and also in this video, is a test to her endurance and power through her stare. You can tell she never gets lazy, or wanders but is fully present in every passing moment of the video. Its a performance that I honestly could never recreate. I have a hard time looking someone in the eyes more than a few minutes at the most. Something as un-receptive as a camera lens would be even more difficult because it would bore me, but with a person it would be incredibly awkward. It is literally impossible not to look away. The amount of focus it would require is so beyond what we do in our every day lives. Looking to the side, daydreaming, checking the clock, checking your phone, how long are we ever just present and focused? Marina Abromavic is constantly communicating to you through her gaze every second. Its the weirdest test of emotional endurance ever but in a way it relates to the staring contests we all had as children, except obviously Marina Abromavic blinks.
Post 4: Inspiration
These are some of the pictures I took off of facebook to work from. I tried to choose photos from around the time we were hanging out. Some were harder than others because I blocked them on all social media but luckily my roomate helped some.
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