
Monday, October 31, 2011
"Marina's Room, 1987" & "Marina and Peter 1997" by Tina Barney

Sunday, October 30, 2011
Before Attack, Hoist a Black Flag

Wednesday, October 26, 2011
My Sister Sophie by Catherine Goodman

This portrait really caught my eye when i was flipping through the art text book. It wasn't the fact that the portrait was attractive because to me it wasnt at all. The woman in the piece is morbidly obese and really is not a very enticing looking. The woman in this picture is the authors disabled sister. He loved painting in complete silence and that is why he says he loved painting her. He claims that his sister in the picture looks quite contemplative and seems to have a sense of trust in him. One thing I happened to like about this picture was the light blues he used to bring out her outfit as well as the darker blues in the background. Even though the picture to me is not very pretty or attractive looking there was a good background behind why he painted her . I still think that it would have been nicer if he painted her in a nicer way to maybe show off more of her traits and not so much her weight.
Zwelethu Mthethwa- Untitled, from the 'Sugar Cane' series, 2003

I chose this painting because I really liked the fact that the artist focused on painting something with a lot of meaning to it. For instance, in this picture he is trying to show what it was like for rural migrants living in South Africa. In fact, 'he reveals the continuing hardships they endure' by capturing all of the hard work that they have to do in the sugar-cane fields. Also, 'he allows his subjects' gestures, tools, clothes, and posture to express their individual stories', which I thought was interesting because you can find out so much about the individual just by looking at the painting. What I also really liked was that the back of the picture looks so natural and light, almost a happy feeling, while the front of the picture where the man is standing is so dark, almost as if he is trying to show the tough times the Africans experienced back then. Also, the man in the picture even has an intense gaze that is in 'stark contrast to the often picturesque natural backdrop.'
"No 3 from profiles lll" by Bettina von Zwehl

I chose this picture by Bettina von Zwehl because I though it was different. This is a unique portrait because it is a picture of the side of a person rather than of the person looking straight. A lot of her portrait work is this way. In addition, since you only see the side of the baby's head it's hard to decide what expression he is hiding. Even with normal portraits from bettina the person in the picture is usually still and expressionless. This picture looks like a mugshot of a baby. I think this is ironic because baby's are synonymous with being innocent where as this type of picture resembles a mug shot, which are taken when people are not innocent.
Sphinx

This is a sculpture of Kate Moss by Marc Quinn, also the artist who created the sculptures of himself out of his own frozen blood and the sculpture of his son's head out of the placenta. I chose to search Quinn because he had such odd art work and I found this. I thought it was interesting that there are so many artists that decide to create portraits of Kate Moss also. This one is especially interesting because she is contorted into such an odd way wearing only underwear. It was made in bronze and then painted white. When asked, Quinn said that he named the sculpture so because he said Kate is like a contemporary version of a sphinx. She is a mystery.
"Godfather II - Never Betray The Family" Unveiling Reception

Big Self-Portrait, 1967-68.
This is an acrylic on canvas self portrait of Chuck Close by Chuck Close. His style of realistic paintings portray a wide variety of subjects including friends, family, fellow artists, and himself. This one in particular is one of his first self portraits. I chose this one because I was intrigued by his cigarette, bold black frames, mustache, and unique facial features. This portrait would pass as an actual photograph.

Chuck Close paints a lot of pictures and paintings of his family and friends. In 2002, Close spent 3 months on making this woodcut prints and 2 years to finish the picture of his niece Emma. This picture is made up of 113 color hand printed wood cuts. Close worked with Master printer Yasu Shibata to make this masterpiece.

This is a self portrait of Chuck Close from 2004. Chuck Close is a photo realist painter which means he takes photographs of people and then creates paintings that appears to be very realistic. This is one example of Chuck Closes photorealist paintings. He uses a grid-based technique and paints each grid so that the portrait looks real. I like this painting because I think the techniques he used are interesting and its like nothing ive ever seen before. If you look at it from far away it just looks like a photo of someone, but if you get close you can see each indiviaul grid and how each grid is painted differently. Its really interesting.
Kim Kardashian
I chose this artwork, because this is what Ally was talking about in class it's a Barbra Kruger design of Kim Kardashian, and I thought it was very interesting when she said it, so I wanted to look it up. I really like this art work, because it's the same stuff we saw in the movie, but it's just different because its on a picture of Kim Kardashian. The Words are very touching It's all about me I mean you I mean me. It's contradictory, but yet it makes so much sense. I really like it.
Mark by Chuck Close

Mark by Chuck Close is an acrylic on canvas painting that took Close almost 14 months to complete in 1978-1979. It is currently at the MOMA in New York City. I have seen this portrait there and it is a very large portrait. The details on the painting are so vivid and life like it is truly an amazing piece of work. Chuck Close completed this portrait by using a series of layered airbrushing techniques, which he did to imitate a CMYK color printing. What I enjoy most about Chuck Close is that his name says it all with his artistic style. From far away you would see an ordinary painting and up close you see all the arrangements and details that compose of a humans face that are difficult to put onto paper other than a photograph. I enjoyed the realness and quirkiness of this painting and how normal yet detailed and complimentary the artist made it.
Rain #2

Monday, October 24, 2011
Tony Bevan's "self portrait after messerschmid"

Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Craigie Horsfield

I chose Craigie Horsfeild's "Mary Moszynska" (1995) because it fit the mood I was in at the time. Horsfield is known for black and white photography/ portraits of individuals who don't pose fort he camerz. In our text there is another 1995 photograph call "Albert Martin, Avigunda de Puig de Jorba, Vallbona, Barcelona". I think Horsfield's photography is so eye-catching because the subjects are usually without much expression and the composition is interesting. In this photo, Mary the women is staring off at something in the distance (something unknown to us). In the photo in the text the subject in angled away from the camera and their is person in the background you cannot make out. These pictures are interesting because they aren't clear on what exactly is going on.
John Currin

Inka

Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Koh-i-noor
Monday, October 10, 2011

Sunday, October 9, 2011
Dancing Ostriches- Paula Rego

Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Singh Twins: Amrit and Rabindra

I chose this picture because I thought it was very interesting. It is a picture of David Beckham, and his pop star wife, Victoria. In the picture there are numerous different things that seem so odd to be scattered throughout the picture. You see Beckham holding a young boy in a soccer outfit holding a soccer ball, a lion is sitting underneath them, there is another soccer player holding a platter with soccer shoes on it, and another man holding something that says I heart Beckham on it. I thought that all of these things were so interesting and odd at the same time, which is what brought my attention to the picture. What I also found strange was the fact that there was a cat head and dog head on two human bodies. I think that the artist was trying to show celebrity culture "and the ways in which the media and commercialisation of sport transform the everyday man into a universal hero.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Daphne todd, Me in a magnifying glass
This picture definitely caught my eye when I saw it. This picture is so unique and different in that the picture is in four pieces. This does not represent Daphne Todd or her work, it is just what she happened to see while looking into a magnifying glass . She loves how while looking into a magnifying glass the image seen is not normal. The picture seems distorted and abnormal in different sequences. I also liked how she really captured the "up closeness" and how the image was reflected behind the woman's face. I also enjoyed how she drew the painting and how realistic the wrinkles on the face appear and the expression with the eyes.
"Daddy's Girl" by Eric Fischl Oil On Canvas
I chose this painting because I thought it was odd. It depicts an extremely intimate moment between a father and daughter. They are both naked which I found strange. It looks as though the scene overall is just very relaxing. They are secluded from the rest of the world which makes it even more intimate. The girl is looking in the direction of the ocean in the background while the father holds her. It looks like she is ready to explore the rest of her surroundings while he is content with enjoying the moment they are experiencing now
Napoleon Crossing the St. Bernard

Ridens

"Triple Portrait of Charles I"

Decommissioned: Stairs (up), 2009
Gaz- 1997

Marc Quinn: 'Self'

Self-Portrait at Three years old

Gillian Wearing painted this self portrait of herself of when she was three years old. Wearing photographs herself in a mask of her own fact at 3. She both is and is not herself. The mask covers the entire face expect her eyes, her adult eyes. The space shown around the eyeholes is our one glimpse of the "truth".
Paris Hilton

I chose this photo my Janathan Yeo because I liked the other painting that he did as well. I was also interested in why he picked her out of all people. What i like most about his work is how he uses different shapes with each color. Whats most interesting about this collage is he uses pornographic clippings and incorporates them into his art work. This creates alot of controversy in his art work.
Ken Dodd

BONDI BEACH 99 II
This photograph is by Beat Streuli. He is a traevling photographer that has most of his work on people just being themselves. I like his photography, because in all his work the person photographed makes it look unknown that they are on camera. I chose this photo of a little girl playing in the water, because it's very natural, and she just looks so concerned with what she is doing that nothing else matters. Also I like that shes in the water alone because she looks independent and confident even though she's just a young girl.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Takashi Homma

Beat Streuli's from "8th Ave/35th Street" Album

Monday, October 3, 2011
Jon, 2004
This piece was created by Dryden Goodwin. Jon is a watercolour made from a photograph. I chose this piece because of its simplicity and composition. The image doesn't contain many components or distractions. All that the viewer is given is a completely blank background and a subject who isn't fully colored in. What the artist intends us to automatically experience is a look into a man's emotions. The image reflects the subjects anxiety in his unknown situation. Overall, this is a piece that can truly make me feel jealous over the artist's artistic ability.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia -Heads #7

This piece is another portrait from Philip-Lorca diCorcia's "Heads" series. He uses strobes for his photography that highlights strangers on the road and makes them visual. He photograph's people in their natural environments with a candid shot, which truly shows their natural expressions. This picture shows mystery again, as this woman is standing amongst strangers thinking and looking at something which is uknown to the viewer. Her expression is distressed and secretive, it looks like she feels connected to what she is viewing on a deeper level than the other people surrounding her. She doesn't look like she is about to cry but she looks very stoic and concerned, but the answers are yet again unknown. His photography makes you think which is why I enjoy looking at pieces from this artist.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Snowman-Gary Hume

David Mach "Lord chief justice, Lord Woolf"

David Mach was an awesome sculpture. This is a picture of a David Mach sculpture that is photographed with a plain background. David took everyday objects in this case coat hangers and made an attractive looking sculpture of the lord chief justice. The bottom layer of the sculpture was made of a hard plastic and each coat hanger on the outside was bent and welded to create this image. This sculpture captured my eye because it is not the traditional sculpture of a person. This sculpture makes you really think about what it is and what it's made of i would have never know what it was made of it i didn't look in depth. Overall Great Sculpture
Shirley

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