Louise Nevelson

Untitled, 1950s, Painted wood. I noticed she uses alot of black and white in her art. This is one of the only colored piece I have seen from her work. Is there a meaning or reasoning for that??

Moment of Explosion

I have print of this painting and I really enjoy it. It is by Salvador Dali 1954.

Other Art

Just to continue on a previous theme about art being everywhere. I actually have a real piece of art, kinda. It's a cartoon cell. A cell is a piece of a cartoon. Instead of re-drawing the background every time a character moves, the background stays the same, and a piece of celluiod (Sp?) is placed over the background with the characters on it. When the character moves, a new cell is place over the same background, so every cell is unique. Some of the older Disney cells sell for thousands of dollars, I bought a Simpson cell (like this one) from a gallery in Croton-on-Hudson a bunch of years ago.

Nevelson

Some of Louise Nevelson's work was good. I like the film where she is telling people where to put the pieces, an inch higher "darling". I was thinking while watching that if other artists had other people actually doing their work fot them while they supervised. Can you imagine Pollack with an assistant, "You have to drip some more red over there, an inch higher."

Anyway, Nevelson has two pieces at the Storm King art center, one wood, and one steel



Dia Beacon, Storm King art center, Who knew that the Hudson Valley was such a mecca for artists?

Sidewalk art

On the other hand, this guy is amazing.

This artist has to be the master of perspective. If you look at the drawing the wrong woy, it looks like a blob, but if you look at it in the right place, at the right angle, it's amazing. How does somone do that? I can look at a canvas, and after a lot of practice, paint something reasonably well, but this must be very difficult to do.

http://www.impactlab.com/2006/03/09/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art-photos/

Basquiat

Ok so I guess I have more final thoughts.

Here's an easy one that we should be able to wrap up fairly quickly, is graffiti art actual art, or vandalism?


Art?



Vandalism?

I think that it dosen't matter how "good" we think that an artist is, the act of graffiti makes it vandalism, even if Monet were to paint waterLilys on a train or building without permission, it's vandalism. Some of these artists are very good, but the way that they express their work is not. I wouldn't want them to paint on my house, why should they be allowed to paint on a public building?

There, that shouldn't be too controversial...

Final Thoughts

As the course wraps up, I think that I have a deeper understanding of Art in general. I think that I actually get Duchamp, and think that his message is the one that I identify with the most. It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and art can be thought of in the same way. What is art? Yes the paintings in galleries are art, but art is more than oil on canvas. Everything is art. Art is sculpture, art is photography, art is 8,000 year old hand prints on cave walls, art is expressed in tattoos, and in the presentation of food in 5 star restaurants, art is film, and ultimately, art is whatever we perceive it to be, even a snow shovel.