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Week 15; Art Gallery Visit

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Sherrie Levine Untitled (After Malevich and Schiele), from the 1917 exhibition, Nature Morte Gallery, New York (1984) 279x356mm Drawing Sherrie Levine Untitled (After Malevich and Schiele), from the 1917 exhibition, Nature Morte Gallery, New York  (1984) 279x356mm Drawing Egon Schiele Self-Portrait with Striped Shirt 1910 305x443cm(without frame) Black Chalk and gauche on paper I selected these works as inspiration for my own self-portrait because I love Egon Schiele's style.  I was once told by one of my drawing professors that my own emulated that of Schiele's and that really intrigued me.  Ultimately the hardest thing in creating a self-portrait is the fact that I have to stare at myself.  In staring at yourself for long amounts of time it creates this very surreal affect on your psyche.  I begin to think "do I actually look like this?"  I always have problems with proportion as well so it is som...
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Module 13 and 14 video review

The Lowdown on Lowbrow: In watching this video I was able to understand how certain forms of art can be classified into a single category.  Also how they work together and compliment each other based on subject and style in a way that can be displayed in an exhibition.  I had no idea what lowbrow art was before watching this video.  Well, I have seen it but never knew it had an actual classification.  I found it interesting to see the whole community of artists that are part of the category.  It helped me have a better understanding on how to pair art together. An Acquiring Mind: This video was really interesting because I had no idea that an art curator has that much power in an art museum.  It was really interesting to me to see how art is proposed for the collection.  I also really enjoyed seeing how knowledgable the art curators were in presenting the work they were trying to get the museum to buy.  Overall this video was very interestin...
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Module 13 Project 4

In creating the exhibit I was incredibly excited because that is something I personally have always wanted to do.  Even with doing so online, I felt as though I could have made it incredibly better given more time.  I have always wanted to curate my own art show and I even have thought about doing so in my very own attic since I have a lot of friends that create artwork, as well as myself.  I wanted to do artwork I knew I would actually be interested in rather than stuff I was just picking randomly.  As well as having an extensive knowledge on the artwork and artists themselves.  I feel given the opportunity to perhaps do this in real life, that I would have the chance to sit with the artist themselves and work with that, or at the very least someone that is dealing or representing their art in some way.  So I figured I would do Robert Mapplethorpe since he is my favorite photographer.  I find his work to be incredibly interesting and also intimate....
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Module 12

Andy Warhol: Images of an Image I chose to watch this documentary because I am interested in Andy Warhol as a whole.  I went to the Warhol museum over the summer and it was truly an interesting experience.  Watching this documentary furthered my opinion of him being an innovator within the art community.  However I wish it spoke more of him as a person rather than reflecting on the same pieces of artwork.  I feel his personal life had a major impact on his art which I think could have been elaborated on within this; being that it is a documentary on his images. Which is interesting that the text actually had a brief section that was about Andy Warhol's life.  Uncertainty: Modernity and Art This documentary was really funny to me because it seemed as though the narrator was out of breath when he was walking around the gallery in those scenes.  It was interesting to get a perspective on contemporary art and learning about the general statement it makes ...
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Gallery Visit: Exhibition

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A Dream world of Imagination: Charles E. Burchfield's Golden Year    The theme of the exhibition was that of symbols that related to Charles Burchfield.  Many of the symbols correlated with human emotion and in particular, his.  A main theme was his relationship to the natural world.  Many crickets were reoccurring, making note of their hum, in written poems or short stories below the works.   The gallery was set up so that there was minimal lighting.  The room was quite dim, with soft yellow light on the works of Burchfield.  Any works that seemed colorful however had a white lighting.  The walls were a soft off-white.  The space was set up so you enter the room and follow the wall to a bigger, more spaced out room with more works.  The inner architecture consisted of white walls and tile flooring. The movement of the gallery didn't seem to make much sense to me in terms of set up and I felt like it was easy for m...
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Module 11: Blog Review

Dada Surrealism: I chose this video because on of my favorite artists is Marcel Duchamp.  I also had read a book by Jung which discussed the connection between the subconscious and art in specific reference to the dada movement so it is something that interested me.  The video examined the different approaches to the dada movement from different artists' approach.  I really enjoyed the artist George Grosz and his ideology when it came to art.  It was interesting that he disagreed with the involvement with artists in politics and then eventually began creating artwork that was a political response.  The surrealism part of the video was also interesting in how it described the interest of the human mind.  It made me think of when I went to the Dali museum in Florida last summer and seeing the strange paintings there.  However I really enjoy surrealism because it is this mix of a skewed perception of reality through the mind in a real space almost. Ma...
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Hand drawing

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Drawing my hand was something I never liked doing.  Hands are incredibly difficult to draw, there are so many bones within a hand I feel you almost have to take this into consideration.  I did blind contour for most of the time because I found that easier for me to get the shape of my fingers.  I used a 6B pencil because I feel more familiar with pencil than drawing with charcoal. Drawing with my non-dominant hand was really hard and I was not too fond of it or the drawings I produced.  However it challenged my motor skills in a way.  The bottom drawing of my hands are kind of sloppy compared to the top.  I feel the second time around I spent more time on the detail and moving slower with my drawing process.   I think it would be cool to use my non-dominant hand to draw abstract people or shapes, so yes I would consider utilizing that.
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