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"Waste Land" by Vik Muniz

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Easily as concerned with social and environmental issues as it is with the fine-art career that sets it in motion,"Waste land" introduces Vik Muniz, an artist known for photographs that construct portraits or recreate famous images using materials like sugar, chocolate syrup, and trash. The Brooklyn-based photographer grew up poor in Brazil, and we meet him as he embarks on a massive project taking him to Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho, a garbage dump that receives more trash each day than any landfill in the world. throughout this film, Vik Muniz exposes the idea of social practice in art. Social practice is an art medium that focuses on engagement through human interaction and social discourse.Socially engaged art aims to create social and/or political change through collaboration with individuals, communities, and institutions in the creation of participatory art.The discipline values the process of a work over any finished product or object. This especially holds ...
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Dada Photomontage

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"Mindless Love"                                                                         "60s in space"
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Cai Guo Qiang / oral report & bibliography

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Cai Guo-Qiang INTRODUCTION ■     His inspiration draws upon Eastern philosophy, Maoist sentiment, and contemporary social issues. ■      Renowned for his ability to leverage tension and fear toward a common consideration of the beauty in destruction. (cycle of life) ■     He has established a reputation for creating large-scale installations and elaborate performances using gunpowder and fireworks. ■     Cai's work oftentimes promotes political ideas of revolution and the romance in idealism as a way to encourage people to consider ways to contribute to a more open sense of the world.     BODY Inopportune: Stage Two made in 2004   nine life-sized tiger replicas, arrows, Tigers: papier-mâché, plaster, fiberglass, resin,    and painted hide; arrows: brass, threaded bamboo shaft, and feathers. He depicts fearsome wild animals as victims of disturbing acts of violence, hopi...
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MoMA

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Pop art , art in which common place objects (such as  comic strips , soup cans, road signs, and  hamburgers ) were used as subject matter and were often physically incorporated in the work. By creating paintings or sculptures of mass culture objects and media stars, the Pop art movement aimed to brake the boundaries between "high" art and "low" culture. The concept that there is no hierarchy of culture and that art may borrow from any source has been one of the most influential characteristics of Pop art.  Pop  artists  began to look for inspiration in the world around them. They did this in a straightforward manner, using bold swaths of  primary colors , often straight from the can or tube of  paint . They adopted commercial methods like  silkscreening , or produced  multiples   of works, downplaying the artist’s hand.  Pop artists favored realism, everyday (and even mundane) imagery, and heavy doses of irony and wi t.  At the...
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Surrealism

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Surrealism  is a cultural movement  that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks  and writings . Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision , created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious  to express itself. The roots of surrealism lie behind the ethos of romanticism and dada during the 19th century.   Dada was a movement in which artists stated their disgust with the war and with life in general. These artists showed that European culture had lost meaning to them by creating pieces of “anti-art” or “nonart.” Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious  realms of experience so completely that the world of dream  and fantasy  would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.”  These artist tried to access their unconscious mind through automatism.  In ar...
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MET Trip

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  As i walked through the MET museum i saw many of the different styles taught in class. As i looked at the various paintings i was able to see each of them with a better understanding of the techniques and styles the painters used. There were two paintings in particular that caught my attention one of them being painted by Caravaggio. His paintings combined a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, and they had a formative influence on Baroque painting . This era is fascinating because they did not depict the perfect human but rather conveyed a relate-able figure. T he painting "The musicians" made in 1597 by Caravaggio from Italy, portrayed a mix of the dainty and perfect human face from the renaissance and the emotions and harshness of the baroque era. We can see the play of light and dark in this painting as well as how compacted the figures are creating a unifying look. "Shoes" by Vincent van Go...
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Post Impressionism vs Impressionism

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Both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism refer to influential artistic movements arising in late 19th-century France. Post-Impressionism movement, focused on the  emotional, structural, symbolic, and spiritual elements  that they felt was lacking from Impressionism. A rtist evoked emotion rather than realism in their work. symbolic motifs, unnatural color, and painterly brushstrokes were all part of the post-impressionist style. Saturated hues, multicolored shadows, and rich ranges of color are evident in most Post-Impressionist painting. Rejecting interest in depicting the observed world, they instead looked to their memories and emotions in order to connect with the viewer on a deeper level. They relied upon the interrelations of color and shape to describe the world around them. The artists who would become known as the Impressionists looked at art a little differently, they wanted to make art as truly realistic as possible, with brighter colors and more ...
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