Mapping projects.

The mapping project that I would like to blog about would be, the constellation one. This project was done very well. I think that you guys had an amazing idea, team and finished product. It was creative and you all seemed to worked very well together. I don't know how well I agree with what people said about the boarder around your map, I think it was needed to eliminate some of the map that was just unneeded, it did go with your project. The boarder itself I liked and it did go with your project but maybe you could have done something a little less...extravagant, and just kept it simple because there was a lot going on in the project already. Also, I agreed with what the other classmates were saying about that one pin over the Walker, I think that it should have at least been a different color or a different type of pin. Other then that, I think your guys nailed.

"Add Elegance to your poverty"

While visiting the Midway Contemporary Art show, "The secret life of objects" On the wall was spraypainted "ADD ELEGANCE TO YOUR POVERTY" with a picket fence. In this she was clearly trying to send a message. I found a source that helps explain what she is doing with this spray paint on the bright white walls. (http://cva-oad-donegan.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-add-elegance-to-your-poverty.html) In this piece of art work is trying to tell us that poverty is everywhere. The woman responsible for this moving piece Monica Bovicini from what i've read about her is always tries to portray some sort of message in all of her paintings, drawings, videos ect. http://www.neoaztlan.com/issue-five/art/monica-bonvicini/ This web site is filled with a whole lot of information about her and who she is. I defintaly think it is a website worth checking out and reading into. Its very interesting. Back to this "ADD ELEGANCE TO YOUR POVERTY", It is black spray paint on a blank white wall. Its in all capital letters with a completely regual picket white fence. (obviously outlined in black spray paint.) (As soon as I saw this I wanted to hunt this woman down and have her come to my house and spray paint it on my walls.). I think the reason she put it all in capital letters was to make sure you didnt miss it, and to completely understand it. I think the picket fence is the like saying everyone wants that "American Dream" lifestlye, but most people cant get it with our economy or just bad choises or maybe because of the life you got brought into, wrong place wrong time kinda thing. With those big black capital letters over it...just makes you think, of how lucky you are and how lucky you are to have what you got and how poverty is everywhere...and why havent you helped yet.

"16 Jackies"

When we went to the walker I fell right in love with andy worhols "16 Jackies".

The reason was because I'm a huge fan of Andy Worhol and because I loved what the "16 Jackies" portraid. It showed how you can go from being happy to sad in a split second, how your emotions can change in a split second. We talked about how people wouldnt concider it art because he didnt make it, but the thing is he had the idea, if it wasnt for the idea that peice of art work would never have existed. "What confirms his Modernist chops is the integral power of the images and objects that resulted from his deconstructing."(http://artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2002/Articles0502/AWarholB4.html)

This is what i'm talking about, the reason he made this art work was to get some feelings/some emotions out of people. To have them look at it and think about it. I agree, because even if your doing it art for art sake, your still going to make people think about what they are looking at. Which is what every artist should do.

Midway Contemporary Art(the secret life of objects)

On our field trip to the Midway contemporary Art place,

I found many Pieces that I really liked,but the one that stood out the most to me

was Larry Clarks "Tulsa". They were the pictures of the heroin addicts on the wall all

in black frames. I was so fond of them, because it was like the kind of life that people turn

their backs on and just ignore. Its one of the ugly things in life that noone cares about, but

its REAL LIFE and that is what makes it so good. It tells a story and i felt like you just had to

wander back and forth through the pictures to figure out where the next part of the story started and I feel like there were just multipul "mini-stories" inside the bigger picture of things. I was just so simply amazing to see the good old american dream gone so utterly wrong laied out for you in black and white.

above are just 2 of the many pictures. (taken by google)

As much as i loved most of the art work that was in the exibit, I did find my fair share of ones I did not like, Ken Prices "untitled" is about a fist sized black and red abstract ceramic figure. I

did not like this piece of art work because it had no meaning. It was too abstract and looked like it took no effort or talent to make. Unfortunatly I surfed the internet and I found out that he has a number of pieces of art that are named "untitled". Also, through further investigation of his art work, more of his ceramic figure/sculptures are very similar. I just did not enjoy the sight of his art work, or the fact that it did have any story or meaning, the name of it gave me that particular vibe.

Sam

Visiting the MIA

When going to the MIA I decided to compare the 2 paintings of portraits of 2 woman.
Amedeo Modigliani "Little Servant Girl" (1916) and Paulus Moreelse "Portrait of Catharina Van Voorst" (1628)
These paintings are both different but similar they are different because on is clearly more modern then the other and they are the same because they are both of woman and both are portraits. But, is one of the woman more beautiful then the other? One is of a servant and one is of clearly a woman with a lot of money and the painting are from some seriously different times, one modern one from early europian times. Either way, they are still so beautiful in their own way and what is the true definition of beauty? The servant girl is tan skinned in a slim black dress, night gown thing and the other woman is very pale skinned and in a (i wouldnt doubt) personally made dress, that is extremly extravogent. In my eyes both of these woman are beautiful in their own way. Im sure they were beautiful in the eyes of whoever painted them as well.

sam
PS. sorry I couldn't get pictures up..if you want to see them i'm sorry but you'll have to google them.

postmodern standpoint

I went to a gallery show at concordia. I found a piece of art work
by a man by the name of Marko Fields. I decided on his piece of art called
"Pray O salior lost at sea, That a mermaid may find thee."

In the sculpture that i saw hanging on the wall it seems as if he
was showing all of the things that could go wrong on a ship and what
is lurking under the murky ocean. It like he is explaining an
old wives tale of that sailor saw mermaids and had tall tails of what
they looked like. He also had a like a sunken ship and skull and
cross bones, so, it seems he is saying that, sailor if you die, you better
hope that mermaid is down there waiting to save you. It seems as if he
had recently read some old pirate book and then made art out of the main
point. Its a lovely sculpture and very interesting, I recoment giving it a long
hard look.

Sam

OAD

Hi, Im sam...This is for orientation art and Design, a class at CVA. Its bomb.