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.