CONCEPTUAL ART

Conceptual art is supposed to give an idea or concept to the person viewing it. It doesn't accept the creation of traditional art. Joseph Kosuth is an influential American conceptual artists. His work is known to strive to explore the nature of art. He would rather focus on the ideas than making the art itself. His most famous piece is "One and Three Chairs." It consists of an actual chair, a photograph of the chair that is in the room, and the dictionary definition of the word chair.His works stand for what they exactly are. Works such as his "Five words in blue neon,"completely demonstrate this idea. In doing this there is no debate on what it is, because it is simply just five words in blue neon. This is the best and only way to describe it. I appreciate what Joseph Kusoth and all of the conceptual artists have done. With Joseph Kusoth specifically, I like how he takes the mystery out of his pieces. There is no pining and confusion about what his pieces mean.

Performance Art

For my performance art proposal i had Maggie and Victor get in the sit up position on the ground. Between the two of them they had the choice in which direction they wanted to crunch to first. The idea is for them to be going in opposition to one another. Each time the Victor and Maggie sit up they have to touch hands so it makes a noise. They have the choice to clap once, twice, or three times each times they hit hands. Victor and Maggie should do this until they have created their own rhythm. When Maggie and Victor first read my proposal they were confused on what i meant by opposition. Maggie thought that i meant when she was down on the ground while Victor would be up in the full sit up position. Once that was explained they both jumped right into it. My first thought was for them to alternate between hitting hands once, twice, or three times. But Victor and Maggie took it as they could choose to do one, two, or three. But that then made sense because that was exactly how i explained it on the sheet. But it worked out fine. At first they had the initial reaction to hit both of their hands together, but then i told them that they were only supposed to hit one hand. There really wasn't a rhythm that was made mainly do to the fact that it wasn't done until there was a rhythm created. This proposal would have been more successful if Victor and Maggie committed more time to being in tune with what both of them were doing in relation to each other. This is an activity that needs time to be done correctly. It would take as long as the five minute mark before a exact and apparent rhythm was being made by both Victor and Maggie. By the end of the activity Victor and Maggie should have felt comfortable with their actions and it should have become second nature to them. If i could do this activity over again the right way, i definitely would.

Dada

Dadaism or Dada began at the start of World War I. Most of the people involved in the movement were in opposition of anyone whom they thought was the main cause of the war. They were highly against conformity in society and most importantly in art that had anything to do with the war. Through their harsh rejection of the war, their art work expressed non logic and exulted scenes of chaos. Dada was meant to reflect the opposite of anything art.It was "anti-art." With all of this opposition to traditional art many try to find the point in all of this. Dadaist wanted to completely wipe out The traditional aesthetics and culture of art. Dada can be very hard or very easy to perceive. I can understand where the artist of this time were coming from with their opposition to the war. But i have a difficult time in understanding why they would want to forget about all of the basic principles of art. It could have been to start new, to create something that was based off of self expression and not the traditional aesthetically pleasing art forms. I don't know if i completely agree with the Dadaist movement. The emotions were so intense at that time in our history that i think that they were the driving force in this movement.

PLAYING WITH BEHAVIORS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

The activity was for you and your partner to both have mirrors and to go and stand back to back to each other and look at the other person in their mirror through your mirror. The point was to mimic the expression that your partner was making and to walk further away from each other until you could no longer see the face of your partner. Initially it was really weird to do this, seeing Aris's Face(my partner) just made me laugh. Finally after getting over the initial awkwardness we started walking away from each other. The entire time i was walking away i could see her face clearly in her mirror through my mirror.It began to just look like a floating head. It look like Aris's head and her body were two different things walking away from me.I felt like the image of her face in her mirror through my mirror was clearer and easier to see, than her just walking away from me in my mirror. I thought that was pretty cool. I thought that the activity was very fun and interesting.

LOGOS

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The Walt Disney logo is known around the world. The elaborate "W" in Walt, and the classic "D" in Disney could be recognized by anyone. Another thing that goes hand in hand with the Walt Disney signature is the icon that comes immediately behind it. The castle, at the Disney world parks the highlight of your trip is at the end of the day when you get to see the firework show at the castle. The castle is the symbol that represents Disney. That is why i think that this is a great example for iconography. Other things could pop into your head when you think of Disney, It could be your favorite character, movie, or ride. But there are too many of those things to pinpoint as the ultimate symbol of Disney. The one that works the best is the castle. There are also many other logos of Disney, one of the other most famous ones would be the Mickey Mouse ears. But in most advertisements and at the beginning of every movie you will see the Walt Disney signature with the castle behind it.

Duchamp

The first time that i saw the piece it was small and in black and white on a piece of computer paper. i couldn't form a big opinion about it because i didn't know what it actually looks like. i wanted to know what medium it was in, and i wanted to see the colors. when we finally got the chance to see it, i was surprised. i wasn't expecting all of the concepts that were in the piece. There was a website that did a replica of what the whole entire piece meant. it broke down each part of it and explained what its use was. all of the objects in the piece seem to all have a job and all function together. our discussion on the piece isn't over, so i don't have a full opinion on it just yet. but for right now i am very interested in the piece and can't wait to learn more about it.

FABRIC PRINTS

I researched alot of fabric print images. Some of the prints were very intricate and unique. Many of them were simple, and others were very eratic. But even through all of the different types of fabric prints all of them still were very structured. It wasn't the shapes or the colors themselves that brought them together, but the pattern that all of these elements were brought together by. The arrangement and the repetition of the fabrics elements made a unifying print because of the pattern. If there was no pattern to join the shapes and colors together then the fabric wouldn't look clean or organized. There would be no rhythm in the fabric and it would make a very static print. The most important component of makimg a fabric print is the pattern that the artist chooses to make. As i was looking at the fabric prints i realized that the colors and the shapes weren't picked by random, but that they were strategically placed to go perfecting with the pattern itself. What i learned from viewing all of the fabric prints is that in pattern making everything goes harmoniously together. The color, the shape, and the pattern could not hold by themselves, that they all have to be together to make it work. There is no right way to make a pattern, simple and complex are all great. The one thing that can affect if your pattern is successful is to make sure that all of your elements work together harmoniously.