Reaccion Paper

REACTION PAPER

When I went to visit the Joslyn Art Museum, I found three interesting sculptures from different artist that I wanted to write something about them for the reaction paper. They are: Bronco Buster (Frederic Sackrider), Large Covered Wagon (Tom Otterness), and Untitled (Jun Kaneko).

    

Bronco Buster

Although this bronze sculpture is very the smallest than the other two, it is much realistic and very active. I remind me of Brunelleschi’s Sacrifice of Isaac because it also captures a dramatic moment from a scene. Because of that I would say this is my favorite piece.

Large Covered Wagon

The first time you look at this sculpture, I found very funny the artist's style—it made me laugh for a moment.  The piece in my opinion is very attractive to anybody because it is very smooth and shiny that it doesn’t scare anyone.  I especially like the ant-looking figures because they are very cartoonish and so simplified.

  

Untitled

My last options is the giant ceramic head from Jun Kaneko. I don’t know if the artist is trying to say something with this sculpture, but it is definitely a powerful piece.  I just admire the artist for his unique idea of building something big with clay. Working with this material is fun but also extremely hard to deal with.   

Finished Pieces

Here are some samples of the final product of my pieces. Some of them need  some color and maybe some pushishment to add a little bit of interest to them.



Endless talk

For next the next project in class, I will cast a home telephone device from which I will be creating more pieces in order to create a small installation with them.

I hope i can come up with an original idea to arrange them and make it look more interesting than just putting them next to each other.

Making Fire

The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo

Inspired by Michelangelo’s fresco painting the creation of Adam, I am going to model my hand into a snapping finger position. My theme will relate to that of Michelangelo’s in a different way but carrying the same idea of creation. Basically, instead of creating life, the fingers of my hand will be to create fire and sound. I compare the hand with a fire striker, because even though the fingers don’t actually create fire or anything like that, it will work in my imagination for this project.



First comes the snapping



then the spark

and finally, fire.

3-D Studio Assignment

Here are my ideas for the second project assignment drawn on Sketchup Google. 

Coil technique

Pinch technique

Slab technique

new animation

letters as people work together to make beautiful things

 

First animations: all about friendship

Andy Goldsworth: Environmental Art

Andy Goldsworthy’s environmental artwork is very motivating and inspiring. One think that I like about Goldsworthy’s attitude is that he never gives up when one of his ideas fail to work the first time he tries. In his documentary video, he is pilling several rocks of different sizes to create a sculpture pinecone on the shores of a lake. Even though the pilled rocks collapse every time Goldsworthy reached a certain level where they could have bear their weight, he continued trying and trying until he finally got what he wanted. The results are just extraordinary but impressive.

Some of the works that I like from him:



The art he makes are challenging but it helps people to understand and appreciate this world, our home, and everything. Before humans there was nothing but nature, and today we have filled it so many things that have ignored the how beautiful nature is. I hope more that more artists like Andy Goldsworthy emerge in the future so we can see more amazing sculptures in the future.





The Gates in Central Park

I like when artists take their ideas to the extreme like Christo and Jeanne-Claude with their project: The Gates in New York’s Central Park in February 2005. They not only brought tourists to the city but they also brought a little bit of happiness on cold winter. Looking at some of the images on the internet, I just imagine the wonderful and unique experience people got from walking under those metal structures painted with that Saffron bright color, the hanging panels of fabrics that created shadows and sounds as the winds hit the clothes and move them in different directions.

Still I don’t understand why people complained about this project if it did in have to put money on this project and it didn’t cause any damage to the environment. In my opinion Artist should make big projects like the gates because it brings the attention from the people. Even though Christo and Jeanne’s gates didn’t have any purpose at all, I think if an artist uses art to bring awareness of the bad things people do, it could have a great impact on the society on the future.

william kentridge

 

Every time we watched art21 in class, it is fascinating to learn the amazing things artist have to do these days to let the people know their concerns and preocupatoin to the world on certain issues—they have to come up very creative ways to call their attention like William kentridge, the South African artist that we watched from the Art21. On of the techniques he uses to create his animated films is the use of drawings. First he creates a image or a scene that he wants on his animation, then instead of drawing on other piece paper like other artists, he takes a shot of the image with his camera  before he can he makes suble changes to the drawing with the charcoal or erraser. By following this simple steps he is able to finish hsi film animation on the single piece of paper.

Although kentridge uses other form of art to create animation, to me this was the charcoal approach was the more impressive to me.

If I have to do another stop animation for another project, I would look for Will Kentridge to have some inspiration.

 

Music, Book, and History

The title of this book is The History of the Accordion book. Peter and Donna Thomas collaborated together to create this amazing book structure made out on actual accordion musical instrument. As you can see, they and open up the bellows of instruments and in each panel they pasted up images of accordion players which were hand colored by the artists. To me, it is interesting looking at an art work like this one that relates on the subject, form and content since you don’t often see many artists connecting these tree categories in a very unique way.