MoMa PS1: Surasi Kusolwong Exhibition

        Yesterday, my art class took a field trip to MoMa PS1 in Long Island City. I most say, this Museum was one of the strangest Museums I've ever went to. Here are a few pictures with me and my classmates, Chris and Imani, on top of "Golden Ghost (The Future Belongs To Ghosts)" by Surasi Kusolwong. It was a pretty cool piece, we are sitting on top of industrial thread and it's spread around all over the room. In this exhibition we are suppose to search for gold necklaces that are hidden within the cotton. As you all may see we just sat there, we didn't even know we had to fine GOLD lOl. It was a pretty cool time and I look forward to going back to the "Golden Ghost" exhibit and actually look for those gold necklaces hahaha!!

Art and Identity: The Museum of Modern Art

        Art making is a personal endeavor that communicates the experiences of the artist. The best kind of art has the ability to surpass an artist’s individual experience, and communicate to the experiences of a broader audience. An artwork can relate to the identity of an individual, it can relate to a specific cultural identity, and it most definitely relates to the identity of the time during which it was created. “Cindy Sherman” and “Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now” are two exhibitions that expressed these different types of identity.
        During my class first filed trip to the Museum of Modern Art, we viewed a couple of artworks from “Cindy Sherman” and “Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now” exhibitions. I found the “Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now” much more interesting. Martin Kippenberger’s “Untitled” from the Series Dear Painter, Paint Me; is an artwork that embodied individual identity. It shows the artist sitting down on a sofa on a down town street corner in 1979, when he visited New York City. Another artwork that represents personal identity is Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled”, a black and white photograph of the artist empty bed. Being that Torres artwork mainly deals with something about AIDS or educating yourself about the disease. I feel like he is showing the audience his sadness about losing his partner to AIDS. The photograph shows an empty bed with the imprint of two bodies. The two imprints representing Torres and his partner and the emptiness of the bed as a symbol of his partner’s death. 
        Mariko Mori “Star Doll” is another example of how identity is expressed through art. When I looked at her piece I automatically thought “this has to be a Japanese artist”; the piece is of herself as a computer-fabricated pop star. The dolls outfit looked like that of Japanese pop culture/fashion. As a fashion lover, I like to explore the world of fashion and see what people from different cultures wear and their styles. One of those cultures being Japanese pop culture; their style is very unique and colorful, just like Mori “Star Doll” piece. As I read a little about the artist I was not surprised to read that she’s from Japan and a former fashion designer, among other things. Also Claude Closky “Beautiful Face” is an example of culture identity. This artwork being directed towards the female gender; Closky artwork looks to be a Christian Dior makeup AD with two images of eye shadow overlapping the bigger images in the background. 
        Another identity that is seen through art is the historical identity. “Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta” by Kara Walker, is a print that illustrates slavery during the Civil War. The artwork is a reproduced illustration from Harper Pictorial History of the Civil War and layered with a caricatured silhouette of African Americans. Representing a historical time where African Americans were kept as slaves and were withheld freedom. Walker also uses positive and negative space - a silhouette within a silhouette – to bring attention to the “African American boy who is loading a caravan of white civilians ordered to evacuate following Confederate Army losses in Atlanta.”
        In conclusion, creating art is a personal endeavor that communicates the experiences of an artist. “Cindy Sherman” and “Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now” exhibitions expressed ways of communication seen through individual, cultural, and historical identity. It excites me to see how artwork can vary, showing not only that all artworks are just about portraits, people, and buildings. But also how art can demonstrate and teach the audience things that they did not know of as well as look at good art.

"Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now"

Martin Kippenberger
"Untitled"
Synthetic paint on canvas
1981

Mariko Mori

"Star Doll"

Marmitte, Tokyo

1998

"Cindy Sherman"

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"Untitled"

Billboard

1991

Claude Closky

"Beautiful Face"

Page project for the exhibition global positions in the newspaper Der standard

2000

Kara Walker

"Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta"

Lithograph and screenprints

2005

Narrative Digital Collage

        This digital collage is about one of my favorite dancer/choreographer, Danielle Polanco. I made her to be the star of a "hit" Broadway play called "Dancing On Broadway." "Dancing On Broadway" has been sold out for months. And this very day just so happen to be Danielle's last run on the play. All of the people in the audience cheered, applauded, and took photos as Danielle danced her last number.

Carol's Art Adventures

        This blog is a school based blog about guess what, ART. I attend LaGuardia Community College in NYC and this is the first time I've ever had to do a blog for a class, so I'm really excited. This blog will consist of my art projects, group projects, pictures of different types of artworks, my thoughts and opinions about art, and all things pertaining art...enjoy!

Good Art Bad Art

Good Art.

        My opinion of good art is an art work that catches the viewers attention and/or causes a reaction/emotion out of the viewer. Whether the reaction be good or bad. For example, I really like Abstract Art, it's so different and unique, most of the time I have no idea what the artworks are about. But I still enjoy them because that type of artwork always causes a reaction out of me, even if the reaction most of the time is "what the heck!?"

Bad Art

        

        My consideration of bad art is what good art isn't, which is meaningless. Bad art is a meaningless artwork, an artwork that does not stir up any emotions, feelings, or reactions. A work of art that is just for show and that has no story or meaning behind it. Like, combining a couple of pieces of metal together into a bizarre shape. I never really understood it, whats the meaning behind it, what caused you to put something so unusual together and have the nerve to call it art.