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<br />Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-26657147837172638312012-04-29T13:09:00.001-07:002012-04-29T13:09:10.342-07:00Art Event #2 : Pam Cardwell talk<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought that the talk given by visiting artist Pam Cardwell was
interesting on several fronts. I really liked how she explained her process as
working like a writer or novelist in that she starts her works with lots of
details, from whatever source she is working from, and then begins to refine
them and abstract them. I also thought her talk was interesting in that she
explained her interest in the work of Gorky and how she was first exposed to
his work when on a field trip when she was very young. Cardwell then explained
how she taught and lived in Turkey from 1998-2004, during that time she
traveled in Armenia and Georgia where she looked at Armenian illuminated
manuscripts and monasteries. She elaborated on what she loved most about these
sites by describing how she looked to the frescoes in Georgian churches by
loving the “massive scale and vibrant colors” and the faded images from the
churches.</div>
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</span>Perhaps the first point that I picked up on, and I saw realized in the
drawings she did while visiting SMCM, was her idea that she works like a
“novelist.” In that she will work from imagery seen in the environment around
her and her first sketches will be more “realistic” and then she will go back
into her drawings with an eraser and charcoal and rearrange and rework her
drawings until they were abstracted forms of the original. I feel like this
idea is exactly the same mindset as what I am working with in my current
project. When I say that I am referring to how my current work involves taking
preexisting documents and slowly making alterations and additions to the
document to remake them in a fashion that seems more “real” in accordance to my
own vision. So, in a way I find that my own working process is in line with
what Cardwell described in her talk simply by coincidence of a similar
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</span>Finally, what I think is working strongly in Cardwell’s work is that her
drawings and paintings really do appear as these unique, natural “things” that
your eyes have never seen before, yet also have some familiarity behind them.
Looking at these images does allow the mind to start forming some connections –
perhaps because I did see her studio when she was visiting, it is easy for my
own mind to draw connections between these works and various natural formations
(beaches, rocks, etc) and natural organisms, such as plant life. I also though
that her explanation of her working process – taking in as much information as
possible and then slowly letting some of it go – made her work much stronger
and more relatable, as I could better understand how her mind was working
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<div class="MsoNormal"> The world around me is a thing that is changing so drastically that it has become nearly impossible for me to understand what is around me. It is constantly pushing its own signs and messages onto me and nothing is sticking. To attack this lack of understanding the world around me and its contents my own form of art has developed. My pieces look to reanalyze, reinterpret and recreate forms from these outside, worldly forces and make a record of them as they would exist in my own conscious understanding of the environment that is surrounding me. Images and figures and documents are no longer static, calculating and unreadable, but are fluid and vivid and contain all the passion and deep-felt emotion that they originally had before being passed down from one supposed source to another. The works are aiming to remake history into a completely emotional and visual arena that is just as absurd and beautiful as it supposedly already is. <span> </span></div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-57973094678329192872012-04-11T19:30:00.000-07:002012-04-11T19:30:20.141-07:00Project Three Research - Adolph Gottlieb<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoEvPFTAjYsmHU0-PNYUrl-RTwo1ZWdRrGGiV16x_4SsYK6W22mv-BP3sQb4j-KPsMF7QcHjkIho0TxhcWAaK1aU_a-cLnwxf07ki5h1KVa5G8GyHcltqzmGWbGQkjWZlpUA0gbwiJ7c/s1600/e3bedbeb505f561aa9d3989b1dfaba8f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBoEvPFTAjYsmHU0-PNYUrl-RTwo1ZWdRrGGiV16x_4SsYK6W22mv-BP3sQb4j-KPsMF7QcHjkIho0TxhcWAaK1aU_a-cLnwxf07ki5h1KVa5G8GyHcltqzmGWbGQkjWZlpUA0gbwiJ7c/s320/e3bedbeb505f561aa9d3989b1dfaba8f.jpg" width="156" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I continue to grow interested in developing my own form of visual writing, another artist that I look to for inspiration is the later work of Adolph Gottlieb. Now on one hand I do find Gottlieb’s earlier work – his pictographs – interesting because of how he filled them with “universal symbols” of his own creation (theartstory.com). I took this to mean that he was interested in interpreting the grand and overlaying stories/concepts of the world in his own form of visualization. To that end I am very much interested in his work, such his painting, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Man Looking at Woman</i>. This type of painting is also interesting to me because it is done in such a primitive style that it looks as if it could be interpreted by any group of people, however, because Gottlieb put his own imagery into the biomorphic forms, the work becomes more personal.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as my own writings become more visual in nature and plays off of the surrounding images and text that I am looking to “reinterpret” I find Gottlieb’s latter, Burst paintings to be more within the mood and look of what I am trying to create with my own work. For example, in his painting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blast I</i> (1957), Gottlieb uses huge strokes of paint and color to establish a mood for the piece and for the viewer to experience, all without any discernable, direct imagery (Wilkin 16). With these paintings, Gottlieb focuses solely on color and form, which I find myself more and more interested in; line and shape as portraying a mood or feeling, as opposed to directly spelling something out for the viewer to feel. However, I do think it is interesting that Gottlieb’s paintings really exist on their own, there is no real background or backing imagery, which is very different then how I want to create my next works, which are based solely on a preexisting text, which will serve as the basis for my works. So it will be important for myself, as I progress with this work, to understand that there must be a balance between the marks that I make, their relationship to each other and the relationship to the original document.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"> I have only recently become drawn to the work of Frankenthaler after have seen one of her paintings in person. What strikes me is that even though her work falls into the category of “Color Field” painting, the work is still very graphic in the way that the paint is dripped and poured onto the canvas; and in some areas I could almost see her painting form into symbols or words, which I found very appealing to my own artistic mindset.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> What I found really amazing after seeing her work in person was how her images/compositions really seemed to “emerge” from the canvas itself in a way that looked completely natural and believable (theartstory.com). Her works to do not seem like something that was obviously layered and fussed over by the artist, instead the imagery seems to come from within and extend out in all directions and at the same time, “…The figure and ground become one” and any trace of 3D illusionism is completely removed (theartstory.com). After reading this, I could look at her famous painting, Mountains and Sea, and have a better feel as to what she was going for, because at first look I thought the painting was just a total mess- nothing really made sense to me. Now, however, after better understanding the practice behind her works, the imagery seems much more powerful and fitting in with the technique used to make it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Yet it is also interesting to my own artistic mind that Frankenthaler was interested in the “ambiguities of symmetry.” In fact when describing her own pieces, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nude</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eden</i>, Frankenthaler stated that there is a balance between what is “enclosed and what is seeing out of an enclosure” (Brown 45). Frankenthaler elaborated by saying that in regards to her work, she was interested in something being symmetrical and not at the same time – each side of the work being different, yet still balancing out the whole composition. </div><div class="MsoNormal"> I think this is why I am now starting to appreciate Frankenthaler’s work as some form of inspiration for my own projects. Just as her stain paintings seemed to emerge from the canvas itself, I want my drawings/writings to not seem to be layered on top of some background or source image. To be truly effective as a drawing and as writing the work should look to have been originated from its background. So for this final project I need to pay close attention to my backing image/documents because if I start to make marks that do not agree with the original, then the whole piece will come across very badly. I think though if I work to layer, shade and make my marks in a variety of ways then my works will seem as organic and wide-spreading as Frankenthaler’s are.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> My initial thoughts going into this project are to bring back my evolving, hand writing/drawings. However, this time, instead of adding my writings onto images (which I saw as a way to re-describe those images) I want to reinterpret historical/political/military documents with my writings directly on top of these documents. I want my writing to have a sporadic, child-like manner that works to show how I see these types of historical/political documents - as these items of a world in which there is this clean, presentable world on the outside (what the public sees), but these documents really represent the desires and wants of these mysterious, cult-like organizations and governments. Basically, I want to again illustrate my uncomfortableness with the world of politics by bringing these documents into my own world. </div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-40471095153118581272012-03-29T12:41:00.000-07:002012-03-29T12:41:01.393-07:00Projection Images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebE4_jgHth52Yfi0ztLRYVxO-aOm1g9Htf6uDOyHlzRTXkc-7xSPp47-NkdoUxMmfBwb0U6KHPTsRowTl8R9kSwIwh7LvfJy2YLsukSQW6JHBJHIH5QwD5bilP2ddwgqVSW2Oeg1dGRs/s1600/IMG_0184.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebE4_jgHth52Yfi0ztLRYVxO-aOm1g9Htf6uDOyHlzRTXkc-7xSPp47-NkdoUxMmfBwb0U6KHPTsRowTl8R9kSwIwh7LvfJy2YLsukSQW6JHBJHIH5QwD5bilP2ddwgqVSW2Oeg1dGRs/s320/IMG_0184.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWxLVGhrngsXOkccPEzsqjsxHCoA9zxQnYEQ-BixgyzrglOP79dsqnO1v98pcAPcMXZFjTt-EPRK2ypcn30D1-1JnWKDY5hgv36sOIS9FmaS5cOqVoFOl_swARKX9gEFcb16oT_krbzEk/s1600/IMG_0187.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWxLVGhrngsXOkccPEzsqjsxHCoA9zxQnYEQ-BixgyzrglOP79dsqnO1v98pcAPcMXZFjTt-EPRK2ypcn30D1-1JnWKDY5hgv36sOIS9FmaS5cOqVoFOl_swARKX9gEFcb16oT_krbzEk/s320/IMG_0187.jpg" width="239" /></a></div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-83991081818345742882012-03-29T11:04:00.000-07:002012-03-29T11:04:00.571-07:00Project Two - Self Assessment<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"> For myself, this project was an evolution of my art practice on two separate levels. Of course one of the driving factors behind this piece was wanting to expand my comfort zone into a new medium/dimension; wanting to put some distance between myself and the need for my projects and works to be a physical “thing.” The idea of my work being a “projection” was always a scary idea to me as I always assumed that the work would be more based around the computer and the technology behind the art then the ideas or finished product. So this projection was absolutely a way to “test the waters” of a zone of art that I had never thought that I would work with.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other factor/ driving force behind this piece was a desire to continue with the ideas and content that I had developed in another project/class (Sculpture Studio). In that sculpture project I developed and handed out business cards and posted flyers around campus with the saying, “I can’t breathe when you sleep,” and I really enjoyed how so many people saw and reacted to the work. Honestly, by the end of that project I felt that the work could have continued on in multiple directions. This wanting to continue the dialogue that I established with the school community really led me to seeing that a projection would be the next logical step in the evolution/expansion of this “idea.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So by wanting to continue with this statement and the dialogues/conversations that it sparked, I realized that the piece would need to still be very much in the same vein as the flyers and cards that preceded it. Namely I am talking about how both the cards and flyers were hand-written; from the outset I knew that the projected version of the statement would also have to be hand-written if I wanted it to have the same emotional and personal weight to it. The nature of this work being hand-written allowed me to feel more comfortable with the computer programs that I was using in the creation process – as I felt that I was “looking at myself” when working with the programs instead of some complicated menus or formulas. Also, I felt that the hand written statement allows for the viewer-artist/work relationship to be formed as the nature of hand writing creates a much more personal connection on any level.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly, the biggest surprise that I came across during the development of this project was how comfortable I was with the whole process and how fairly seamless the development process was. Obviously there was a “break in period” in which I had to learn the basic nature behind the programs I was using (Motion and Final Cut Pro) but after that the whole project really started walking on its own. The projection started off as having the statement scroll across the screen/projection surface, but the idea was quickly replaced by the idea of having the words being written out for the viewer to follow along with. This writing-out of the words added another level to this existing piece as it invited the viewer to witness its “creation” – in other words, the viewer was no longer being handed a card with writing on it (a prefabricated tool), but they were instead seeing my hand write out the very same message in “real time,” which I think makes the statement seem even more personal and direct.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The next piece of the project was to have the statement repeat itself when it was projected. When I say that I am referring to how the writing out of the words would happen multiple times during the projection, causing the once clear statement to become muddled and almost illegible. I feel like this aspect of the project gives a little more “activity” to the piece and the site in which it is located and it also keeps the viewer more engaged with the work, as they are unsure as to what might happen next. I feel that through all of these steps within the creation of this project I really learned that I should trust and buy into the nature of handwriting; all of the aspects of these piece revolve around writing a message, nothing really seems out of place in this writing context (that spelling-out and the overlapping of the writing) and because of this I feel the work is more cohesive. I feel that if I had tried to use color or fancy animation then the power behind the work would be lost and the viewer would be focusing on these gimmicks instead of being confronted and affected by the message that was waiting for them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In retrospect I feel that my work habits were successful in the fact that I had to learn how to use two new-to-me computer programs and become comfortable with how they were affecting the content that I wanted to present. For future projects I would absolutely want to spend more time understanding what these programs are capable of in terms of content and possible final products, as I feel that this project used them for fairly simple means, but by no means does that suggest that my project was “simple” or easy to create. I just feel that if I know more about Final Cut or about projectors then I could use this knowledge to project even bigger and more complicated statements/content.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I have been so invested in this project, in all of it’s forms, and since it has received such diverse reactions from viewers/participants I have a little trouble in imagining how I would respond to it from the viewer’s perspective. However, I would feel that since the message is appearing and disappearing before my eyes I would feel a strong sense that the writing was there for me to see and contemplate and the statement’s repetition/overlapping would only add to the feeling of directness and personal connection. Also, since the piece is so simple in it’s presentation (only words are appearing on a brick wall) I would feel that there is not that much to be distracted or confused by (although the message itself may appear to be confusing). I think this is where some viewers will become put off or unsure of the piece’s effectiveness – what exactly does the message mean? – but at this point in time I think this uncertainty is exactly what is need for the piece to spark dialogues between viewers and with myself, which was exactly my intention from the beginning of this statement’s origin. So I think the cryptic-ness is effective for this piece and it also relates to my own interests in creating my own evolving, abstract “hyper-language” – maybe projecting my own writing-drawings would be the next step for a future projection.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, I feel that I deserve an A- for this project because I was strongly committed to the project at hand and worked hard to make sure that the final piece was potent and engaging with the audience. I feel that this piece is an excellent example of how I can continue to evolve and work with content I have worked with before and still retain interest in the concept while presenting it in new ways. This project has only added to the possibilities of my interest in written works in all mediums.</span></div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-3563787640405083422012-03-10T14:01:00.000-08:002012-03-10T14:01:55.157-08:00Artist Talk: Martin Brief<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhsD1htdzM8orsTd3WHK5yj5iv85yG-pHeYRGaORx3CMNt9b4-m2RM9000pIRgasmZ96XxL4d8avESTEZaKZV2cYfxQlsnWs9xaEw99a7bYvsuYN6_ITIxyR7J5XuqC-n-bFg_HwlSzXI/s1600/forSacle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhsD1htdzM8orsTd3WHK5yj5iv85yG-pHeYRGaORx3CMNt9b4-m2RM9000pIRgasmZ96XxL4d8avESTEZaKZV2cYfxQlsnWs9xaEw99a7bYvsuYN6_ITIxyR7J5XuqC-n-bFg_HwlSzXI/s320/forSacle.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Artforum Series</i>, scale photo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The one main thing that I love about Brief’s work is how seemingly simple his ideas and processes are, but in a way his pieces are much more powerful and open to discussion because of it. I would never thought it possible to take Jenny Holzer’s Truisms and blow them up by writing out each definition of each word in the Truism. By doing so Brief doesn’t answer any questions or critique Holzer, but he presents the information in a different, more backwards way. The only thing that I think is somewhat weak (but I can’t help but like at the same time) is how each project/piece is fully explained in relation to its process. I feel like this almost does all the work for the viewer, however it does set the viewer up to more easily navigate the work, so I am not sure if this is a very large weakness. Its more just like another detail in the huge lists of words and names that Brief has organized for us to see.</div><!--EndFragment--><br />
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The handwritten aspect is something that I absolutely want in this piece - but I am pretty open/unsure if the message should be in a single row or broken up or should it move around. I just don't really have a concrete desire right now except for it being handwritten and it being this exact message.Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-620017164574920272012-02-27T18:20:00.000-08:002012-02-27T18:20:58.143-08:00Project Two Research - Barbara Kruger<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCLJ8kS2-g-lefaAli-K-APawsV5vJkWysT8LvvTdv44JxPaK282MqKQ1J7xrP1XKRF68PithWeXK27Qj60lp95ctL14-gqEx5ThU81JuAOomioXOB8vkfWG51PwxwBySs17SFE9blyI/s1600/tumblr_l59d5v6OAd1qcnh5jo1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCLJ8kS2-g-lefaAli-K-APawsV5vJkWysT8LvvTdv44JxPaK282MqKQ1J7xrP1XKRF68PithWeXK27Qj60lp95ctL14-gqEx5ThU81JuAOomioXOB8vkfWG51PwxwBySs17SFE9blyI/s400/tumblr_l59d5v6OAd1qcnh5jo1_500.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Your Silence is My Comfort</i>, 1981</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">In addition to her individual pieces, I think that Kruger’s more recent installation work adds even more to the visual textual assault on the viewer by literally surrounding them with text in the gallery space. In this installation in Amsterdam, the viewer is engulfed and surrounded by text that is directly addressing them and their certainties about the world around them. In this context the viewer can not escape from be addressed and is even more a witness to the messages the artist is imparting to them and in the case of these large gallery installations, “The floor has a voice, walls can hear you, and the architecture is manipulating the way you speak” (AHA).</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;"> I feel that Barbara Kruger’s work is so strong because she is so confident and direct. If she was coy or shy in the way she addressed and included the viewer in her collages, they whole body of work would seem much less serious and potent. However, I feel that because Kruger does not directly call out a specific individual as the speaker or receiver, there is still a powerful vagueness that allows the images to be dispersed and ingested on a massive scale, just like the advertisements and societal ideas that she is critiquing through her work.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;"><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"> I find that I am constantly drawn to work of any kind that uses the written word. There is a direct, human quality (as we are the only currently known species to communicate with written symbols), while still retaining some air of mystery behind its creation and intention. Because of these thoughts, I was immediately interested in the text-based work of Jenny Holzer. Holzer’s text work, which she calls “Truisms” stretch from detailing “common myths” to phrases about random subjects that take the form of slogans (designboom). Examples of this slogan-like quality, which in my opinion, adds to the mystery of what are these message’s intentions include: “Money creates taste,” “Enjoy yourself because you can’t change anything anyway,” and “Don’t place to much trust in experts.” These quick, thought-provoking statements mimic advertising in where they are placed – billboards, coffee mugs, commercials on cable/network TV – and they “…Question what our eyes can see and can’t see in the media” and end up questioning if we have any control over the information that is provided to us (designboom).</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Holzer began to work with text while she was earning her BFA at Ohio University, where she was studying painting and printmaking, but soon began to shift her interest to public art projects that were “sublime and impressive” (designboom). Her first Truisms were created in 1976 when she moved to New York City and posted them anonymously around the city. Since that time, Holzer’s Truisms have expanded their medium beyond just posters, including works on LED monitors that are posted in relation to monuments and memorials and since 1996 Holzer’s work has included large-scale, text projections on buildings and landscapes in a huge range of locations such as Rome, Oslo, Paris, Berlin, Miami and others (designboom).</div><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px;">If the first thing that drew me to Holzer’s work is that she was working with text, the second thing that interested me was how different her work is from my own. In my own work I use text to expel these hidden workings and meanings behind everyday things and thereby add to my own evolving part-language, part-drawing and myths. However, I feel like Holzer’s work is working in a completely opposite field, while still being based in text. Her work portrays these somewhat familiar phrases that “displace the clear presence of a personal voice.” Holzer’s Truisms, “…Underscore the essential emptiness of the media and the strange isolation of people from one another in the society of mass culture clichés” (Fineberg 461). I really feel as if Holzer’s Truisms, whether they are posters or projections, are highly connected to the world around us and are working to change how we think about our surroundings while my own work is moving in the direction of reinterpreting everything under the sun.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"> With these thoughts about the media and public interaction in mind, Holzer’s piece <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Protect Me From What I Want</i> becomes much more powerful. The fact that this piece is displayed on an electronic billboard (among many other formats) contacts the public directly in the environment. The work does not require a gallery to help stage it’s meaning; the public is necessary for the work to implant its meaning into the viewer and since the work is in this form, it directly plays into and critiques the world of advertising and consumer society (designboom).</div><div class="MsoNormal"> The main thing that I think is working so well in Holzer’s Truisms and projections is the fact that there is no real “set up” for the works. When I say this I mean that the works confront the viewer though their shear size or guerrilla-like marketing and they look like they belong in the environment – an environment full of constantly changing advertisements. The works, through their almost familiar phrasing, triggers some kind of thought or emotional response from the viewer. I think that when the viewer knows that something is going on, but can’t quite put their finger on it, or realize that the work is referring to their own lives, the work is highly successful.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">"Jenny Holzer." <i>designboom</i>. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2012. http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/holzer.html.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">Fineberg, Jonathan. <i>Art Since 1940</i>. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2011. Print.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/contemporary/Jenny-Holzer.html</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/holzer.html</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">http://karaj.tumblr.com/post/17541491356/jenny-holzer-all-things-are-delicately<o:p></o:p></div><br />
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</span></div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-8060302303888849112012-02-21T06:21:00.000-08:002012-02-21T06:21:32.750-08:00Project One: The Images<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vjhQ3_84x4tuOT8EQgDItqu4sBgRAFMgKeSERpxH0_AfVOSOvgt_KNRUzTcuN5LoZLG6k7aH0fDRIqB2hQpicZU15c1lIqIMxW0bE_67j80vKI7EW003XdTbzGikYM3u3LkSRSnHIj8/s1600/Marx.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vjhQ3_84x4tuOT8EQgDItqu4sBgRAFMgKeSERpxH0_AfVOSOvgt_KNRUzTcuN5LoZLG6k7aH0fDRIqB2hQpicZU15c1lIqIMxW0bE_67j80vKI7EW003XdTbzGikYM3u3LkSRSnHIj8/s400/Marx.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <i>Karl Marx</i></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7ksQhSsYTczp2AzrZHLhwF8_l8_78XivYxp7Wspp9FUxWHSzisqX9Ex16p0wsk0k_xqltTw6PTjBnt5n_kBrb2Ue1kghwu3A6iHIU2TcwXL2ra-ifkoByZSBz-uUTPS5U1pJluo7_A8/s1600/project1conference.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7ksQhSsYTczp2AzrZHLhwF8_l8_78XivYxp7Wspp9FUxWHSzisqX9Ex16p0wsk0k_xqltTw6PTjBnt5n_kBrb2Ue1kghwu3A6iHIU2TcwXL2ra-ifkoByZSBz-uUTPS5U1pJluo7_A8/s400/project1conference.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Conference</i></div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-27052000091771545982012-02-20T14:43:00.000-08:002012-02-20T14:43:03.741-08:00Project One: Self Assessment<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>883</o:Words> <o:Characters>5035</o:Characters> <o:Company>St. Mary's College of Maryland</o:Company> <o:Lines>41</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>10</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>6183</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Firstly I want to apologize if this assessment seems to ramble too much, in retrospect this project is making me think of a whole new area of subject matter in which to operate in and it all seems a little overwhelming at times. So essentially, I developed this project with the thought that I have never created a work/project with any sort of political connection – no matter how vague – and I feel that this project, with it centering on appropriation would be a perfect opportunity to work with this subject area.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I think I wanted to work with “political” images as a way to break some of my nerves of working with or showing any sort of political leaning, especially as this is an area that I have little knowledge in. Of course I also wanted to bring my own sort of “language” and own version of mythology to these political images, which I think worked to make myself feel more comfortable with the whole process. Basically, the initial thoughts I had behind this project were the following: “What do these ‘political’ leaders really do at these meetings that they have?” and “Where do these people really get their power from?” and finally “What does these people look like in my own version of the world?”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With these thoughts in mind I started to gather imagery that I thought reflected the opposite kind of culture and thoughts of the subjects of the photographs. So in terms of the image depicting Karl Marx, my goal was to depict him as more of a shaman, someone who has these hidden and eerie, mysterious powers over people, then depicting him as a political theorist. The added imagery was used to express my own feelings as to how he was really operating – through natural mysticism and powders and animal powers. And in terms of the image of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill, I wanted to show the meeting as more a meeting of various sorcerers then leading Western powers. The realization I had was that in this world I am working to realize, all the political leaders do not lead or come to power through striving for a brighter future, but instead come to power through much older powers and devices. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly, the major learning curve I was dealing with in this project was reestablishing my knowledge with Photoshop. As it had been some time since I had last used this program extensively, I had to relearn how to make the multiple source images I was using fit together seamlessly and that cause a little frustration at first, but I think that for the majority of these works, I was successful at bringing my imagery together. Of course as the creator behind these works there are areas that stand out to me as areas that do not look as well connected/ seamlessly integrated. However, I feel that this has to do, in some part, with the fact that I was working solely with images found from Wikimedia Commons and as such I was limited in exactly how perfect the images came together through limitations in image and pixel size. However, I do feel that some of the tools that I used in Photoshop (drop shadows, contrast changes and image transformation) really helped to create the look I was going for – the “real” pictures of all these supposedly well know political figures.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I was working on this project the main way that I kept interested in what was going on with my images was by taking time with each piece. I would work solely on the Stalin/Roosevelt/Churchill piece for a few hours and then the next work time I would spend on the Marx image. I think this bouncing between pieces kept me more invested and kept my interest up in both works – I feel that if I had only work on one image for several days I would have begun to loose sight of what was going on in the piece – I would have stopped getting a feel for the myth I was crafting behind these figures. However, the simultaneous creation of both images allowed for each one to have a proper, strong development and gave myself the proper amount of time to work on all aspects of the pieces.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This being the first time I have explicitly worked with any form of politics in my work, I think that it is interesting to think of how these images look to an outsider. Thinking from the perspective of a viewer, I think that they would initially assume that I am trying to make these political leaders look ridiculous or that I was trying to contrast them to the other imagery that I incorporated into the pieces. Even if the viewers think this is the case – I feel as if I have succeeded to some extent in my want to establish these images as documents of a different version of how these leaders supposedly really act.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a viewer i think that I would really pick up on the contrast between the black and white background photograph and the color-collaged imagery. These differences would really stand out as highlighting the ridiculousness of the scene/situation the viewer is looking at and detract some from the noble-like quality of the photograph’s subjects – which is something I was going for, I think, with these two images. However, at the same time, these differences in color and contrast make the combined elements really stand out from one another – so the final pieces seem less cohesive then I intended. Especially in the Stalin/Roosevelt image, the right side of the image is so heavy with imagery and saturated color that the whole piece seems unbalanced, which really affects the potential viewing/reading of the piece by the viewer. But I feel that with the Marx piece, all of the images are more closely connected color/contrast wise that the piece is much more unified and smooth to look at.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, I think that I deserve an A- on the first project. I worked hard to bring myself to explore a new subject area and at the same time bring these new subjects into my own creative domain. I think I was, for the most part, successful in this first series of experimentations and it has given me a few new ideas on how to further expand into the realm of political art – reinterpreting political documents/treaties and bringing them into my own evolving mythos.</div><!--EndFragment-->Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-41041522734131112682012-02-06T20:18:00.000-08:002012-02-06T20:18:29.538-08:00Project One Research - Markus Kleine-Vehn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQIGtbvgjVatMv8dP-PbRMklN6jF1vTwVMudzhaLz5c39qarKELOP6wlX3U38ffTxS-GhH9zrQD6JVcNBqb7mitXXnVXWwZNHclqApsJUD1C-Ga99Oq_ou3468NQ4nEgffbmv4Mef3_Q/s1600/st-luke-drawing-a-portrait-of-the-virgin-mary-1440(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuQIGtbvgjVatMv8dP-PbRMklN6jF1vTwVMudzhaLz5c39qarKELOP6wlX3U38ffTxS-GhH9zrQD6JVcNBqb7mitXXnVXWwZNHclqApsJUD1C-Ga99Oq_ou3468NQ4nEgffbmv4Mef3_Q/s320/st-luke-drawing-a-portrait-of-the-virgin-mary-1440(1).jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Rogier van der Weyden, <i>St. Luke Drawing a Portrait of the Virgin Mary</i>, 1435</div><br />
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Firstly, I have to say that I find this to be a strange piece for myself to be interested in. I say this upfront because this "artwork" is more about the technology behind the user's experience and how they can alter an existing work of art through technology then anything having to do with narrative or the hand of the artist. Normally when a viewer looks at a painting or any artwork on the internet, they are only looking at small, digitized version of the much larger work. Instead in this interactive experience the Berlin-based artist Markus Kleine-Vehn developed a process by which a user can look at digital version of the der Weyden painting in 64 individualized panels that correspond to the same area and size of the original painting in accordance to the user's screen resolution (Kleine-Vehn).<br />
With the viewer/user able to look at and print out a specific section of the painting they are able to print out a specific new work that refers back to the original and eventually compile their own version of the painting. Now I think that this whole experience of finding this painting in a museum and then online and then being able to look at specific digitized sections of the painting is highly involved on some level with this first project's emphasis on appropriation. Instead of having to copy a whole image or work of art off of the internet, a user can now focus in one one specific section that they want to utilize to their own purposes.<br />
Of course, this "tool" created by Kleine-Vehn is related to one specific original work of art, which limits the widespread use for image appropriation by similar devices/experiences. Also, it does not allow the user to create a unique area of the painting to select and print - unlike programs such as Photoshop that allow for the user to highlight specifically determined areas. However, I cannot help but notice how this digital tool relates to my own interests in terms of this first project. Specifically, so far I have been developing these collages from appropriated images found on the internet - images ranging from famous political photos to varieties of animals - and in each case I have had to work from the whole original image and slowly select out the section that I want to utilize. I feel like this work by Kleine-Vehn highlights the same basic practice that I have been working with - selecting a specific part of a preexisting image and being able to manipulate it in some form after finding it.<br />
I honestly feel that this interactive experience is just one example of a viewer/user being able to take away something specific from a work of art - in this case, a specific section, or sections, of an image. The user-friendliness of the interface really opens up the image to new methods of appropriation, which I find to be absolutely necessary when working with collage and appropriated imagery.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal">The work of the artist Sonny Kay is of interest to me because I find that it exists within the same genre and mode of work that I am currently exploring with this first project. However, it is interesting to me to see how his career in the art world has changed so drastically since his college years, as I find that it reflects my own constantly shifting interests. Kay attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he had intended to study painting, but soon became interested in and focused on printmaking (Hold Up Art). However, during his sophomore year he founded the record label Gold Standard Laboratories (GSL) and then began to devote himself to the art side of promoting a wide variety of bands through GSL (Hold Up Art). Even after the label folded his reputation and friendship with different musicians has led Kay to create and provide artwork for records from groups like RX Bandits, Omar Rodriguez Lopez and The Mars Volta (La Ruffa).</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Of course, one of the main reasons that I am drawn to Kay’s work is because of the overwhelming visuals. I say overwhelming in the best sense possible, as when looking at his work, the viewer is confronted by these scenes that come directly from some unusual dreamscape. These digital collages seem completely random at first glance, but upon looking at them for a longer period of time it seems impossible for such a scenario to not exist – everything fits perfectly into the world he has established through using a variety of image sources from, “… Scans from old postcards and charity store books as well as digital treasures sourced from across the internet (Hold Up Art). However, Kay does not force these varying elements to suit his creative whims, instead he begins each work with just a theme and lets the materials/images available decide what will happen with each work (La Ruffa).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJqy01WZZ_722DRMpLkKmHa_d267J5pEN5iUaK0k3wOMXpyCIIC76lIKwHizye-1svAC_-GOI36etrTlGc-ZaLHm3FUvWJutlB4XQa7fj46-eaEEW06VVfRjODarsjgLK17Vn_4BdL64/s1600/tumblr_l43bmyam5s1qzjix9o1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJqy01WZZ_722DRMpLkKmHa_d267J5pEN5iUaK0k3wOMXpyCIIC76lIKwHizye-1svAC_-GOI36etrTlGc-ZaLHm3FUvWJutlB4XQa7fj46-eaEEW06VVfRjODarsjgLK17Vn_4BdL64/s320/tumblr_l43bmyam5s1qzjix9o1_500.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Search Party (Megaritual II)</i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Now looking at Kay’s own work it is somewhat difficult to discern exactly what the original thought or evolving concept behind the piece actually is. Kay is quick to point out this possibility saying that although the original thought/message behind a piece is important to himself, that same notion may be lost when a viewer looks at one of his images (La Ruffa). However, even if the original message is lost, the piece’s clean look and multitude of imagery installs in the viewer a, “…Hypothetical version of reality that we’re not really certain doesn’t exist” (Hold Up Art). For example, in Kay’s piece <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Adrift</i>, as a viewer I cannot say for sure what the original idea for the piece was, but as a viewer I am convinced of this group of chimpanzees and birds seemingly lost at sea and without hope – the last remnants of some civilization. To the viewer they are doomed to drift some nether region on a pontoon of bananas and Maori statues.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> I think this aspect of Kay’s stand on the creative process is what I relate to the most in terms of what I am doing with this project. Specifically, I fully appreciate how the artist starts with a general theme, but the final outcome may be totally different from what he may have been initially expecting and it is all up to the images available and how they interact. But no matter what the outcome, the world depicted is eerily believable. Again, I think this flexibility in terms of the physical final product and the final idea/concept that is seen by a viewer is what is working well and is what I think relates to my own work; the whole working process is flexible and evolutionary and the quality of the final work reflects this.<br />
Finally, when looking at Sonny Kay’s work as a whole, I think that one of the major strengths of the work is the high quality of these “digital collages.” None of the work contains elements that seem disjointed or out of place in terms of that particular image. Despite little to no narrative elements in the works, the work of Sonny Kay can be viewed and interpreted in a multitude of ways by any one viewer.</div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> <o:Template>Normal.dotm</o:Template> <o:Revision>0</o:Revision> <o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:Pages>1</o:Pages> <o:Words>60</o:Words> <o:Characters>344</o:Characters> <o:Company>St. Mary's College of Maryland</o:Company> <o:Lines>2</o:Lines> <o:Paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:CharactersWithSpaces>422</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:Version>12.0</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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All images were found and appropriated through Wikimedia Commons.Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-66488040547358578062012-01-17T18:04:00.000-08:002012-01-17T18:04:43.878-08:00Advanced Digital Art!Here are two past art works that I am pretty happy with. The first one is a short story I wrote for my Creative Writing class last semester and the second is a print I made over the summer using jello.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Photo 4</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The third son, George, is standing at the edge of the driveway, he is dressed formally and his jacket’s sleeves stretch past his hands. He is only 12, but he looks much older in the picture’s lighting.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George had just been dropped off at home by the school bus. He was confused because he had just seen Louise walking down the street, headed who knows where. Girls do strange things.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He walks up the driveway, pulling at his dress shirt and jacket – picture day at school was always the worst. He is contemplating taking his shirt off right there for the world to see when the front door bangs open and his eyes shoot up and see his father running out with something in his hands. The thing, whatever it is, is wrapped up in one of Mom’s green bath towels. George stands still, hands still clutching at the buttons of his dress shirt. His father’s jeans are soaking, and the bundle in his arms slips a little – a flash of scrawny little boy legs and grey toes.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Photo 5</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Samantha and Thomas lying in bed. His black hair is sticking up on the right side and she is reading a magazine, her red reading glasses are on.</i> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samantha ran up the stairs. She was not sure how much more she could take from the kids today. Five was too many; hell one was too much. Maybe her mother had been right when she said that things start off the best and everything else is just desire and longing. Maybe. She gets to the top landing and calls out to Fred. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Fred! Where are you? I have dinner going right now.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“MOM!”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sound is coming from the kid’s bathroom. She cant imagine the mess that has probably been made – and she thought Jason having a bubble bath was as simple as possible. She walks down the hallway, her bare feet making a “swooshing” sound on the thick brown carpet, passing the dated family photos that line the white, wooden-walls. She hears the backdoor slam shut – Thomas must have finally decided to come back inside.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She reaches the door to the kid’s bathroom, but Fred is blocking the doorway.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Honey, I need you to mo-“</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She can see over his head. She can see the medicine cabinet and the toothbrushes that are lined up on the ledge below it. She can see the see the towel rack with the freshly laundered towels ready to be used and the pile of clothes that are lying on floor beside the tub. Mostly though, she can see that the bathtub’s water must had run out of bubbles long ago as she can clearly see the small, fair-skinned body lying on the tub’s porcelain bottom.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"> The main thing that has drawn me to the work of Anselm Kiefer has been his treatment of the surface of his paintings. Specifically, it is just how much he works up the surface - the use of frenzied and heavy brushstrokes and the inclusion of different materials - that makes his work so appealing to me. I think this use of found materials is successful because it directly connects you, as the viewer, to the subject that is being depicted in the work. For example, in his painting, <i>Nuremberg</i>, Kiefer has mixed in real straw into the applied paint, which connects you to the farm land that he is depicting. Personally, I think this inclusion of materials to be a really unique idea and it really adds another "dimension" to the work - almost as if the painting is coming right at you; the viewer feels more like they are "in" the piece - and it is something that I think would like to try at some point in my own future work.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> However, I think that I am not only interested in how Kiefer's pieces look, but also in the thoughts that are the creative force behind them. Specifically, I am really amazed by his determination to face his German heritage/ facing the legacy of the Nazi regime. This legacy makes its way into his paintings as they are reflections of the scorched and destroyed earth left in the wake of World War II. So the painting, <i>Nuremberg</i> refers to the site of Nazi war crime trials - which marks it as a site of german redemption, while also marking the location as the turning pages of history. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> I guess you could say that I am just impressed by how well Kiefer respects and interprets his subjects on all sides. I also think that it is interesting that he searches, "...For parallels in world mythology - Nordic, Greek, Egyptian, Early Christian, Jewish - is a romantic trait" (Fineberg 413). He not only is working to face his own cultural heritage and its legacy, but he is also looking to make parallels to other cultures. By doing this, Kiefer is looking to establish cross-culture connections. I think this fact makes his work even more appealing, even if you do not understand his predominately German references, there can still be connections for the viewer to make and feel.</div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-87132360550996054952011-11-29T07:15:00.001-08:002011-11-29T07:15:50.945-08:00Project 3: Test Print<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UlHLU2iBFIYGmvJeoUFfV6dWbSWc45MQjVmXlGTrPCUFtI8vnSkVgYiST2IL6twDF4RgAKXQ-Gy-IzSu0a5lCvwlgXLkonWqOpxQ4Fi4OhyEoZBYo3SGelaiUtrDL-Uc4d2d9eM9MAU/s1600/TestPrint.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7UlHLU2iBFIYGmvJeoUFfV6dWbSWc45MQjVmXlGTrPCUFtI8vnSkVgYiST2IL6twDF4RgAKXQ-Gy-IzSu0a5lCvwlgXLkonWqOpxQ4Fi4OhyEoZBYo3SGelaiUtrDL-Uc4d2d9eM9MAU/s400/TestPrint.jpeg" width="176" /></a></div>Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-46524095948927886652011-11-29T06:49:00.000-08:002011-11-29T06:49:15.002-08:00Project 3: The ProcessSo after the first test prints (Image to come soon), the process for this final project has been focused down to this:<br />
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1. Print film image on transparency sheet, not sure on size right now, but probably similar to project 1 final size<br />
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2. Transfer image onto wood panel (ply wood with a birch top layer) using the Super Sauce solution. During the transfer I need to be careful about smearing the image/press marks from my fingers, unless I want some kind of distortion in the final print.<br />
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3. Light layer of drawing with oil pastel on top of image - being careful to not overwhelm the image.<br />
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4. Light coat of beeswax. A light coat will add to the physicality of the piece, and will not fully fade out the image.<br />
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5. Possibly another layer of pastel drawing followed by a second light beeswax coat.<br />
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So now the next step is to think about image pint size, wood size and the number of pieces I want in this project.Michael Bargamianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01025907653990193792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839831699703677902.post-37324097893631795482011-11-14T16:50:00.000-08:002011-11-14T16:50:47.371-08:00Project 3: Old Photos to Consider<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not totally sure if I will use any of these, but I would love to see these printed onto wood, especially the second image.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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