yukinori yanagi

why ants?
is there a theme of nationality?
where is the works viewed?


the first 2 questions show an artistic attitude? the artist's attitude is shown through their work. the answers to these questions show his attitude toward a subject; one of the relationship between animal and person. obviously comparing humans with ant shows that he views us similar in the way we operate as an individual and society. the second is how he shows his view on certain works. what his nationality/identity is or how we as a group of nations are easily toppled by things that shouldnt be able to do so. as an artist the way you create art, what you use to create it, and even who you create it for helps determine the attitude of the artist. i think attitude is created not thought about before it is created; or at least thats how attitude happens to me. its a byproduct of your work.

would the type of ant he used change the meaning?
how about the nationality change the meaning?
would making renderings from an ants eye view help relay a concept?

arnaldo morales

what exactly is his work about?
is his work meant for everyone to view?
where is his stuff meant to be displayed?

morales's pieces are like hoaunted houses. they usually evoke some kind of fear or distress but still people come to see it. they want to experience it because they are curious and if they didnt want to experience it it will "experience them". i really love this people because its truly meant to be viewed by everyone because everyone has fear and no matter if you want to participate in it or not, when you come close enough it comes for you. its crazy how people are attracted to fear like this. most people go see scary movies or haunted houses because maybe they re curious. morales wants you to be subjected to this to learn how people react, to get them interacting with his work, and to get them to communicate with others. his thought is that if you experience violence, you can learn from it and make strides to lessen it.

would his stuff have more meaning if it were placed in violent areas?
would violence be reduced because of it?
would that work for positive aspects of life? will it keep positive things positive or turn them negative?

daniel joseph martinez

is his work aout one races struggle?
is it about social issues?
does he do it to get a rise out of people?

this guy is very interesting. he doesnt just do work for one race or one social order; its about anything that people dont or cant talk about. he says that no matter what the review, if people talk about his work then it is successful. he doesnt think success is in money or fame. i agree with that. i think to be successful, you have to accomplish what you set out to do. if you want to open up unopen issues and you get a rise then you are successful. a good review or a bad one is not a measure of how successful a work is. some people are more about making money or getting fame. they arent successful artists no matter how much they make. i think success is shown by people pushing the envelope and the outcome of that.


can he get more responses out of people or is he done?
is he as rebellious as he thinks he is?
what would happen if he attacked just one issue instead of all issues?

julian laverdiere

are most of his works tributs/memorials?
what is his inspiration?
who does he make his art for?

have you ever been told that artists are dumb or so stoned they have no idea what is going on? i have and i dont like that stereotype and i dont think its true at all. most artists works have complex meaning behind them. julian's art is the same way. he really knows his stuff. he is concerned with imagination, curiosity, and motovation and is inspired by what happens in the past. he takes important events in history that arent really documented and put his imagination to work to show what happened. he makes his works for people to understand what happened and to motivat or encourage them to think about what happened. i really like how he depicted the first attempted trans-atlantic telegraph cable crossing. the f.a.t.a.t.c.c. was one of the monumental events of the communications age, but nobody really knows about it. it actually ended up failing. jullian actually built his sculpture to show the tragedy of this event and make you see what happened, but also to get you to think about how it changed history. he wanted to resurrect the memory of the people who dared to make this invention. in a sense his sculptures are tributes but its not consided one; it is just to make you think and get involved.


would the f.a.t.a.t.c.c. be more justified in some other site?
would it be as effective if it were just a painting?

charles ray

1. is he just doing this to get a reaction out of people?
2. i notice he makes one thing become something else. why?
3. what is his inspiration?

answers
1. "kind of". he really wants people to notice things more than get a reaction but i take that as a getting a reaction out of people.
2. like i said earlier, he wants people to use their brain and look at art more than the replication of something. he makes something look normal but when you look closely it transformes into many distortions of what the object reaaly is and changes the mere essence of that object.
3. his inspiration is what he sees i would say. he takes things in every day life, mannequins and firetrucks to name a couple, and his experiences and makes them into sculptures.




as i was reading the author said charles liked to control the time people took to experience his piece. he like to have these sculptures that seemed completely normal and had something that just wasnt how it was suppose to be. when people noticed it, they spent more time on his piece and realized that his work was more than it seemed. i kinda like that because thats how so much contemporary work is today. most of the time i dont really look to much at art because i either see it right away and dont think much about it. after reading this i definately realize that there is more to art than it seems and i need to look for the subtleties in different pieces.

questions after reading:

1. would it be more successful if he would make things so abstract and then as you get closer you see the connections and the object he wants you too.

2. would the change in scale be a good or a bad thing? smaller or bigger?

3. could he do this 2 dimensionally? if so how?

Michelle Lopez

where does she get inspiration?
is she a sculptor?
does she create art for her or an audience?

as i read i realized these questions really had no relevance to what i was readig. her story was one about her and the media and success. she seems very humble and makes it clear that she doesnt think she ready as an artist to be in the media. the funny thing about that is that the media chooses when youre ready. if they think your worth talking about then they will. that in itself should tell you that you are mature enough as an artist to be in the media. not only that, but the fact that she has a galley partnership and is an accomplished artist so young shows that she has what it takes to be exposed. me on the other hand, im not anywhere ready for the "big time". Im still trying to figure out my direction whereas it seems she already found her way. id be honored to be where she is and would just take the media as it comes

Mariko Mori

why the different mediums?
is the work spiritual?
what exactly is her mediums?

i really like how she is using her pieces to show how she sees technology and nature could co-exist. personally i would love if they could co-exist but i dont see that happening. technology is pulling us away from nature. we no longer depend on the things we have in nature to get us by. we dont get to the outdoors. we stay home and watch television or listen to music. technology is having a good and bad effect on us. obviously it has help give us resource and entertainment, but its made us lazy and we take to much for granted. there has always been a stuggle between nature and technology and there always will be that struggle.

why use the new media to depict ancient things?
does the use of technology show shes for it or against it?
is this just a fantasy or does she really think it would happen

Kim Jones

Questions

1. what is his inspiration?
2. Why is his work done walking down streets?
3. Does his work deal with fact and fiction?

answers and insights:

i can relate to him because he went from drawing(a 2-d medium) to sculpture(a 3-d medium). I like how he took his fantasy of war, his fight with polio, his reality of war, and used them all in his work as he grew older. he used all his life experiences to make his art. i like how he makes his altar ego his piece. his alter ego is the mudman and he uses his sculpture in a performance piece. this is a way for him to use his experiences and talk to others. art is a great way to get to meet new people and have conversations with them. its wierd that all his work deals more with generalizations between what real and pretend and how it becomes fact and fiction. i kind of wonder if he didnt walk down a boulevard and he just sat in a down town area if he'd have he same effect. If i saw him walking down the street i think i would be a little bit freaked out to talk to him so i so how did he come up with this as a way to talk to people?

Scott Grieger

Questions:

1. What is behind the "be here now" installation?
2. What work does he typically do and why?
3. why does he do what he does?

Answers and insights

i really am intrigued by his stuff. the sheer size of his installations kind of show that is very important. i could sit there for a while and just look at his stuff trying to figure out what is going on, unlike i would with kinkead. I love how he took symbols and logos, important beliefs, relationships between military and religion, and things someone really wouldnt associate together and he juxtoposes these images to make intriguing work. i think his work is based on anthropological/cultural things because thats what he knows and what calls out to him.

other questions

1. is his stuff controverial?
2. would his stuff be so moving without the juxtopostions?
3. what if he did them on a grander scale like in an open park rather than in a gallery?

Thomas kinkead

questions:

1. are his lanscapes representing anything?
2. does his paintings come from anything that have happened to him?
3. who does he do his paintings for?

answers and random insights

I chose to do thomas kinkead because ive actually heard of him before. I have seen a few of his paintings and not really cared for them to much. I think he just wants to give people their fantasies and not do what he wants to do. I think thats what makes his painting boring to me. I dont relate to it and i dont feel it has any meaning. he makes his paintings for everyone and he markets them that way. his work doesnt provoke any thought, its all aesthetic pleasure

other questions:

1. Will it stay so popular or will people get tired of it?
2. if it would be conceptual, would i really like it then?

readings 1

SCOPING THE AUDIENCE:
Doing art for yourself can be a good thing. It can help you release stress, express yourself, free you from boredome, and so on. But one can only get so far doing art for yourself. Finding an audience can help you become a better artist more than doing art for yourself. As an artist, i create things that interest me and only effect me and sometimes i get bored with that and lose interest in the piece. Doing art for a different audience would make me focus more on art that people can learn from, indentfy with, or be consumed in. Focusing on ways to make art relate to other people would keep my ideas fresh and constantly changing and i wouldn't get so bored so easily.

SOURCING INSPIRATION:
The book defines inspiration as something that sparks "a significant beginning, particularly one laden with risks and exhileration." I find this to be completely true. Something that inspires me has some kind of significance to me allowing me to get away from the norms of life and take risks in order to produce something exhilarating. Something that inspires me is skateboarding. I love everything about it from the lifestyles to physically riding my skateboard and doing things that will probably get me hurt or killed. There is just something that lures me into this counterculture, meaning that its not in the norm, and that is the risk; but the reward is when you do something you never imagined you could do and that is exhilarating to me. So for one sculpture project i had to find something that is no longer used for its original purpose and make a sculpture out of it. I ended up making a lounge chair out of broken skateboards, keeping skateboarding as my source for inspiration. This let me stay focused and not get bored with art because i had something to inspire me.

CRAFTING AN ARTISTIC SELF:
Have you ever had someone tell you "Why aren't you acting like yourself"? I have plenty of times. The thing is that depending on your mood, or any situation for that matter, people act differently than normal depending on the situation or mood. It is the same way with art. An atist can have any identity through their work. They may be an angry person, a social person, an arrogant one, etc. As a person you change and that is the bottom line. As an artist you change as well and you can have many different "faces" and still be the same person. That is why i think style has alot to do with establishing your artistic "self" Self is how people identify you, and with yourself constantly changing, you need to find a way to let people know it is still you so i would develop my own personal style. That could be through clothing, the way you hold yourself, the music you listen to, or whatever. As an artist your style could be using the same medium for everything, or using the same technique, or the same concept. You may change but your style will set you apart and let people know who you are.

EXPRESSING AN ARTISTIC ATTITUDE:
What is attitude? To me attitude is something that creates interest. Attitude is also contaigous. I hate listening to people who are monotonous or reading something that has no pulse or meaning behind it. Art is the same way. If it has no emotion or meaning, it is hard to enjoy. It may be pleasing to the eye but thats it. If i put some thought into what i do it makes it interesting to make, as well as creates interest in a public setting. I like coming up with a concept, drawing it or making it, and letting people in the dorm tell me what they think. The ones that have meaning to it, people seem to like more because they can tell it is different and they like trying to make their own connections to it. I think developoing an artistic attitude is something an artist needs to do to stay fresh and keep people, and maybe himself, interested.