Performance Artist - Allan Kaprow

This might have no relevancy to performance art at all, but I was wondering if the guys from Jackass would be considered Performance Artists. They had skits, and would perform violent or just down right dangerous acts to themselves or to others. Mostly they did all of their skits in public. So would that be considered a performance art, or no because they don't consider themselves as performance artists?

Anyway Allan Kaprow was apparently a well renowned Performance Artist. He was born in August of 1927 and died April 2005. Allan was an american painter, and what they call a 'pioneer' in establishing the idea for performance art. Which means he had to help develop the "environment" for it which is also known as installation art. (Which I'm a HUGE fan of.) I love how performance and installation artists like to examine other peoples behavior and habits. It's all very interesting to see it be put into an art that is 3D. It's right there in front of you like a mirror to show the viewer how they react, or how their behavior and habits have contributed to the project itself.
Hopefully one day, I can do the same and become a serious installation artist or something like that.
Bye Brian!

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Kaprow"

Logos! **make up blog!**

Logo - a sign, name or trademark to represent a company or whatever.

I'm kind of mad about this blog because I KNOW I did it. But it's not in with all of my other postings for some reason. I remember doing this I swear. I remember looking at advertisements on buses and etc. I remember gathering pictures of logos and symbols to get a good look on the difference between them.
Logo's like the Playboy bunny are ridiculously famous. Once a company has made it big with their logo like NIKE, no one else can take it in any way. One day the letter N will be a logo [for me of course] and no one will be allowed to use it anywhere. Just kidding. Symbols though are different like the Peace sign, or the Tree of life, or that hand thing from Star Trek that apparently I learned represents "Live Love and Prosperity". That was interesting to find out.
But yeah, if you want me to get an understanding for Logo's from this blog, then I understand it completely and I know what they are about and used for.
Bye Brian!

Positive and Negative **make up blog**

I could have sworn I wrote this, but since it's apparent that I didn't I'm going to have to try and remember how I felt that glorious day. Positive space white, negative space black. This lesson taught me that I absolutely hate illustrator. I don't really think the way a graphic designer would think, I can't really get my ideas to come out on paper or on the computer. So to do my project I remember just kind of winging it and clicking the pen tool all over the page. The first time I printed out my project it was completely wrong, my margins were off.. the whole damn thing was off. So.. since it takes two to tango, my second one finally came out to be a lot better. I was proud to even just finish something on the computer.

But to be honest, I didn't like this project and I NEVER will. =]
So long Brian!

Sh, Sh, Shake It Like A Polaroid Picture!

... executed quite well.

What the hell are they doing?

So Brian put us to the test with our performance skills, and Matt and I are pretty damn good. We decided to do the wagging tail all the way into the safeway parking lot. It was slow at first but once we started going so did our performance and it looked a lot better. These two guys that work at Safeway were like "What the hell are they doing???"-- not to mention Sara and Joel weren't far behind us doing the same thing and also had mirrors in their hands. The four of us not talking to eachother all doing similiar things probably got people to ponder what the hell was going on. Afterward we tried the shaking hands thing which wasn't as good as we expected. We decided to go inside of the store and meet half way and just randomly start shaking hands. So we did it, but all we got were weird looks while we were standing in the frozen food section asking eachother if it was warm yet. Which it definitely wasn't. After we decided it was warm we moved on to the last proposal; standing back to back making faces at eachother with the mirrors. We walked all the way out from the back of the store into the parking lot and so on. People's faces were just so funny. They didn't know what to think. I then decided to hop inside my little red van, with a cart attached to it. As Matt pushed me around as if I was a real car, I honked the little horn and was having a fake road rage at people. After parking my truck I pretty much threw myself out of it... looked around, and walked away. That was pretty good too. I like the thought of Performance Art, especially if it's humorous because I dig it I guess. It might have not been a life changing experience but it definitely did get me to think about the form of art performance. But this activity was a fun one and I love doing group projects especially when they are goofy like this one was. GOOOO BRIAN! =]

Futuristic Musuems???

Article number one was trying to push the idea that a "Newseum," will pretty much be the hottest thing since sliced bread. The Newseum will be online so that the viewer can just click and click and click away at things they want to see. But are they really experiencing it?? Won't that take away from the experience of seeing these sometimes amazing artifacts. Isn't that just a lazy way around doing something educational? Going online to me would take away from the artwork or whatever the object is. I'm seriously a hands on person and sure I could reference from the website which would be a completely different story, but to benefit myself and to learn more about the object I would definitely have to just get up and go see it. There's no way that museum's will die out as long as there are still people who are willing to learn and explore things they've heard but have never got to see. [Which is one of the reasons for a museums] Article number two talks about expanding museums. I'm probably going to contradict myself here a little bit so hang in there. I think that expanding a museum is a good idea in ways because there are still so many people that like to check out museums, besides little kids on field trips with their school. The crowds of people to me are what take away from the experience. I was at the Liberty Science Center and there were just so many people that I could barely see the exhibits and some I had to just skip considering it wasn't worth me shoving through a billion little kids and adults to get to it. So expanding would be good for space issues like that. This way there's more space for everyone. But also if you make a museum too big and worry about cafes and gift shops [which are over priced and over placed in many museums] that it takes away from the whole idea of it.
In some museums you end of walking by 3 cafe's and 6 gift shops that all carry the same thing. I'm sure they're making bank off of that but is it really necessary? Plus with the museum being so big besides the cafes and gift shops - there is so much stuff how can you possibly remember all of it? Or take it all in, in just one day.

I guess that's all I really can say for now without confusing anybody and myself haha

Patterns

I did the research for the floor tiles, wall coverings, fabric prints and Islamic Architecture and I've come to a lot of conclusions.

Wood floor tiles seem to be all about textures.


Ceramic floor tiles seem to be more about design and the look then texture. Even though all the tiles have their own texture. What doesn't?


Fabric prints can be about anything. They can show a texture, a culture, and even a design.


Islamic Architecture is all about patterns. And it's all gorgeous.


All these different things do have one thing in common though. They are all used for design. After seeing the Islamic Architecture I'm thinking about trying to mimic a pattern from there. I'm not sure though, I might just make my own also which wouldn't be so bad I HOPE!

Ok, well now you know =]

My Crappy Compositon =]

soommmebody critiiiquuue mee!!!! =]=]=]

Value

Ok, so I understand that value can be used in our art. Ya know going from light to really really dark. But until Brian brought up that chart, I've never thought of value like that in any way shape or form. Of course I know the whole deal with getting a job and making money -- that to me is just something we already know in a way, it's one of those things that's just a natural thought that I really don't think about it unless it's brought up. It's funny that an artist can put a fancy label on anything and it'll be more expensive then the same thing that's only a $1.50. I know it sounds funny but that's the only thing I could think of the whole time our class talked about it. How to me none of that really worries me, because it's really not like I'm gonna change anything about value and the way things flucuate in price and what not. So to me it's just something that's in the background of my life. Hopefully I'll become an art teacher and I'll make money, but that's how I expect it to be-- because it's a job. Out of sight, Out of mind -- i don't have a pocket value chart with me at all times so thats how i kind of think about things likke that (no not my boyfriend haha) but when it comes to value, I guess so.
But I did learn more about what I didn't really understand. So I did get something out of this. That as artists we can add value to something that is virtually the same all around.

Damn art students<3

String Activity

I thought that the string activity was cool because we were all connected some way or another through line. The only shapes I saw here triangles and some parallelograms here and there (is that how it's spelt??) just because of the way it was all strung together. I didn't think that it was too lame, I thought it was kind of fun. I kept trying to connect lines together so that they could make like a teepee form haha just so you can actually see the string better . I wasn't really surprised by the way it looked in the end, I was kind of expecting it to look all strung together like a web. The only thing I don't like about this activity is the fact that as soon as I'm done writing this.. we're probably gonna have to go unstring it all.

Line and Shape

Q: Which of the images a, b, c, or d are lines?
Q: Which of the images a, b, c, or d, are shapes?
-- A: The only way I feel that I can answer these questions is to answer them at the same time. A, and C could be lines as well as shapes. I only say that because you can make lines that go from being really thin to really thick, especially with a sharpie marker. C could be a rectangle or just a really really thick, short line. B and D are the only two I want to say are only lines.

Q:What makes a line?
A:I think that movement, and mood can make a line.

Q:What makes a shape?
A:I think that form, movement, and mood can make a shape.

Kurt Wenner 3D Street Murals.

Kurt Wenner has been known for his street painting and chalk murals using a projection called anamorphosis. He has been doing it since the 1980's and they say he's one of the first artists to really do 3D street paintings. I just think that it would be really cool to see one of his murals on the sidewalk. Imagine thinking your gonna fall through the pavement when you suddenly realize it's only an illusion? Seriously, since seeing his artwork I thought it'd be good to practice techniques to become good at something that.

ok, later gators =)

My First Critiquing Assignment

Describe: In the image that I picked, there are all sorts of different colors exploding in the viewers face. It also looks as if there are soft exploding clouds all the way to the right, and it gives me a cluttered feeling.
Interpret: I feel like the artist wanted to to look noisy. In the middle there is a shape that seems to suggest the shape of a horn, which right beneath it creates a shadow. I think that's neat because it makes that ONE item, the only REAL item in the picture seem more REAL. All the shapes are colliding together and it keeps making me think of a car accident. Everytime I look at it my eye moves from some weird gold shape all the way in the left, and the lines and colors move my eyes all the way up to the right where you can see something that resembles a cloud. More of like an explosive, uncomfortable, cluttered feeling.
Evaluate: I think that the artist did a good job with making the artwork color and shapes collide to give a messy feeling. But it's not something I like, mostly because I don't like the way it makes me feel and it's not really my style.

First Dayyy

and i'm beat since I hopped off a bus from NJ at 5 am last night and I hated my life the whole 4 and a half hour drive.
Don't poke me I'm cranky.