Dia: Beacon Field Trip

I really enjoyed the trip we took to Dia: Beacon the other day. I had never been there so it was a new experience for me. I was surprised at the range of different artworks they had, and it was different from most museums I had been to. I liked the fact that it wasn't an actual museum, but rather a large studio building that had been put into use as a museum, it gave it more of an artsy feel I thought. I enjoyed Robert Smithson's piece "Map of Broken Glass". It was so beautiful, the hue of the glass was almost a robin's egg blue and it was very shiny and I wanted to touch the piece so bad, even though I knew it was made out of broken glass. It reminded me of a mineral rock you would find in a mining museum gift shop. The piece I had the most fun with though was Richard Serra's "Torqued Ellipse" series. My friends and I ran around on the inside which was a lot of fun! It was really neat to see and run around in a piece that I've learned about in several of my classes. Dan Flavin's work with the fluorescent lights I thought was very unique and I liked taht I got a chance to see his work up close because I have to do a presentation and paper on him for my Conceptual Art class. Another highlight of my trip was getting to sit on those ridiculously comfortable couches while viewing Andy Warhol's work. Perfect!

Project 2: Self Visualization Concept

For my self-visualization project I was thinking of taking pictures of myself listening to music, making goofy faces, dancing, just trying to capture things I do on a regular basis. I'm a quirky girl, so I thought it would best fit if I was just acting natural. I was thinking of putting some type of focus on my eyes, since they're pretty much my favorite feature, so I was thinking of maybe colorizing them in some way, maybe making them stand out by making the rest of my face black and white and just making my eyes a bright emerald green. I really want to stick with something with music, just because music is something I love and that is very important to me and can relate to my life and events that have happened to me, whether it's about my friends or family, heartache or thinking ahead into the future. I was thinking of putting some type of word bubble somewhere too, and possibly scattering words in the picture that describes myself and using certain types of font to emphasize the words. I was thinking of somehow incorporating my nationalities into my project , but I'm not sure how I will go about doing that. I wanted to also include pictures that represent art, music, and film since those are some of my favorite things. I'd also like to possibly incorporate pictures of my friends and family into my project. I was thinking of making some type of collage part to the project, but lowering the opacity a little so you could still see my picture. So far that's all I have, but knowing me random things will pop up during the process of creating this project. 

Photoshop Project 1 & Illustrator Project 1

Artist Comparison

Cui Xiuwen's artwork is very ethereal and majestic. You can see she gets a lot of influence from her Chinese heritage and her existence as a woman. The color and set up are very representational in that you can either chose to picture the "angels" in Heaven or Hell. The girls in her pictures seem very unsure and lost, like many young women are. There's also a maternal quality to the artwork too. 

Cindy Sherman has a horror movie-esque quality to many of her photos that she takes, especially her "Centerfolds" collection. Her "Fairy Tale Disasters" collection is very fantasy like, and her "Untitled Film Stills" are more like centerfold pictures. All of her work though has a very realistic and raw quality to it. 

Frida Kahlo's paintings are very water color like and beautiful. You can definitely tell that she has been influenced by her Mexican and Native American heritage. Her art is very realistic but also has a surrealistic quality. You can see how her paintings tell the stories of her life, because she had many bumps in the road that she had to overcome. She accomplished a lot in her short life. 

All of the artists pieces are very strong because they are all influenced by female artists. There's also an ongoing theme between all of them of some type of struggle that they have had in their life, some type of internal hardship. Their work represents the different roles or expectations of women all around the world.

Photoshop Project 1 Final!