Orlan

First of all, this woman is literally Lady Gaga.. or Lady Gaga is Orlan aside from their art I think they actually look alike, so bizarre. I honestly dont think there is anything this woman could do to shock me because shes pretty much done every crazy thing in the book but I did think her sculpture "Bump Load" was the most out there... or atleast I think it is the thing that is least like her other work.

A combination (in my eyes) of Shi Huangdi's terracotta army, a futuristic dragonball z character and part Orlan (the bumps in the face of course) I just think this piece is so out there. Even though non of her work is in anyway tradiational I would like to know where the inspiration for this piece came from. I would have to say out of everything I find this sculpture the most shocking of all of her collection because it is just so far off the beaten path from the type of things she normally does.

Grid Project

I really enjoyed this project, I thought it was a great way to help us better understand pixelation and how many elements go into conveying a single image. I was unsure of what to do at first and the project I came up with is literally the result of me wondering around Michaels for about an hour and a half. I probably picked up thirty different materials.... and then put them back before deciding on this. I think my idea turned out pretty well, I'm definitely happy with it. It was incredibly time consuming but I still had fun working on it.

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beauys was a German artist born in May of 1921. His main focus' were sculpture and performance art. Beauys was considered under rated throughout his lifetime but now is seen to many as one of the most influentual artists of the 20th century. Much of Beauys work was influenced by a plane crash he was in during WWII. Beauys claims that after his plane went to a tartar tribesman rescued him from the wreckage and wrapped him in animal lard and felt to keep him alive. Many witnesses claim the story unfolded differently with Beauys being taken to a German military hospital but regardless, much of his work involved these two materials. Personally of what I have seen so far I am not a huge Joseph Beauys fan. For some reason I feel a sense of arrogance in his work and am having trouble personally relating to the pieces.

What is and isn't art?

Rotary Glass Plates by Marcel Duchamp 

When the question was asked "what makes something considered art?" I didn't really understand it until the film we watched on Man Ray in our last class. I always thought that uncurling a lampshade and calling it art was ridiculous but I see that in a new light now. The act of taking something useful and making it not, or taking something ugly and making it beautiful is actually quite significant. Its not that these artists have taken so much time to create the object but the have inspired others minds to view it differently, like it isn't something seen or used in everyday life. They were able to make viewers appreciate the brilliance or even the simplicity of an object that is otherwise overlooked. Interactive art is also something I had formally overlooked. I love the idea that the piece is not art without an audience. At the first glance of the photo of "Rotary Glass Plates" I was pretty unimpressed, but as I said before, after the last lecture we had in class I have an entirely new appreciation for it.