beauty is as old as our generations/ field trip #6

      On Thursday May 25^th 2012 we went on our last field trip it was an adventure with all the rain and what not. But as the semester has come to an end the class has gotten harder and the reviews have been more connected to my life style. This week we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a full house that day. 

         There were three main pieces that I just feel in love with. Which is the necklace by Kenneth Jay Lane, jewelry set by an unknown artist and a clip again by an unknown artist. These pieces were simply beautiful and all are white gold with beautiful diamonds. Such beautiful art work in the whole museum but what really caught my eye was the evolution on jewelry through out the years and generations. Theirs jewelry that are dated back to the 500 B.C that’s similar to the jewelry that a lot of people made from like jade stone really pretty. The works of art that I saw where of items that you could see this generation/ century owing because it’s so weird and well put.

The connection I see between all this art and the time it was created and know is that its all has one trigger in mind and its to be something beautiful to anyone eyes. There wasn’t one piece of jewelry that I believe this generation wouldn’t like. This field trip opened up my eyes and I notice that as for jewelry nothing has really changed threw out the years because it all means one thing beauty and class. Only thing that’s changed is how we create it.

Earrings (Clip)
Marshall Field & Co. (American, founded 1881)
Date: ca. 1985
Accession Number: 2008.190.11a, b

Jewelry Set
Date: third quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.9a–c

Clip
Date: ca. 1950
Accession Number: 2008.190.14

Kenneth Jay Lane (American, born 1932)
Date: ca. 1980
Accession Number: 2008.190.18a–c

Ring
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.13

Earrings (Clip)
Kenneth Jay Lane (American, born 1932)
Date: ca. 1980
Accession Number: 2008.190.17a, b

Ring
Date: ca. 1965
Accession Number: 2008.190.46

Ring
Date: ca. 1970
Accession Number: 2008.190.49

Bracelet
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.138

Bracelet
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.139

Necklace
Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.275a–c

Earrings (Clip)
Date: fourth quarter 20th century
Accession Number: 2008.190.299a, b

Necklace
Date: 500 B.C.–A.D. 900
Accession Number: 2008.190.317a–c

Jewelry Set

Vendôme & Coro (American)

Date: late 1950s
Accession Number: 1995.464.1a–c

 Pendant

Elsa Peretti (American, born Italy, 1940)
Date: late 1970s
Accession Number: 2008.190.137a, b

Chelsea Galleries Reaction field trip #5

Two weeks ago we went on a trip to the chealse galliers. We saw a mix of great items both good and not my taste. I’ve been the area before but I never really bothered to look into the stores. I didn’t think it was okay to just “Window shop” I saw manty different artist work and I fall in love with the Ernesto Nesto Exhibit I completely fell in love with his childish yet grown enough mindset.

The two artworks that I really enjoyed were actually in the Tania Bonakdar Gallery in the exhibition of Ernesto Neto: Slow is good.  When I first saw his artwork, it reminds me of a playground. However, what I really like is that everything in the gallery can be placed in the home. I feel as I could put this in a child’s play room and they can just run around all day. Also, all the artwork that I got to see was a very good investment because almost everything in there has a double function. It can be use a decoration. And second, people can place it in the playground for their children like The Island Bird, which is a humongous artwork that is hanging from the roof. I would love these pieces in my home one day.

On the other hand, there was artwork that I disliked. They are located in two different galleries. The first one was in the Gagosian Gallery with the exhibitions of Richard Avedon: Murals & Portraits. When I saw his artwork I didn’t like it because it didn’t move me maybe because I don’t understand its concept. I personality would not invest my money in this type of art. On the contrary, the other artwork was in the Gladstone Gallery that was exhibiting Anisk Kapoor's work I didn’t like this art yet again because it doesn’t speak to me. I like art that moves me that tells me a story that has more than one function and this didn’t do anything for me. Also, this work looks like it was done at fast paste and I don’t like rushed art. It looks sloppy to me. Similarly to the portraits of Avedon, I wouldn't invest any money on this artwork simply because it doesn’t seem to tell me a story like the other two do.

In conclusion in a far future in my life I would more than likely love to invest in a piece like the “Ernesto Neto: slow iis good. “The island Bird” I completely love that artwork. Also with “sound Way” that would be a great add-in to a child room or at a front door as well. It’s a beautiful piece of art. As I said nothing that was in any of the other galleries really spoke to me, I truly wasn’t moved because I like art that is both playful and tells me story and these other two artworks didn’t do that for me. 

Richard Avedon.

"Mural & Portraits."

1970.

Ernesto Neto: Slow iss good.

"sound Way."

2012.

Anish Kapoor.

"Ga Gu Ma."

2011-12.

Ernesto Neto: Slow iis good

"The Island Bird."

2012.

Quiz Make Up

            The artist Charles Atlas was an artist born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1958.  His worked has been shown in a number of places.  His art is what I consider thinking outside the box with the human body.

             I completely feel in love with what he did with his photography for some odd reason I love the weirdness behind his art. I love the photo en-tilled “Bowery lip-synchs to Aretha Franklin's "Take a Look” the artist has a model wearing heavy make up while if u look close you’ll notice that His cheeks are pierced with metal ornaments, and he holds a set of oversized fake lips in his mouth. I think I like it simply because its weird and it something not a lot of artist do because not everyone like to look at art that is created like this. Charles Atlas doesn’t just take pictures he also does films that are weird but not the good weird more like the creepy weird. For example his filmed titled “Hail the New Puritan” I saw a clip of it and was freaked out. I like the colors he uses but why the dots everywhere makes me feel itchy. It brings back un-wanted memories of the chicken pocks.

          I think what this artist tries to show in his art the different ways a person can feel when just looking at a number of pictures and his variety of ways he can create some beautiful or weird. He’s a pretty cool artist/ filmmaker I like him and most of his work. If I could afford some of his work I would probably invest it in because its just art work that you can enjoy looking at and getting last in for a while. Not everyone will have the same view on the work as the person next to them in my opinion. 

“Bowery lip-synchs to Aretha Franklin's "Take a Look”

                                       “Hail the New Puritan” 

Design in Our Lives(Field Trip 3)

              The designs in our life aren’t all highly functional some are low functional. But, every design has a propose in life even if its just to be used as décor or if its to have as prototype that could be improved.

            To low functional art designs that we have seen in the MOMA were the “design for an overpopulated planet” by Anthony Dunne. Also “Forks” by Bruno Munari are both low functional designs simply because it cant be used at the moment maybe never. Bruno Munari work on “Forks” is low functional because what he did to the forks although it is art make them unusable to a person in a normal everyday activity such as having a meal. Than the Anthony Dunne design had me very confused. I was looking at it and I didn’t understand its function at first. Than I read its description and I was able to understand it a lot more. Its function is to extract nutritional value from our surroundings. The point to this design was to show the shortage of food due to the fact that our plant is over populated. I consider its design to be low functional it doesn’t seem to useful in our society at the moment it looks like it could be used as a prototype.

            Very high functional designs are also apart of the MOMA like the “PUMA BIKE” form the puma Tribranded collection by Jens Martin Skibsted. It’s a bike that folds up small enough to be able to store in any small location. It’s also lighter than an average bike. I would love to own something like this myself. Seems to be pretty cool and an awesome prototype. Than there is the “CARNA Folding Wheelchair" by Kazuo Kawaski. It’s made with titanium, rubber and aluminum honeycomb. This design is cleaver. I consider it cleaver because the seat and backrest have balls that seem to act as support of the person who will be putting it in use. 

            Designs are important in life sometimes their functional and sometimes their just prototypes of a good idea.  We may see things as not being functional but that’s only because we don’t understand their actual functions due to the fact that we weren’t inside the designer’s head when they created it. We see high functional item’s functional because we see their function clearly. We understand what is going to work and what is not just by the way it looks.

            Everything we use in our life our life daily is coming from a basic design. Every phone, T.V., video game, is all basic design Designs help develop our world just like the designs in the MOMA one day they will help our world become a bit better. Each design just needs the function to become a bit clearer.

Title: "Design for an Overpopulated Planet: Foragers"2009

Artist: Anthony Dunne

Title: "Forks"1958

Artist: Bruno Munari

Title:" A Bike, from the PUMA Tribranded Collection"2004

Artist: Jens Martin Skibsted

Title: "Carna Folding Wheelchair" 1989

Artist: Kauzo Kawaski