Art can be expressed in many ways. But..have you ever thought through hair? Most styles started in the 1920's to symbolize something. The bobbed and waved hairstyle symbolized the growing freedom of women. But today hairstyles are mostly just to show off. In the 1950's that's really when hairstyles "took off" with the Doe Eye, D.A. and Mop tops. In the 1960's many African Americans wore the afro to symbolize black pride. In the 1980's that's when you see the spike hair, Jheri curls, mohawks, and small braids. Today you see color in hair, mohawks, designs in haircuts, twists, bangs, braids, bowls, etc.
See the design on his sideburns.
Rapper Roscoe Dash show his mohawk, with stars and color.
See the way the mohawk is set up, and the designs on the side of his head.
Roscoe Dash with a mohawk but different designs.
Nicki Minaj
Lady Gaga. See the bow
Questions:
1. Do you think hairstyles are really art? why or why not?
2. Do you either support the fact that artist are born with natural talent or should still go to school for arts?
3. Have your hair ever been designed in one of these ways? What did you have?
Music video are part of our everyday lives. We either watch them on our ipods, phones, or computers. But, are they part of art. They are visual but people take them for granted and don't consider them art. Without music videos we would be left just listening to music nothing else. Artists probably put effort on making them look good.
1. Do you think that music videos are part of visual art? Why/ Why not?
2.Why do think artists make music videos?
3. What do yo think is the meaning of this music video?
There has been circumstances where i see different building and other type of architecture everywhere I go. But I always ask myself is this Art. This has been something very debatable, but in my mid it is. It all start with a drawing that then leads to an actual building being made. I've always wondered how do the architects come up with this ideas.Some of them are very unique or a replica to an object. Just like a binocular building in California. this trend is now turning to sport stadiums where the most interesting one was the "bird's nest" stadium in Beijing, China. It is very interesting how architecture has evolved from houses made out of rocks to many crazy designs and building that can be considered landmarks for cities.
Questions 1) Do you consider architecture to be a form of art 2) What are some building or landmarks that have caught your attention or seen before? 3) If you were an architect what is something that you would create and why?
Vintage photo of graffiti artist Lady Pink wearing a shirt made for her by Holzer, featuring a line from Truisms
Jenny Holzer's Inflammatory Essays
For this unit in art we are specifically focusing on street, and it worked out that the artist I wanted to highlight in my blog post did a lot of street art. Her name is Jenny Holzer and she started publicly posting her art around 1977 and is still currently doing so. The main themes of her work is violence, oppression, power, war, feminism, and death. Holzer's main goal is to shed light on ideas that have been kept silenced.
Her first project was called Truisms and it is probably her most famous to date. She would go around NYC hang up these posters, carve them into benches, and she printed them on shirts as well. Truisms were basically a list of one line phrases she had come up with based on the writings of authors she was reading as a student.
Her next project, which is my favorite, is called Inflammatory Essays (1978). She wrote these after reading writings of fascist and communist leaders, and would write some of them in their voice, like making satire in a way. Each poster had exactly 100 words and 20 lines. She would distribute post these in neighborhoods of NYC, she said, "putting the scarier ones in the richer parts of town". Holzer made printed them on different colors, basically signalizing that it would be a series of posters.
She would later start to get asked to post her work on buildings. Holzer also does a lot with lighting, including projecting her work onto buildings. Her last project was in 2011. I picked her because I found her art a few months ago and I really fell in love with reading her inflammatory essays, and then got into a lot of the other public work she had done.
Questions:
1. What do you think could the negative effects of being so blatantly
political in art?
2. Do you think artists should make the public see the world their
way or the publics?
3. What do you think has a bigger impact in art: a broad message or a
specific message. -Amanda
Art is defined as many things, but it’s truly just expressing yourself. A form of art that too many people fail to notice is dance. Dance may not be considered art in the eye of some, but in my opinion, it’s one of the most commonly used forms. It shows your expression/emotion through your body. Dance may be the only form of art where you use all of yourself in the making. It’s beautiful to see an artist embody themselves in their work, and dancing allows you to do just that. Dance has been around since the beginning of time. The Aztecs, Egyptians, and other early civilizations used it on a daily basis. They danced and prayed to worship their Gods.Anyway it goes, dance has really become an important form of art that can create and effect peoples’ emotions. FMA (Flash Mob America) is the perfect example of this. A Flash Mob America flash mob is a spontaneous public performance, usually a dance, that appears seemingly out of nowhere with just one person, grows to hundreds of people, and quickly disappears. Flash Mob America strives to give people a purpose which is to create joy through surprise. Flash Mobs are also bringing the community together and helping people in need. They gave a deserving family $10,000 to help change their life; over 1,000 people came out and danced in their honor. Also they beat the world record with First lady Michelle Obama to how many people could jump rope at once.
QUESTIONS :
1) Do you consider Dance as a form of art?
2) Can it evoke emotions and experss thoughts?
3) What is the difference between dance and other forms of art?
This colorful public art can be seen on the Pink line on 18th street and it was completed in 1998. It was done by the artist Francisco Mendoza who was also my elementary art teacher. But he did not do this on his own; he got the help of many of his student who were enlisted in Gallery 18, which is a satellite program of Gallery 37. His purpose for doing this kind of art was to show the Mexican heritage and some of the cultural icons in Mexican history. This was different than other public art we’ve seen in class since the others have a humorous meaning behind it or they are head turning due to the abstract characteristic they have. This on the other hand is more like a symbol of the community which anyone can see just by going out and riding the train. ^-^
1)What kind of public art do u like better? (Humorous, the kind that questions people’s morals, etc.? Why?
2)Do you think this kind of public art is fair or unfair due to the fact that not only do Mexicans live in this area, but other nationalities as well?
3)Is there any other CTA public art that you’ve seen that you particularly liked? Do you know the meaning behind it?
The word "tattoo" derived from the Tahitian word "tatau", which means "to mark something". Though it may not be known to many, the art of tattooing started over 5,000 years ago. Most people who get tattoos use them to express themselves. Its a way to symbolize and identify yourself with something that will be there forever. However, while most people look at tattoos as just a form of body art, others have more negative views on tattoos. There are certain jobs that wont even allow you to apply if you have visible tattoos. The controversy behind the meaning and purpose of tattoos goes on constantly, with valid points on each side. I chose to do this topic because I'm interested in tattoo art myself, and plan on getting more of them in the future.
- Do you think it's fair for jobs to make no visible tattoos a requirement?
-Why do you think this is a regulation?
- Do you think tattoos should be viewed as a form of art?
See the design on his sideburns.
Rapper Roscoe Dash show his mohawk, with stars and color.
See the way the mohawk is set up, and the designs on the side of his head.
Roscoe Dash with a mohawk but different designs.
Nicki Minaj
Lady Gaga. See the bow
