Assigning Art

3 x 2 + -2 x 4 + 3 x 8 + -2 x 1= 6 -8 +24 -2= 20

For some people when they see shapes, they think of it has art, but for me I can never really understand why they made it into an art submission. This is why the size of the object and what that object is, is really important for me to understand. That way it is also easier for me to remember, while looking at the other many pieces of artwork. This piece of art was 86” in height and “63 in width (Henkel). With that saying, I will not be one to

The sculpture that caught my eye the most for this assignment is called Reverence by Jim Sardonis. This piece of artwork is a three dimensional assemblage sculpture. It is made of pieces of granite which is an igneous rock. It was put together piece by piece which required special tools and equipment and also a lot of space to work. It is an ‘in the round’ sculpture, which means the whole thing cannot be photographed in one photo and there are many different views of it depending on where you are standing. This is a beautiful sculpture that has many meaning to it. It depicts two whales’ tails as they appear to be diving into a field of grass. The grass represents the ocean. First of all, it puts the viewer in awe of one of the largest animals

With the sculpture straight ahead, the audience sees a profile view of the scene; however, the artist created the sculpture with enough space and depth to be able to view the front of the woman’s face from a side angle. The artist created the seated woman with much detail; her nose, chin, slightly opened mouth, pronounced brow line and inset eyes show this. She reaches for the chest with her right arm in a very delicate manner as her left arm lays on the throne for support.

I. This is a three-dimensional rectangular object with a massive lid that has a shape of a flat couch with two figures reclining on it. Even though both figures look alike and their faces are unfinished, they are slightly different. The figure in the front is a female. She has long hair, small breast, and a round face. The other figure is a male. He has a beard; details of his face are more masculine and angular. Both figures have long clothes. All four sides of the rectangle are carved. The back is not

36. | Sculpture from the Orientalizing Period refers to sculpture that was made by the Egyptians. | | False |

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I selected a sculpture from the museum to analyze. The sculpture’s name is: Totem Pole. There was not one specific artist, instead there were several artists who helped create this piece of art. The Coosa Valley Woodcarving Club members worked together to carve this Totem Pole in 1985. The media used was wood and oil paints. The Totem Pole represents the many tribes of Native American tribes in this area. Meaning that the animals shown would represent different groups or tribes who are all a part of a close community. There are many elements of art that are visible with this sculpture. One element of art displayed is Line. There is a contrast of both regular and irregular lines where some regular lines are incorporated closely to irregular lines. This is shown on the wings of the bird towards the middle of the totem pole where the top of the wing is straight and the lines that are carved in a more vertical direction seem to look irregular due to the lines not being completely straight down. Irregular lines are used mainly here since the lines used look to be reflecting the wilderness of nature and

I believe that La Grande Vitesse(1969) by Alexander Calder is a sculpture quite qualified to be considered art. While La Grande Vitesse is generally accepted by the citizens of Grand Rapids, Michigan where the sculpture resides, many people still believe that it is a waste of steel, time and space. During its construction and until this day, people criticize it for being “A useless peice of junk and an eyesore - Grand Rapids press reader” or saying things like “If you took Calder and put it next to a pile of welded junk and didn't tell the average person which was which, 99 out of 100 people wouldn't be able to tell the difference - Robert Blandford”. Although many people dislike this artwork for many understandable reasons, I believe that this sculpture is art because it represents a deeper meaning, and shouldn’t be judged entirely by its physical appearance.

The Cleveland Art Museum is a prominent art gallery that is found Cleveland, Ohio. This museum from the states carries a large array of artwork (paintings, drawings, photographs, sketches, sculptures, etc). Though, these works of art do not focus primarily on one time period. This particular museum holds creations that stem all the way back to Ancient Egypt. From this particular art gallery (that can also be found online), a work of art from this gallery will be looked at. However, there will be a certain specification. The reason behind this specification is based around the book Tender Is The Night. Being one of Scott Fitzgerald’s outstanding books, this novel was set in the early 1930’s. Hence, I will be focusing on a painting made/done in the early 1930’s.

The artwork that I chose to describe is by Jean-Michel Basquiat. The artwork is called “Untitled (1981)” it is considered as an abstract piece of artwork because it represent a meaning, but does not try to make an external reality of something we see every day. This picture is of a distorted fisherman, but Basquiat exaggerated on how the person looks because it does not look anyway in form a natural look. In this artwork it uses vertical and horizontal lines at the top of the artwork. The lines are not thick at all, but really thin and curved lines. There is diagonal lines used when describing the somewhat fishing pole on the person back, and there are many unique thick lines of paint used at the bottom

14 x C-H (412) + 4 x C-C (348) + 2 x C-O (360) + 2 x O-H (463) + 9 x O=O (498)  12 x C=O (805) + 16 x O=H (463)

Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain People often ask what constitutes good art. Who decides whether or not a piece is art and whether it is good art or not? Marcel Duchamp challenged popular notions of his day about what art actually is. Duchamp, a French artist living in New York at the turn of the century, believed that it was up to the artist to determine what art is. Duchamp is most famous for a type of sculpture he created called “readymades”1. Readymades are ordinary functional household objects that have either been joined to other objects, or chosen to stand alone as sculpture. Examples of his readymades include a coat hanger nailed to the floor of his studio, a hat

-x2 - x4 + x10 + x11 + x12 + x16 + x17 + x18 + x19 + x20 + x21 = 0

That is the scenario and questions proposed in the Paris Game. Our class took on the roles of academy members, artist from different styles, critiques, and art dealers. Our goal was to state a case in favor of our school of art, show off examples of works from those schools of art, and then sell the works at the coveted Salon art show. The three schools of art were Traditionalism, Impressionism, and Avant-Garde. Each school had three artist, and at least one critique who preferred that style of art. Also, there was the academy who strictly believed that Traditionalism was the only true form of art. Finally, there were two art dealers who did not necessarily have a preference in art style, but were more interested in profit. That is the stage set forth and is was our job, as players, to decide what virtues and ideas we agreed with and what “true art” really