Monday, May 18, 2009
Jake and Amir
This uses photoshop or some sort of digital manipulation.
A thousand Years
The hat makes the man.
"Had no shame about stealing other people's ideas"= Tribute.
Bacon.
Senior Art Show Review
Senior Show
The senior art show was a great success. It was one of the most interesting senior art shows I have seen yet. It was also so wonderful seeing all of my friends succeed. My two favorite works of art were Emily Abramovich’s and Terrence Henk’s pieces.
Emily had a very powerful art piece about the history of her family. She also incorporated how the idea of a photograph has changed over time. She talked about how back in history people were “forced to smile and strike a pose” whereas today a snap shot can catch a great moment in milliseconds. Her photographs were printed on paper that she had made herself and were strung together and hung from the ceiling. The pictures told a story and showed how different life was decades ago. What I love about photos is that they tell a story, but a different story to every person. Another great facet of photography is that usually it doesn’t show the bad parts of life or family, only the good. It’s a reminder that through the tough times there is always family no matter what. The piece gave off a great feeling.
Terrence used his love for the contrast between nature and technology to show a painting of down town Oneonta illuminated with the haunting appeal of a projected video of ghost looking cars driving down the road. I really enjoyed this piece because for my senior project I want to incorporate digital with an old sculptural material such as bronze. In this case Terrence could fight against Duchamp’s idea of art only being 2 things put together because along with the canvas and paint he has a time piece that fits perfectly together with the painting which is also ever changing. The painting was of a very large scale and was the first thing the viewer saw when walking into the gallery.
This senior art show was a great success. I went back for a second, third, and fourth time to look at and examine all of the astounding pieces of art. I love how my generation of artists looks at ideas so differently than my parents’ generation. We are more comfortable expressing ourselves and allowing ourselves to make whatever statement we feel. I noticed that photography was the most common medium during this show which is also interesting because of the advances photography has made within the last few decades. Each artist was successful in expressing what they truly felt and I just hope my senior project will be as successful was this show.