Art 21 Reflection #1

     The first little skit was of Eleanor Antin. She was a photographer who liked to take pictures of the past such as ancient Rome. She also like taking fun pictures of objects in different terrains. The Roman pictures were great, I thought this was a great skit because I love ancient Rome and Greek culture. She wanted people to get a feeling of what it was like in the past compared to now. Some of the other photos that Antin took were of 100 boots. She took many picture of boots 'waking' around the corner or to church. They were amusing, funny, and random pictures.
     She was a also dancer and really didn't think much of it but she thought it was a funny skill to have.

     The Second artist was a cartoonist who used words in his paintings to describe his pictures. He also made the scariest and creepiest things funny. Raymond Pettibon used poems, sentences from books, or his own writings. His pictures were kind of creepy most of the time so I didn't really like his work, but I did find it interesting how he would combine writing and painting. Some of the painting that I did like were of his trains. The trains had a lot of feeling to them and you could really come up with a story to go behind it.

      The third painter was Elizabeth Murray. She did these wacky, humorous, out of control paintings. She had all these shapes that wouldn't naturally be see together but she some how made them connect. When she made her paintings Elizabeth would first cut out shape then she would blend in colors, even the paint out, and do some wacky things to the paintings. The shapes were meant to build contrast especially when she added bright color to them, but in the end all the shapes ended up blending together. Murray would use other peoples criticism and art work to help with making her paintings (As we do in art class). She pained because she felt free and just had fun doing it.

      The fourth artist was a very peculiar artist. Walton Ford did painting and prints. He used animals in his work but he used them in a interesting way. For prints he wanted to make them look antique, just like Audibon's prints. But he made the animals (mostly birds) do weird stuff like attacking each other or doing something violent. He also puts them in odd places, It is kind of what we are doing in art class this weak. We are making a clay sculpture of an animal where you would think you woudn't usually see it .
     At first when you look at the painting you think: Wow it's beautiful! Then when you look close at it you see that something is wrong or out of place. Although most of the painting are somewhat creepy they are also pretty neat at the same time.