Cindie Shermen

When she moved to New york city, she wanted to be a model. One day, on broadway street, she got an offer to be a model. The first photo that she had to take was vikini shot, it was quite shock to a naive lady who's originally from country, where those pictures are not many in public. But, she knew that it is really hard to get a job as a model, wheather it is safe thing to do or not, she tried. when she laied down on the set, she felt guit by doing something not proper. It was the moment she'd walk away from the place and give up her career opportunity as a model.

ART21

Season 1/2001

Place

Richard Serra (Sculptor)

Jumping off imagination, it's sometime huge, empty, full of posibilities.
Falling in love with places is same as we do with people.
How we move through space is the scale, prospection, etc.

Season 2/2003

Humor

Eleanor Antin(performance artist, film maker, illustration artist)

Major passion is narative funny side of things; humorous things.
100 boots placing all around everywhere and making series is relation to human nature.

Season 3/2005

Structure

Matthew Ritchie (installator of painting, sculpture, light boxes, all drawings, and investigating projects)

Modern art is a gift as it is advance, or at least question about what's going on. Drawing could be blown up, taken a part, redrew, shrink back down, three-dimentioanl, flat, etc.. drawing is just pushing and pushing.
Drawing is a shared integory, infinite resolution. Somtime, the sizes are might different, but it is exactly the same thing indeed. Part of the work is letting people in. Letting people think about  "what can one person know?" The strength of interested in things, listening to everything little loudly. The artist is interested in sustaining drawing such as how context of information defines everything?

Season 4/2007

Romance

Pierre Huyghe

Creating world takes long time, it is playing with culture, circulation of story which is less fluid, or more fluid.
If door's moving, there is no inside or outside anymore.
Different ways to take shadows in silence.
space's transforming to clime. It's less narrative but more emotional. Simple narrative, but emotional experimenting. Also, homor is very important to break critical view.
to set up -
to produce -
to document -
= the reality. Exhibition is not the last step of work, it is a starting process to go somewhere else.

Art Institute of Chicago

One of the good reasons to take ART103 course is that you get chances to go to art museum once awhile.
Especially, I really appreciate the fact; because, sometime it's hard to catch everything what's going on in this modern society, in other words, busy life. When I have really busy life, planning to go to an art museum can sound too fancy, but through class, I get great excuse as "part of class" anyway, it was another great experience.
There were so many different exhibitions going on, it was even hard to look at everything in one day I believe. Particularly, the new part of AIC was impressive, I liked the sensual architectural design a lot. The little cafeteria between galleries was plus point, since AIC is not a small museum, audience must get tired of looking at the variety of works, in the mean time, if people could take a breath at the cafeteria, that little cafeteria roles very thoughtfully.
Another point, I did not expect to see the great great artists' works at that time, one of chicago's museums, what could be very special? just comfortable feeling, but when I walked in there were the great Monet, Gogh, Picasso, Mendrian, etc. If I was someone who could judge the museum, it was excellent qualitiwise.
I warmed up myself from the legendary artists' works, with all my meditated feeling, I went into the back room on the second floor, there was, the sculptures, I guess I enjoyed them the most at AIC that day.

 

The pictures give me second feeling unlike the impression that I got at the museum, familiar now, and warmer. Some of sculptures got me confused as well, in the last picture, the title of the sculpture is "Two penguins" hmm... IF I could have chance to make a title for this art work, I would call it "Two Loving Thumbs" because, it seems like a lovely couple's thumbs are crossed over on each others. Well, still I can't tell "it's totally wrong" because there can always be hidden special meanings that artist had when he/she was making it. It just doesn't deliver the purpose or meaning directly.  And the second photo above, that is the one touched my emotion the most, It seems like a little pure child's figure. The facial expression, and the movement of little shoulders tell me that he's little tired. What a cute sculpture! just made me feel like we have to take care of children whenever they need help! :-)
At that day, I did not have time to look around all the art works(because of my next class), but I would like to go back soon! Thumb's up !!!

DADAism

Last class project was ISMs!
I was chosen for DADA which is the topic that I have been interested in. Once I got the topic dadaism, I ran into Borders to search for resources that would help me to understand better about dada.
So I've purchased a beautiful book which name as DADAISM by the auther Dietmar Elger. This book is reallly interesting because it tell me about the dada in different time periods and varied explanations according to the variety of dadaists. One of the dadaist who got my interest the most in the book was the artist John Heartfield in 19th century. Whom worked in the work process called 'Photomontage', so that, I would like to talk about what photomontage is briefly as well as the easy definition of dadaism.
Dadaism was not exclusively an artistic, literacy, musical, political, or philosophical movement. In deed, it was all of these, and at the same time the opposite: anti-artistic, provocating literacy, playfully musical, radically political, but anti-parliamentary, and sometimes simply childish. So that, many of dadaists are double talented; accordingly, they are inventive and artistic, visually techniqued, performed in. Basically, unlike all other terms of art in decades, dadaists wanted to express directly, and the works that they produced mean what they show.
Therefore, one of the most demonstrated techniques in dada, the photomontage is not only according the work itself a great importance by replacing the paints, pictures, but also redifined the artistic work process.
p.s. dada is something that artists who are in certain classic tool should learn include myself ! :-)

Photomontage

Frida Kahlo

One of the class's longest projects, artist film, which I originally chose to watch a documentary about Andy Warhol, I had to change my plan for some reasons. Well, the length of Warhol documentary is quite long about 4hr, it wasn't really matter though, I honestly felt little depressed while I was watching that film. Even though, it is just a film, my weakness appeared again, I can  not watch depressive films.

For that, I was looking for a new film to watch and since the review from my classmates was great about Frida, I decided to watch it.

Frist my impression, I can not just express with those words 'good, awesome, great, etc' 

this film is the one that I've been looking for, that is real touchable, emotional, understandable..

I would love to say she is an artist that we need to learn from, not only because of her artistic skills, but also her way of thinking, the attitude towards life, the confidence as a woman, also the modesty as an artist.

In her life, there are numbers of horrible situations that nornally people would give up on everything, but everytime, when she gets bad things, she wakes up again and become stronger. She was a person who never blamed on anyone else, and never cried out in front of people. 

The fact that I respect most about Frida is she never stopped drawing no matter what happened in her life.

When she got an accident so she could not even move half of her body, when she lost her baby, when her relationship went bad. She expressed all her emotions on her paintings.

Most of her works, we can see her portraits, the film explains well enough to understand what the reason is.

First time, she had to draw pictures without moving on the bed while she's laying down. She could see herself through the mirror on the ceiling that was the start, then when she got several reasonable pains afterwards, she expressed her emotions on the pictures, on that progress she could put herself into the picture. I'm guessing, that's why the reason people can feel her feelings through her pictures.

At the very last part of the film, when Frida became very famous as a painter, she got an exhibition and her body got the worst condition that she could not move again. Nevertheless, she came to the exhibition laying her body on her bed, the scene just made me cry. The passion and mental strangh, I'm wondering what can be more beautiful than that. The film Frida, I totally recommend to everyone, it is a real worthwhile film. 

Art-making Activity

HOPE

Used wire, recycled boxes, glue cap, paper tapes, wooden stools, smile sticker

Since I've visited Alexander Calde's exhibition at MAC, the project that I got from the fieldtrip; Art making activity with one chosen object + 4 other objects.

I've chose the wooden stools and I thought of wheels. I tried to create a car, but I had problem of lacking wheels. So I used glue caps only because it was the similar size with the stools. and I used little wire to make an antena and used the extra mini stool to make a spare wheel. The purpose of smiling face is because it is still happy eventhough it is made out of recycled meterials.