Midterm Blog! Please remember I am grading as part of your exam so write in full sentances and answer what I ask :)

Above you will find artworks of several of the artist we have looked at so far this term.

You are writing to an art critic who has proclaimed these artworks are mediocre.

You will be writing 2 paragraphs that DEFENDS ONE work as a "good or worthy" piece of art.

Choose one, be sure in your response to say which work.

One paragraph should deal specifically with how the artist uses the art elements and principles.

The other paragraph should use any other information you know of the work and your artistic opinion to persuade.

Have fun!

Super Intense Hardcore Art, Vol. 2

Whoo!

Alright cool cats, this is the second edition of Super Intense Hardcore Art that I love (;, and I think it's time that we move away from street/graffiti art. Yes, I love it, but no, it's not the only art that's being created right now! Since we're doing paintings right now, I thought it might be nice to see some work by a current painter. 

So, without further adieu:

SUPER INTENSE HARDCORE ARTIST:

Shawn Barber.

Shawn Barber is a contemporary artist (meaning that he is making work NOW) who specializes in portraits of people with an insane amount of tattoos. His not-so creatively named collection of work "Tattooed Portraits" is an ongoing series in which Barber presents realistic portraits of tattooed people and tattoo artists. Barber primarily works with oil paints, but watercolors are also represented in his collections. Shawn Barber also did a series of paintings called "The Doll Series" which, obviously, is a bunch of paintings of dolls (which I personally find to be a bit creepy, but to each his own).  Often in his paintings, he blends two pictures of the same thing in different positions together to create a new, unique composition (you'll see what I mean in the examples, it's hard to explain). Now I give you...

Some of Shawn Barber's work:

"Portrait of the Artist, Chantal Menard"

Yeah, my favourite part is that weird little furry animal head sticking out from under all them bones.

"Portrait of the Artist, Owen Smith"

I really like the paint drippy things. Get what I mean my morphing together a bunch of the same picture? C C Crazy, right?

"Joshua Lord's Hands"

He does a lot of hands....

"Feast or Famine"

One of the doll pieces. I told you they were creepy as heck.

Shawn Barker's art is on the dark side, I know, but whether or not you enjoy his subject matter, you have to admit, he has a way with paint. 

I happen to enjoy Barker's work thoroughly, do you? Why or why not? If not, please don't just say "becuz ItZ wEiRdDdD".

Thanks for reading, kiddies, I'll post something happier next week, I promise (:

Oh, and something VERY IMPORTANT: I'd recommend NOT checking out more of Shawn Barker's art on the school computers, he has a few pieces that are not school appropriate. They aren't raunchy or anything, but don't push your luck.

super intense hardcore art, that mary v loves ;)

H-h-holla at me, drawing and painting friends, this is Mary, welcoming you to the first (of hopefully many) edition of: SUPER INTENSE HARDCORE ART! So, here we go!!!

SUPER INTENSE HARDCORE ARTIST:

Street Artist, Swoon.

So, Swoon is a NYC based female street artist (a less demeaning term for graffiti artist) who specializes in intricate cutouts and drawings that she adheres to public spaces using wheatpaste. Her art is always delicate, and larger than life, usually pairing drawings of her family and friends with delicate paper cutouts to create an aesthetically pleasing (yeah, I know I sound like a fancy art nerd) result. She went to art school at Pratt Institute, so it's not like she's just some hoodlum from off the streets. She has been covering NYC (and other cities world wide) with her art for more than six years, and does not release her name to avoid being arrested and whatnot. 

Some of her work:

yeah, that's all cut out paper. I wish I lived there...

Hey baby, you got tickets? TO THE GUN SHOW? HAHAHAHA. get it? guns? arms? wow.

Yeah, I'm not going to lie, this one is probably my favorite.

Anyway, I could post a bunch of pictures, but that would probably make this page slow to load, so if you want to see more of Swoon's work, just do a google image search for "swoon", there are PAGES upon PAGES of her stuff, trust me.

Well that's all for today, see you cool kids in class ;)

The Artist Katie G mentioned: Alex Pardee

This blog entry is for fun.
Comment if you like (tell Katie what you think) or just watch. This is not for a grade.

Ok so.....
I looked him up and, woah! Alex Pardee is an amazing and yet super creepy artist.
Here is a video of him painting in fast forward. The Artwork was done for a show at an ultra-spiffy avant-guarde gallery called 1988. The show is called the "idiot box". It's about old tv shows with a twist. The show opens on the 20th anniversary of Saved by the Bell. This piece is about Steve Earkle from the show Family Matters. For those of you too young to know this was on on Friday nights and the character was the lovable nerdy next door neighbor. He was known for saying "did I do that" after every calamity.

You may need to see the video at a computer at home. If that is not possible see me and I'll show you on my computer.

The First Blog-read and comment

Poster Boy- Poster Boy is an anonymous New York City based street artist whose only utensil is a razor. He is known for satiric collage-like works created by cutting out sections of the self-adhesive advertisement posters in the platforms of New York City subway stations, and pasting them back in different positions. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Poster Boy also refers to a 'Poster Boy movement' where other people produce similar unsigned work in the New York City subways imitating this original artist

"At first, it was just something to keep me occupied while waiting on the subway." [2] “I was playing with the posters, cutting them up" [1] (he carried a razor used at work) and discovered that unlike the cardboard posters in the subway trains, the advertising posters on the subway platforms were printed on a self-adhesive material that could be stuck back down after being torn or cut out. He began to play with available images and text to create humorous “mash-ups” of advertisements. In 2008 alone he has created over 200 manipulated underground posters in NYC subway. He compares the creation of poster “mash-ups” to hip-hop "freestyling" on a microphone.[3] He does not have preconceived notions of what the work will be (“I don’t have anything planned…go there, see something, get inspired and do the work” [4]), but uses the available images, often in a way that relates to current events. One comentator noted: "The pieces generally have a critical edge to them, making comments on the state of society and on the advertisements themselves."[


Poster Boy creates his images by cutting up posters. Banksy by graffitti on the wall. Both are political in nature. You own a museum and want to add a modern piece by one of the two artists. Which arist would you pay to deface your museum. Why? Is one type better? Explain. Be persuasive.

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