Museum Homework (blog #4)

I want to remind you all that for this week's homework you need to visit the Museum of Fine Arts Houston or your could also visit the Contemporary arts Museum across the street. Check their websites (in the links) for hours and locations- I know that if you show your student ID and tell them you are there for a homework assignment you will get in free to the Museum of Fine Arts- the Contemporary Arts museum is always free.

LSC –North Harris

Art Appreciation Spring 2012

Museum visit and Art review assignment

Instructions: Take as much time as you can to look around the museum until you find a work of art that you are drawn to or are most interested in to write about. You can pick absolutely any work of art in the museum.  It is extremely important that you complete this writing in the museum, DO NOT rely on your memory! If you can, take a photo of the art that you choose. In most cases they will let you shoot without a flash. Then post the photo on the blog where you will also turn in the review. This post is due by Monday 2/20.

Basic info:

Artist’s Name (if available):

Title:

Date:

Materials:

Size:

Part 1:

Formal (Visual) Analysis –Describe the piece visually and be as descriptive and detailed as possible. What are the size, colors, materials, or sounds?

Part 2 :

Finding Meaning- Use titles, text, symbols, how the subject matter represented (abstract, representational, nonrepresentational), role of the art, the cultural origin, or any other info you can to try to find the meaning of the work.

Jules Olitski "Beauty, Beauty"

After watching this video the first thing that comes to mind is the quote, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. That being said I truly believe “beauty” is still an important part of modern art. I am intrigued by an artist by the name of Jules Olitski. Even though Olitski states that beauty in art is now politically incorrect he still believes it has value and hopes art is beautiful. He began his career as an abstract and color fielding painter. He painted with a spray can and flatness technique; the video then portrays a man who had a distinctive change in the way he drew at the latter stages of his life. He began painting landscapes when he was in his late 70’s early 80’s. He stated he did this because “he wanted to paint landscapes.” He also quoted Oscar Wilde by stating that “nature imitates art”, his examples included that nobody used to admire a sunset, until they notice sunsets in Monet’s art.  He became one with nature and really brought out the beauty of it in his work. Even though his initial type of art (flatness) was pretty much exiled, he continued to do what he thought was beautiful. Whether that was continuing his colorful abstract pieces, his spray can paintings, or his landscape drawings, they were all beautiful in their own way. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  

Henri Matisse-colorful or without colourful

by Henri Matisse

Heart by Henri Matisse

 by Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse is a leader of modern art of beauty. His works focus on portraying the beauty of not only women but also very simple objects of the daily life. Many of his works are very colorful such as Heart. On the other hand, there are works less colorful but focusing on shape that Henri wanted to portray and emphasize. For example, the picture of a woman up there was colored with only blue, but the beauty of women's body was emphasized excellently.

In my opinion, Henri portrayed the beauty very specially in his own way. In the first picture that I uploaded there, the woman looks very fantastic and fit with the surroundings. He did not portray exactly how the woman looked like but her glory is still obvious and even better described with that setting.

Henri Matisse is worth being respected as the leader of modern art of beauty because he tried to find his own voice in his works. They are attractive and special.

Patrick Heron!

                                                                   "Azalea Garden"

                                                                     "Boats at Night"

Mr. Heron's painting are of great beauty. His paintings were decorative with meaning behind them. Heron's earlier work was abstract. You could see the "Boats at Night". Later his work became even more abstract, as you see in "Azalea Garden". I love the fact that Patrick Heron painted till the day he died. His work is very beautiful, as most of the times he was just painting the things he saw around him.

Henri, Mettise

 Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse

December 12, 1869 – November 3, 1954

Henri Matisse. Large Seated Nude,1925-29. Bronze

     Henry Matisse was a well known painter and sculptor. Matisse is one of the artists who helped the developments in plastic arts.He also helped in the developments in painting and sculpture. For instance, in the sculpture large seating nude, Matisse sculpted a women but not just any women a large beautiful women. He worked on this sculpture for many years. To me Henri Matisse was a great painter and sculptur and

he also bwon a recognition as a leading figure in modern art.  

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Beauty in Art

in watching the videos i chose a man by the name of Chris Ofili. i chose ofili because i liked the way he approached art using tecniques and objects such as elephant dung to bring what he would call "beauty" to his paintings. i looked for a lot of ofili's artwork and when i saw a multitude of his pieces side by side it seemed like to me that they all had some sort of an african trible vibe. a lot of ofili's works are abstract an to me personally i feel that in escense the beauty of ofili's work truly comes from the colors that he chooses to use in some of his paintings. not only does the image itself have meaning but the color has meaning itself.

Horror! Shocking Art Assignment

A thought that comes to mind after watching “This is Modern Art: Shock! Horror!” would be bizarre. I wouldn’t consider this type of art to be horrifying or gruesome, but I do notice the shock. I believe these artists portray their lives to a certain extent. Their art consist of their beliefs, and lifestyles or fetishes. The video mentioned that Goya (the Father of shocks) probably suffered from a nervous breakdown, or some type of anxiety disorder. He was more of a realist and his work drastically changed towards the end of his life after he endured the loss of his wife, along with a disease that left him deaf. The video states Francis Bacon stated he “loved shocks because shocks were a part of life.” This just demonstrates that all these artists were portraying their own life, not creating a new genre for the sake of art. The role of art I would closely relate with Horror Art would be that it helps see the world in a new innovative way. There have always been unique people, but these artists actually brought attention to themselves and their types. It allowed normal people to experience what these artists see on a normal basis. Now as far as using public funds to purchasing this type of art, I don’t know. Art is meant to be debated, art is meant to be seen from different perspectives, so anyone can argue whether or not public funds should be used to purchase it. I believe the best question is to consider if the art is appropriate for each location. If it is then I see no reason to display it with public funds.