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menil building

this building is very contemporary its has a lot of line qualityand repetition and rhythem.  I would say that it symmetrical design thebuilding is agray with white accent it kind of remind you of a little community just sit there like one of the old county town that I pass though when we go to Planterville.  The bottom picture remind me of waves from the sea  it like they are suppose to be rocking back and forth and the beams would be something like a boat.  It is really a nice building to go to see.

Menil Building

FotoFest

Olga Tobreluts, Hercules, 1995. Courtesy of the artist

I like this photo the focal point of this would be the man holding the apple.  The photo has atmospheric perspective where the sky gets darker the futher it goes back, also the sands seem to get light the further it goes back.  I like how the artist put the red then the black next to the pale man, then the green trees are really green but the grass is lighter than the tree.  It to me balance with the rock on the left side and the tree on the right it is asymmetrical balance.   I also like the way that the man hair is the same colors as the boarder of the picture.  The rock if you really look at it look to me like a animal or a rabbit. This man is very muscler ans well proportion and the is represesentation form of art.

Menil Collection RePost 4/23/12

Menil Collection Building Basic Info:

Artist’s Name: Renzo Piano

Date: 1982

Part 1:

The formal (visual) Analysis the museum campus has grown to include two satellite galleries to the main building: The structure seems to have utilized insubstantial and brace, among other materials in the assembly building has a sort of wonderful design and flow of the building many windows, giving it funky edge than other places I have seen in the Museum District..  It does have a balance and level of visually clarity to help you follow the curse and openness of the building. Two other buildings founded by the de Menils, but now operating as independent foundations complete the campus:

This Menil building has a nice structure and it seem unique in a weird way, I had a total different design in mind. Me and my boys went to Menil Building; the boy’s said that the trim looked like waves in the ocean.

Part 2

The reason why Renzo Piano designed the building, the solution was a roof of 'leaves' of thin ferro-cement which would span both the free areas as well as the display rooms of the flat building, and to which additional lights could be easily attached. Above this, a sealed superstructure contains the 'treasury'—an air-conditioned storage space for works of art not on display. The traditional timbering of the outside walls is a reference to the surrounding houses: 'Demonumentalization' was the motto.  The effect when you looking from the outdoors, it make you tunnel effect like you are surrounded by grass and forest, trees and naturals.

Work of Art

Artist’s Name: Picasso

Title: The women in red armchair

Date: 1929

Material : oil base warm colors

Size: 802x1088

1. This oil on canvas painting portrays a woman in a pastoral the focal point of the work is the central figure, a woman in a red dress." The women seem to leaning to one side. When you looking at the picture more to the right. "They consist of line, shape, space, color, light, and dark, which artists arrange in many different ways to achieve broader categories of design. These, in turn, consist of balance, order and proportion, and pattern and rhythm." The painting made me feel glamour and sexy
2. Nonrepresentational Cultural origin: Spanish  

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Big Campbell's Soup Can 19¢, 1962

The focal point of this painting would be the red background on the word Campbell. To me, this is representation art. It is an outline on a flat surface. There's a little shading at the top of the can. My daughter says that if you stare at it for a while, it looks like a one-eared dog. The vantage point of this can is the yellow dot in the middle of the can. There seems to be neither a time or motion going on. It's more like an icon than a symbol to me. Anyone else would look at this as just a can of soup, but it's art.

Untitled, Julie Mehretu

This painting caught my eye because the first thing i saw was a cat's face. Then I started seeing the circular motions of the painting and saw a lot of positive space. The focal point of this painting seems to be the bold black lines. The colors in this painting are the red, green, black, yellow, pink and blue. The texture seems to be 3-D; it seems to have a time and motion feel to it. There's a rhythm to this painting because  the strokes look a if they could be repeated over and over. To me, this painting is more abstract because of the name.  For these reasons, I like this painting.

Menil Collection Visit

The work of art that I chose from the Menil Collection was a relief sculpture from ancient Egypt around 1320-1200 B.C.  The work is a low relief sculpture depicting the Egyptian god Horus with his traditional staff and headdress.  The sculpture portrays Horus in the precise, flattened view that the Egyptian sculptors traditionally used and seems to have been created for the purpose of worship or the glorification of Horus, as the hieroglyphics inscribed into the limestone near Horus say "The beautiful Horus, the great god, lord of heaven, one who is foremost in Bahet(or Edfu)."  The sculpture also depicts many symbols that I have seen often in ancient Egyptian reliefs such as the ankh, but I am not sure what the meanings for these symbols are.  I unfortunately could not find an image of, or take a picture of this sculpture, or I would have included an image in my post.

The Menil Collection building was created by artist Renzo Piano in 1982.  The building seems to have utilized concrete and steel, among other materials in the construction.  I think the building has a sort of modern design and features many windows, giving it a much different design than the Museum of Fine Arts.  The elements on the outside of the building seem to bring a balance to it, making the building have a calm feel and in my opinion, making it seem more inviting.  I think that this was why Renzo Piano designed the building the way that he did, because to me the building for the Menil Collection is more inviting than the buildings for the Museum of Fine Arts; I think this may help more people go to see the art who may not otherwise because of the way some people have turned looking at art or going to a museum into something just for some people, when art should be for everyone.

Artists that Draw: Suh Se-ok

For this assignment I chose the artist Suh Se-ok, and his work titled "People". In the 1950s, Suh Se-ok began to encourage other artists inside and outside of the Mungnimhoe movement, which he was the leader of, to break free from the traditional styles and let their work become more abstract.  This abstractness is present in much of Se-ok's works, especially in the pieces such as "People"; he uses a blend of traditional ink painting and calligraphy to create this work, which seems to depict a chain of people linked by holding each other's hands.  The work was made by the drawing of the Chinese character for people with a bamboo brush and ink from traditional ink painting styles from Asia.  I believe that he uses the element of drawing in drawing the characters to help bring a more abstract feel to his work that might have been lost if he pursued another medium and not drawing.

The Menil Collection

           I really can’t say that anything about the building stood out to me except the forms that were made on the ground.  I have to say that the figures in the ground were the only thing that looked interesting to me and actually made stop to look and think about the design.  Like I said, I didn’t feel as if anything else about the building was special.  I have seen architecture that has made me stop and say to myself, “how in the hell did they do that”, such as the house that was made on the waterfall by frank Lloyd Wright.  As far as the rest of the visit I would also have to say that nothing really stood out to me either.  I decided to do my blog on Richard Serra‘s hand videos which feature human hands doing a variety of actions.  The first is Hands Tied, 1968, the second is Hand Lead Fulcrum, 1968, the third is Hand Catching Lead, 1968, and the fourth is hands Scraping, 1968.  The reason that I wanted to do my blog on these art works is because it’s the only thing in the museum that caught my attention for more than ten minutes.  I actually felt like a dumbass for staring and waiting for something else to happen.  Honestly nothing else caught my attention for more than thirty seconds at the museum.  Everything aside I really enjoyed my visit and I will probably being going again and I also donated some money, not a whole lot but some.  

Untitled

Abraham Walkowitz  (American (born Russia), Tyumen 1878–1965 Brooklyn, New York)

To me, this painting is abstract because of the title, but it looks like a shark because of the teeth, the round circle of the eye, and the position of the mouth. There's a lot of negative space in this painting but you also have  a little positive space near the tip of the nose, near whatever it's eating on, and the bottom of the mouth. To me. it looks more like an outline. It does have rhythm and has both scale and proportion. It has a form of light because, to me, it shows the contour of a fish. It seems as if this picture has no balance and the focal point seems to be the teeth. I just like it because it's weird.

Menil Art Review

 Menil Collection
Artist: Renzo Piano
Date: 1982

The Menil had a unique effect to it because it didn't seem like a very large building from the outside, but when you went in it seemed very large on the inside. In terms of size, from the outside it didn't stand out much from the surrounding neighborhood because it was not too tall like other museums. Also some houses in the surrounding area echo the "Menil Gray" of the museum so that it doesn't overpower the area. The roofing design was genius as well because it used natural light to illuminate the gallery without exposing any works to direct sunlight which gave everything a more natural look along with the gardens. The wants of the Menil's was the main focus of Renzo Piano's design, but he did not do exactly what they wanted. Piano, instead, tried to satisfy their wants through unique ways such as the ferro-leaf roof to let in the natural light, and blending the size and color with some of the surrounding houses. Overall he tried to incorporate some of his own ideas of green architecture into their museum to serve their purpose while connecting the building to the environment. The effect of Piano's design is very humble and ordinary on the outside while having a very unique experience inside with the natural light not usually seen in other galleries, which is typical of green architecture style.

"Untitled"- Richard Serra

Artwork
Artist: Richard Serra
Title: Untitled
Date: 1972-73
Materials: Paintstick on Paper
Size: 37-13/16" x 50"

I chose this piece by Richard Serra which is one of his many paintings in his vast collection of black and white paintings. It is not as large as some of his other works but still plays with some of the same factors of space as does the larger ones. His paintings cause the viewers to look at the room in a different perspective and how his drawing changes it with its presence. In this drawing he leaves parts of the white paper to kind of asymmetrically balance the contrasting space and makes you notice the positive and negative space just in the drawing. In his all black drawings however, he plays with the positive and negative space in the room by placing these large works in rooms of all white walls. In this he plays with the viewers perspective to make them imagine his drawing as a endless dark abyss in the wall. The materials Serra uses are also more typical of smaller drawings rather than large works. Most of his drawings, I believe, would fall under the category of nonrepresentational art because he is not trying to represent anything necessarily; he is just exploring and studying the elements that would make up a drawing. I found that Richard Serra's work might be very similar to that of Pat Steir, who shows different types of line that can be used in drawing. Serra's version is done in a more abstract way than Steir because maybe he wants the reader just focus on each element of line simply without the other complexities of drawing. He also said, “There is no way to make a drawing—there is only drawing,” which further proves why he does not label his drawings as "lessons" as in Steir's work.

Menil Visit

Menil Collection building Basic info:

Artist’s Name (if available): Renzo Piano

Date: 1982

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

- The building was not as big as other museums. It has a soft gray color with white panels on top of the building. It doesn’t have any extraordinary designs. However, the lawn was beautiful with a few designs on the grass. I enjoyed the environment that surrounded The Menil.

Finding Meaning- Why do you think Renzo Piano designed the Menil building in the way that he did? What  effect does it have on you looking at it from the outdoors and experiencing it from the inside?

- I think Piano designed the building with the intentions of making the building blend with the houses that surrounded the building. The houses weren’t fancy or elegant. He didn’t want to design something that will not fit in the area. When you look at it from the outside, you see a simple, not too big or small building. However, when you go inside it is big.

Work of Art

Artist’s Name (if available): Rene Magritte

Title: The Rape

Date:         1934

Materials: Canvas

Size:

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

- The piece with quit hilarious. From a far distant, you see a women's strange face. When you walk closer, then you'll see what it actually is. The eyes are the boobs, the bellybutton is the nose and the middle part with the pubic hair is the mouth. The hair is just added on top to make it more realistic.

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.

-By the title id say is representational. Rene Magritte was a Belgian artist who drew realistic and illusions paintings. The Rape is few of his examples. It represents the anatomy of the women’s body and transforming it as a picture of a face. The breasts are the eyes, the stomach and bellybutton is the middle section of the nose and the middle part with the pubic hair is the mouth.