Artist That Draw: Trenton Doyle Hancock

"Cult Jam"- Trenton Doyle Hancock

     Looking at the piece "Cult Jam," by Hancock, he uses a mix of ink drawings, acrylic paint, and prints on canvas to tell the story of Mounds vs. Vegans. Overall the story is about Good(The Mounds, which are half plant and animal creatures) vs. Evil(The Vegans). They are at war because Mounds are obsessed with getting bigger and the Vegans want everything to be smaller and see Mounds as a threat to the balance of their world. In his drawings, I believe that Hancock uses the ink drawing and prints to show how the Vegans see the world, because they are said to be color blind due to inbreeding and see everything in black and white. Hancock in his eyes sees color as goodness, so when he uses color in his drawings it represents the goodness that the Mounds use to fight Vegans. It seems he also uses acrylic paint, which is made out of synthetic pigments, for the color to depict this unreal, artificial world with these unnatural hues of colors that are not found easily unless they are made. Hancock's use of these mediums aid in the whole story by giving meaning to things that we would not see as much in our world. He makes simple things as color, vegetarianism, size, and simple beliefs controversial in this fictional world, so much as to fuel wars between these groups. The allegorical message of the all the mixed media kind of relates to the real world as well because we have wars with other people just because their beliefs are different than ours and they pose a threat to our culture. So maybe he is trying to show viewers how silly our world is, but in a more suttle way as to not offend anyone directly to try and change our perspective on our own world.

Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball

January 18–June 17, 2012

Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, from Baseball's Greatest Stars (R401-1), no. 79

Leaf Gum, Co., Chicago, IL

Date:

1948–1949

Medium:

Commercial Chromolithograph

Dimensions:

sheet: 2 7/8 x 2 3/8 in. (7.3 x 6 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick

I love this piece because it came with a biography that talked about the different he add to over come to play por baseball. I t also talked about how he pavethe way for oter por athelets.

 

 

I love this picture because i love fashion and I think this too is art, its just a different kind of art. I love the colors the style  and the gold chains speaks expensive. Boy, what I would give to rock these on a cold winter night. The name CHANEL in all capes give it spice as well.

 

Boots

House of Chanel (French, founded 1913)

Designer:

Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Germany, 1938)

Date:

fall/winter 1993–94

Culture:

French

Medium:

synthetic, rubber, metal

Dimensions:

Height (a,b): 12 in. (30.5 cm) Heel to Toe (a,b): 10 1/2 in. (26.7 cm)

Online museum visit Blog # 5

I felt like The Museum of Art in New York online was awesome .The website was very interesting and easy to navigate from one part of the museum to another area.. One day I'm going to visit New York ,and
The Metropolitan will be among my tour .They held art classes there for all ages to participate in the museum's galleries.I thought was pretty cool. The museum had films and documentary related to special exhibitions for the public to view,which I found to be very knowledgeable. The museum had European Paintings and Islamic Art which I feel is always to be amazing to learn about other countries art .There were many many other drawing and painting . I visit many painting and got to see what tools and materials and medium ,the artists used in different pieces of art work.

Week 6

  I have chosen to write about Artist Julia Merehtu . She was born in Addi's Ababa , Ethiopia.
  Julie attended Amass College in Michigan, and graduated with a Bachelors degree.Julie earned
  her Masters degree in Fine Art at Rhode School of Design. I'm a person of color ,and I think this what
attracted me to this artist paintings. This one of her art work is called Empirical Construction Istanbul 2003.
What I like mostly about painting is the colors she used like orange,yellow, pink blue red and black ,and not to mention a few others colors.The lines she used , some of them were thin and wide lines .Some of the lines were curved and straight ones. Julie used synthetic polymer paint on canvas . The bright colors that she used brought out the main focus of her piece of art . I just loved the attraction it received from the painting . I starred it for a period of time and I saw a busy piece of art with no meaning so I would definite say this painting is nonrepresentational,and it has Symmetrical Balance .

Artist that Draw Due 3-30-12

"The Family that Lays together Stays Together" By R. Crumb

It would only be right for something this offensive to be drawn as a comic. If this was an actual photograph of a  family practicing Incest, there are chances that alot of legal issues would arise. I notice in alot of R.Crumb's work, there are sexual images/situations drawn in such a comical manner that to me, it appears he is joking or making fun of sexuality/sex/fantasies. I admire R. Crumb's freedom of being uncensored in most of his work. I believe that he tries to be controversial on purpose to upset those who are conservative and get people talking. I think the statement he is trying to make is not to conform, in a hippie type of way (to be uncensored). One thing that really stands out to me in this picture is everyone has a smile on their face, even the dog. It takes away from the seriousness of what sexual intercourse should be and twists it into some kind of joke. Comics are usually comical, where the characters smile and it lightens what is going on within the comic.

Artist that Draw

This is from Robert Crumbs The Book of Genesis and I choose this picture because he had alot of conflict over this comic He made and when you look at it I don't think there shouldn't have been any conflict at all. In a way he is drawing how we would picture it and in words that we understand about the bible. You read the bible and it is hard to understand most of the time but with the illitration and the words it makes sense even in a funny way.I like how he does the shading and how he depicts eve as a blonde. He is doing alot of line crossing.

Online Musuem vist

The two works of art that I have chosen are:1. Chinese Art in an age of Revolution Fu Baoshi on display at the musuem Jan 21- April 5, 2012, Most original figure painter and landscapist of China's modern period Fu created images celebrating his homeland. He was young when China last imperial dynasty was overthrown, and the Chinese Republic was established. He had about 40 years of experience with painting some seventy paintings.Trained in China and Japan he created bold individulistic and srtongly nationalistic. T achive his work Fu often painted while he was inebraited (drunk).

2. Storytelling in Japanese Art on display Nov. 19, 2011- May6, 2012, J apan has a long and rich history of pairing narrative texts with elobrate illustrations a tradition that continues to this day with magna. From illustarted books and folding screens to textilies and even playing cards, these objects date back from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.

Lovely Lovely

In todays art beauty looks nice, and thia is the problem.Maltess even the way a piece of art that he did was hanged had to also show the beauty of the piece. "beauty is in the eye of the beholder'.I think beauty is all around us. Chris Ofili used dung to display his idea of what beauty is, he even made a picture of the virgin mary using dung and it offended a lot of people. When Maltess painted  by looking at the video he seems to become one with that project, the tree that he passed siad one word"believe". Truly beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Shock Horror Matthew Collings

The way Matthew Collings walks around town he seems to act like Vincent Price. There are sharks, skulls, mouths open wide, vomit coming out human butts, darkness aluring. he walks in and out of musuems. He seems to have a deep fasination to painted  behinds attacted to bodies, disfigued faces on paintings as well as maniquins children should not see this clip at all they will have dreams that will wake them .He made a statement about it must have have been a great time when God and evil were yet around together before Gods death! God is yet alive and evil''s still present around us. we have got to believe in Him-God.This is a horrorible thing to watch.

Artists that draw: R. Crumb

R. Crumb. Ink on paper. 1977.

After researching some of Crumbs work, I have come to realize that he was really out there. His preferred medium of ink, which is typical of most comic cartoonists, allows for his style to stand out. A good example of his distinctive style is pictured above. His use of ink allows for lines that seem to move when looking at them. Crumbs' crosshatching creates dark areas which do not completely fade out. this creates large areas of white that allow for the t.v. to stand out. The exaggeration of human features and the mechanical hands create a hellish atmosphere.

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu inspired me with her work. She absolutely creates amazing abstractions.

One thing i like about Mehretu's work is she uses combinations of architectural, city like, graffiti,

geometrical graphics to her paintings. She uses pencil, pen, ink, and thick paint.

Julie Mehretu was born 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She earned her BA from Kalamazoo College 

in Michigan(1992). Five years later she earned her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Rhode Island 

School of Design. She's been award for her work and her talent of creating her "style" of abstraction. 

In 2000, she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant Artist Award. In 

2005, she was named one of the 2005 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the genius 

grant. She also was awarded from The American Award from the Whitney Museum of American 

Award. She has sold one of her painting for $1,022,500, and also have hold several exhibitions.