Trenton Doyle Hancock-"You Are A Liar And The Truth Is NOT In You"

Mr. Trenton painting "You Are A Liar And The Truth Is NOT In You" is a large mixed-media work hanging on the wall. A pair of tombstones function at once as fore- and background for a raining-down of collagiste forms. One is in pink and the other in black, and together they bear the words of the ominous title. Small and large swatches of fabric, some with impasto others without, vie with drawings in graphite and pink teardrops fashioned from the negative cut-outs of a layer of black canvas on top. His works gives and creates his own mythology to inform his massive, obsessive, and intricately, detailed and painting. He uses color, language and pattern to give me a way to understand why he creating a new character to convey a symbolic meaning.  Lastly he uses biblical elements, with references to religious stories that the artist learned as a child from his family and his community.  I am so amaze by the balancing of the moral dilemmas with humor and through a musical sense of language and colour.  Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative....

Final Art projects and presentations

Part of your final grade will be to create a work of art that has been inspired by any of the works of art or artists that you have seen or learned about in this class. You can choose any media (painting, drawing, photo, performance, etc) that you would like. You will be presenting the artwork to the class as along with a short (400-600 word) paper about your inspiration (the artist or artwork), elements/principles  of design present, your choice of materials, and the process by which you made it. The artwork and the papers will be due on Mon 4/30.

Menil Collection Visit Due Mon 4/23

Instructions: Visit the Menil Collection, take as much time as you can to look at the building itself (designed by Renzo Piano) and around the museum until you find a work of art that you are drawn to or are most interested in to write about. It is extremely important that you complete this writing at the museum, DO NOT rely on your memory! First write about the building then a work of art. Then post the info on the blog by Monday4/23.

Ps. You can also read up on the building and its history here

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?

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?

Work of Art

Artist’s Name (if available):

Title:

Date:

Materials:

Size:

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

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.

Robert Crum: A Man With Great Taste in Women

           I went on Robert Crum’s website to do some research on him and I come to find out that he is a very interesting man.  I feel like he is a man that we can all relate to.  Most of us out there were always curious about the girl with the big feet or the girl with braces and humongous breasts.  And Robert like most of us never really took farther than playing footsie with the girls.  What I do like about him is that he is comfortably enough in his own skin that he can talk about it and not give a damn what you or anyone else, including his wife may say or think about it.  The sketching that caught my eye on the website is the one about Monica delivering the pizza.  The drawing shows an Amazonian woman delivering a pizza to a gentleman that is on the phone and has to stop his conversation at the sight of the woman bringing him his pizza.  And in a Robert Crum classic moment he writes in his drawing, “that bills a lucky guy”.  I have to say that I was instantly drawn, no pun intended, to the woman in Robert’s drawing.  The way he outlines her curves and uses contour lines to accent her voluptuous woman curves.  The he accents her facial construction.  He wants to make it clear that she is the figure that one should focus on in his drawing.  Not like anyone could miss her if you know what I mean.  I have to say that I would very much like to meet Robert in person and have a conversation with him on his taste and experience with women.