Final Project

Kase van der Linde

Ms. Miller

Art Humanity's 9

23 February 2016

      My final project is a soap carving of the parthenon. I chose this because it seemed not to easy but also do able. The style is greek and an actual artist is Janine Antoni. The art that is in a way like mine is called Lick and Lather and it was made in 1993-1994. She used a technique of creating something that represents a real life object from soap and choclate (SFMOMA). Though she created a bust of herself, I created the parthenon which is not a human. 

     I modified the materials also. Instead of making a huge block of soap I just used a preexisting soap bar. This was difficult becuse I was making a straight thing from a sloped object. Our technique of cutting the soap might have been different because she had cast a mold then (for the chocolate one) licked it to get better details (Art21) where as I used a knife and a small toothpick type tool. Another difference was that our size of sculpture is different. Mine is probably a couple inches long where as hers is about two feet (SFMOMA). 

"Janine Antoni: "Lick and Lather"" ART21. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2016.

"Janine Antoni, Lick and Lather, 1993-1994." SFMOMA. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2016. 

Review

I visited the Cantor Arts Center museum in Stanford. I choose this museum because it looked somewhat modern and I didn’t want to go to a museum that had art work that I didn’t enjoy. The show was called the Figuration/Abstraction. It was mostly abstract works which varied from a big red box to a person that had a semi abstract background. There were lots of different artists in the show some were Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and even Pablo Picasso. So there were different works on display some sculpture and some interactive pieces but the main pieces were paintings. All of them had bright colors or were very unique.

I like abstract paintings because they are confusing at first glance but once you look and find the pieces it creates a painting that was hidden. The show also brought lots of different types of abstract works. Some were very plain and looked like it was a random thing while others were very complex. I didn’t like the very simple pieces. When some people might think of abstract they could think of a painting with one solid color. Those paintings and sculptures are abstract but they don’t look like work was put into them. So when the show put this in I thought it was going to be all plain but in reality abstract could be lots of diffrent things.

The one that spoke to me was a mixed media painting by Frank Stella. The mixed media painting is called Maxon’s Island and it was made in 1995. This work, from far away, looks like chaos but as I got closer it looked still like chaos but pieces were working together. The reason it is mixed media is because it had painted paper and different materials painted on to it. I liked the fact that it went from just paint to other forms of cloth and paper. When the artist did that it made the painting different that the others in the room. Also, I really liked it because it felt like a chaos but a chaos that was giving you a nice colorful hug. I enjoyed the way it was a abstract that wasn’t simple but was actually complex.

I think it was successful because it brought a lot of different ideas and pieces together. I would definitely recommend it to someone else because they would leave with something they liked because so many were different pieces. If they didn’t find something they liked the other part of the museum was different and fun to go through and look at. So I also recommend the museum too. The show made me question why there was such a diverse amount of artwork. Usually the artwork all seems put together but in this show there were wanted signs and candy and big red boxes. I would like to ask the curator why he or she put so many different things together. Over all I was happy to go to an art museum and glad that I got to go see the different shows.

Baroque Photo

Baroque Reading Assignment

1. List 2 qualities that are similar in Renaissance and Baroque artwork.

Both have a chiaroscuro in their peices. Plus they both made steps toward realism.

1. List 2 qualities that make them different

Baroque has a very big intenisty to the art; where as, Renaissance has more of a drifting around and happened to be there look to it. 

1. How did the Counter Reformation influence Baroque art in Italy?

It attrachted people to must see things such as artictecture. It also brought new worshipers to churches giving the churches money to make the churches extravagant.

1. What is tenebrism? How is it different than chiaroscuro?

Tenebrism is having light figures emerging from a dark backround. It is diffrent because it highlights the item that the artist wants you to look at first. Chiaroscuro is making things 3d rather that a foucus.

1. How is Dutch Baroque art fundamentally different from Italian Baroque art? (hint: subject matter)

Art in Holland is diffrent because religios art was banned but Italian wasn't.

One Point Perspective Drawing

Why was 1 point perspective such an important artistic development during the Renaissance? 

It lead more perspective and realism to the art work. It allowed depth in the drawing making things look more like their real self.

What did it allow artists to do that they had not done before?

Before it was more focused on a heaven not earth. Artist were able to draw or paint what they were seeing and it had a more relistic sence about it.

Renaissance

Renaissance main location:

Italy

Key theme: Representing reality

Top Artistic Breakthrough: Oil painting, perspective, shadowing

Famous Early Renaissance Artist and Artwork: Donatello 

Famous High Renaissance Artist and Artwork: Leonardo da Vinci

Middle Ages

Greek Architecture

Corinthian architecture at the Fontana di Trevi in Rome 1732-1762

Looks Greek because of the contorpasto figures at the front. Plus it has columns on the building which is a common Greek style. 

The French National Assembly in France 1789-1791

It has the style of Greek architecture because of the colors and the triangle above the columns. Inside the triage are figures that are all going to one man in the middle which might be a god. 

Panathenaic Stadium in Athens made in 566 BC

It is made of marble a common stone that was used a lot with the Greeks. Plus it is an olymic stadium which was invented by the Greeks.

Burial Drawing

The bigger picture was when I got my first dog and he changed my nine-year-old life. The second picture is of me in my different stages of life because I would want that drawn next to my tomb to show the change of age. The third drawing is of hieroglyphs and that would be an explanation of the drawings and my life. I would want my grandmother's dolls and my grandfathers watches buried next to me. I would also want pictures of everyone in my family and maybe a couple of board games and a computer with Internet and wifi because I'll be stuck there for awhile.

Reading Guide: Mesopotamia and Eygipt

Mesopotamia: The Architects 

• Name 5 things the Sumerians invented. City state, formal religion, writing, math, law, and architecture.
• What were Mesopotamian cities centered around? The temple
• What is a ziggurat? Is a temple base
• Why were ziggurats built so high? To get to the shy gods
• Aside from architecture, what was the other predominant form of art in Mesopotamia? Bas-relief sculpture

Egypt: The Art of Immortality 

• Why is it not surprising that Egyptian art remained unchanged for 3,000 years? Because they had a formula to follow and they wanted it to be unchanged.
• For whom was most Egyptian art and architecture created? For the pharaoh
• Where does most surviving Egyptian art come from? 
• What is the ka? Belief that the eternal spirit needed a physical space to be held.
• What did Egyptians build to house the ka? Pyrimids
• Describe the rigid formula used to depict the figure. Arms are crossed across the body and hands are faces outwards. Feet were always sideways basically they wanted to show the parts of the body clearly.
• What were some materials used to make sculptures? Why did they choose these materials? Stone
• What is the largest stone structure in the world? The great Pyrimids of Cheops
• Why is King Tut so well known today despite being a fairly "unimportant" pharaoh? Because his tomb was never raided so it showed the real things put in untouched.

My Nomadic Sculpture

 I choose to do my sculpture like this because it has meaning. The four leaf clover is something that not only gives luck to us but is a sign of strength. We have clovers close to us when we have somthing dificult happening to us. I also would like purpose to it if I am carrying it around all day. So its purpose is to help defend or attack someone.

My Personal Definision of Art

My definision is that art can be anything you create or change. So if you take an object and change its normal position or color you made art. Also if you create something from other materials like paint and a canvas that is art. I feel that you have to change something about it other wise it isn't special.

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