Performance Art Final

Student Art Show

While I have never been a huge fan of art shows, I liked a lot of what I saw in the Student Art Show in the Scarfone/Hartley gallery. Most of the pieces that I liked were painted or mixed media, but used paint in them. Painting has always been my favorite medium and I like the modernity of these pieces as compared to my favorite artist, Van Gogh.
One of the pieces that I liked the best at this show was one that was done to look like graffiti. I didn't take a picture of the namecard so I don't remember what the name, artist, or media was, but it looks like it was done mostly in spray paint. Graffiti was always one of my favorite parts of going into the city and seeing freight trains ride by. I saw the beauty in it that others didn't when all they believed it to be was vandalism. To see graffiti, or a semblance of graffiti, on the wall of an art gallery made me really happy to see others appreciating it in the same way that I do.
Another one of my favorites was the portrait of a girl, overlooking a city skyline. The piece itself was absolutely stunning. I like realism in art. I don't understand most abstractions. I can draw different colored squares on a piece of paper and call it art but I can't draw myself in anything more than a cartoon. The mixed media in the piece also gave it texture and color, and that made it more interesting than a plain 2-D charcoal drawing.
My favorite piece in the whole show was the Tim Burton one. When I walked past it at first, the first thing I saw was the striped snake coming out of the top of his head and my first thought was that it looked like the snake in Nightmare Before Christmas, my favorite movie. I almost walked past it without looking back when I realized that it was Tim Burton. Though they did not create anything new, and they really just redrew some of his designs, I still think that the idea of the piece is cool because the snake, bats, and hill from Nightmare Before Christmas, are all growing out of his hair and his head, showing that they are coming out of his brain and I've always thought that showing people's ideas this way was a cool representation of ideas spawning.

Performance Art

The idea behind this piece worked much better in my head than it was executed. The idea was to tear down the beauty standards that other put on us. This is why my friend is the one putting all of the makeup on me and I am the one to smear it all over my face. Obviously, if this were done again, I would have to frame it better, speed it up, cut audio, and overlay music. If I had done this well, I think that it would have been a performance art piece that more people my generation would have appreciated. A lot of performance art that we talk about today is old and outdated. It doesn't make sense and it usually just people hurting themselves or putting themselves in uncomfortable situations. I don't see the point in any of that. You can make beautiful art without being ridiculous.

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Llllllllet's Play!

Since senior year of high school, I have watched a YouTube channel called RoosterTeeth and I have been completely obsessed with them. Their subcompany called Achievement Hunter has a series of Minecraft Let's Plays that I thought were stupid at first, but have since become my favorite videos to watch on YouTube. The game Minecraft is extremely popular and over spring break, I started playing it with some of my friends from home. The dirt block is one of the most abundant and easiest blocks to use making it a very big symbol of the game. 

Since the entire game is made up of blocks and is basically a whole grid, it seemed like a great idea for the grid project. The basic idea was to make each face of the block 16x16 but once I started gluing the beads on, it was apparent that I did not have the space for that, so I couldn't follow the real dirt blocks anymore. Nonetheless, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, even if it's only two faces covered.

Little Bunny FooFoo

     When I was younger, before I went to sleep, my mom would tuck me in and then have shadow puppet shows on the wall. Little Bunny FooFoo was my favorite which is probably the reason I named one of my pet rabbits FooFoo. These shadow puppets were never great- just holding up a peace sign and bouncing it across the wall- but I still loved them and hope that my children will too. Even though I grew up watching movies in live-action and animation, making shadow puppets was my first experience with making moving pictures on a screen. I knew that the bunny was just my mom's hand and a light source behind it, but it was still so much fun to watch.

      Since those days, I have gotten into photography and filmmaking, and I have a large appreciation for animation. The way that these media have evolved from shadows and storytelling blows my mind when I really stop to think about it and it makes me wonder how much of the science fiction that we read will be real in the next few years. I wonder what my kids will be using on a daily basis and how obsolete shadow puppets will be. Photography- real photography- has pretty much phased out completely by now, so they may not even learn about my favorite medium. Hopefully they'd still like to learn from me though.