My last blog ever!
Throughlines:
1.) Artist can be a part of global conversation about important and relevant topics and issues by creating site specific and installation art by creating art for people to see. It can help viewers see and understand for themselves what message the artist is trying to portray.
2.)Form in artworks can be a vehicle through which content can be communicated through because it can show others that depending on the environments, situation, or materials provided with the forms of artwork the medium of the artists can be different.
3.)The impact of our context showed that not everybody’s shelter was going to be the same. Depending on what materials everyone got, depended on how durable and sturdy the shelter would be. The context of our shelters reflected how we have a lot of resources. In our environment it showed that at first our surroundings was okay, until neighboring classes started to become upset with the noise. Not a lot of religious or political views was portrayed within the context of our shelters, but a lot of the images or whatever we decorated it with was with personal likings or what ever reflected us as people today.
4.) Artist push the limits of their media and reconsider what can be thought of as art by thinking outside the box, and doing their art by doing different mediums, not the usual traditional ones like paintings or clay structures.
Understanding Goals:
1.)Site-specific art is when a piece of artwork is specifically put in an area for a reason. Installation art is when an artwork can be made/installed anywhere, and conceptual art is when art has a certain message and purpose.
2)My actions as an artist relates to my responsibilty as a citizen of the world because I am sending a message out into the world for others to undertand and see what my art means.
3.) Having rough sketches and a good visual image of what you are going to create can be a specific installation that communicates and conveys ideas about the concept of shelter. Basically what Mr. Elkin always makes us do before we do our “actual” piece. By creating an idea of what we want to do before hand, makes the process of actually doing the actual piece easier, and when we do the actual piece we can just wing or add more things while making it.
4.) You can use recycled materials to plan a pleasing artwork that doubles as functioning shelters by using the recycled materials as a substitute for other materials we could have used. It can be nice on the outside but the actual shelter can be not sturdy, and easy to break.
5.) To have a shelter means to have protection, but not having a shelter it means to go find one and find a source of something you can call yours to protect yourself.
6.) Everybody in the world don’t live in the same conditions. Where we live, we are so priveleged to have all the resources we have. We live in better conditions than most people, where as some people don’t even have a shelter or a place to sleep. The kids in Oakland live in the same conditions as we do.
7.)It impacts my context as an artist because all of these factors influence and help me see things in a certain way. And whatever influences with usually comes out through my artwork.
AHHHH IM DONE!
