Artist # 16 Fred Wilson

I read, here, that before Fred Wilson began his own work, he worked in museums in New York. He worked at the Metropolitan and the Museum of Natural History. He was a freelance educator in these museums. He didn't like the way the museums were portraying the items displayed and I think thought they could be misinterpreted because of that. So he would redo some of the displays in new ways that would allow the viewers to see what is shown without anything blocking the view or getting in the way, (figuratively speaking).

Some of Fred Wilson's work is very different from what i've seen with other artists. I knew that he was some kind of "museum artist" because his name is from the handout from class. If I looked him up on my own without knowing that, by just looking at his pictures I might be able to tell that is his main focus. There were a few that didn't seem to be like a museum display like this chandelier:

It just looks like an antique item, and i'm not really sure what it is about. Maybe it was a chandelier from some really important person's house and so that's why it would be displayed in a museum.




These pieces are made of wax. It's hard to find information on the individual works instead of Fred Wilson as a person. The pictures don't really have any information with them. I know that his work is trying to break down the barriers of the lighting, colors, shapes, displays of museums to create a different meaning. When all those elements are changed it changes the meaning of the works.

Here are a couple more pictures of his work:

Artist # 15 Caravaggio

Caravaggio was different than most painters of his time. He did things the opposite of how everyone else thought they should be done. I watched a video on him in class and he seemed pretty crazy. He had a terrible temper that actually led him to kill a soldier. He was a wanted man and it led him to paint this:
It's his version of David. He used this painting to give as his pardon, but ended up dying before it was received. Instead of David holding Goliath's head, he's painted himself as goliath. He is the monster and is offering himself through this painting. I think it's very clever.

Caravaggio's paintings are all dark. You can recognize his style pretty easily. It's as if the figures are coming out of the darkness. He painted people that other famous painters didn't. He was a poor man and so he would use the peasants off the streets. His models were just regular people. Probably his most famous painting is The Calling of St. Matthew
Here Jesus is completely in the dark, you wouldn't even know it's him except for the slight halo you see above his head. His finger is lit and draws your eye straight to Matthew. The light coming in also gives a diagonal that the hand follows. They're in this dark alley or somewhere. It's not some grand place and grand painting, but it's very powerful.

The expressions that Caravaggio uses are great too. The people in his paintings actually look sorrowful if that's what he meant. Here you can see it in his Entombment

I get a certain feeling whenever I see these paintings. I think it's from watching the film, but they are way more powerful when I see them. Caravaggio always went a step further with his paintings. In Doubting Thomas Caravaggio shows the actual finger of Thomas in the flesh. He chooses to really make a statement when he paints something. The expressions on all the faces are so detailed with the wrinkles and everything.


Unfortunately, Caravaggio died because of his mistakes, but he made a collection of great paintings and is still one famous artist.

Artist # 14 Yoshichika Takagi

I came across this artist in another blog I was looking at. You can look at it here. Takagi's big project was "House K," a house in Japan. I've never seen a house designed in the way this one is, but I really like it. I honestly don't know if I would ever live in a house like this, but I always like looking at them. It's a little too "wooden" for me.




I couldn't find out a lot about this artist, but I would still consider him/her? one. Yoschichika attended Hokkai-Gakuen University and Architectural Association School of Architecture. I found this from the website and their blog. This person looks like this house was their first big thing they accomplished and it's getting recognized all over the world, so i'm sure we'll see more work from him.

He is definitely a minimalist. His house is minimalist and some other works that came up on google images are minimalism pieces, such as these:


Because there's not a whole lot of information about this artist, i'm not even 100% that these pictures are his work because they are from google images. They're all I could find though and so I'm hoping they're right. I enjoy this type of art much better than say Anish Kapoor's. I like architecture and definitely consider it art because you're making conscious decisions about where you're placing things and how it looks in the end.

Easter Sunday

This weekend has been really good and really reflective almost. On Friday,good Friday, at church, we had a work day down in the basement for our yard sale we hold every year as a fundraiser for Mexico. Each year a group does a mission trip down to this camp in a pretty remote part of Mexico. I've gone twice and it's really amazing what God does there for his people. It's really cool to be apart of something like that.


Anyways, that was a little off track, after organizing for the yard sale we and whoever else wanted to watched The Passion of The Christ. It's a really intense movie about Christ dying on the cross and everything he went through for our sins. After watching it you really couldn't not think about it and just be reminded how important and wonderful this holiday is. Today was great too, being able to just worship and hear the word and watch the children do a little play. I just lost my train of thought and can't really think right now so maybe I will come back and add to this post later!