Artist # 28 Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd is an architect/designer, but he doesn't just build normal houses like you would expect. His houses are very unique. They're located in the Chicago area. When I saw one picture of one of his houses, I loved it.



I would definitely say that Wright is a sculpture also. He thinks about the surrounding area and how he can utilize that space with his structure. This house looked like it was just placed in the middle of nature and it sort of was. It's called Flowing Water and at first I was a little confused, until I saw this picture:



It's basically the same picture, the second one just shows much more water flowing through and it catches my attention better. I read that this house resembles a Japanese Shinto temple. There are different aspects that give it that resemblance. On the second floor there is open sleeping porches. I think the house is beautiful and I love the design. His houses are not to make the owners feel trapped inside a box, but to live comfortably and ideally.



This house makes me kind of nervous when I look at it. I don't like those houses that are built on hills and part of the house is on stilts and this reminds me of that. I wouldn't like standing out on the balcony, it would be kind of scary. Frank Wright's designs were really out there and he really went for it. It would be pretty nerve wrecking to build some of his designs because of the locations that they're in. The insides of some of the homes are just as crazy as the outside.



Here the house has this intruding rock coming into it. It was part of Wrights plans and sketches, crazy enough. I would never think to build a house around a rock. I wouldn't really want the rock in my kitchen like that either, but someone did, maybe does, live in this house. I like the rest of it though. I like the ziz-zag design of the skylights above. I'm sure the rest of the inside of the house looks really cool and innovative also.

Instillation

The day to install our napkin display came. The other members of the group and I all brought our napkins. We had our labels made, our fabric and pins and were ready to go.

We started by laying out all the napkins alphabetically with the labels. We ended up having 53 different drinks, but got rid of three to make an even 50. That way we could do five rows of ten napkins. The fabric was a little long and frayed on the ends so we had to cut the length and the ends off to try and make it look more smooth. Once that was done it was ready to pin up in the display case. That part was pretty easy. Next we began to space out the napkins and pin them up on the fabric. We put the first row up and it looked good, so we did the second, third, fourth and finally fifth. The pins hurt pretty bad to stick into the board so it was a relief when they were all pinned. (We had to pin two corners of each napkin also). We used a ruler to try and line the rows up straight and even with each other to try and make it look as professional as we could. Next we added the labels below the napkins with double-sided tape. It worked pretty well. Once everything was up we had to make a few adjustments. Leah decided to pin all four corners of the napkins, which was a good idea because they kind of floated out from the fabric before. So that wasn't fun pinning more napkins down.

Once we thought we were completely done and ready to go, we were told that we should probably fix the rows. About half-way through they got kind of sloppy and drooped down. The labels were also uneven throughout the display. So we decided we should fix the problem, and fix the labels. Once we did that, we were DONE. We were satisfied with how it turned out and called it compete.

I really like how it ended up. I wasn't expecting us to have that many napkins, but i'm glad we did. I think the more variety we had, the better. The different rings and colors really showed up against the black background. So overall I think it turned out just as we thought and were very happy with it.

Artist # 27 Pablo Picasso

In grade school Pablo Picasso is one of the artists that I remember learning about. We saw some of his paintings and then had to create our own "Picasso" piece. In middle school we had to recreate this drawing by Picasso as well:


So from a small age i've been introduced to Picasso's work, but never had really learned about him. I know now that his work went from analytic cubism to synthetic cubism. I've also heard of cubism, but didn't really know what it was. Analytic cubism is where the painting looks as if the objects or the subject matter is seen from many viewpoints. In this next painting it causes the viewer to go back and forth in the space.



In some places it looks like the room has depth, but then the body casts a shadow on the wall and that shows you that it's a very shallow room. On the right there's a curtain being pulled back to make you think that it's opening up into a deeper space, but then there's a wall right behind and so you're stuck in the same space as you're already in.

Picasso's work is breaking the figures down. The body in the above painting is treated as plains. That's why it looks so weird and unrealistic. I don't really like his paintings. Although it was a shift in art history, they're just too odd and aren't pleasing to my eye. Here are a few more paintings by Picasso:

Artist # 26 Azul De Corso

Azul De Corso is a freelance artist, graphic designer and illustrator. I love his work. I first saw this peacock and was hooked.



I love the colors. I also like how his pictures are made up of small designs and shapes. It makes it really beautiful. It's also very detailed. His work is very crisp and clean. He's done projects for many different big names such as MTV, VH1, WIRED Magazine, etc. Azul De Corso is definitely someone I can look up to as a graphic designer. (I found all of this from this website).





His work comes off as looking simple, but yet so complicated when you really look closely. He takes the basic things found in each animal, or whatever it is he's duplicating and then adds in all the detail. For example, to make the iguana to look like an iguana, he has the shapes for the scales running along the back, the, the tongue, the little gill or whatever that is, etc. Then by the shapes he uses and the direction the shapes are in he can fill in the area to make the shape of the iguana. He doesn't just use random colors either. It looks like he uses just every color and makes it colorful, but depending on the picture, the colors matter. The octopus is using a variety of browns while the iguana is using greens, blues and pinks.

I'm really glad I found this artist because I love looking at his work. I think he's very talented and it shows in the companies that hire him.

Artist # 25 Gigih Budi Abadi

I don't know why I didn't think of doing it before, but I thought I should look at some graphic design artists since that's what i'm going to school for. I came across Gigih Budi Abadi from a search on Google. His business name is Pixecute. I first saw his design of the Coca-Cola ad. This one here:



Many different artists came up with their own ad, but this was one I was drawn to. I like the colors and the overall look to it. It makes Coca-Cola look good and fun to drink, which is the point. After searching around a bit I came to his artist portfolioand saw that he has done other Coke ads as well. I like that first one the best, but here are some more that he designed:





Pixecute seems really talented in graphic design. I look through his portfolio and really liked his style. He would have many different ideas for the same product and they're all detailed and thought out. It's hard to come up with so many different looks for the same product. Hopefully with practice I'll get there.




These two pictures were just some that he was playing around with. He said they're not professional pictures, just for him to play with. I think they're really good and could definitely be professional! (Although, I haven't actually taken any graphic design courses yet).

Artist # 24 John Feodorov

In class we watched a film on John Feodorov. He comes from a Navajo background and so his work has to do with that. He said he's not trying to make fun of spirituality, but then he said that he is. He feels it's necessary. In the film he also said that he tries to create spiritual altars. He uses animals a lot in his work. He does a lot of contemporary usages of spirituality. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but he uses navajo traditions and altars them to put them into society, into the workplace.

In the film, he did a performance based art piece where employees in a company who were down could recieve this spiritual experience and then feel better and go back to work. So he not only makes things with his hands, he does some performance art as well. He makes sculptures and paints also.

He made Totum Teddies:



Animal Spirit Channeling Device for the Contemporary Shaman:



Office Myth:



and Forest at Night:

Artist # 23 Pepon Osorio

I was introduced to Pepon Osorio by the film we watched in class. In the film it showed him working on a few different rooms. He said he needs to provide a space that's overpowering and that's exactly what his rooms are. He finds artifacts and borrows artifacts from others to tell their story, or a story. He decorates and fills rooms with these artifacts and makes them overwhelming when viewing them.





Osorio usually mixes multimedia in with his pieces. He had an experience as a young boy in the barber shop and so he based one of his rooms on that. I think if I remember right he cried and had a terrible time, but the whole time he was being told not to cry. So within his "barber shop" room there are televisions showing a person crying.

In another piece that was in a museum, he had an empty cell. There was the bed, and a few things. There was a big screen next to the cell displaying just a boy, as if in an interview, telling his dad how he felt about him being in jail. It seemed like a very intimate issue and it was being projected next to the cell. I think there was also a room, of a home next to it. In fact, the picture above of the bedroom is the son's bedroom. It's very detailed and packed full of things, just like a boys bedroom might be. On the wall is a projection of him talking. (I was confused how everything was laid out from the film).

Osorio works with sculpture too. I thought I would show this because it looks different than everything else i've seen from him. It's titled My Beating Heart. It's a sculpture covered in paper, but it's also a multimedia piece.-That's the part that's similar to the others.



Osorio recorded the sound of his heart beating and it projects out of the heart. It's like he's conveying his actual heart for art. Love is representative of the heart, and so he could be saying that, how much he loves art. It could be something completely different than that, but it's the first thing I think of when I see it.