Final exam/ Question 8

Jean Michel Basquiat

QUESTION 15/ FINAL EXAM

All of this painting are in Andersonville at the white atic store.

This artist is Chicagoan.

this paiting is my favorite because he just uses writing to create shape.

He uses sentences about lake michigan for it , sentences about sky for the sky and sentence of building for the bulding, Because I love calligraphy I really love this one>

Andres Amador

This ephemeral art on to the beach is a lesson; Life is impermanence

I 'm not inspired to find something specific for this writing.
Writing could sometimes became an art.
Of course in french it's more easy for me,

but today for all of us, just this sentence...

MURALS IN LYON

Lyon, my native french city, used Murals to honnor its population.

Lyon is a big galery in open sky.

On this tromp l'oeil, we can enjoy persectivs with stairs, and daily life in Lyon

This mural is a librairy with 500 books from Lyon's writers.

On this Tromp l'oeil, we can see more than 25 celebrity from Lyon.

Saint Exupery born in Lyon

Lumière Brothers earliest filmmakers

ART 21

My computer doesn't want open some link.
So it was not easy to see videos.


SEASON 1 - Place - Richard Serra
Used industrial material that he had worked with



SEASON 2 - Stories- Kara Walker
When you show her exhibit, your own shadow is project in her wall work.



SEASON 3- Situations- Matthew Ritchie
He draws, and create with his computer some visual element from his modified drawing.


SEASON 4 - Protest - An My Le
She photographs war, it's her protesting work

Shadow hunting

I make a lot of picture for this hunting but I really like this old picture.
I made it las winter, when lake was just ice.
The skyline at the sunset time. Really soft because the sun was low in the sky.
Crazy.

I really like to walk in Chicago. So I often see all of the visual art during my walk. But I never saw the wall of Chagall. The map and the recording of the art loop audio tour was really helpfull to explore by a new way Chicago.
Something, I have to do, is to be in front of the Picasso Chicago between 4:00-5:00 to see the wings???Because I didn't understand the explanation, so I have to see by my own eyes...



This giant silver bean is a perfect miror to look the reflection of the sky and of the skyline of the michigan avenue.

The best way to explore this metallic and dynamic sculpture is to listen a classical concert. You can swim in it with music

All faces on the crow fontain are chicagoans.

This BP bridge is usefull to cross columbus.

Pictures make at the top of the Willis tower. An original view of this Red Flamingo with brighly color. For me it's more an abstration tan a flamingo.

At the south of Grand park, this sculpture with lot of legs is not in the art tour but it's art too.

Like this nice sculpture on south Michigan.

You imagination can complete this sculpture with a arrow...
It's representation about the first native of Chicago

This peristyle is a door throught the past and the present : greec antic colonns
into a park celebrating the 20millenium.

Chagall rectangular wall -four seasons- with delicat colors, representing planets animals woman : in one word : life.

This women from Miro maybe dialog with the Picasso sculpture just in front of it.

This is a gift from Picasso to the people of Chicago.
It's hard to me to imagine it in its originally color...Orange...

MIDTERM EXAM - Pictures

Question 23 - cubism and futurism

Question 20 - Trompe l'oeil in Lyon

Question 7 Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC

HOUSE OF BLUES

I was not with you for this field trip.
I just went once at HOUSE OF BLUES to listen Gospel performence and have a brunch.
I didn't know there is a story for exhibition.
I have to go.

MONOCHROME BLUE

monochrome blue - Yves Klein (1928-1962)

The first time I saw this painting I was shocked.

Is this art???

How one color's canvas can be an exhibit in a Museum???

Absence of creativy was my first feeling. Nothing to think about, just coloring a canvas with blue.

Just one uniform color...Blue- special blue I agreed, but who can decide this hue is so particular.

This could be the most representative of 'non representative art".

One time I read , "this monochrome is an open window to freedom", dixit Klee.
So after this information, when I went in MONA I could dream about sea and sky in front of this painting and went throught this color. The explanation helps me look differently at this painting.

Blue is a really abstract color because sky and sea are the most abstract thing in the natural word.

I know that Klee worked with a chemist to create this blue called today International Klein Blue as a brand IKB. This is a really abstract and the color is bright and intensive because of the pure pigment used to make it.

FRIDA

FRIDA was realized in 2002 by Salm Hayek who played Frida -she has been nominated for best actress to the Oscar.
This movie is a biography of Frida Kahlo a Mexican painter born in 1907.
Movie starts with nice pictures of her happy childwood with her parents and her sisters.But when she was 18, she was in a bus whitch crashed into a trolleybus.


After this accident she stayed several month in a bed and started to paint. She was closed to all her family who supported her during her revival.
A mirror was placed on the ceiling of her bed.With his father's aquarelle, she painted her reflect expressing her feelings and emotions.

After two years she can walk again and she met Diego Rivera a painter. She asked him his opinion about her paintings. They felt in love and their love story was extravagant. Diego was a frescas painter throught the world. His was infaithful, and Frida gave us her perception of their story in her painting.
Because of her accident, she couln't have child and several of her painting discribed her distress.
When she discovered his husband has a relation with her sister she was distroyed.


She started to drink and have lot of relation too. Their divorced.
At 45, a illness gone down, his husband came back their remarried and she died.
All of her life she was strong and used her emotion for her painting, her live was a balance between win and lose, joy and suffering, life and death.

LIFE OF AN ARTIST

I MAKE MY CHOICE FOR THE MOVIE--------FRIDA------------

PRESENTATION OF CHRISTO

This is my first photostory. It was long to make it. But I learn more with this presentation

ART INSTITUTE TRIP - 02/10/10



The art institute was founded in 1879 -after the 1871 Chicago fire- as museum and school. In the museum 5000 years of world art are exhibit. Last spring, the "Modern Wing" designed by Renzo Piano has been opened. It's the new home of the XX-XXI century art. Today, the Art Institute is the second largest art museum in the U.S.



With our class we visited a part of the second floor, espacially the part before 1900. We saw lot of paintings.



I appreciated the famous work by G. Seurat "A sunday on the Grand Jatte"-1884.1886. Without trying to explain the meaning, we can see it's influenced by impressionnist. Bud Seurat used a new style of painting placing different colors close to each other with tiny precise brush strokes : the Pointillism. The monumental size of this painting contrast with small impressionist canvas.



TEAM PRESENTATION



We chose "Turning Point of Thirsty" an oil on canvas painted in 1934 by Victor BRAUNER (Romanian 1903.1066)



He was introduced to the circle of surrealim circle by Tanguy. He is inpired by dreams mysticism and unconscious. The drawing uses just four colors, black in the blackground; ocre for the brain, and white and beig. The drawing overflows on the frame. The constrat drawing -blackground increases the thirsty.