Michael Jackson & Bubbles

This piece is very intriguing to almost
 everyone's native eye. It is an example of Pop art at its highest form and it 
is one of Jeff Koons' best pieces of work. This piece is part of  the Banality series which started in 1988 with Michael Jackson and Bubbles,a series of three life-size gold-leaf plated porcelain statues of the sitting singer cuddling Bubbles, his pet chimpanzee. This piece seems recently intriguing because of Jackson's recent death. This picture depicts Jackson as a caring individual and loving his pet. It was made while Jackson was on top of the charts as the "King of Pop". Afterwards, however Jackson was accused of many things during the course of his life. From what we know now, you can't help but think if the accusations are true and to me this piece brings you back to that. Although it is visually stunning, it is a piece that is timeless and will help us to remember him forever. The piece sold for $5.6 million

Abstarct Art

Art can be very great at times. You talk about all the Michealangelos and Picassos and you realize that this kind of art is not the art that really makes people think. Abstract at does this in such a way that these artist cannot depict in such paintings as the Mona Lisa. This art was greatly depicted in Bruce Nauman's work. His "Clown Torture" workand other arts were about the most insane things that a person could call art but it makes you really think about what we call art. His art and concepts help pull the most of te mind and mkes people really think about what they call art nowadays.

 

The Shark Bites!!!

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you examine a pice such as this one?
 It definitely isnt happiness and joy. Its more of a feeling of fear and the realism of the shark creates an even darker atmosphere. Damien Hirst titled this piece "The Physical Impossibility of Death In the Mind of Someone Living", which you cant deny about the artwork itself. Just seeing this artwork it creates an image of death and despair to the hands of a live Tiger Shark. Accrding to some sources it took him about $10,000 just to keep this shrk afloat. As I witnessed this  atwork on the screen i asked my self if there was anything biger out there than a tiger shark? I did some research and i found that there is in fact sharks larger than a Tiger Shark. As for this artwork I would say that there is nothing that could possibly give a person Stendhal Syndrome as this probably could.

 

Blue Shark Prionace glauca 4 Meters

Tiger Shark Galeocerdo cuvier 3 -4 Meters

Great Hammerhead Shark Sphyrna mokarran 3.5 Meters

Great White Shark Carcharodon carcharias 4 - 5 Meters

Duchamp Fountain

When you look at this particular picture, it epitomizes the idea of how conceptual art can be just about anything. Duchamp, in this particular picture, takes a urinal and places it in a museum with the label "R. Mutt" as if this was the name of the actual artist. I am vrey confused when it comes to how this typical urinal can be called art. It makes me think twice about what art can possibly be. From being justa simple drawing of a cat to the many object being taken out of place and put into different, abstract settings. Conceptual art is very different though becasue its just about anything and it makes us think of it as completely different things. I guess this is what Duchamp does with his concept of a fountain. Duchamp may see this urinal as a fountain and convince everyone else that this is a fountain; however, I dont think anyone will be drinking out of this so called "fountain" anytime soon.