Sunflower Seeds

 




Sunflower Seeds was created by Ali Weiwei in 2010 in the Tate Modern. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. It is quite remarkable how many of these there are and it is avery interesting piece. People were allowed to walk on them but it got shut down because the dust it created was unhealthy. I hope it opens back up because there was a lot of work that went into it, and it is maybe something that I would like to visit myself one day.

Collecting Them All

When collecting and buying art, peopletend to have a lot of mone and time on their hands. For Herb and Dorothy Vogel, collecting art didnt require any of the sort. Herb and Dorothy were very much ordinary people, Dorothy worked as a librarian and Herb worked as a part of the postal service. Herb and Dorothy collected many pieces of art that were affordable to the ordinary salary, They wouold live off of Dorothy's earning and  Herb's salary would go toward purchasing all of the pictures that they could. Over the decades Herb and Dorothy collected over 2000 pieces of art, (keeping all of it in their tiny apartment) and became patrons of artists including Sol LeWitt, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Richard Tuttle, Chuck Close, Robert and Sylvia Mangold, Lynda Benglis, Pat Steir, Robert Barry, Lucio Pozzi, and Lawrence Weiner.

Louise Bourgeois · Maman, I Do, I Undo, I Redo

    When I first witnessed this exhibit in class, that looks amazing because how large these pieces look.I Do I Undo I Redo by Louise Bourgeois (May–December 2000) The installation consisted of three steel towers which visitors could climb, as well as a giant spider. This picture is cool because you see how big these towers are compared to the people standing next to it. They are interactive which is also very unique not many other pieces let you climb them. It's almost not just like an art piece that you look at, you're experiencing it by climbing it. Another part of this museum is a giant spider. This is interesting because many people have arachnophobia, and it's probably very frightening for them. It's almost like bringing a fear to real life by making it so enormous. This is truly a unique exhibit and one that I would like to experience because it looks fun and interesting.

Unusual Artwork

Josef Albers
Sanctuary 1942
Zinc plate lithograph
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

I found this artwork very interesting because at first glance, it take one square and then it surrounds it with many squares. When you ontinue to look at the artwork it does begin to look slike three doors down a couple of hallways. I alway found this interesting because it reminded me of that willy wonka clip where they enter the hallway into the very small door. The door, at first, only takes the apperence of a small door but its typical at the end of a hallway; however, when you get closer the door becomes much bigger. This is the exact opposite of that because you never get closer to the door no matter how much you move in. It alo looks very similar to topography which is how we would measure the hieght and depth of many landscapes now. This piece of artwork really intrigues the view and makes the viewer take that second glance.