Global Networks

Global Networks was made by Mark Lombardi. He calls his diagrams Narrative Structures. They are a type of graph drawings, but in Lombardi's historical diagrams, each node or connection was drawn from news stories from reputable media organizations. The exhibit has traveled to nine museums over 2003–2005. It is quite interesting how he connects all these stories into a web like piece. This piece makes me think of how everything in the world is interconnected but you just don't realize it. It might not be the most visually appealing piece but it definitely makes you think.

Never Mind That Noise You Heard

This piece Never Mind That Noise You Heard is a quite interesting piece. It was put together by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. It is currently in the Stedejik Museum. The piece comes from investigations of the artists into how power, militarism, and war are encoded in to sound. The design of the piece creates a unique musical composition. I really like this piece because it puts together two things with the music of it and the visual. It is definitely not like anything we have looked at before in class.

Marcus Coates

Marcus Coates is a very unusual artist to say the least.  I would definitely call him a performance artist. What he does is  descends into the ‘lower world’ and consults the birds and animals that he encounters there. Usually they respond in cryptic clues; uncharacteristic behaviour is what he is looking out for, which he then does his best to interpret for his audience on his return. The videos that we watched of him were really wacky and I could not help but laugh. I'm not sure how much of art this is but it definitely has a little bit of comedy in it.

Embankment

This piece is called Embankment by Rachel Whiteread premeired in the Tate Modern. It consists of some 14,000 transluscent, white polyethylene boxes stacked in various ways; some in very tall mountain-like peaks and others in lower, rectangular, more levelled arrangements. This piece looks truly spectacular from the picture it reminds me of legos that everyone used to play with as a kid. It is truly a fascinating piece

A Day at the Met

Over my Thanksgiving break I went to the Museum of Metropolitan Art in New York City. For those that have never been there before it s a huge museum and it is almost impossible to see and comprehend everything in one day. So I decided to pick things that really caught my eye or  gathered my interest as I walked by. These are only a few pictures of what I saw at museum.


This first piece is a piece of ancient history. It is the armor that King Henry VIII, king of England wore when they went to battle. I thought it was very interesting because I remember learning about him in my high school history classes. This armor is the earliest dated example from the Royal Workshops at Greenwich, which were established in 1514 . I think it's amazing to be able to have something that has survived that long, for that reason alone it is a great work of art. There is a whole room of armor at the museum.



The next picture that grabbed my attention was from an exhibition that was going on of John Baldesseri. His name captured me alone to look at the exhibit because we learned about him in class. The picture consists of his hands framing New York Harbor in 1971. It is very interesting because he points out Hudson River pier which used to be a very busy port but has since vanished. To me it was like a little kid when they make this image and like imagine things and its as if he imagines the port not there which eventually happens.




This is a picture of the Christmas nativity scene with the tree in the background and it just caught my eye as I walked by it because it was gorgeous. It reminded me of when I get my own tree with my family. It might not compare to the tree in Rockefeller center but it is very beautiful and gets you into the mood for Christmas season. (Even though I went over Thanksgiving Break)



The last picture that I was really interested in was this Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue by Georgia O'Keeffe. I knew as I walked by it that I had somewhere seen it before. Then I realized that I actually had a copy of it in my grandmother's basement. I thought this summed up my trip to the Museum pretty well because you never know what you are going to see there. It has beautiful works of art from the past couple of centuries that you probably have seen on television or in a magazine or something. The trip was a lot of fun and I recommend that anyone go and visit it because it has something for everyone.

An Oak Tree

This is a very interesting piece done by Michael Craig-Martin in 1973. This piece is made up of two objects, a glass of water on a glass shelf. As simple as this piece may look it is actually rather complex from the perspective of the artist. He believes that the pieces is " a glass of water into a full-grown oak tree without altering the accidents of the glass of water," and explains that "the actual oak tree is physically present but in the form of the glass of water." It seems very strange to get such a complex idea from a simple piece but you really just have to believe what the artist is telling you and go with it. Once you know what to visualize and think about it is a very interesting piece and for myself it sparks a lot of thought.