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.  

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.