Thursday, February 26, 2015

Woman on Blue Bus Seat - George Segal

Woman on Blue Bus Seat (NYC Subway Map), 1998, painted plaster, plastic, steel, paper, 81 x 54 x 36 inchesI find this piece interesting due to its casual nature. Although the bus seat is a bright vibrant blue and the subway 
map is full of color, the solid white woman still doesn't seem out of place. The contour of her body and her upright 
position as she holds her bag really captures the simplicity of what is going on in the piece, just a woman waiting for her stop. 

"Depression Breadline"




"Depression Breadline," George Segal, 1999, Bronze

        Segal made molds using friends as models.  Here, he depicts a scene common during the time of the Great Depression.  The body language of the men on line for food rations, their dress, and the coldness of the door make this a vivid reminder of harder times. 

George Segal

"Woman Gazing Vacuuform Plastic Sculpture 1976"by George Segal (1924-2000). This piece was really interesting because of the form of the body as well as the bas relief. I think the way that the arm is nonchalantly resting on her backside is elegant and gives you the feeling of being restful and relaxed. I also enjoy the  the detail in her skin and her shoulder blades.

Super late sculptor

Pieta by Michealangelo (1498-1500). I chose Micehealangelo because of his ability to create movement in his sculpture with drapery. I know it's a big feat, but I really enjoy this fluidity of the stone. I wanted to originally do Greek and Roman sculptures that had drapery but there was no real specific sculpture that I could really attach myself to, rather a certain style of sculpture that intrigued me.

The Dancers


The Dancers, one of Segal's first sculptures done in bronze was made as a model in 1971 and casted in 1983. This work includes four female dancers in a circle and is a reminiscent of works by Degas and Matisse. I really like the flow of this sculpture. the way that they are set up makes your eye flow through all four pieces as a whole and then also individually. The one woman with her foot up is the focal point and is where your eye starts and where it eventually ends up again.

The Diner





George Segal, The Diner, 1964-1966
 Plaster, wood, chrome, laminated plastic, masonite, lamp, glass, and paper

I really liked this situational sculpture of The Diner. It reminds me of the Edward Hooper painting Nighthawks. Segal's sculptures usually do not have much precise detail or color, which I personally do not care for, but I can appreciate the uniqueness of it. Segal would drape the figures in the plaster and carefully cut them out of it, when creating his works.

Segal

This imagine is so moving because it has strong ties to the holocaust. I chose this sculpture because of that fact, specifically because I was in Paris this summer studying abroad. I took a holocaust class, and was able to learn so much about the Shoah, which is the common term accepted in the Jewish community for the holocaust. This image is moving because it shows the horrors of the Shoah, but the man standing gives the viewer hope. It also foreshadows the fact that the Germans did not succeed with  the Shoah and that the allied forces prevailed. 
George Segal
Woman 
Plaster

Exactly what you would expect to see walking through a park, it is so quaint that it fits right into the park bench as if it is a natural environment. I love how the body is manipulated by itself, where muscle presses on fat, or the anatomy relaxes on the bench. It is a piece that blends in so well, that it just adapted to that bench without anything feeling out of place.

George Segal: Street Crossing

George Segal is an American sculptor that started in the 20th century.  This sculpture by George Segal is Street Crossing (1992) catches the life-size figures and the tableaux the figures.  

Portrait of Suzy Eban, 1975


George Segal

 (American19242000)
Title:

Portrait of Suzy Eban

1975
I like this piece by George Segal because it also ties into the series that I would like to do for the rest of the semester. It is a figure that it also a relief sculpture where the figure is emerging from nothing. Taking from this and also from Frederick Hart the two techniques, plaster and clay, could bring about the look that I want in my pieces. 

George Segal - Walk Don't Walk


I chose this work of Segals for the most part as it was one that i recognized most readily. It captures a degree of realism and humanity as a moment frozen in time. What i found most interesting were the postures of the models in the work with the front man seemingly slouched and the man in the back, morpheus, standing upright and strong. A depicted collection of individuals reflecting the diversity of city life is captured in this work.

Circus

I chose this image because I liked the movement in it.  Most sculptures are people standing and posing or just standing still.  In this piece it is obvious to see what is going on and what the people are supposed to be doing.

The Holocaust

This piece by George Segal is titled "The Holocaust." It is a pretty straight forward piece, in that it is exactly what the title is.  The piece captures a lot of the pain that went on inside the death camps in Nazi Germany. The scene portrayed is a gruesome reminder of the millions that died during WW II.  It is a strong piece, and that is why I chose it.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The Embracing Couple-George Segal


I chose The Embracing Couple by George Segal done in plaster in 1975.  I admired this piece because like most of his other work he sculpts ordinary people in their ordinary everyday environment.  The portion of the bodie that he chose to capture worked very well for this piece, the lines and curves of the female body and the placement of the males hand is done beautifully.  I admire the people that had to hold this pose for this detailed piece of work as well.

George Segel "Blue Nude on Black Bed"


I chose this sculpture by George Segal 1976 because I thought it was cool that when I first looked at the sculpture I didn't see the man laying in the bed. I think Segel used blue to represent the sorrow the woman may of been feeling and to should emotion. George Segal's goal was to explore the mundane images of life. He explored how people connected both emotionally and physically to their environment. He chose his subjects so that they could best depict the routine of ordinary life and how these routines alienate us from one another.

Walking Man -GS

TitleWalking Man
ArtistGeorge Segal
Date1988
Dimensionsoverall 72 × 36 × 30 inches
Materialsbronze
LocationOn view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

George Segal created from a plaster cast formed directly on a real-life model. Segal recast the work in bronze, applied the patina by hand to impart a rich, painterly quality, and placed the figure not on a pedestal, but on a simple fragment of concrete sidewalk near one of the Garden’s tree-lined walkways. Here, passing visitors are drawn to this lonely, human-scaled figure. 


Segal




This piece by George Segal is called Walk, Don't Walk. It was made in 1976, made of  plaster, cement, metal, painted wood and electric light. He created this sculptures by wrapping his subjects in plaster. This piece shows the challenges and the hardships of the weight of the working world but they are going to soldier up and move forward. 

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Red Grooms II

I enjoy the fun set up. Looks like an episode of mr bean getting hit upside the head. Again the work is fun and takes place In that familiar urban enviornment. I also enjoy those wildcard elements just in the enviornment. 

Claes Oldenberg


Oldenberg created an 18 foot sculpture made of aluminum and fiber -reinforced plastic that was then painted over. Each feather weighs about 450 pounds. I really like the idea of creating an everyday object and blowing it up in size and putting it out of place. I find it really interesting how you can something so ordinary and make it into something that can be so eye-catching and pleasing.

Damien Hirst

The Anatomy of an Angel.
The idea I am going for is the inside-outside sculpture, most famously captured in the works of Damien Hirst, and English artist and entrepreneur. He is a very predominant contemporary artist with a very extensive and diverse art collection.
I truly appreciate the use of anatomy in this work along with others.

Eddie Dominguez pt. 2


Here is another torso by Eddie Dominguez called "Night Sky." He says of clay: 
“I think clay is a very humble material, it’s so basic. It can’t get more basic than dirt in that you can use this material to do all sorts of things. It’s a fascinating kind of material. Every other thing that I had attempted to do before that fed into that. All the formal thinking, all the ways painters had influenced me, all the things that I had studied, histories—it all started to be fed into that one material.”
He also loves to use colors because of how direct they are in conveying emotion, "So color is just the color that they are, very simple.”

Here is my Kitsch fat dog in a beanie. He is made to resemble my dog Yuri. Yuri is not this fat in real life but still adorable. Shout out Jeff Koons.

Steps

I really enjoy this style because it is elegant and simple at the same time. I like the way Rauschenberg balances the chairs in the center of the image. I am not sure if there actually balanced, but the illusion that it is makes it appealing to the viewer. Its a beautiful piece, and I like a lot of his art because of how simple it can be. Its inspiring to someone like myself who isn't a skilled artist because I can create my own art while depicting his. I am looking forward to using him as inspiration.

My Little Pony


I chose to do my kitsch sculpture on the My Little Pony Princess Luna because I used to love my little pony as a child.  

This piece by Arneson is another self portrait.   He was known for taking his face and making it silly or different.  He is known for his tongue in cheek comedic style,  Here we see Arneson sticking his tongue into another Arnesons head.  I really like how different this artist is

"The Ceramics Plates of Pablo Picasso"


    Visage de femme

 1953










                                                           Fruits, 1958

Pablo's Picasso boundaries were pushed, when he started to create his precious ceramics plates. He used different types of background on his plates to provide a distraction to the viewer by the use of creative firing, line, and bright color. Picasso only used four different shapes for his plates; circular, oval, square/circular, and rectangular. 


Decided on Jeff Koons Sculpture*


I have decided to choose Jeff Koons instead because I really love his artwork. I think it will be a lot easier for me to attempt to do my sculpture project based on his artwork rather than the other artist I chose. I love how he designed balloon objects and he is also known for his reproductions of many banal objects. I think its cool how these sculpture pieces are made out of stainless steel.

Ex Nihilo- Out of Nothing (Frederick Hart)


  1. Ex nihilo is a Latin phrase meaning "out of nothing". It often appears in conjunction with the concept of creation, as in creatio ex nihilo, meaning "creation out of nothing." Frederick Hart has a series of figures that look like they are formed "out of nothing," showing both movement and creation, which is what captures me when I look at his work. I like the way that the figures look like they are moving, as if there is movement of air or water, in a very fluid manner. I want to emulate the movement and the creating something out of nothing aspect of Hart's work. 

King of the Mobiles


Alexander Calder is known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents. He originally started out as a toy maker creating "push and pull" toys for children before he became interested in sculpture. He works in many different materials but mostly with wire and aluminum. Fun fact during World War I I he tried to join the Marines but was rejected so he continued to sculpt instead. 

Famous sculptor, take 2



BANKSY
I would like to do something satirical, and I figure Banksy is one of the great satirical minds of today.  Hope this artist is more acceptable than Damien Ortega.

Takashi Murakami + Kanye West

For my final, I am going to create other animals dressed up as other rappers.  A hamster as Flava Flav, a dog as Snoop,  a tiger as Tyga, and a pig as Biggie.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Red Grooms

Red Grooms and his colorful pop art is my chosen artist. Now don't get too excited, I said pop art not poptart, hue hue hue. He has a humor behind his work that people can appreciate. He started off paint everyday objects like telephone poles near amusement parks and that kind of sums up his kind of style where he takes these real life atmospheres and puts a fun spin. His art reminds me of growing up in New York, kind of like watching an episode of hey Arnold. I like that his art is inspired by what's in front of him, and he puts hi own non serious spin on things.

 
The artist i am choosing to use for the project is arneson. I like how he uses his own face in crative ways. He is very out of the box and different