Week 6- Anish Kapoor Sculpture

Celebrated for his gigantic, stainless steel Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor is changing the cultural environment with his public works.

1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss whether it is conceptual art or not. Explain your answer, using a definition of conceptual art.
- Conceptual art: Conceptual art is an art in concepts/ideas/themes includes in the work with traditional aesthetic.
Art that is intended to convey an idea or concept to the perceiver and need not involve the creation or appreciation of a traditional art object such as a painting or sculpture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art
I think it is conceptual art. Anish Kapoor is today's most influential sculptors in the Conceptual art.
He's mainly a deep understanding of the characteristics of materials and sharp lyrical intensity of the pigment is combined. In his work, the concept of the size of the material through a monumental project addresses the problem of scale.
As we see his works we thought it might be looking for embarrassement and the intent of the artist himself, while wondering who had their own memories od things will fall into when they sees the sculptures.
http://kiki5258.blog.me/70105590597
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/
2. Research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outside New Zealand to discuss the ideas behind the work. Include images of each work on your blog.
-Sky Mirror
This sculpture is a public work by Kapoor.  It has an idea of urban, contemporary architecture that gives the impression of a lowered sky.
This "Sky Mirror is located in Kensington Gaedens in London, Nottingham and New York.
Sky Mirror is a six-metre-wide concave dish of polished stainless steel and angled up towards the sky. When people see the sky or objects with this sculpture it is up side down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Mirror
-Cloud Gate
This sculpture is well known works by Anish Kapoor which is located in Chicago. Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. This work also like an work "Sky Mirror".
Similer metarial ans similler installation to reflect the city and people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate
-Greyman Cries
Anish Kapoor and Factum Arte have been working together for several years on the development of cement printing, investigating new ways of generating form.
Greyman Cries is in Paris in France. It is made up with cerment. When we look it closly, it reminds me a larva.
Sculptures made ​​of cement, the detail, also just above the avalanche Lena delicious cream cake decorations are made ​​of preconstructed. He sculpture is said that the creation of a computer simulation.
I think one of the two sculptures of a beautiful Renaissance paintings and the association should think.

http://www.thesqueeze.net/Slideshow/Anish-Kapoor-in-Bilbao-from-March-16-October-12-2010/Anish-Kapoor-Greyman-Cries-Shaman-Dies-Billowing-Smoke-Beauty-Evoked-2008-09
4. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
-Anish Kapoor sculpture blends fabric and steel in New Zealand is "The Farm". He used the metarial red PVC-coated polyester fabric with steel to structural the frame.
 Kapoor’s work is architectural, and yet it also has a fleshy quality which the artist describes as being “rather like a flayed skin”.
“I want to make body into sky”by Anish Kapoor.
5. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and explain why. Are you personally attracted more by the ideas or the aesthetics of the work?
- I really like the sculpture "Cloud Gate" by Anish Kapoor. The reason why it is my most favourite work is that the shape of the sculpture is very interesting to me. It feels me like a futurestic, and the way he used the shany,mirror metarial all over the sculpture
capture the intention. Personally it attraced me by the ideas of the work and aesthetic of the work. Some people might think one of them but in my case both makes me capture the work.
I would like to make one of the sculpture like this.

Week 5 - Pluralism and the Treat of Waitangi

1. Define the term 'pluralism' using APA referencing.
-A condition in ethnic, religious, or cultural groups are present and tolerated within a society.
-Cultures has come to characterize every part of the world today. But what is pluralism? Here are four points to begin our thinking.
-It is refers to the nature of artists.
ALVC Book P.46
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pluralism
2. How would you describe New Zealand's current dominant culture?
-I think Maori culture have one of the high levels of current dominant culture. The reason why I think Maori is domiinant cultture in New Zealand
is these groups are the first people(group) who are lived(still living) and the rules in New Zealand. Before the contract with European "The Treaty of Waitangi"
it was their own land. However the Maori keeps their land with European after the contract and still it is Maori's land. It is why  New Zealand it standing for with Maori and
they represents this cultures. It means New Zealand is still belongs to Maori and NZ is equal to Maori group.
When New Zealand has the special days, Maori grops show the traditional dance called "Haka" and cook traditional foods. Also these relates to the histori of art in New Zealand.
3. Before 1840, what was New Zealand's dominant culture?
-Before contract "The Treaty of Waitangi" most of Maori spoke their won language "Maori" and
the Christian missionaries of the pre-1840s have been described as the 'agents of virtue in a world of vice', although they were not immune to moral blemish themselves.
By the later 1830s the British government grew concerned about how land was obtained from Maori. Action was needed, it decided, to protect the interests of Maori from the worst ravages of European impact.
Also before 1840 there were about 1800 Pakehas in New Zealand. But after the Brithish/European people came to New Zealand many habits are changed and developed the environments
such as being city living lifes, educations and the language.
http://history-nz.org/colonisation.html
http://history-nz.org/maori.html
http://www.writework.com/essay/three-forms-maori-and-pakeha-interaction-before-1840
4. How does the Treaty of Waitangi relate to us all as artists and designers working
in New Zealand?
-Since "The treaty of Waitangi" is sighned by Maori and the European, the artists and designers have a little bit of effect. In my opinion, the art works are developed through the sighing the contract.
Because basically, artists and designers have all different ideas and styles although material works are changed to Maori poeple with Europeans. For example, the painting works. Before European artists came to New Zealand,
Maori people were painted with nature materials such as natural dye form trees, flowers. However other cultural people came to New Zealand, they started to try the colour paints. It applies to designers as well.
I think there are not much things to change. The reason why it is, that all people has the different ideas and they are from all different parts.But they share the skills of art and resresents the New Zealand and make their own
workings by combine the ideas and skills with both cultures.
5. How can globalization be seen as having a negative effect on regional diversity in New Zealand in particular?
-New Zealand is the last country that has been sattled in the world.

6. Shane Cotton's paintings are said to examine the cultural landscape. Research Cotton's work 'Welcome'(2004) and 'Forked Tongue' (2011) to analyze what he is saying about colonialization and the Treaty of Waitangi.
-'Welcome'(2004) 'Forked Tongue' (2011)
 Shane Cotton exploses the idea of Maori culture with cultural identity and  Maori iconography and culture, such as shrunken heads, mokomokai, and native birds such as tui, and European symbols and items.
Cotton's work 'Welcome'(2004) pating(picture below) shows the Maori Iconnic with birds painting with is New Zealand's cultures. His paintings are represents the New Zealand cultures around the world by showing icons in NZ by paints it and disply to people.
This painting is like a sign which has New Zealand's symbols.
Both Welcome'(2004) 'Forked Tongue' (2011) works has very strong feeling of Maori New Zealand cultures and symbolised the things in the painting.
I personally like these two paintings how he painted, espacilly on 'Forked Tongue' (2011) red lines on the cliff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Cotton
http://www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/editions/shanecotton.asp

                 'Forked Tongue' (2011)                              ' Welcome'(2004)                                            

  

7. Tony Albert's installation 'Sorry' (2008) reflect the effects of colonization on the aboriginal people of Australia. Research the work and comment on what Albert is communicating through his work, and what he is referring to. Describe the materials that Albert
uses on this installation and say what he hopes his work can achieve. Define the term 'kitsch'.
-In this installation "Sorry"(2008) has a meaning to give the sorry to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd 13 February 2008 in Austrakia. Tony Albert has captured this  emotion.“prime minster Kevin Rudd offered a formal apology to indigenous Australians”
He created the installation "Sorry" to communicate throught is work to share ideas.
"He introduces us to a forest of faces, each sharing elements of history with those stolen from their people, land and culture. Each represents a false identity, manufactured black faces made to fit white society."
This is what he is showing throught the work.
I saw the simier artist who works like Tony Albert. When I see Tony's work he reminded the simier artist call"Tony Cragg"
Two artists are very same that how they works and used the materials.

kitsch-something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.

http://qag.qld.gov.au/collection/indigenous_australian_art/tony_albert
http://21cblog.com/tony-albert-sorry-2008/

8. Explain how the work of both artists relates to pluralism.
-On Shane Cotton's works, I think it is really relates to pluralim by using the coloialization.(The way how he used it)
Although, on Tony Albert's work I can not really find the realtionship to plurlism. Because on Cotton's paintings, he painted symbols about Maori cultures
but on Albert's work he only put the word "Sorry".

Week 4 - Kehinde Wiley and inter-textuality

1. Find a clear definition of Intertextuality and quote it accurately on your blog using the APA referencing system.
Use your own words to explain the definition more thoroughly.
-Relating to or deriving meaning from the interdependent ways in which texts stand in relation to each other.(concentions)
The whole network of relations.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Intertextuality+

2. Research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.
- In Kehinde Wiley's work is very interesting art pices. On his paintings he uses the idea/theme of Renaissance background styles and use people to show
the how rich are they..The artist Kehinde Wiley shows the intertextuality through his same kinds of paintings. However very interesting points on this is,
that Wiley represents the intertextuality by using the person on his painting. For example, people normally sees and thinks that the original Renaissance paintings
has the white people on it. But the artist Wiley painted black man. By this point, he is making viewers make sense of only white people have right to have a power.
It says all people have powers and rights.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehinde_Wiley
http://www.kehindewiley.com/

3. Wiley's work relates to next weeks Postmodern theme "PLURALISM" . Read page 46 and discuss how the work relates to this theme.
-PLURALISM is atr refers to the nature and artists as diverse. And the works are relates to the theme of Wiley's works.
Because on his painting he mostly painted with black males which consists the works and low level of classes that time. Nowdays we have equality and everyone has the right to
to something equally. In his paintings we can get a messages of that all the people are same and it shows the changes and developments of the world's culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism
AUT University. (2011). Academic Literacies in Visual Communications 2: Resource Book. New Zealand, Auckland: Lyceum Press

4. Comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social/cultural hierarchies , colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a western worldview.
-Wiley's work raises the ideas of that all people like 'Black'and 'White' men are same and has equality and has same powers like we have. Also both kinds of people are same human
and must not be judged my skin colours like race and how they act. This artist Kehinde Wiley breaked the idea of stereotype of worldwide viwe..His works with the ideas brought up many
different thiking to this society..

5. Add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more information that
you have read during your research.
-When I was research about this artist 'Kehinde Wiley' I found that he is an interesting artist. Because he is like and pop artist.
When we see his paintings some are very similier to the old paintings and he just followed and changed some styles to his style.
Also the details are very fine with the colour matchs. So that peopel can have more attentions to the works. Also the bright richness
colour choices are really joined with the subjects.

Week 3- Hussein Chalayan

Chalayan is an artist and designer, working in film, dress and installation art. Research Chalayan’s work,
and then consider these questions in some thoughtful reflective writing.

1. Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer.
What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?
Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?
-Hussein chellenges on her works. On her fashion works(picture below) presents the chellengin works with her models by wearing all different lengths of burka with naked.
It is unusuall designs and unusuall forms to presents fashion works. To me I feel this "Bunka" fashion works are still art works. Because it is unusuall and people woould not
think of this kinds of works. Although this kind of works will be increases by the artist Hussein Chalayan. However peopel wouldn't wear it anytime like we wear cloths, but
in my opinion people will try it on special days like party or celebrations and fashion shows.

2. Chalayan has strong links to industry. Pieces like The Level Tunnel (2006) and Repose (2006) are made in collaboration with,
and paid for by, commercial business; in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal manufacturer.
How does this impact on the nature of Chalayan’s work? Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?
-This impacts on the nature of Chalayan's wrok by creating the work pices. For me it doesn't change the meaning of art. Other artists are creating the works to presents
and give ideas to peopel. Chalayan is also one of them too. And the meaning of the art does not change, when it used to sell products. They produses the pices of work
to show and tell the ideas that they have to peo ple as I mentioned before. They are not only creats works for be paied and earn money, and of course it is a still are to me.

3. Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It features the process of caring for worn clothes,
and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA.
This work has been influenced by many different art movements; can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired Chalayan’s approach?
- Chalayan's film Absent Presence screende at the 2005 Venice Biennale is and enigmatic movie based on the geography,genetics, identity, anthropology and biology.
I think this is like her art works and it also installate with the film images and sculptures with fashion design.
How does this influence this artwork...It includes scientific thoughts like geography,genetics, identity, anthropology and biology.All this kinds of topics are influenced and inspired Chalayan’s approach.

4. Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else;
for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice,
but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the fact that he personally made the painting.
Contrastingly, Andy Warhol’s pop art was largely produced in a New York collective called The Factory,
and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself.
 So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?
-The ART is for messangers to artists for the people who sees the works. Art has personall ideas,concepts, messageses ect to give people what they think and how important od an artist's personal designs.
When painters,Scholptors, designers ect creates the works it represents more meanings. So I personally think when art began the importance of an artist's works, their own works is always important and has right to give messages
to us.

http://www.husseinchalayan.com/
http://www.designboom.com/
http://www.dezeen.com/
www.anothermag.com/current/view/1200/interviewwithHusseinChalayan

Post-Modernism, Ai Weiwei and Banksy

1. Define Post-Modernism using 8-10 bullet points that include short quotes
-Earlier modernist principles
- Postmodernism is a philosophical movement away from the viewpoint of modernism.
-"Postmodernism" is not easy to define.
-The term is used in philosophy, literature, social sciences and architecture.
-"Postmodernism" is composed by two parts "post"and "modernism". Post means "after" and modernism    means "refers to the modern period.
-Modernism refers to a certain period of western cultural, artistic and sociological history.
-Postmodernism is wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others.
-The fundamental reason for the center of attention in meetings and ideological trend is implied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
ALVE Book P.21
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/postmodernism

2. Use a quote by Witcombe (2000) to define the Post-Modern artist.
-"modernism, in a form identified as ‘secular humanism,’ has been attacked by the so?called ‘religious right’ whose conservative ideology has seriously undermined the very constitutional foundations of the whole American modernist experiment. Fundamentalism in nearly all of the world’s major organized religions ? Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism ? has risen sharply in recent years in direct opposition to modernism."

3. Use the grid on pages 42 and 43 to summarize the list of the features of Post-Modernity.
- Art and Design was very hugely influenced by the postmodernity and shift form arts and viewers. And art and designs are getting more interesting by Hyper-realiy. It seems more powerful than the "real", images with no texts with no prior "original". Also they make things looks very realistic. They uses more interested in exploring with new materials and methods to creates their art works.

4. Use this summary to answer the next two questions.

5. Research Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
in order to say what features of the work are Post-Modern.
- Ai Weiwei was born in 18 May 1957. He is a Chinese artist and political activist who are active in architecture, curating, photography, film and social and cultural critism. The work Ai Weiwei's 'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994)
he printed the "Coca Cola" logo in his pot by hand. It is hand printed. This works shows us that it is a mordernist feature. By combines two different ideas on his work like a work showing below, we can see this artist is an modernist artist who mixed and combines the different ideas  to present the post mordernism.

'Han Dynasty Urn with Coca-Cola logo'(1994), Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei dropping a Han Dynast Urn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

http://www.maryboonegallery.com/artist_info/pages/ai/detail1.html

http://www.artzinechina.com/display_vol_aid109_en.html

6. Research British artist Banksy's street art, and analyze the following two works by the artist
to discuss how each work can be defined at Post-Modern.(Use your list from point 6.)
-The street artist Banksy is a England graffiti street artist. He was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol England. This artist is famouse to some people and very new to other people. Because his works are quite unique and works on street walls.
Banksy is political activist like a "Ai Weiwei", film directer andn painter. The work "Flowe Riot" shows the idea of Post mordernism by throwing the beautiful flowers instead of others like glass bottles, blocks..etc harmful and damaging metarials.
Also he operates post-mordernism act in itself by rejecting the mordern ways in his works.

'Flower Riot', Banksy

Los Angeles (2008), Banksy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
http://banksystreetart.tumblr.com/
http://www.artofthestate.co.uk/banksy/banksy.htm

WEEK 1- Nathalie Djurberg's 'Claymations'.

1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?
-'claymation' is a kind of art that artists are using the material called "clay" and take picture or motions many time in a second. Then they joined them together and shows the animations. In these days, peopel produces the animations, Tv programmes and Kid shows with it.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-claymation.htm

2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?
-'surrealistic Garden of Eden' is a kind of combination words with surrealism(surrealistic) and Garden of Eden. Surrealism means "unrealistic","Not real" and  Garden of Eden means that the place where the first man"Adam" and his wife"Eve" lived after they were created by God. The artist Nathalie Djurberg produces are describing the meaning of 'surrealistic Garden of Eden' which is not real.However it its bringing out the Garden of Eden.
- 'all that is natural goes awry' has meaning of different changes of human's movements and lifes and their styles. It says "everythings like natures are changing". In Nathalie Djurberg's clay works she used a different skilll to the others like banded clays and twisted them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrealism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_Eden

3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?
-The artist Nathalie Djurberg creates clay works with her emotions which are scary and dark feeling with happeness growing up. Her work show lots of ranges of peopel think all differently.
http://artnews.org/artist.php?i=1211

4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?
- In her works for children's stories, she used the idea of immagination of human. So she used many colours for Kids which looks colourful and the stories are very simple.

5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?
-In my opinion, in these days there are many designers, painters, sculptures etc around the world. And they would like to make their own works that nobody did before. That is why some desingers with turuning innocent and sweet into somthing disturbing.

6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?
-In my opinion, Djurberg's work is so interesting because her metarials for the works are very fresh to me. I saw some animations created my clay but I haven't research about people who did claymation. Also she shows us the changing of the humanity by adding the idea of 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'.

7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work.

 

-These two art works are very interesting to me. When I see her works I felt it is very uncommen for me. Although her works making me to think, look and search about it more. Nathalie Djurberg's works are very very fresh to me and I would like to find out more about her.