Extra Credit #4 : Museo del Barrio, MUSEUM STARTER KIT: Open With Care

Extra Credit #4 : Museo del Barrio, MUSEUM STARTER KIT: Open With Care

1. What do you think about Raphael Montañez Ortiz's mission to represent the Puerto-Rican-American and East Harlem community in a museum space? How is this presentation of art different that the story of modern art presented at MOMA (museum of modern art)? 

I think Rapael Montanez Ortiz mission to represent the puerto rican american and east harlem community  in this particular museum space is awesome to show a piece of the puerto rican community  and east harlem community. This presentation of the museum is different from modern art at moma.
2. Pick one artwork in the museum, describing it physically and how it was made. How do the materials and the process communicate something about the community, culture, or neighborhood of East Harlem?

The materials and the process communicate something about the community culture because it's a bottle  that is studded colorfully which represents the colorful community that puerto ricans are known for being loud and colorful.

 

3. Pick one object or group of objects that was provided by the community (non-artists). Describe if physically. Why you think the individual chose these objects, and what it represents about about their culture or neighborhood history?

There's a bunch of pictures showing the latina woman in all different period of times and it shows different types of women swell. I feel that the these objects represent about their neighborhood because it shows women doing different things and different times.

4. What do you think about this idea of asking the community to contribute objects that are important to them for the museum? Do you think that museum curation should be left to people with the training, should be totally crowd-sourced, or a combination of both? 

I think it's very cool that the community contributed objects that are important to them for the museum because it shows what people think is important to them which is different to what other people consider important everyone thinks different it's cool to see how different everyone really is. I feel the museum curation should be left to a combination of both because the artist should be able to express how they feel and the crowd should get to see what they are interested in.

Class# 11 Followup: The Semiotics of Survival

Class# 11 Followup: The Semiotics of Survival

Lecture Followup Questions:

Describe which type of representation each image is below (Iconic, Symbolic, Indexical, or more than one?) and explain why :


1.

Holbein, Hans /Younger/ Sir Thomas More,  oil on canvas, 1527

This would be considered iconic because this is royalty someone important the way he is dressed and to be painted from 1527 says a lot about his status back then and to understand it now.

2.

 Yves Klein, Anthropometry ANT 85, 1960. 155.5 x 352.5cm. 
(body prints of female models painted with his universal blue) 

This is indexical because it's showing the painted bodies of women and it shows how different women can be from shapes and sizes.
3.

This would fall under the category  of indexical because this is a form of expression as for me to know it means heart aka love it's basically written.

4.

Francesca Woodman,  35 mm Photograph

I believe this one to be symbolic because I feel like she's sitting there in person but her spirit is out of her body and leaving through the door as if she's not completely there.

Class #11: Symbolizing your Society and HW

Class #11: Symbolizing your Society and HW

Termino Island

So now the people that are on top are the people with the most money and connections and gold is total currency without gold you cannot eat sleep or think. The black snake represents the people that have taken over the world and they know they are evil and admit it. The gold in the center represents the core of everything that is going on in the world and is basically moving everyone and everything. The pink people are representing the hurting struggling people that just want to be free again...

Class #10 Followup: Collages and Manifesto

Class #10 Followup: Collages and Manifesto

Question (For those who attended class)

 Based upon the fictional society that you invented with your group on May 12th's class, write down some of the rules, laws, beliefs, codes, etc. that would be included in a manifesto for your post-apocalyptic community. The manifesto can be very practical ("There will be no stealing or the offending party will be exiled"), or totally absurd (see anything from the Futurist Manifesto).

Well this is a rundown how our society works 

The people that are governing are the people with money and power

 Rock stars politicians rich people

The people that don't matter and are slaves

Working class people living paycheck to paycheck

Beliefs are that money rules the world and everything in it and anyone that believes otherwise can die

Beliefs that is known to be around by the working class people is not acknowledged 

Working class people are not allowed to think for themselves

Only Affluent people can say what and do as they please

The code is if anyone is trying to overthrow  the system you must snitch 

Nothing is secret anymore 

Class #9 Followup: Survival

Class #9 Followup: Survival

1. Write a short paragraph response describing which of the lecture artist's interpretation of escaping, advancing, or repairing society you most agree with, and why.

I would have to say I love what mary mattingly did because she is making people see how we would have to deal wight he world when we finish destroying. She is using things that could be used or thought of and try to make it more advanced as we can. Because global warming is the worst enemy for us right now but not a lot of people care about it. So I feel like this brings grew awareness and ideas to that type of lifestyle  when we are left with nothing.

Class #9: Ai Weiwei and Interventions

Class #9: Ai Weiwei and Interventions

My Doggie Wanted To Jump Ship Hehehe

Well I basically took my puppy to the park to act as if I was going to throw her into the river which caught attention people were looking at me as if I was crazy there was a point while my friend was taking the pictures I thought someone was going to call ASPCA on me. There was this one couple in a car right in front waiting until I was done and they were on the phone so I was very cautious but in the end my puppy and I made it home safely.

Class#8: The Art Market and You're the Curator Homework Assignment

Class#8: The Art Market and You're the Curator Homework Assignment

This piece when you look makes you feel one with nature  sitting in rock chairs while looking at the trees and flowers.

Scott Burton (American, 1939–1989)

Pair of Rock Chairs

Date:

1980-81

Medium:

Stone (gneiss)

Dimensions:

49 1/4 x 43 1/2 x 40" (125.1 x 110.5 x 101.6 cm) and 44 x 66 x 42 1/2" (111.6 x 167.7 x 108 cm)

Credit Line:

Acquired through the Philip Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., and Robert Rosenblum Funds

MoMA Number:

56.1981.a-b

Copyright:

© 2014 Scott Burton

This painting would look just like a simple green forest to the naked eye but if you pay attention yes the trees are very tall and full but the bottom shows more than that the barks of some of the trees and you can even see like a lake in the back.

Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918)

The Park

Date:

1910 or earlier

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

43 1/2 x 43 1/2" (110.4 x 110.4 cm)

Credit Line:

Gertrud A. Mellon Fund

MoMA Number:

10.1957

 This painting you instantly feel pastures and nowhere  near the city just pure quietness and tranquility.

Gerhard Richter (German, born 1932)

Meadowland

Date:

1985

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

35 5/8 x 37 1/2" (90.5 x 94.9 cm)

Credit Line:

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, Betsy Babcock, and Mrs. Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson Funds

MoMA Number:

350.1985

Copyright:

© 2014 Gerhard Richter

This bird bath is gorgeous  looks more like a (vip) pool section for the important birds looks very hip new and chic to have outdoors beautifully  put.

Paula Hayes (American, born 1958)

Bird Bath

Date:

2009

Medium:

Custom-formed acrylic

Dimensions:

24 x 18 x 30 1/2" (61 x 45.7 x 77.5 cm)

Credit Line:

Gift of the artist

MoMA Number:

223.2011

This exhibition "called nature soothes all" shows how the captured moment of the artist when they made the choice to choose these specific pieces to show the audience that they would feel the same peace and tranquility that they did when then saw the ending results of these beautiful and tastefully hand picked out pieces. The main colors being used are of course green brown and blue. I loved to put these together because the theme goes hand in hand with each and every piece and the outdoors theme is just perfect you feel like you could jump from square A to Square D in an instant. When Scott Burton put "Pair Of Rock Chairs "it looks so beautiful how he made chairs out of rocks where people could literally sit and enjoy what nature has to give. When Gerhard Richter painted this oil canvass of "Meadowland" It looks like a land of big beautiful green meadows as if you were to fall from the sky you wouldn't be harmed because of the beautiful comfy meadow that is waiting. When Gustav Klimnt painted the oil canvass of "The park" he made sure you looked at this beautiful  park like no other and would want to sleep under the trees of how peaceful it looks. The last but my favorite is "Bird Bath"By Paula Hayes I just wish I could jump in there and enjoy myself it looks so refreshing and very appeasing to the eye.

Class #7: The System (Art History Lesson) Class Followup

Class #7: The System (Art History Lesson) Class Followup

Five Appliqués in the Shape of a Cross, ca. 600
Langobardic; From Castel Trosino, central Italy

Stylized Figure Pendant, 5th–7th century
Panama; International Style

1. Describe each work in brief.

 The piece from Italy are gold crosses and the piece from panama is a representation of the group that created it

2. Give your best guess as to the audience of each work. 

The gold crosses I feel were made to give a farewell to the deceased with worth and the gold pendant of the man was to show how strong the men in the tribes were to any outsider

3. Describe what ideas each work it attempting to bear witness to.

I see the gold crosses have always been worth money and status and how many you were given said you were more important than other and the gold pendant shows a face of seriousness  not to enter if you see this in front of the village

4. Describe the differences between the respective works' representations of beauty.

They're both very beautiful one is a gold cross made very well from top to bottom you can tell it was shaved down to be perfect and the pendant of the man is very well made swell with the details of the face and the feet and hands very well put together

5. Do you think either of the artists knew about the others' art-making tradition? Why? 

No i do not think that either artists knew about the other's art making tradition because Italy was on the other side of the world and panama was on the other side swell and these both pieces have very different stories to tell as what is important to the people of these countries 

6. Do you think the mainstream (European) work deserves its place in the mainstream story of art? Why?

Yes and no I'd say yes because they're pieces are beautiful but just like central america has beautiful pieces every part of the world deserves to be accredited to how we mold gold today into works of art

7. Do you think the non-mainstream (non-European) work deserves a place in the mainstream story? Why?

Central america has beautiful pieces every part of the world deserves to be accredited to how we mold gold today into works of art

Class #6 Followup: Translation--Food as Metaphor and HW Assignment Due next class

Class #6 Followup: Translation--Food as Metaphor and HW Assignment Due next class

1. How does Yves Klein’s blue cocktail relate to the metaphoric nature of food to transmit ideas?

Yves Klein's blue cocktail relate to metaphoric nature of food in the way that we are what we eat and there are things that we may not see in our food but directly go into our systems

2. What does Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup piece say about post-WWII America's relationship to food? Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup says that Americans got used to canned food and not making real food

3. What do you think about the Bread & Puppet theatre idea that baking your own break is a political act? I think it was a wonderful idea because we do not know what goes into the food completely like the gmo and Monsanto food so knowing what your eating is key to being smart and healthy

4. Compare Judy Chicago's "Dinner Party" to Leonardo DA Vinci's "Last Supper". Judy Chicago placed it the way Leonardo DA vinci's placement was but put a different spin on it more modern I would say

5. Describe how  Rirkrit Tiravanija's, Theaster Gates', or Michael Rackowitz's projects take advantage of the social aspect of meal-sharing to generate ideas and discussions. They both showed that anything is possible either eating in a small place or discussing topics that are taught to be taboo and not to be spoken about especially during dinner

6. What do you think about Daniel Bozhkov's "Befriend the Bacteria" project? Why did he create such a bizarre foodstuff? What should our relationship be to this yogurt and how does it relate to the history of the "self-portrait" and the idea of the artist 'bearing witness'? I think he befriended the bacteria by putting his DNA into it ( yogurt) I think he wanted to see how it would taste as compared to his DNA not being in it The relationship we would have to this yogurt is if we did that ourselves and being witness to how it was made and tasting it

Hw

Pupusas from El Salvador

Ingredients 

Curtido1 small cabbage, chopped
Boiling water
2 carrots, finely shredded
1 red bell pepper or 4 ajís dulces (sweet red peppers), sliced thin
1 small red onion, sliced thin
1/4 cup vinegar
1 tbsp. salt
1 tsp. dried oregano
Grated beets (optional)
Grated horseradish (optional)

Pupusas2 cups Maseca Instant Corn Masa Mix flour
Kosher salt
1 cup chicharrón or cooked bacon
1 cup crumbled queso fresco
1 cup refried beans
Cooking oil or cooking spray

Preparation 

1. Make the curtido: Place chopped cabbage in a large heatproof bowl and cover with boiling water for 1 minute. Drain and return to bowl. Add 1/4 cup cold water, carrots, bell pepper, red onion, vinegar, salt, and oregano Add beets and horseradish if desired. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.

2. Make the pupusas: Prepare tortilla dough according to package directions using 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt and 1 1/4 cups water. After it's prepared, mix thoroughly to form very soft dough, adding water in small doses if too dry. Form dough into 25 small balls and flatten each with palms until about 1/2 inch thick.

3. In a medium bowl, combine chicharrón, queso fresco, and refried beans and place 1 small spoonful in center of each round. Fold edges of masa up over filling and press edges together to seal. Lightly pat balls until flattened to about 1/2 inch thick.

4. Heat griddle or heavy skillet until very hot. Lightly brush skillet with cooking oil (or coat with cooking spray). Cook pupusas until lightly browned, about 5 minutes on each side. Serve pupusas with curtido.

The pupusas are the national dish for El Salvadorias sold everywhere as common as pizzas are to us

I've eaten when they're are celebrations and whenever we get a chance to get together and make them. Now to eat them you can eat it like that or put cabbage relish and warm tomato sauce made form scratch and on the side add rice re fried beans plantains and cheese and a piece of sausage... 

Class #5 Followup: MOMA and Translation, Bridging the Gap

Class #5 Followup: MOMA and Translation, Bridging the Gap

Part1 

When I see the painting that jackson pollock has created I feel this painting says torment despair pain sadness the way the colors are thrown onto the canvass and the dark colors he chose which are black blue and gray colors that even nature describe when some would say is having a bad day...

Part2

1. Content that arises from the aspect of the artwork that is understood as representational. I understand it as looking through a class eye while there is color and brokenness around to

2. Content arising from verbal supplements supplied by the artist. To look from the eyes

3. Content arising from the genre or medium of the artwork. The Genre would timeless beauty

4. Content arising from the material of which the artwork is made.  Oil paint, silver leaf, lead wire, magnifying lens, glass mounted and wood

5. Content arising from the scale of the artwork. On a scale from 1 to 10 I'd have to give him a 10 this piece of art design stood out to me how tastefully it was done

6. Content arising from the temporal duration of the artwork. I feel this is a classic piece

7. Content arising from the context of the work Looking through the other side

8. Content arising from the work's relationship with art history.. Content that accrues to the work as it progressively reveals its destiny through persisting in time. Like I said I feel when he made this piece of art he did it so it would be a timeless design and he excited it well

10. Content arising from participation in a specific iconographic tradition. The broken glass is the artist expressing himself that's tradition

11. Content arising directly from the formal properties of the work The glass is beautiful

12. Content arising from attitudinal gestures (wit, irony, parody, and so on) that may appear as qualifiers of any of the categories already mentioned Yes I think he made this wonderful piece of art with clear glass so you can understand the tile of it and literally look though it

13. Content rooted in biological or physiological responses, or in cognitive awareness of them I think the content is to be looked at though physiological awareness

Part 3

A. She is taking things that are dear to her and braiding it into art

B. She is incorporating her body into showing what her real meaning is at the end of the day for people to understand

C. Yes I do believe someone would understand it by lookingbecause you can tell the patterns change and of different important objects inserted within aswell I don't think anything would be missed at all as long as your into art

Hw

My family tradition is how to make pupusas since we are from El Salvador.
first we get corn flour porn cheese and beans. We roll up the corn flour in a round ball liquify the beans and pork and insert the cheese beans and porn into the round ball of flour and then cook it how crispy or soft you want it. Then add cole slaw on it which would be the american version to say it and warm made from scratch tomato sauce to put on top if you'd like.

 Lecture and blog assignment

1. Describe the artist's process

Maria Elena Gonzalez transferred a simple tree from what we usually use it for as paper to creating it into a another form of art which is music and being able to have music played from it. she made bark become musical literally. she combined two ways of arts to become one.

2. What information is the artist trying to translate through this process.

I think the information the artist is trying to translate though this process is that art is everywhere. we just have to be more open minded and look at our surroundings. art is everywhere not just where you culturally think. to look where you would least think to look. and you shall find.

3. What other information is (intentionally or unintentionally) captured in the finished visual/audio work.

The other information that intentionally captured in the finished visual and audio work is a combination of something that wasn't thought of being possible. it's beautiful music coming from the trees that give us oxygen.trees are more than to be used for paper they make music.

4. Is the final outcome of the process interesting to you? Why?

The outcome of the process is interesting because it brings a natural recourse that has been used for so many other things and to be used in this way it's just beautiful to watch and listen. to bring something back to life than to kill it is extraordinary. and I wish more people would use their brains to not waste our natural recourse's and use them for useful activities.

HW Assignment

I decided to use my angry puppy's paws for this assignment. so I know that counts as dangerous prof, I had to put a muzzle on her. well basically what I did was draw what I could of her paws the drawings on the bottom are of her paws while she was standing the one on the upper left is of her laying down and the the one on the upper right side is of her sitting down. my drawing shows her going from standing to sitting to laying down because my model got tired...

Part A 


1. How do Mutu's Human/insect/machine-like distortions of the body relate to conventional notions of female beauty?

The female half insect/machine like distortions have boobs hair and atleast some type of long flowing hair

 2. Describe how one of her works functions formally. How is the work beautiful and how is it ugly?

The creation that she made that eats the birds the words that she used for that piece were beautiful about the birds not wanting to leave but getting lost for going so far and it was ugly to look at gross it looked like germs were moving within the creation

Part B

What I don't like about this picture is that my eyes came out closed because of the flash. That girl came out in the reflection of the mirror it was supposed to be a selfie not a group photo. I wish my outfit for the night were showing more. I wish the anlge of the photo was higher. My makeup could of been a little bit morre dramatic.

The difference of how I present myself to the world now is my hair i chopped it off since into a bob and now I no longer dye my hair jet black but now I'm a blonde all the way. 

Overall trip to the met

1. Severan period ca a.d. 220

2. Marble sarcophagus lid with reclining couple

3. Roman culture

4. Rock

5. He was able to sculpt the faces expressing how they felt at the very moment

6.I think it's beautfiul it shows the love between the couple



1. Greek south italian apilian red figure terracota bell krater(mixing bowl) ca 400-380 b.c

2. Greek and italian culture

3. The paintings on the mixing bowl describe how the people of greece and italy were living at that time

4. Clay

5.The artist took the time to tell the story of the people in in thier everyday tasks

6. I think it's wonderful art reminds the people of greece and italy where they came from



1. Gold and ruby strap necklace with pendants greek, late 4th century b.c or later

2. Greek culture

3. The artist made beautiful jewelery to be worn

4. The beading put together with gold looks well put together to be beautiful artwork

5. Gold and ruby

6. I think the necklace is so beautiful and breathtaking I even would wear it today

No picture found on the website..

1. The artist put together the gold with the ruby pendants carefully hanging from the gold straps to be more appeasing to women who would wear it

2. The beauty is shown of what was popular to wear in Greece in the late 4th century or later

3.I would make this necklace with shiny gold and melt the rubies into the necklace so they wouldn't hang just so there would be no chance of falling off and for a everyday use kind of look and personally which I think would look beautiful

What makes me interesting...

 I was born and raised in New York City even though there were few summers I went to Maryland for a couple of weeks but didn't stay for too long since it's pretty boring down there. I'm of mixed heritage which would be Hispanic, Asian, and Afro Latino descent.I'm a very honest and sweet person at the same time.One place I would love to travel to is Greece as soon as I can afford it.Your probbaly asking yourself why greece? Someone very special told me wonders about it and I've been in love ever since. My favorite hobby to do on my spare time would be dancing I love feeling the music in  my bones.

One thing I would want to "bear witness" to...

I would like to see peace arrive to my mother's country El Salvador. People assume that El Salvador is just a country of pure violence which is not completely true. We have beautiful views attractions resorts etc.. The people are petrified to do regular activities on a day to day basis because of the dangerous turn the country has taken because of the gang members that run everything in the neighborhoods. I feel like those gang members need to be dealt with either jail or some type of counseling for those trouble souls which is what they really are.