Thomas Kincaid
3 questions to ponder:
1.Why did the artist make this?
2. What is the artists' TRUE reason for making this KIND of art?
3. How did he decide on the settings or locations of his art and are these real places?
Notes
-He is associated with a corporate empire that is devoted to creating art that appeals to the majority.
-He is dedicated to making his art a presence in every American household.
-1 out of 20 households have a piece in their home.
-self-proclaimed "Painter of Light"
-Only artist whose work is traded on the NY Stock Exchange.
-He received 5% of net sales and is a very wealthy man.
-He concurs with a popular assumption that "pretty" is a component of art and has a predictable cluster of visual qualities that include colors that are rich but not garish and compositions that are orderly but not rigid.
-The av-ant-garde dismiss him as sentimental, not to mention irrelevant to the serious world of art.
-If he is considered exceptional this is because he represents the values that many people share.
-The narrow street painting started at a value of $425,000
-He wants to remind the viewer "its not all ugliness in the world.
3 questions after reading.
1.Did he try anything different besides landscapes or something a little more edgy in his own personal studio space and would e ever show it to the public?
2. Why was he the first artist talked about in this book?
3. Why did he baby proof the adult viewers from the thorns and ivy and give us a cushion from all the harsh realities of what these images would look like in real life? Real life has thorns and ivy, even splinters, so get over it. Sometimes art has to be dirty.
4.I wonder if anyone would agree with the theory that Thomas Kincaid is the Britney Spears of art?
Vanessa Beecroft
3 questions to ponder:
1. My first thought, why only 1 image displayed in this book?
2. What is the purpose of showing this composition or ever the women in real life?
3. What is she trying to say?
Notes
-Constructs her image of "self" according to criteria valued by contemporary society.
-She shows the exalted legacy of depictions of female nudes in art and the stringent criteria for female beauty promoted in the popular media.
-She has pissed of the Woman's Action Coalition and the Guerrilla Girls.
-"Beauty creates Shame" is the text for the show
-Viewers were the art world because she knew that these people were used to just looking at the art and not touching or interfering with the scene.
-All of the girls were tall, young, slender, and had the same skin tone and hair was the only thing different.
-Purpose was to individualize them how mannequins are individualized.
- Refers to the "girls" as her "army," a term that reflects the qualities she most admires: they are fit, trained to follow orders, and homogeneous
-They represent physical standards of loveliness at the end of the twentieth century.
-She shows real people because representing them on canvas did not show the viewers what Beecroft wanted to explain
-She describes herself as a post-feminist.
-She has had lots of other installations.
-In each she arranges her stand-ins so they externalize some aspect of her reconciliation of ideal womanhood with the real-life experience of her own body. Each performance explores a female type that has been assimilated from the history of art, cinema, advertising, or fashion.
-The showgirl, schoolgirl, working girl, virgin, dominatrix, suburbanite, and stripper.
3 questions to ponder:
1. Are these women objectified?
no because as time wears on these girls in the performance they begin to smear and slump which brings out their true form.
2. How more real can you get?
The figures in real life was pretty real but could you go further into the realness?
3. One person in class brought up what would happen if you put the girls mixed in with mannequins?
Would this demonstrate the point even more or take away from it?
-All of the girls were tall, young, slender, and had the same skin tone and hair was the only thing different.
-Purpose was to individualize them how mannequins are individualized.
- Refers to the "girls" as her "army," a term that reflects the qualities she most admires: they are fit, trained to follow orders, and homogeneous
-They represent physical standards of loveliness at the end of the twentieth century.
-She shows real people because representing them on canvas did not show the viewers what Beecroft wanted to explain
-She describes herself as a post-feminist.
-She has had lots of other installations.
-In each she arranges her stand-ins so they externalize some aspect of her reconciliation of ideal womanhood with the real-life experience of her own body. Each performance explores a female type that has been assimilated from the history of art, cinema, advertising, or fashion.
-The showgirl, schoolgirl, working girl, virgin, dominatrix, suburbanite, and stripper.
3 questions to ponder:
1. Are these women objectified?
no because as time wears on these girls in the performance they begin to smear and slump which brings out their true form.
2. How more real can you get?
The figures in real life was pretty real but could you go further into the realness?
3. One person in class brought up what would happen if you put the girls mixed in with mannequins?
Would this demonstrate the point even more or take away from it?
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