Bills Photography Lecture

 Contemporary Photography

Henry Cartier Bresson - one of the first people to use blurriness/movement. He was all about being at the right place at the right time.

Richard Prince - realized you could make a photograph that competed with paintings by blowing them up (wall size, sometimes bigger)

Cindy Sherman - posed herself as a 50's actress' in various settings. The idea in investigating your personal identity photos were fake enough to let you in on the joke. Just a little creepy...

David Leventhaw - photographed real life scenarios with toys. Built models that looked very real. 

Final Lecture 12/3

Painting in 1950s-1980s

Abstract Expressionism: Jackson Pollock - "Jack the Dripper" - Life Magazine. 

Just after WWII, America became a super power in art.
Abstract Expressionism is the idea that it was improvisational, natural, and usually expressed by man.

Second Generation Abstract Expressionism

Joan Mitchell started early, and refuted the idea of being an action painter.
Cy Twombly, totally opposite of Jackson Pollock... very purposeful and careful.
Brice Martin, started out as minimal painter, then followed Twombly.

Pop Art 

Andy Worhol, though that everyone should be famous for 15 min. Probably the most well known pop artist.
Robert Raschenberg, silk screening paintings.

Master Malt?

Hybrids

Representational Form II

Abstraction:

Balance:

Color:

Depth/Space:

Dramatic Light:

Exaggerated Scale:

Lines:

Negative Space:

Rhythm/Repetition:

Shapes:

Textures:

Whole Object:

Movement:

I once again just used my iphone to take these pictures, so I suppose they turned out pretty good.
I think I enjoyed the lightbulb a little bit more because I guess it was just easier to stage

Sontag Writing Assigment

This picture was taken when I was eating lunch with Sopapilla  and she was acting super goofy and joking around. She kept making this face and chuckling for some reason, so I had to at least get a picture of it. This is someone who means a lot to me and I'm very close to, so the picture was intended for memories and to capture a moment that was a lot of fun.

I don't remember what led up to this, but for some reason I was wearing a Dora backpack and we thought it was funny.... My friend wanted to take a picture (to send to someone I believe) so he did. Now I look back on it and it just seems dumb/goofy to have a picture of this. 

I don't remember who I got this picture from, it was forwarded to me a while back.
I thought it was really interesting though. Its also really cool because I could imagine just walking down the street and finding this on a telephone pole, I would have to photograph it as well.

Inflatable Happenings

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Bills "Dada" lecture - 10/15

Dada began in WW1 and was mostly a protest against war, society, and old social ways.

Dada work usually consisted of appropriation, assemblage, construction, conceptual art, and chance. There were also a few videos that Bill showed to us, not to sure where those would fall.

Main Dada artists whose work was discussed...

Jean App

Hugo Ball

Kurt Schwitters

10/29 - 'thats pretty good for a girl' lecture

Movement consisting of female artists setting themselves apart...

women thought they were being minimized.

1. essentials and identities 

 personal, the body, sexuality, vaginal iconography, female attributes.

2. material / techniques

3. activist.

performance, and sisterhood.

4. distinguished art of men/women.

we also watched an interesting video where a group of female artists took over a house, and did installation work along with performances throughout the house expressing various things such as situations and feelings that only women can experience, along with the responsibilities.

Representational Form

Whole Object:

Lines:

Shapes:

Color:

Surface/Texture:

Depth/Space:

Repetition/Rhythms:

Balance:

Dramatic Lighting:

Metaphor/Symbol:

Negative Space:

Positive Space:

Exaggerated Scale:

Abstract:

Motion/Movement:

I ended up with tons of pictures, and I'm really happy with how most of them turned out... especially since I just used my iphone to take them.