"Self-Portrait" Drawing

"Self-Portrait" Drawing -

"Self-Portrait" Photographs

"Self-Portrait" Photographs that i took of my self throughout this semester of Spring 2010.

Nothing Gold Can Stay #10 (Friend Till' The End)

Nothing Gold Can Stay # 10 (Friend Till' The End) - This is my finished product of my last art piece for the "nothing gold can stay" series. I had a lot of fun doing my first art series, and learned a lot about different mediums/techniques/sculpting/ etc. Now it's time to move on and take my art expertise to a new extreme!

Artist #30- Duane Hanson

Duane Hanson (1925-1996) - was an American artist based in South Florida. Was most known for his sculpting; life cast realistic works of people. He used different types of metal such as polyester resin, fiberglass, bondo, and bronze. Most of his artwork was based off the movement known as "Pop Art," as well "hyperrealism." Not only was he well known for these movements but as well a little from Simulacrum.

Artist #29- Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois - an artist and sculptor born in 1911. Her most famous works were most possibly the spider structures she created, titled "Maman." Louise's works are some times very abstract, and she speaks of them in symbolic meaning as the main focus. Bourgeois tends to find her inspiration in her childhood. She loves to use and try different mediums for her sculptures; rubber, wood, stone, metal, and fabric. She has a great amount of training to back up her expertise in the art world, and holds a field in sculpture and a little of painting.

Artist# 28- John de Andrea

John de Andrea - is an American sculptor. He is also know for extremely realistic polyvinyl or polychromed bronze casts of the human figure. In the most fundamental sense of the term, DeAndreas art is also Classical. His sculptures are direct descendants of the rouged, gilded, and waxy idols we know (though we scarcely believe) the great stone sculptures of Classical antiquity to have been when new. The artist's sensibility is at the same time peculiarly Mediterranean-another paradox, for this is an anti-Classical tendency-and his figures likewise are related to the illusionistic madonnas and saints of Spain, Italy, and Mexico with their "real" clothes and hair, and crystal tears. However, DeAndreas figures are wholly secular, with none of the sentimental passion that typifies these religious images.

Artist #27- Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst - born in 1965, Damien is an English artist and the most known member of the group called "Young British Artists" (YBAs). As of right now Hirst is claimed as the richest living artist to date. Hirst loves to incorporate "death" into most of his artworks; dead animals was one of his most successful series as an artist that sky rocketed him to the top. His single movement is with the YBAs, with the fields in Conceptual art, installation art, and a little bit of painting. Damien success with his art awarded him the Turner Prize. His most famous art piece is "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, For the Love of God."

Artist #26 James Luna

James Luna - was born in 1950, and he is a Luiseno (Native American) and Mexican-American performance artist. As well he has done installation art, and is a counselor living on an Indian reservation in California. Luna began his art career as a painter, but later branched out into performance/installation art; in which he studied for over three decades. A lot of viewers know him as using his own body as his art for most of his artworks. A famous quote that James Luna said is, "I truly live in two worlds. This 'two world' concept once posed too much ambiguity for me, as I felt torn as to whom I was. In maturity I have come to find it the source of my power, as I can easily move between these two places and not feel that I have to be one or the other, that I am an Indian in this modern society."

Artist #25- Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons - Born in 1955, is an American artist well known for his giant reproductions of banal objects such as balloon animals produced in stainless steal with glassy finished surfaces. Koons incorporated bright colors with a lot of his art pieces. Jeff has sold many of his artworks for sums of legitimate money, including a world record auction priced work as a living artist. Some people and other artist categorize Jeff Koons as a pioneering and major art-historical importance. But other most know him through his work as "kitsch" (crass and based on cynical self-merchandising objects).

Artist #24- Carl Andre

Carl Andre - is an American minimalist recognized both for his linear format and grid format sculptures. Whats shocking is Carl was actually being tried and acquitted for murdering his wife, artist Ana Mendieta. Most of Carl's sculptures range from public artworks to tile patterns arranged on floors of exhibition spaces; such as "Stone Field Sculpture," "Lament for the Children," to artworks like "Twenty-Fifth Steel Cardinal." Andre's movement was minimalism, with a strong suit of sculpting as his field of expertise. He was extremely influenced by other artist such as Frank Stella, Hollis Frampton, and many more.

Artist #23- Cornelia Parker

Cornelia Parker- born in 1956; an English sculptor and installation artist that engages in intervention of site-specific art. Parker is best known for her large-scale installation such as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View. This art piece (garden shed) was blown up by the British Army and suspended the fragments as if suspending the explosion process in time. Great quote from Cornelia Parker herself about her artwork, "I resurrect things that have been killed of... My work is all about the potential of materials - even when it looks like they've lost all possibilities."

Museum Analysis

Discovery Center - Being a group leader at Capital Christian Center, I decided to take my Small Group of Junior High boys to the Discovery Center with me. My first impression of the place is a museum for kids; to have fun, and be interactive with everything inside. When i walk in it really does have a feel of a museum; especially with all the objects throughout the room. When i sat and thought deeply while going around the museum i found myself in a museum of science. What better way then to teach kids about science, by letting them interact with science itself. The text for each object helped teach the kids how to work with science. The Discovery Center kind of acts like a Performance Art. The museum itself is the artist, letting the kids connect with the art itself. The kids help make the art in the museum.

The Boise Zoo - The Boise Zoo never gets old to me. When i walked in i really kind of expect only parents with small kids inside, but there was people of all ages there to enjoy the wildlife museum. Again, i find this museum on the lines of Performance Art on two aspects; one, the animals inside become the artist for the viewers to spectate, two, the viewers can also be the artist by interacting with the animals, as well the animal playground and toys set throughout the zoo. Another thing i noticed about The Boise Zoo, is it kind of acts like a fair in a way. We pay to get in to enjoy all the wonderful animals and sites, if your hungry there's concession stands for food/drinks, there's tons of stores inside to empty your wallet at, there's animal shoes from time to time for the entertainment, music is playing, and the playground helps act like the fair rides in a sense. Another great way of showing art by a means of entertaining the guest; and making them become part of the art itself.

Sunflower

Sunflower - another tattoo design i later made after the Just Be tattoo design. Its funny, because the girl i made the Just Be tattoo design for; her younger sister wanted me to draw a design up for her to get haha... What she told me is she wanted to have a sunflower in the design, and i could do whatever i wanted with the rest. As i put the sunflower down on the design it definitly needed something more. I decided to put in winnie the pooh looking bumble bees to help the design look finished instead of being so plain. And she loved the finished design so much that her, and her sister both are going together to get the tattoo's i designed them.

Just Be

Just Be - Tattoo design i did for one of my close friends sister. I've found myself making a lot of tattoo's for girls lately, and i have no idea why? haha. So the only thing this girl told me she wanted was either the word "BE" or "JUST BE" incorporated in her tattoo. With this i had a lot of room and freedom to work with. I started thinking about what the words JUST BE could mean if someone read this, and one meaning i kept going to was JUST BE HAPPY, JUST BE BEAUTIFUL, JUST BE ROMANTIC; all these happy sayings. When writing all these sayings down on paper i got the image of a beautiful tulip with the vines being rapped around the word JUST BE. And that's what i decided to do for her tattoo design; and she absolutely loved the finished product i showed her!

Artist #22- Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is a Japanese-American artist, musician, author, and peace activist. She is categorized in the art known as avant-garde art; which means advanced art. Not only did the art culture put her in that category, but conceptual and performance art as well. One of her most known art piece is her performance art "Cut Piece." People on the street would come up to Yoko Ono (as the art piece herself) and cut a piece of her clothing off. After so long, Yoko would find herself completely naked in the middle of a busy city for everyone to look at her.

Artist #21- Meret Oppenheim

Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) - Meret was a German born Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer. She is most known for the teacup and spoon (one of the most recognized surrealist objects) that was sculpted out of fur. Most of her creations and sculptures have been unfortunately lost. Many of her pieces consisted of everyday objects arranged as such that most of the time would allude to female sexuality and feminine exploitation by the opposite sex.

Self-Portrait

Self - Portrait - This is a self portrait that I'm creating for my art 107 class. it's pretty open other then it has to be a silhouette of some sort, has to show some sort of repetition, and it has to be representational. I've decided to have a silhouette of myself with paint splatter all over my face (symbolism of being an artist), and then i put a jacket on myself; with one half of it being a running jersey (symbolizes my running career, achievement, profession), and the other half of the jacket is the way i typically dress (symbolizes myself, my fashion). this artwork is still a process as you can see but for repetition I'm going to glue random bible scriptures as my background to show that I'm a christian religious man. as my self portrait i want all my viewers to get a glimpse of who i am and what i do.

Wildland Fighter

Land Fire Fighter - another tattoo design i drew up for a friend who is a Wildland Fire Fighter. He was pretty specific on what he wanted, so i didn't have too much freedom with drawing the design up other then the writing, the initials "MD", and the fire. But other then that i think it turned out really well, and my friend loved it. I just can't wait to see after he gets it on his skin!

Jesus Face

Jesus Face - tattoo design i made this semester for one of my friends. all he said was that he wanted a design of Jesus, so this is what i came up with; a pixelated Jesus face.

Artist #20- Henry Moore

Henry Moore (1898-1986) - was an English sculptor and artist. Henry was best known for his abstract bronze sculptures. Moore's sculptures typically were suggestive to the female human body, apart from some of the family group sculptures he created in the late phase of the 1950s. Henry's field was sculpture and drawing; with the movements Bronze Sculpture, and Modernism. Henry had such an impact in the art world today that he was awarded the OM (Order of Merit) , CH (Order of the Companions of Honour) , and the FBA (Federation of British Artists).