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.