Text Notes

Wenda Gu

Why does he choose these materials to work with?
He uses them because they are universal bodily material.

Why the topic of menstruation?
It is a cross cultural, transnational, inescapable, and intimate subject.

Why did he choose to name his work Oedipus?
To put his works in the context of primal sense to provoke confused attitudes about familial relationships.

His goal is to make universal art with things and subjects that are universal. He believes that languages brings about a lot of misunderstanding. My personal feelings on his art are a little grossed out because I think about how he obtained his materials and because of what his materials are. I also think it is quite weird but I think that is what he is going for. He wants go evoke those emotions in people


Daniel Joseph Martinez

Why did he choose to be a political artist?
His goal is to open the eyes of people to the problems of our nations that we have in the past endured and are still enduring.

Why doesn't he call himself an artist?
He calls himself a tactical media strategist instead because of the messages he is trying to send in his works.

What type of works does he do?
Mostly installation which are often offensive to make people question their ideals.

He is a very political artist challenging the ideals America was founded on and on the social division that is happening. I thought that the buttons were really interesting because each button had a different part of the phrase on it so you would have to read other peoples button as well to get the whole message.

Project Notes Animal Rights

I was leaning towards doing something involving for the adoption of animals as opposed to buying them from puppy mills or cat mills, etc.
My idea would be to take pictures of real animals in shelters and putting their pictures on posters with facts about adoption and facts about puppy mills on them

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Thomas Kinkade

Why Landscapes?
He does them because people are able to relate to them and because they are "pretty".

Are they as popular with the world of higher art as they are with the public?
No the Avant-Garde don't appreciate his art.

Why does he want his artwork to be so popular?
Because he wants to become a brand and he wants every American to own one of his works.

His works appeal to a mass audience because of his ability to capture light. It almost seems like his mission was to be sell out, he just wants to be popular and main stream. He is creating more of a business then he is creating art work. He romanticizes scenes so that the viewer can imagine themselves in the picture and then will want to buy it.


Vanessa Beecroft

Does she only installations?
Yes her style of art is installations.

Do all of her works involve the media and women?
Yes she emphasizes perfection of women and how it's portrayed.

How do her installations work?
She gives girls a position on the floor to stand on and they can move as long as they stay there. They can't interact with the audience though because she wants to show not tell.

She shows the high pedestal that we put beauty on, however feminist find her controversial because her work involves naked women. I don't really think that she's exploiting women it seem like shes just emphasizing her point and she also makes it personal with her diary installation.

Consumption Notes

I have a few ideas. I have a lot of redbull cans and I was thinking I could make something out of them but i haven't really decided on what yet.

or maybe I could go get some fast food and do a series of pictures of them maybe using models in the pictures too.

I also thought about saving stuff that i bought from a time period of a week like receipts or wrappers or tags and make a collage with them.

I have a lot of ideas so maybe if you could guide me to which one would be more appropriate for this project that would be very helpful.

Identity Project

Project Notes

Five Touch Points
1) Moving from California to North Carolina
2)First Day of Middle School
3)First real concert
4)Graduating High School
5)College life

Major Touch Point
College life

Adjectives
New
Alone
Different
Freedom
Learning

*Different
Contrast
Beach and City
bird and a fish
culture

Brainstorming ideas
multiple photos or just two?
just one big contrast?
two pictures on one page to emphasize the contrast?

p.s. sorry these are both late I had some trouble posting at first.

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William Kentridge

Why does he use charcoal to create his drawings and videos?
It lends itself to blending and reworking

Do all of his works deal with the political happenings in South Africa?
Yes and some that are just specific to him.

How does he create his videos?
He uses about twenty drawings the he adds to and erases to make a story.

Unlike our first project his inspirations comes from external sources instead of himself or his identity. The way he influences his characters in his artwork by real happenings in South Africa, like Nelson Mandela being released from prison, show how much he himself as well as the rest of South Africa.

Nan Golden

Why does she choose to take such raw pictures?
They are so raw because they are a documentation of her life.

Does she create a story with her pictures?
The pictures, because she takes them of people she knows throughout their lives, does in a sense become a story.

What made her choose photography to document her life?
She likes how photography is instant. Ever since she was a teen she liked to chronicle each day as it happened. Her sister's suicide also inspired her to do photography.

She uses photography to express herself which is what I would like to do one day after I graduate. She chooses to follow the outcasts and be one instead of trying to be normal like most people would. I admire that nothing is off limits and she will always take the picture in the moment. She wouldn't stage anything because that isn't real life.