Team 9 Art and Architecture

controversial art and art records

winter theme

This is me and my family inside of my new car I got for Christmas!! To me if it wasnt for the joyous holiday of christmas winter would be so boring, cold and depressing. Christmas reminds me of family being surrounded by the people I love and the most. It reminds me of presents, food and friends. Christmas gives me a cheerful feeling and gives me something to look forward to.

Our team Assignment "Picture This"
Theme is: Winter

Keith Haring?
May 4,1958-February 16,1990
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania
Died in New York City, New York
Died of AIDS
Interested in art at an early age
Studied graphic design for 2 years
At the Ivy School of Professional Art
Inspired by graffiti
Studied at the School of Visual Arts
First public attention
Chalk draws in the New York Subways

Bold lines, vivid colors, and active figures carry a strong message
Meaning life and unity
Keith Haring created a tag called the radiant ( Christ ) Child.
He said the child was a meaning “the purest and most positive experience of human existence.”
In drawing his child with energized rays emanating from its body, Haring was mimicking a well‐known convention in religious art, popular in medieval and Renaissance painting. One example can be seen in the many Mexican representations of the Virgin of Guadalupe
The Radiant Child, the powerful rays emanate from the Virgin's body, emphasizing her holiness.
Similar to this image of the Virgin, Haring said, these “lines radiating from the baby indicate spiritual light glowing from within, as though the baby were a holy figure from a religious painting, only the glow is rendered in the visual vocabulary of a cartoon.”
As a teenager, he drew straightforward Nativity scenes, complete with the traditional rays of divine light radiating from the baby Jesus.
These scenes were later transformed into unique representations of the Nativity in his emerging cartoon style, such as a drawing he completed during his subway years over the Christmas season.
Haring started organizing exhibits in 1980
1981
Sketched his first chalk drawings
On:
Black paper
Painted plastic
Metal
Found objects
Andy Warhol
Theme of several of Haring’s pieces
Even after Haring was well known, he preferred to still draw in subways.
Haring didn’t have to worry about police so much rather than the people who wanted to take his artwork in the subways of New York.

Expressionism is the tendency of an artist to distort reality for an emotional effect
it is a subjective art form.
Expressionism is exhibited in many art forms, including
painting
literature
theatre
film
architecture
music
The term is applied mainly to 20th century works.
Originated in Germany
Started after the first World War
Took inspiration from
Symbolism
Fauvism
Cubism
Abstract Expressionism
Developed in the united states after the end of world war 2
New York Figurative Expression 
of the fifties represented American figurative artists such as:
Willem de Kooning
Grace Hartigan
Lester Johnson
Alex Katz
George McNeil
Jan Muller
Jackson Pollock
Fairfield Porter
Larry Rivers
Bob Thompson
Lyrical Expressionism Tachisme
of the 1940s and 1950s in Europe represented by artists such as
Georges Mathieu
Hans Hartung
Nicolas de Staël and others
North American Lyrical Expression
Started in the late 1960s and the 1970s. Characterized by the work of
Dan Christensen
Peter Young
Ronnie Landfield
Ronald Davis
Walter Darby Bannard
Charles Arnoldi,
Pat Lipsky and many others.
Neo-expressionism
An international revival movement beginning in the late 1970s and centered around artists across the world:
Germany:
Anselm Kiefer
Georg Baselitz and others;
USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Eric Fischl
David Salle
Julian Schnabel
France
Rémi Blanchard
Hervé Di Rosa and others
Italy
Francesco Clemente
Sandro Chia
Enzo Cucchi
England
David Hockney
Frank Auerbach
Leon Kossoff
Christopher Le Brun

Making Education Accessible

Amy's Diorama
Children have a right to an Education

Derek's diorama about the conflict in the middle east

Virginia's Diorama

My diorama is based on abortion. Showing my view on why I think abortion is murder instead of just a choice. I am agaist abortion, I have pictures of aborted babies to show how and why abortion is murder to me. I also put people protesting to stob abortion to say that I am against abortion and not for it.

Ideas for assignment

--------------------------"golden gate bridge"--------------------------

I figure our blog can be a great way to circulate our ideas to help the team be more creative, if you have an idea then post it to the blog, I can show you how if needed. I've posted some of my own ideas and research on our first assignment, let me know what you think.The blog can be modified any way necessary to fit the teams creative perspective, when we get together we can improve the look and topic of the blog, I just assumed to use it as a informative article to benefit the team, because we have to do a more personal one also, but if you have a better idea for it then lets make it happen. I personally am exited for this team because we cover all the aspects that we need to create and present our work.

Here are some ideas i've had for the first assignment that will make use of all 6 of us--
--a hand or a thumbs up, with the person as the thumb showing 2 thumbs up seems possible and unique.



--or the Labour Statue



--maybe a representation of the 911 statue with the fireman holding up the flag--


--I was thinking we could pose as individual famous statues side by side, such as the thinker



or the lincoln memorial



or lady liberty



Just as some examples.Here is a very interesting group called "Pilobolus"




I think although difficult the light bulb would be possible off of this one




Very entertaining group, hopefully they will help give us some ideas.