Sunday, February 27, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Fine Arts experience: Escaped Images dance troupe, Fri, Sat, Feb 25, 26
Escaped Images dance troupe: Excavating Self
Friday, February 25 through Saturday, February 26
Presented by Escaped Images
$15
Call 318-869-5242 for more information
Escaped Images Dance Company in collaboration with Centenary College senior student, Costas Dafnis, will perform a concert entitled "Excavating Self."
This performance will showcase all original choreography and newly composed works of music written by Costas Dafnis. In conjunction with dancers and live musicians, there will be performances using a bungee apparatus.
Friday, February 25 through Saturday, February 26
Presented by Escaped Images
$15
Call 318-869-5242 for more information
Escaped Images Dance Company in collaboration with Centenary College senior student, Costas Dafnis, will perform a concert entitled "Excavating Self."
This performance will showcase all original choreography and newly composed works of music written by Costas Dafnis. In conjunction with dancers and live musicians, there will be performances using a bungee apparatus.
Today, Pittsburgh has become a liveable, desirable location
Pittsburgh, once a backwater city and one crippled by loss of the steel industry, is today's American darling. It has a diversified economy (HQ for American Eagle) lots of high-tech industry (has a Google campus) and is ranked as a city high in arts (Warhol Museum) and culture.
Pittsburgh museums include the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Mattress Factory. Installation art is featured outdoors at ArtGardens of Pittsburgh, says Wikipedia.
Warhol's experience of Pittsburgh was not glamorous. He was born Andrew Warhola in a working class suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928 to Slovak immigrants (Ondrej and Julia Warhola [Varchola in Slovakia]). Because Warhol showed an early interest in photography and drawing, he attended free classes at Carnegie Institute.
Warhol's father worked in a coal mine, and the family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy Warhol had two brothers John and Paul. His father died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.
Pittsburgh museums include the Andy Warhol Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and the Mattress Factory. Installation art is featured outdoors at ArtGardens of Pittsburgh, says Wikipedia.
Warhol's experience of Pittsburgh was not glamorous. He was born Andrew Warhola in a working class suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1928 to Slovak immigrants (Ondrej and Julia Warhola [Varchola in Slovakia]). Because Warhol showed an early interest in photography and drawing, he attended free classes at Carnegie Institute.
Warhol's father worked in a coal mine, and the family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church. Andy Warhol had two brothers John and Paul. His father died in an accident when Andy was 13 years old.
Warhol the amoral
Among the characteristics said to have been exhibited by Warhol -
Amoral:
1. not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.
2.
having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong: a completely amoral person.
voyeur:
a person who obtains sexual pleasure or excitement from the observation of someone undressing, having intercourse, etc.
[French, literally: one who sees, from voir to see, from Latin vidēre]
Warhol was also called a mirror of 60's society. He was called a camera, since his principal artistic impulse was to record events.
Inscrutable: incomprehensible; mysterious or enigmatic
[from Late Latin inscrūtābilis, from Latin in-1 + scrūtārī to examine]
Warhol was called "Drella." This nickname was a combination of Cinderella and Dracula.
He was widely criticized for his passivity as he filmed the self-destructive people who gathered at The Factory.
The most famous of his discoveries and film stars was Edie Sedgewick, a tragic figure built up by Warhol before being allowed to slip into oblivion.
Amoral:
1. not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.
2.
having no moral standards, restraints, or principles; unaware of or indifferent to questions of right or wrong: a completely amoral person.
voyeur:
a person who obtains sexual pleasure or excitement from the observation of someone undressing, having intercourse, etc.
[French, literally: one who sees, from voir to see, from Latin vidēre]
Warhol was also called a mirror of 60's society. He was called a camera, since his principal artistic impulse was to record events.
Inscrutable: incomprehensible; mysterious or enigmatic
[from Late Latin inscrūtābilis, from Latin in-1 + scrūtārī to examine]
Warhol was called "Drella." This nickname was a combination of Cinderella and Dracula.
He was widely criticized for his passivity as he filmed the self-destructive people who gathered at The Factory.
The most famous of his discoveries and film stars was Edie Sedgewick, a tragic figure built up by Warhol before being allowed to slip into oblivion.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Magnet fine arts - Warhol in the 1960's and 1970's
In the mid-60's Warhol began to diversify.
He stunned the public with the "Death and Disaster" series.
He bought a 16 mm Bolex and began making art movies (ex, "Sleep").
He expanded the Factory and hired more assistants.
In the Icons ("image") series, he went from Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy to posterized portraits of wealthy women such as Ethel Scull ("Ethel Scull 36 Times").
Hot musicians such as Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan entered his orbit.
He promoted rock singer Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.
Warhol himself became a star at the center of the NYC art scene.
He stunned the public with the "Death and Disaster" series.
He bought a 16 mm Bolex and began making art movies (ex, "Sleep").
He expanded the Factory and hired more assistants.
In the Icons ("image") series, he went from Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy to posterized portraits of wealthy women such as Ethel Scull ("Ethel Scull 36 Times").
Hot musicians such as Mick Jagger and Bob Dylan entered his orbit.
He promoted rock singer Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.
Warhol himself became a star at the center of the NYC art scene.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Andy Warhol project due Th, Feb 24; 15 pts
Rembrandt and Warhol project
Using 10 images, explore the consonances and confluences that connect or distance Rembrandt and Warhol. If you like, substitute Michelangelo or Leonardo for Rembrandt.
On each image, add 2 to 4 items of info. Document the information gathered in your work.
Eleventh slide: compose a brief essay that includes details (self-portraits) and offers insight from academic sources into the ways in which they were similar.
15 pts.
Powerpoint!
Be prepared to show the work in class.
Using 10 images, explore the consonances and confluences that connect or distance Rembrandt and Warhol. If you like, substitute Michelangelo or Leonardo for Rembrandt.
On each image, add 2 to 4 items of info. Document the information gathered in your work.
Eleventh slide: compose a brief essay that includes details (self-portraits) and offers insight from academic sources into the ways in which they were similar.
15 pts.
Powerpoint!
Be prepared to show the work in class.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Guns: Warhol silkscreen prints at the Tate Modern, London
In the early 1980s Andy Warhol painted a variety of iconic objects, including guns, knives, and crosses, explains Warhol.org.
Warhol rejected the idea that his work functioned as social criticism and instead described himself as an American artist who was merely depicting his environment. This description suggests that his paintings of guns be read in the same way as his images of Campbell’s Soup, Marilyn Monroe, or Coca-Cola—as simply images of American icons.
Yet, as with many of Warhol’s statements and works, there is the surface of things and then the multiple meanings below it. Gun ownership in America is hugely popular, in part, because it gives people a sense of security.
Hollywood imagery and video games add to the allure of guns. The gun is also, through its widespread use and availability in America, a tool of real and commonplace violence.
This particular gun, the .32 snub-nosed pistol, was of the type that Valerie Solanas used in her 1968 assassination attempt on Warhol. In his choice of such richly associative iconic objects, Warhol becomes a truly artful social observer.
Warhol quote from warhol.org:
"When you hurt another person, you never know how much it pains. Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. I don’t know what anything is about. Like, I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why."
- Andy Warhol after he was shot and seriously wounded in 1968
Warhol rejected the idea that his work functioned as social criticism and instead described himself as an American artist who was merely depicting his environment. This description suggests that his paintings of guns be read in the same way as his images of Campbell’s Soup, Marilyn Monroe, or Coca-Cola—as simply images of American icons.
Yet, as with many of Warhol’s statements and works, there is the surface of things and then the multiple meanings below it. Gun ownership in America is hugely popular, in part, because it gives people a sense of security.
Hollywood imagery and video games add to the allure of guns. The gun is also, through its widespread use and availability in America, a tool of real and commonplace violence.
This particular gun, the .32 snub-nosed pistol, was of the type that Valerie Solanas used in her 1968 assassination attempt on Warhol. In his choice of such richly associative iconic objects, Warhol becomes a truly artful social observer.
Warhol quote from warhol.org:
"When you hurt another person, you never know how much it pains. Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. I don’t know what anything is about. Like, I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why."
- Andy Warhol after he was shot and seriously wounded in 1968
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