George Grosz: Responce to Presentation

The presentation of George Grosz was presented by O.C.. Grosz's work deals with the time he was working and living in, which was during world war 2. He attended college in Berlin and later returned there for the end of his life. There he was prosicuted for the pornigraphic subject matter in alot of his paintings. It seems to me that his art is timeless although it deals with almost specific issues of his time.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville: Responce to Presentation

Julie's presentation of paintings by Jenny Saville was eye opening. Jenny's subject matter deals with the portrayal of women in art. She tries to show the essence of women rather than the expected beauty. She also deal swith the changing of one's body and the relationship between the insides, organs and mind, to the outside.

I like that Jenny uses different sources for her paintings. She has watches surgeries and taken photo's as well as using human corpses for her subjects. Her painting technique is also very striking. Up close you can see almost every brush stroke and movement made. From afar the marks blend together and form a very realistic fleshy look.

Christian Boltanski Presentation Responce

I found Sabrina's presentation on the artist Christian Boltanski interesting. She showed us slides of his installations that deal a lot with the use of light. I learned of Boltanski's history with the Holocost and the profound effect it had on his work. His installations and sculptures deal with his relationships with life and death.

The installation titled "The Children of Dijon" is one that uses light in an interesting and different way. The light gives a soft glow and a calm almost somber ambiance. It also seems that this piece speaks of death and mortality.

Extracting Interpretation, Project Proposal

For my final project I plan on doing a series of images that combine photo-shop edited images with traditional materials. I'd like to show the developement of a character much like Tsung Tsai in the book "Bones of the Master". I'd like to utilize my new knowlege of photo shop in this project. I've aslo recently become interested in paper cut outs and would like to experiment and possibly incorporate them into the images. The images will be in a series of 3 and will be in chronological order. I'd like for them to be rather small, maybe 5x7" or so. I think that by keeping them smaller the details will be more precise and the images will feel more personal. I plan on having the character be cut out of the paper, and the back ground be the photoshop images. For source material I plan on using the Internet and scanned pictures from books.

Extracting Interpretations: "Bones of the Master" by, George Crane

Desciptive Words:
1. captivating
2. discriptive
3. difinitive
4. graphic
5. illistrative
6. authentic
7. poetic
8. picturesque
9. revealing
10. genuine
11. specific
12. lyrical
13. creative
14. legendary
15. colorful

When I read the book "Bones of the Master", the colors I pictured were warm tones of red, yellow and brown. To me they seemed to be shifting and changing, staying still for just a short moment at a time.

The scene that stands out most for me is when George meets Tsung Tsai in the 2nd chapter. The way George describes the scene is very discriptive. "But it was a morning so lovely: a few rambling clouds, a light pine breeze blowing, a waming sun that dazzled the snow..." The author gives the reader a feel of the weather and the smells in the air. The description of the sun dazzling off the snow causes me almost instictively to squint my eyes. I think this scene stands out to me also because it is some thing I can relate to, unlike the scenes in the 1st chapter which take place in Mongolia.

The author does an amazing job of describing the character Tsung Tsai. It makes it easy to picture this rather small, frail looking older man. With his tattered clothes and quiet demeanor he seems like a person that it easily looked over in passing. It seems that the outside of this humble inteligent man, although described in detail, is less important.

George, the other main character in the book, hasn't been describes in as much detail as Tsung Tsai. I get a sence of who he is, what he is about, and a little bit about his background, but not much about how he looks. I think that by not physically describing George the author allows the reader to fill in the blanks, and relate more closely to George. I am also curious of George's daughter, who Tsung Tsai says " This baby have deep Buddah roots." I'm interested to see if she becomes a more prominent character in the coming chapters.

"Born" 2002 by Kiki Smith