meme

The meme.  A cultural behavior that is viral -- often existing as a vessel for social/cultural symbols of the current day.  These symbols of today have made themselves an appendage to the internet, in a sense they have become what the internet is.  Overly saturated with self referential imagery and vernacular, the meme has made the average viewer of images jaded towards amateur photography, though it persists to exist.  This is a response to Jeff Wall's statement in the last reading, (although clearly dated, and did not anticipate the internet's role in image making) about the death of amateur photography and its usage.

Myrilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol in 1960

Pop art was one of the most influential art movements of the 20^th century and pop art grew up quickly. In the character of pop art is humor and commercial qualities and played a role in the revival of printmaking particularly in the U.S. in the 1960s. Television, radio, magazines, and advertisements are major themes of numerous pop art pieces. Andy Warhol is of course the most famous and well-known figure and was the forerunner of pop art. In the 1960, Andy Warhol created several “mass-produced” images from photographs of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. I really like this artwork “Marilyn Monroe”. This artwork is his most famous image of a famous personality was a screen print of Marilyn Monroe. This painting has really powerful image because of his color choice. To me, the interactive part of this work is his color choice. If I look at the work widely it seems like he painted by vivid colors but that is not true at all. There is vivid, neutral, pastel, and gloomy colors and their all colors are well combination. He used non-representational color and representational from to convey different sensations. Apply the same idea to portrait of Marilyn Monroe below, using the controls to adjust the colors. I am really impressive about how does the color affect the mood. My first saw this “Marilyn Monroe” artwork was two years ago in Korea. At that time, I did not even know anything about pop art and the artist Andy Warhol but I gradually fell into the his artworks and I was really interested in it as I looked around in the museum.

Vincent Van Gogh's , Self Portrait.

The piece I was drawn to is Vincent Van Gogh's 1886, Self-Portrait, the painting seems simple in subject matter, but to me it is one of the most powerful in the museum. Upon first looking at the painting is a rather straightforward portrait from the shoulders up and Van Gogh is making eye contact with the viewer.  That is where the classical formalities of this painting end, step close to the painting and it explodes with passion and color.  The paint is applied in a free and expressive way that captures the viewer and really draws you into the piece.  What I enjoy most is, Van Gogh's ability to capture and display emotion is his work. Its common knowledge that he was not the happiest or most stable of artists and in this era of post Impressionism, the paintings are all about capturing the spiritual and inner being, and representing that in your work through color and imagery.  The fact that he uses these loose dots and smears of colors to create his portrait, has a lot to say about what he thinks about himself as a person.  He feels broken and lonely, the painting is so honest and haunting that I can't help but fall in love with its raw emotion. I also enjoy that fact that the background is treated in a pointalistic fashion, he uses blue and green cool colors to create from and composition in the painting, as well as small dots of orange to balance out the warm colors used in the face in the foreground.  The lines and expressive colors in the hair create motion and depth, and the dancing dots throughout the piece take you all over the painting and draw you to his face.  The eyes in this piece hold so much emotion that you can almost see into his soul, that intense presence of personality are what make this painting so successful as well as timeless.  

Interesting article on painting prices, particularly Richter

The top selling living artist.  I can't wrap my brain around how much some paintings cost, would be interested to know if anyone has any thoughts on this..  I am not sure if this is exactly relevant to any of our discussions in class, but I thought the article was interesting and it is about painting :)


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204781804577267770169368462.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Atta Kim

-Atta :
‘A’ - 我 : myself

‘Tta’ - 他 : others

Atta Kim is a photographer born in 1956 in Korea

Majored in Engineering but currently a photographer

Museum Project
-process for making his own private museum. It meas that museum no only keep relics of objects with archeological valeu. All existing being have their own meaning and value.
He made glass boxes and kept objects in just like how museum does.





On Air Project
-Meaning that it's going on but will disappear eventually.
It is like Buddhist doctrin, Je-heng-mu-snag, eaning, all subjects exists for a reason but they all disappear in the end.

using Long Exposure ...

-He adjusted the filters to control the amount of light in the picture. This allows only minimal light. He set the exposure to

gather all the movements for 8 hours. In the mean time, all moving things vanish into the air.

- He selects a place where often seem as the center of the world where the most people gather. For instance Time Square in

New York and China. However, you see no cars and people when taking a single picture for eight hours. No movement

- He make those fast moving objects disappear fast while making slow moving objects appear slow.

Atta Kim, ON-AIR Project, New York Series, Park Avenue, 8 Hours, 2005, © Atta Kim

- my comment:
I think this is interesting because when photography first came out it could not capture anything moving but the buildings that were still; because it needed times to gather all the lights. Atta Kim is going backwards. He is trying to do something when he does not have to.
And through that, taking the harder way (8hours exposure..) it makes people understand what he is trying to say. Using photography to speak of what has been bothering/a thought that he has always had on the back of his brain throughout his life.

Atta Kim, ON-AIR Project, The Sex Series, 1 Hour, 2003, © Atta Kim

Monologue of Ice
Ice is a good substance to describe visible objects disappear. series of ‘On Air’

He wanted to express the contrast between humans' desire to exist forever and the nature’s rules.

Atta Kim, ON-AIR Project, Monologue of Ice, Portrait of Mao, 2006, © Atta Kim
this is 4days melting of Mao Zedong