Class #11: Symbolizing your society and hw

Strength and Infinity Manifesto
Jaylene, Munazza, and Ashley's Survival Group

Our flag symbolizes strength and unity within the group. The infinity is our symbol of unity and the bear signifies our strength. As a group we vow to always stand by each other with strength and unity no matter the consequences or circumstances.
Living in any place where you have to fend for yourself you must be fair. Don't harm others, but still defend yourself if it gets to the point where you have no other choice to do so. Treat others with respect. Respect another persons territory and always be cautious of your surroundings and the people around you no matter where you are. Always protect those who can't protect themselves like young children, infants, the elderly, and disabled. Always stand your ground and look into the best interest of yourself and the people around you and in your group. Always try to make the most rational decisions and last, but no least always make sure that you and your group have some source of nutrition which would be to try to make sure that you and your group have some type of ration of food. 

Class #11: Followup

1. This painting of Sir Thomas More by Hans Holbein is an iconic painting, because the painting doesn't have any direct relationship with the person depicted in the painting. He made this painting to become friends with More who was a powerful speaker in the English parliament.

2. The Yves Klein, Anthropometry is an indexical painting because it is a true representation of the relationship between the image which is depicted as proof. The blue paint shows that Klein had used naked female models who were covered in the blue paint and were laid on the canvas to create this image.

3. This is a symbolic painting since it represents love. If you tilt your head to the right, you can see an image of a heart which we relate to love.

4. This painting would be considered both iconic and indexical because the nude female model in the back is blurred which shows that she doesn't really have a relationship with the painting. It's indexical because the woman sitting on the chair is right in the front and not blurred out showing us that she was there at the time.

Class #10 Followup

Manifesto

1. You must share your discoveries (food, any cures, supplies) with the rest of the group - we are kind of going extinct here ya' know. Can't have anyone being selfish. 
2. Keep calm, we'll get out of this mess. 
3. Take turns keeping watch. Protect our little clan! 
4. Be nice. We don't like mean, rude or obnoxious people 
5. Don't let your survival skills get to your head. No one cares how good you are at hunting for stuff. Well, we do care, but still don't be annoying about it. 
6. Always shower. No one likes smelly, unhygienic people.  

Class #9 Followup

Sea City 2000

I really liked the Sea City 2000 because it seemed really advanced. It's really cool how they are using solar panels for energy and using a natural source for energy. This city is basically on an island and that's why it's more sought out to be a perfect place to be. An island is completely secluded from the world and it's like a getaway. This Utopia has everything we need to survive and it's great so that we don't have to have much contact with outside cities. 

Class #8

Blast to the past: 20's style 

The Author of the Book "Fourteen Letters of Christ" in His Home

Medium: Cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and ink on book pages

Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4" (21.6 x 14.6 cm)

In this photomontage, Baader presents a photograph of a domestic space in which various Dada ephemera hangs on the wall at upper left. A figure has been cut out of the center of the photograph to reveal the image of Baader's dummy exhibited at the Berlin Dada Fair in 1920. This work is, in fact, a sophisticated self-portrait of Baader in his persona as the "Oberdada," a parody of a high-ranking military figure (ex.Oberleutnant) of the Dada "troupes." The figure cut out of the upper photograph can be identified as Baader himself, as his reflection is visible in the mirror at the right edge of the cutout.

Man in Top Hat

Medium: Painted bronze

Dimensions: 26 x 14 3/4 x 13 1/4" (66 x 37.6 x 33.4 cm)

Untitled (fec.)

Medium: Cut-and-pasted printed paper and pencil on paper on board

Dimensions: 9 7/8 x 7 1/4" (25.1 x 18.2 cm)

Pippin House, East Liverpool, Ohio

Medium: Watercolor and gouache on paper

Dimensions: 26 x 19 3/8" (66 x 49.2 cm)

 Burchfield worked predominantly in watercolor. He felt that this was a medium that was preferable to oil paint because it was fast and easier to work with.

The way that these four pieces relate to each other is that they are from the same time period, the 1920's. They all depict how it was during those times, the way people dressed and just basically how everything looked. They were all made by different artists, but these artists knew what they wanted to represent in their artwork. Each artist used their own imagination and their own knowledge on how to show what the 20's was like. 

The audience for my exhibition isn't aimed at a particular group, but I guess it'll mainly attract people who lived during those times attention and the attention of people at this day and age who want to know more about the culture back then.  

Class #7

Artwork #1

1) "Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides (Iraq; A.D. 1224)

This artwork shows a figural book painting which had started in the Islamic world as an art form in the late Abbasid Iraq of the 13th century. The translation of a Greek manuscript shows a physician making some type of medicine.

2) The audience would be people living in or near Iraq. Especially Muslims.

3) The artist is attempting to bear witness to the Iraqi culture and how medicine was first made in the earlier centuries.

4) The beauty of this artwork is that the artist used different colors in the piece and also the fact that Arabic text is included which makes it all the more unique.

5) This artist probably wasn't aware of the second artist's art making tradition since this was made before the second painting. 

6) I think non-European art does deserve to be placed in the mainstream story of art, because just like European art, non-European art beautifully shows art work from different cultures from different periods of time. 

Artwork #2

1) Manuscript Leaf with the Agony in the Garden and Betrayal of Christ, from a Royal Psalter (Great Britain A.D. 1270)

2) The audience would most likely be Europeans. Especially the Christians. 

3) The artist is attempting to bear witness psalms from the Old Testament. 

4) The artist representation of beauty in this painting is of course the different shades of colors used and how well the scenes from Christ's Passion are shown. 

5) The artist was probably aware of the other artist's art making tradition considering this was made years after the first painting. They both show two different religions. 

6)  I think European art does deserve its place in mainstream story of art because the artworks were made with different types of styles and in a different period of time. It's giving us a sense of knowledge of what is going on in the art. 

Homework #6

1) The way Yves Klein's Blue Cocktail relates to the metaphoric nature of food is that he uses the idea of blue cocktail to attract his viewers and to let them analyze his work. He uses the different colors of food to show his ideas and show his strengths as an artist.

2) The way the artist uses the soup cans to show post-WWII American's relationship to food was that during those times, people weren't really cooking a real meal due to the situations, so they would buy Campbell's Soup instead. People weren't so into cooking and the soup was always available to them. 

3) The bread was being used as something to attract the audience with. To make sure they had the audience's full attention. Whereas the puppet was being used to protest against political issues. 

4) In Judy Chicago's Dinner Party it showed individual seating arrangements for women only who were very important. Each plate at the seats had different designs on them as well. As for Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, it was showing both male and females eating and talking together. His art was focusing mainly on the people and not the plates like Judy was doing.

5) In "Theaster Gates", Sunday dinners were being held for people of different races. The artist was focusing mainly on the social interaction. He's using food as a way for people to interact with each other and learn about the others race. In "Enemy Kitchen" Rckowitz's idea is kind of similar to Theaster Gates, but the main focus was on the war. He wanted people to enjoy the food as well as talking about the war. 

6) Bozhkov had used his own picture and the picture of the bacteria on the cover of the yogurt package. The way he designed his project, he's giving us the idea of how the yogurt is being made. The product bear witnesses to the image of the artist of his existence. He's using the yogurt to share his ideas and show people his art through food. 

Cooking up a story

So, for my recipe I have decided to share a traditional yet simple recipe in my culture. It's called roti, or easier terms, pita bread. Roti is a very important food to my culture considering we use it to eat with basically all our food. Except rice of course. It's quite easy to make and I always love helping my mom make it. It's something fun to do together and it has become a tradition for us to make it whenever we are in need of it.

Ingredients

- Five cups flour

- Two cups water (or as desired)

- A pinch of salt

- A medium bowl

So, here is the starting of the process of making roti. Some simple flour. This flour is actually different than the flour we use in American cooking. In my language we call it Ata which does translate to flour in English, but it's a different type of flour you can buy from any Pakistani or Indian grocery store. 

After you have added the flour to the bowl, add the water. You don't have to add all of it. It depends on you and what you think is the right consistency of the dough. 

And like any typical dough, you have to kneed it with your hands. I insisted on using my Kitchen Aid mixer to kneed the dough, but of course my mom wanted to stick to being traditional and use her hands. 

After you kneed for a few minutes and adding water, the dough finally takes its ball like shape.

Once the dough takes its shape, you have to make little round balls like this. This is the first form of the roti.

After you have rolled the dough into a ball, roll it flat with a rolling pin to get its proper round shape.

Then what my mom likes to do is use her hands to flatten it a little more and give it more of a round shape.

So, this lovely thing right here is what we use to make the roti. I'm not sure what it's called in English, but I guess we can call it a pan. It's slightly rounded to help make the roti. 

This is the next step. Placing the roti on the pan and basically just making it. It's like making pancakes in a way. Got to make sure both sides are well cooked.

This is what the roti is supposed to look like on both sides. You gotta make sure you keep your eye on it and not walk away. It only takes a few seconds to cook. 

And there you go! The traditional roti (pita bread) We like to keep it covered so it stays warm. You can honestly eat this with any Pakistani or Indian dish that you like. 

Homework #5

1) Field trip response 



A. It doesn't seem as if Betsy Damon is trying to pursue anything.
B. The title of this painting is "Blue hold"
C. The genre of this artwork shows that it's just a painting with no point.
D. The material of this is that it's digital print with hand coloring.
E. The scale is 13 1/8 x 13 1/8" (33.3 x 33.3 cm); sheet: 13 1/8 x 13 1/8" (33.3 x 33.3 cm)
F. The duration of the artwork is seven years. It was made in 2007
G. The different colors of the painting make it all the more interesting.
H. I thought this painting was okay. The colors I liked and how they combined together. 

2. Lecture

A. Her process of rope making is bringing together different materials. It's like bringing the lives of important people in her life together to create a story of those people.
B. The way she learned rope tying is different from action painting is that she uses her body to get the artwork done. By using her body, she's exploring it to show the power and femininity in the art. The method is appropriate because she's showing her artwork as a crime scene where her clues are there to uncover.
C. A person ignorant of Antoni's work most likely wouldn't understand "Moor". They'd probably get how the different colors were different people and events, but they wouldn't get why she wanted to bring together the different people in her life to create a story.

3. Homework

The skills that I know which is something that I love to do is cooking. Food is a big part of my culture of course as it is in other cultures. Something that I'm slowly learning more how to make is my very own Pakistani food. Whenever my mom cooks, I'm always hovering over her shoulder seeing how she makes everything. Something I've learned how to make is chicken biryani. It's basically rice with chicken. To make it you'd have to make the sauce for the chicken. It has oil, garlic and ginger paste, onions, salt, pepper, and many different Pakistani spices. While that's in the making, you have to boil the rice. Once everything is done, just add the chicken to the rice, add some yellow and orange food coloring to the rice, mix it and top with some cilantro. It's really not that hard once you learn the basics. Whenever I make this, or any type of Pakistani food I'm of course always with my mom. It's one of the many things we bond over. It's like, our time together and I cherish every bit of it. I would display this artwork in my homeland Pakistan considering that's where I'm from and where most my family is.  

Homework #4

Lynda Benglis

1. The artist used the process of using ultra violent colors.  She would work in her studio and larger studios to work on her piece. She would pour the colors on wax, or directly on the floor to create the piece. 

2. She is trying to translate expression and her learning of what the materials are and what they can do in relationship to art history 

3. The way Benglis's piece flows is how women flow with life and materials. She said it has to do with mixing and cooking. She gave her example on how she's very involved with taste and how art is involved with surfaces chemical mixtures. 

4. The final outcome at first wasn't interesting, because I just thought it was a blob of different paint all over the floor. Then she had described what it had meant and I actually thought it was quite interesting to relate it to women and how we flow with life. I liked her choice of colors. They were very vibrant and all over the place. Considering I'm an unorganized person, I liked how the colors were going in all directions. 

Homework #3

Part A:

1) Her machine-like distortions of the body relate to conventional notions of female beauty by showing how women now are powerful in their own way. The way she showed it was by using different parts of humans, animals and plants that are beautiful that would describe a woman.

 
2) The way this functions formally is that, it shows how the woman who has her back turned away from us. The entire body is in different colors which contribute to the constant speculation regarding the female body. The way the woman is crouching down and that she is nude, she's trying to hide her body. You are able to see how difficult her life could be by looking at the way everything is drawn.

Part B:

This picture was taken about, three or four years ago. Everything from my hair, to my clothes and not wearing any makeup was just embarrassing. I didn't exactly coordinate very well on what goes with what. As time passed, I definitely got a sense of what is in style, how to do my hair and how to look like I'm actually from this century. Now, everyone is aware of how to present themselves which has helped me as well.

Assignment one

1. Something that I'd want people to know about me is that, I love to cook and bake. It's something I'm very passionate about. I love finding new recipes online, or in cookbooks and trying them out. Even if the recipe didn't come out right, I always have to try again till I can perfect it. Baking is something I do more than cooking, because I have a huge sweet tooth. I'm always craving something sweet, so I'm constantly baking. It's something interesting about me, because not everyone would expect me to know how to cook or bake.

     

     2. Something I'd want to bear witness to is, gender equality. This is a world wide problem that should be fixed because women are being treated unfairly against men. A perfect example would be in middle eastern countries, females aren't given the same rights as males are. Men are treated as if they're more powerful and women have no say in what they want. Same goes for here in America. When it comes to jobs, some women are paid less than men are. I'd like to see one day where women all over the world are treated the same as men are.