Rauschenberg

This is called Coca Cola Plan. I like the sculpture because it is a combination of items. I like the wings and how it makes coca cola seem powerful. The various array of media used is interesting and creative. I like how one coke bottle is plain, while others seem to have paint in them. The sketching on the wood is cool. The words below say "Plan, Lay out stretcher on floor, match markings and join."

Duchamps

  

Fountain is one of Duchamp’s most famous works and is widely seen as an icon of twentieth-century art. The original, which is lost, consisted of a standard urinal, usually presented on its back for exhibition purposes rather than upright, and was signed and dated ‘R. Mutt 1917.  I think this era of ready made art work is the best because is simple, lazy, but ingenious at the same time.  

Duchamp 1919, readymade rectifié de Mona Lisa.

A blow-up of the Mona Lisa with a moustache owned by the French Communist Party and stored at the Centre Pompidou for the next 100 years is given the task of advertising yet another Duchamp funeral. It is a strange fate that a sublime exercise in laziness by an anartist who managed to revolutionise 20th-century art processes is now being offered to the public as evidence against him. This small picture picked up at a street market and signed would have sufficed to abort the charitable mission of taking Duchamp back to his ridiculous early daubs which – although collected by great museums – came (regrettably for him) at least 5 or 6 years too late for the cruel and ridiculous law on newness and, above all, for his epiphanies at the various Parisian Salons of 1905 and 1911. 

Why not sneeze-Marcel Duchamp

This sculpture is a ready made sculpture made in 1921. He considered it to be ready made because the original object has been alter by Marcel. This sculpture is composed of a bird cage with 152 white cubes made of marble. The cubes resemble sugar cubes. The sculpture also has a thermometer, a piece of cuttlebone and a tiny porcelain dish.An explanation for the piece given by Duchamp involves the coldness of the marble cubes, the "heat-giving" properties of the sugar cubes, the thermometer evaluating temperature, and the sneezing that can result from cold. In commenting on the title Duchamp pointed out that there is a "dissociation gap" between sneezing at will and sneezing against one's will.

Robert Rauschenberg

Erased de Kooning Drawing was created by Robert Rauschenberg in 1953. In this "drawing" Rauschenberg erased a previous drawing created by William de Kooning in an attempt to push the boundaries of are. De Kooning intentionally chose a charcoal and pencil drawing to make Rauschenberg's job harder. It took two months and dozens of erasers, but de Kooning's drawing is still somewhat evident. Rauschenberg presented this as an art object because erasure is included in the realm of art. I chose this piece of art by Rauschenberg due to its controversial nature. There is a debate over what is considered art and Rauschenberg pushes those boundaries with this piece. 

Robert Rauschenberg- Signs (1970)

   

   One of Robert Rauschenberg's artworks that I am very fond of is called Signs, and was constructed in 1970. When the events of the 1960's came to a close, Rauschenberg created this collage as a summery of all that it contained. Entering the new decade, Rauschenberg's artwork is a perfect collaboration of historical events that were important during the American Era. Images include John F. Kennedy to represent his assassination, along with Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert Kennedy. I think its important that depressing and negative parts of the decade are important to be expressed because they are a crucial part to American history. The art also includes an astronaut to represent a man landing on the moon in 1969.

Donald Judd

I chose the corner chair by Donald Juud because I enjoy the simplicity of the work he does. Most of his works involve the use of squares or rectangles in different dimensions that he puts together. This sculpture in particular is minimalist due to it being constructed of 5 pieces of wood. This is definitely a contemporary work of art.

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois is an amazing artist who is famously known for her sculptures, but also her drawings. She was born in 1911 in Paris and moved to New York in 1938, where she then started studying art. At first, she began creating wooden sculptures, by over time she developed a love for working with multiple mediums. This piece, titled Rabbit was created in 1970 and was made using Bronze. Its dimensions are 23.25 x 10 x 6 inches.

Duchamp

With Bicycle Wheel, he launched the concept of the “readymade” which is an everyday object that is art because the artist says so.  The readymades are widely viewed as the birth of conceptual art. Yet given that, a century later, we’re still not done with the “but is it art?  Since the artist say it's art i t is considered art.  His works were very shocking given they day they came out.  I like this piecer because if you glance at it you can tell it is machine like  but in realty its not a machine its a bike. 

Constantin Brancusi

Brancusi was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer. He was one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. This piece is called "Fish" and was done in 1926. The fish is supported by a circular disc which is a "pool" and allows it to be rotated. When viewed from a certain angle it is so thin it almost seems to disappear. The "fish" is made of bronze and the "pool" is made of metal and the stand is all wood. Since the circular stand is metal you can see the reflection of the fish like it was an actual pool of water.

George Segal- Depression Bread Line

The sculpture that I chose is by George Segal. It is titled "Depression Bread Line. The reason that I chose this is because I think that it depicts a very real time in American history and it is an important part of history that we must not forget. There is real detail in the sculpting of the people waiting on the line. What i get from them is cold, tired and hungry. Something that most people were probably feeling during the great depression in America. The sculpture was created in 1999.

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder wanted to create abstract painting that moved through space is what led him to his moving, motorized works. "A Universe" has two spherical shapes that travel at different rates during a 40 minute cycle. Calder had in interest in astronomy and compared the moving parts of this sculpture to the solar system.   This sculpture was an important step that got him to his constellation series.

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas was a French sculptor, painter, and much more from 1834-1917. He considered himself a realist. More than half his works were images of dancers. The dancer above is made of bronze and found in the Met in NYC. I really like this piece because it represents dancers of all styles even though he titled it the Spanish Dancer. As a dancer myself I find this a pose most dancers do know and practice. The dancer looks elegant and relaxed in this piece.

robert rauschenberg

Sor Aqua (Venetian) was made by Robert Rauschenberg in 1973. It is made of a water filled bathtub, wood, rope, and a glass jug. The dimensions of the sculpture is 98 x 120 x 41 inches. It is currently on display on the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The inspiration for this sculpture was from Rauschenberg's experiences in Venice, a "floating city". In the words of The Museum of Fine Arts "In ennobling an ordinary bathtub Rauschenberg conjures an air of grace in decline." He mimics the canals with the water, and the aging city with rustic beams. Rauschenberg is a master of metaphor in every fine art he worked through, such as dance, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and performance.

Louise Bourgeois

This sculpture, known as Arch of Hysteria, was made by Louise Bourgeois. It was created in 1993 and was placed in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). This sculpture was made out of Bronze and polished patina. I chose this sculpture because the color of it (gold), makes it stand out compared to her other sculptures. I also enjoy that this sculpture had a shadow that adds to this work of art. The shadow gives the viewer a different view of the sculpture. Apparently, this sculpture was about how psychoanalysis around the time of Freud, believed that hysteria women would have body contortions similar to this human figure in this sculpture. This sculpture is impressive because Bourgeois was able to create a realistic human body out of bronze.

Auguste Rodin

This piece is called “The Martyr” or “The Little Martyr” by Auguste Rodin. Rodin was a famous French sculpture who was lived between November 12^th, 1840 – November 17^th, 1917. This piece was completed in 1885 and is a plaster sculpture of a naked dead or sleeping woman. Originally this piece was a study of a figure that was on Rodin’s other famous work, “The Gates of Hell”, which was later removed form the piece. I chose this piece due to the depiction of agony it represents. The body is contorted in such a way that shows a burden of suffering, and I think Rodin captured this beautifully. The sculpture now resides in Musee Rodin in Paris.

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder was an american artist during surrealism. He introduced the element of movement into sculpture through motorized works and mobiles. Calder also created static sculptures called stabiles, as well as paintings. He used wire to created three dimensional line drawings of people and animals called linear sculptures. He shifted from this to do abstract work with wire to create figurative and portrait pieces to "draw in space." This sculpture is called goldfish bowl
and is made of wire. Calder made this sculpture in 1927.

Brancusi

Constantin Brancusi was a controversial sculptor in his time because he thought that being real was more than something looking like nature. He created unexpected shapes that comically portrayed their titles. With his unusual sculptures, Brancusi challenged the world to reconsider what sculpture was and how they see it. Previous sculptors had been very technical until Brancusi chose to create non-representational sculptures completely with his hands and tools instead of casting. I chose to look at his sculpture "The Kiss" because I found it interesting that it is almost a complete rectangle brick, with only a little bit carved out of it and you can still tell that it is two people kissing even though they are not as detailed and "human-like" as previous sculptors. 

Final Blog

Post a sculpture from one of the artists from the final slides.
Marcel Duchamp  "The Waterfall"

Damned Women

Damned Women

Damned Women is a sculpture created by Auguste Rodin between 1885 and 1890 as part of his The Gates of Hell project - it appears on the upper right as the counterpart to The Fallen Caryatid^[ It shows two embracing women, which is the theme of lesbianism, which at times appears in his images of paired women: The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Damned Women (1885), and Illusions received by the Earth.