Final Blog

This trimester I was most happy with my second piece. I worked in a medium I had not really used before, and by my standards it came out pretty well. I was also happy with my first one because I have never done anything with any sort of collage before.
I was unhappy with what I thought was going to be my first piece, which was a painting. I was unhappy with this because I have a lot of trouble with painting, so it came out pretty poorly.
I feel like I did make some progress over the trimester. For the first two weeks or so, I had a couple of vague ideas, but had a lot of trouble coming up with any artwork to go with them. When Kristen mentioned something about dreams, I decided to use that.
My first piece tries to communicate the warped perspectives we can get after waking up from a vivid dream and/or the time when you are half asleep and in two frames of mind at once. The second piece is about lucid dream which is communicated by the string going from the back of the head to the outline of a person. The third one was about a dream I had which involved being stuck on a train. I feel like the last one is not something other people could get just by looking at it. I am working on my final piece right now.
I would give my blogging effort a 4. I think the blog was helpful because it forced me to look at different artist I would not have otherwise.

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a French-American Artist. She was able to take classes in exchange for translating, and put herself through art school this way. Some of her more know pieces were cells and Maman.
 Cells featured personal items of hers as well as items with an emotional significance.






Maman featured several versions of a giant spider, and  was an ode to her mother.

Maxime Defert was born on May 11, 1944. She is a French painter who has made Geometric composition paintings. These interest me because I like to doodle with geometric shapes and sometimes use them in backgrounds.

Andre Breton was a surrealist/writer, and he wrote the "Surrealist Manifesto". His work was very expressive and he often worked with the human body.

Salvador Dalí 
Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989) was a famous surrealist. During World War 2 he and his wife, Gala, retreated to America, moving back in 1948. He studied in Madrid Spain. I chose him because he tried to analyse the subconscious parts of the mind, which I find interesting. 

Lee Bul
Some of Bul's more known works are the Cyborg Sculptures. She says they bring forward "our fear and fascination with the uncategorizable and uncanny". This fear can be found in many people and probably fuels the desire of many to label everything. She worked on her Cyborgs from 1997 to 2011. The two originals were the red and blue cyborgs, and many of her cyborg sculptures are misshapen and often seemed to be missing limbs as well as heads.

Arlindo Bartista makes pieces based off of his sometimes lucid dreams. This is similar to what I am doing, and I find his art very interesting.