Media Arts: History and Theory

 Discussion- What message is Andy Warhol trying to communicate to his viewers? Andy Warhol was eating a hamburger in silence as a normal human being. The only thing different was that it was being videotaped. Andy Warhol's message was to just say "anything anyone does is art." We humans may eat a hamburger differently than Warhol. In the video, he took the top bun of the hamburger, and he folded the bottom bun with the patty, and dipped it in ketchup. It was like a taco. His video was a bit of a performance art piece because he was just doing a normal activity that any person does (eat) and for some reason we were really appealed to see someone else eat something that we've eaten before. This also, goes with the idea that many humans are obsessed with the fact of knowing what celebrities do in their daily lives, but I always think that they are humans. They eat hamburgers. They brush their teeth in the morning. They have bad breath in some moments. It is a normal thin...

 Futurism was a movement that adopted cubism and supported the fascist dogma, which had aggressive expansionism and Italian cultural supremacy. It developed in Italy in the 20th century and later developed in Russia as well. Futurist painters adopted the cubism techniques of fragmented planes and outlines to show different views on an object. Fillipo Tommaso Marinetti called for art that glorified war. He was pulled in with the idea that war art gave a lot of expressionism through the paintings. Boccioni showed a lot of movement in his sculptures. He produced several plaster sculptures. "Unique forms of continuous space," is very distorted. It has a motion blur, and it attempts to capture motion in a static form. Giacomo Balla showed interest in speed and movement. He was influenced by Marey. "Dynamism of a dog on a leash," is one of the most important artworks in the futurism era of art. Russolos art of noises which replicated the sounds of their surroundings in th...

 CHANCE PROJECT This is Group 5's chance project. We decided to rip up some construction paper pieces by singing songs, while ripping the construction paper. We wanted to stay with the theme of the holiday, which was "Halloween!" We wanted to pick orange and black construction paper. Before class started, Professor Cifuentes had passed out candy to each table. We eventually ate all of the candy!! ;) We very much loved the fact that we could feel like little kids again being able to have candy in class during Halloween. In my mind I thought, "what better way to give the Halloween spirit in our chance piece, by adding candy wrappers!!!" The final product was produced by dancing around the tables, and by using the salt-bae method. We did not do anything blindly, but we did just let the air take the pieces of paper and the wrappers freely. Most of the construction paper landed in the middle of the canvas/sheet. The candy wrappers since, they have a bit more weight t...

 QUIZ #2 Renaissance Humanism Petrarch Giotto Fresco Wealthy Merchant Leonardo Da Vinci Albrecht Durer Jan Van Eyck Camera Obscura Vitruvian Man One Point Perspective Avant-Garde Modernism Fauvism Picasso Cubism Abstract Painting Greenberg Photographers Nicephore Niepce Etienne Jules Marey Muybridge        Semiotics Gutenberg

 Fauvism Link to presentation: Media Arts Mid Term - Google Slides Fauvism was inspired by the Post-Impressionist movement. The art included bold colors, non-naturalistic depictions, and textured brushwork. The art was very EXPRESSIVE!! The art gave any object, person, or landscape new colors that people were not used to seeing. It brought many new shapes to objects.   Fauvism in 1 minute: (188) Fauvism | 1 Minute Crash Course - YouTube Fauvism today is still in relation to Fauvism art in the 20th century, An artist that I found interesting is Tim Fowler. The Lauren Bacall that Tim painted with oils, varnish, acrylic, spray paint and gloss may not exactly be the materials that 20th century artists used, but the end result is a revolutionary one. This painting looks like Henri Matisse- Madame Matisse. (The green line) My question for the class: Where did fauvism originate? Answer: D.) France     *** I edited all the videos except Greenberg. ***