DSGN 264-406 Fall 2020 Blog
Recently, upon seeing the Met’s “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” exhibit, a visitor realized that her neighbor had one of the panels that had been missing from the series since 1960 in her living room. The neighbor apparently bought it at an auction in the 60s and has handed it Read more…
https://www.malikafavre.com/ Malika Favre is one of my favourite illustrator and graphic artists and she’s famous for her ‘Pop Art meets Op Art’ style. She manipulates traditional optical illusions to create beautiful works celebrating women and their achievements. Her short animations reminded me a lot of our animation component of our Read more…
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wall-paint-color-quarantine-1234574643/ As more and more people stay at home for quarantine, their interests of changing their home wall colors have increased. Many have started to notice the colors of their walls, and have wanted to change it to their likes as some of their homes has now become offices. It’s Read more…
As we enter our Dada composites, I was reminded of the early 2010’s Vaporwave art and music style. This genre of art has a mix of different images placed on top of one another similar to Dada, although Vaporwave has more of an electro style The pop music associated with Read more…
Just a week ago, a drawing of a cat on the Nazca lines in Peru was found. It is said to be 2000 years old carving on the hillside in the desert. These types of art is called geoglyph and this specific cat drawing has now become the oldest geoglyph Read more…
I first saw her art at the Guggenheim and took a picture of the large sculpture piece and just remember them being the most memorable of the pieces I saw that day. Simone Leigh is the first African American to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the Read more…
Vivienne Westwood is an iconic British fashion designer who constantly strives to rebel against fashion norms and continues to redefine the expression of Punk Rock in fashion. Her initial interest in clothes manifested in biker clothing, zips, and leather, riding off of the hippie movement in the late 60s. She Read more…
Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles has shown respect to the front-line workers by displaying ads subways and in Times Square, with the message, “Thank you for keeping NYC alive! for -> forever..” She claimed, “I didn’t say ‘Thank you for keeping New York City clean,’ because that’s their job,” “I said Read more…
“When does it stop being photography and start becoming digital art” discusses the blurred lines between photography and digital art as in the editing process photos become more warped and edited with the advancement of digital tools like Photoshop. The article discuses what is and isn’t considered ‘photography’ which reminded Read more…
April Bey is an artist and educator who is most known for her mixed media art that creates dialogue about American pop culture, Black feminism, and afrofuturism. In the spirit of the upcoming Dada project we have, I wanted to talk about April Bey. I have been following Bey’s work Read more…