Pictures that represent the subjects given in class

****BLUE dustpan!!!!
****YELLOW banana's anyone????
****Everyone go GREEN!!!!
****The purity of a WHITE candle!!!

****MINIMAL by having a simple brush on a flat surface.

****WORDS that I see daily!!!!

****These colors are COMPLEX!!!
****Also, water can be ENERGETIC!!!!

****Nothing like a good breakfast to make you HAPPY!!!!

****ENERGETIC, my birds are too energetic!!!!

*****The best representation of TIRED, a bed and a face mask!!!!

Pic's around the campus of Montclair State University taken on (April 8, 2008)

This image is nature's way of telling me that I will get an A...lol!!!
This picture depicts different ways of looking at life, either a straight constricted path or taking a different approach.

This picture is just to ironic. There is no dumping allowed and yet you see garbage. This just goes to show you the irony that life portrays.

This is my favorit picture of them all, at this angle this picture of this tree looks like someone with their legs in the air spred wide open...and in dire need of lotion...lol!!!

Review of "Great Mud’"

Title: He Drew Great Mud’
Author: DAVID MICHAELIS
Source: The New York Times
Date of Publication: March 2, 2008

A mischievous rifleman from the 180th Infantry Regiment during the later part of World War II named Bill Mauldin volunteered as a cartoonist for the 45th Division News stumbled across a creation of a cartoon. Bill Mauldin decided to turn the raw material of the front and capture it into sets of panel cartoons, sometimes even under the gravest of circumstances during war. He invented a cartoon pair by the name of Willie and Joe. Willie and Joe were not the typical “squared- jawed” soldiers that were being publicized on the “Uncle Sam” posters. These cartoons were drawn as pale, densely bearded, forested by their own rifles and packs, their huge dirt-caked boots and filthy uniforms delineated in heavily shaded brush strokes. The cartoon soldiers not only looked devilish, but as the author deciphers them, “mummified by mud”. The soldiers in combat truly appreciated and admired the fact that Bill Mauldin decided to capture the true essence of a “real” soldiers and not the highly published “ideal” soldier. The cartoon represented everything a soldier was undergoing, they displayed soldiers that were determined to survive, sometimes scared, not loving war, having to kill because they had to not because they wanted to. Because of said explanation, I admire such cartoon artist, he represents what an artist is supposed to represent, reality and not what the masses want artist to produce.

Reviewing Gustave Courbet

Title of Article: Seductive Rebel Who Kept It Real
Author: Roberta Smith
Date of Publication: February 29, 2008
Source: The New York Times

Gustave Courbet has been classified by many as a controversial artist, rebellious, arrogant, and stubborn. In my opinion I feel as though he may be classified as an artist that is eccentric. I even dare to say that he has the fortitude to go against the traditional artistic work and explore art in a new light. Gustave Courbet’s work includes portraits, self-portraits, landscapes, nudes, group scenes, animals and hunting scenes. One of his controversial paintings includes one entitled, “Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine” in 1856-1867. In that painting he overtly explored the possibilities of lesbianism and eroticism. Said painting shocked viewers and kept Courbet’s phrase of “epater le bourgeois,” translated meaning “shock the bourgeoisie,” alive. Another piece that captured my eye was the self-portrait entitled “The Desperate Man” in 1844-1845. He captures the angst and the tortured soul of an artist or of any person, with his bright eyes gleaming at the viewer. These are just a few examples of Gustave Courbet’s vast collection, in which as Roberta Smith best put it“ built elements of rebellion and dissent into the very forms and surfaces of his work.” Sometimes going against the masses, in this case for Gustave Courbet, was just a way of tapping into imagination that was yet to be discovered as ingenious.

A review of "Looki9ng at You Looking at Her"

Title of article: Looking at You Looking at Her
Author: Holland Cotter
Date of Publication: February 21, 2008
Source: The New York Times

The piece called “Parmigianino’s Antea’: A Beautiful Artifice,” In my opinion is a very powerful piece because just the way the eyes glare at you is amazing. I agree with Holland Cotter when he stated, “Frick’s visiting superstar, who floods a whole museum with her aura and still looks you straight in the eye as if speaking to you and you alone.” Even though there is not much knowledge of who the “star” of the picture is, she still makes and impact. The breakdown and analysis of the painting reveals many different experts making assumptions that either she was a young bride or a peasant. However, I feel that the analysis of this piece by Holland Cotter, that her head being far too small and delicate for her slop-shouldered linebacker’s body, is a very accurate. Ms. Neilson’s, argument that maybe Parmigianino is stating the combination and confusion of gender characteristics, plays a central role in this painting. Nevertheless, the piercing eyes of “Parmigianino’s Antea” are enough to capture the attention of the audience.

WACK Art

Title: Striking Whemn the Spirit Was Hot
Author: Ken Johnson
Source: The New York Times
Date of Article: February 15, 2008

The new feminist revolutionary move in the art world is coming from an exhibition entitled “WACK: Art and the Feminist Revolution.” The title of this exhibition is based on the title that plays on the acronym from historical feminist groups such as Women’s Action Coalition (WAC) and Women Artists in Revolution (WAR). In this exhibition these artists have many different types of artwork that either are for teaching a lesson on “gender politics, freedom and possibilities” as stated by Ken Johnson. In my opinion, the artwork that is being created by these artists is nothing more than an expression of their thoughts, whether people take it as a “political message” is up to the viewer. Yes, it does open our minds to different points of view. However, it is my opinion that good art is supposed to transport your mind to the world of the artists, in which it may teach you a lesson on the way or not is up to each individual’s hierarchical train of thought.

John Jasper's Review

Title: Jasper Johns Shows His True Color
By: Roberta Smith
Source: The New York Times
Date of Article: February 8, 2008

The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and various other museums are home to the vast, analytical, even over analyzed artwork for the artist named Jasper Johns. His artwork is a collection of developing pieces that display his artwork growing from the abstract expressionism to his persistence in displaying a new less predictable side of artwork.

Jasper John was interviewed and explained himself as “a very literal artist,” also stating that he is not the best colorist. However, his efforts and his own style of coloring and expressionism say otherwise. An example of this was a piece from 1995 entitled “Targets with four faces.” Another piece that displays his efforts with color is his piece called “False Start” which is a piece that engages in the various colors of red, yellow, blue, and white. “False start” not only displays these colors but also tangle the names of the colors on each color. Where as in contrast, the piece entitled “Jubilee,” is the same idea except that it contrast different shades of white, black and gray.

Some critics have called Jasper Johns artwork “repetitious.” However, the repetitious move towards exploring the use of gray is by far and undoubtedly are the ingredients that Jasper Johns work needs including diverse and display’s the attention to certain detail is needed.