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Wolfsonian FIU Response

Wolfsonian FIU Response

Second paragraph after pictures

       
      I was very interested in my visit to the Wolfsonian Museum.  It was my first time there and I was very fascinated with the historical content and art that is available to see. My favorite point in history is during the 1920's - 40's and that was the focus in the museum. Being very interested in the 40's and WW2 was the only thing that saved me on the second floor, where there are a number of song books and pioneer story books from the 20s-40s surrounding socialism and communism and it was actually disturbing, but I read all the covers and brought me to 2010 when I visited the Dachau concentration camp in Germany. It felt heavy and dark in there.  I am interested in how the war influenced the way of life in the 40's.  politically I wasn't there and was very uninterested. Seeing those song and story books make me feel like i am in a time machine and I feel like it takes me back all those years.

The 5th floor had work from many different time periods. The works are very politically influenced based on the time period they were made.  I was more interested because you are able to see how different people made art under the influences of their time.  The work was very political, some were religious, some depicted industrialization and labor, war, city plans, battle aftermath, depiction of historical events and even conceptual ideas in the art that is there.  There was a section where they had furniture like chairs, dresser tables, lamps, and pianos being displayed as art that were beautifully carved and rich in detail. The craft and talent put into the furniture was being displayed as an art of the time. Today nothing is made that way anymore. I love absorbing history.

ICA Response

Response to artists Ida Applebroog and Susan King.

When analyzing Applebroog's art, and reading the info text next to each piece. The work, in terms of aesthetic appeal, did not interest me or it did not make me feel anything. I really did not care much for it in that moment. I looked through the booklets and tried to figure out the narratives. I looked through the sketchbook pages and was not interested in why I wasn't interested. I just didn't care much. I noticed that there was nearly no skill in her work. Nothing to grab a viewer or at least nothing that grabbed me or wowed me in terms of skill or composition. Although it may wow someone else.

Susan Kingshad a more interesting input in her works. The way she structured the composition in her drawings really made me want to question her choices, it made me wonder, and she showed some skill and capability. I immediately noticed the difference in the work I was looking at, and it highlighted the importance of skill or ability to move a persons thinking, or send a message or generate some kind of segway through concepts. Her ability to make the viewer think naturally. Her work in terms of composition is well thought out and structured. Her choices in characters, and how she placed them is really interesting. Her choices really creates a narrative or drives ideas and plants the seed of inquiry in the viewer. It makes you want to question a little bit. It sparks interest. All this is done even though her skill is still very limited. 

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.