Whitney Museum of American Art

you see many different elements of art that come together to form one unified piece. The art I chose to criticize is “Music – Pink and Blue II.” In the painting you see many different colors coming together to form a beautiful piece of art. This painting is an oil painting, with no identifiable shape. The art work is a 35 x 29 1/8. The artist of “Music – Pink and Blue II” is Georgia O’Keeffe. Today, this painting can be found at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. I think people could…

Portapacks, SONY’s portable, analogue video recording unit, as well as experimenting with and exhibiting cathode ray tube televisions as a sculptural object, in 1960s Germany. By 1968, the Museum of Modern Art had already begun acquiring and exhibiting Paik’s video work. Yet the bonafide rise of video as a museum object, and the scholarship that would follow, is associated with the succeeding decade. Moving image, derived from magnetic tape, had a clear freedom from the constraints of the…

Tobias Frere-Jones is an American type designer based in New York City. He was born in 1970 to a family who had a rich history with typography. His parents worked as copywriters and print buyers, so he was always surrounded with various letterforms. Although he was enthusiastic about fine arts and photography during his early teenage years, his daily interactions with written text helped him understand the power of type and influenced him to enter Rhode Island School of Design. After receiving…

his career. Also, this paper will include an art critic reviews of his artworks. This paper…

at the Arts Students League. He is an artist whose work I found very eye catching. Now his world renowned for his unique sculptures being very oval in shape and funny looking. He makes the sculptures using caster or metal and his unique…

filmed into a documentary of artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco. Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a Mexican–American performance and installation artist and writer, as well as an activist and educator. His works revolves around the issue of the north–south border and US–Mexican interactions. Gómez-Peña is deemed as a pioneer of performance art, experimental radio, video and installation art. His works often involve dense texts, a collaboration with another artist, engagement with audiences,…

What is Pop Art? As we all know, Pop Art is an art movement that started in the mid 1950’s in Britain and was spreading through the United States in the late 1950’s as as a reaction against the imagery of abstract expressionism. Pop art is considered to be one of the most interestingly elements that has ever happened in this contemporary world. The movement is often memorable with commonplace objects for any subject such as comic strips, soup cans, traffic signs and all types of food (…

is a renowned American contemporary artist known for his practice of placing every day, ordinary objects in unique installations. Although he got his expertise in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he obtained his M.F.A., he ended up transferring to the School of the Art Institution of Chicago after visiting and becoming inspired by an exhibit of Jim Nutt, who also attended the Art Institution on Chicago. He stated in an interview, “I remember being an art student and…

studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute after finishing high school. Winning a scholarship, she then moved to New York City to attend the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of Art in 1972. Bigelow eventually changed her focus to another visual medium: film." Bigelow was inspired to study art from her father who liked to draw cartoons, "'His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it ... I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for…

The painting is panel forty, “Great Numbers”, from the Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence. This painting is one of sixty, and put together they create a visual narrative that depicts the hardships of the African American experience. This painting specifically shows four African American families of different sizes migrating to a new destination, possibly in search of liberation from the oppression of the Jim Crow era. This painting is done in a simple fashion, with no intricate details but…