Assignment #9 Oral Report Outline

Do Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1962. He is known for his installation artwork that symbolizes cultural displacement, space and identity. His life is what influences his artwork. Do Ho Suh is best know for transportable fabric installations that deals with personal space and cultural displacement. His work is innovative because he likes to incorporate his artwork to the architecture around it and he uses different materials to create his artwork.

Outline

1. Karma

2. Floor

3. High School Uni-Form 

4. Some/One

5. Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home

Bibliography

http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/artists/do-ho-suh

https://www.mfah.org/art/detail/do-ho-suh-karma/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/video-do-ho-suh-explains-his-ethereal-rubbings-97539

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/do-ho-suh

Assignment # 8

Hennessey Youngman’s youtube channel ART THOUGHTZ is quiet amazing. He turned video art in a form of art criticism, education, and entertainment. His persona may be hard but the fact that he sounds educated adds an element of surprise and interest. His persona incorporates hiphop clothing style, sophisticated vocabulary with slang and profanity. He also is very comical in his videos. 

“ART THOUGHTZ: How to Make an Art” was on of the many videos that I saw on youtube. This video stood out to me the most because he briefly talks about how to make an art. He did criticize the internet for using words like “talent” or “making” to describe artistic production which he believe’s “talent” or “making” has nothing to do with artistic production. He describes that art is not just abstract or a sculpture but art is made out of many objects as long as an everyday object does not function with society that it is considered art. He expresses that you should not really call your art an art work but a proposition because if you fail that is ok. His audience can relate to his videos and understand a simpler way of what art is. He truly is a genius in his profession. He took video art and made an audience that not only finds him funny but his criticism is very interesting with educated answers. I’m not saying that he is correct all the time. We cannot forget that he is a critic with an opinion. Not everyone will agree with his opinion, but he still is an interesting character to watch.

Assignment # 7

The cubist revolution took place in the early twentieth century that was influenced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubism was the first style of abstract art that has evolved over time. This art style will show you many parts of the subject at one time, viewed from different angles, and reconstructed into a composition of planes, forms and color. An example would be “Young Man in a Gray Sweater (Jacques Lipchitz)” painted by Diego Rivera in Paris in 1914. The medium was oil on a canvas and the size is 61.1 cm by 34.9 cm. Diego Rivera uses geometric shapes to construct an image which creates the young man in a gray sweater. This painting is very abstract and the color choice helps create the geometric shapes. When you look at the image your eye cannot pay attention to the human form but your eyes are looking at the different angles the geometric shape creates. The black and gray create depth of spaces that looks as if the artist placed the different shapes on top and next to each other. The way he used his paintbrush to create a smudge feel also plays tricks on your eyes as if the image is fading away or looks blurred. It also looks like he gave some texture to the painting to help with the visual composition.

Imagery of pop culture in the 1950s and late 1960 defined Pop Art. During this time pop art was mass produced, low budge, comical and popular. Pop art challenged the idea of the definition of art and made ironic comments about contemporary life. Pop art is more of a fun intake of art that is comical and visually beautiful. Elements used vary from different hues, use of real objects, words and forms. “OOF” painted by Edward Ruscha was reworked in 1963. The medium was oil on a canvas and the size is 181.5 cm by 170.2 cm. Edward Ruscha had interest in monosyllabic word sounds that had a comical value to them. He was fascinated with pop culture that he had portrayed in his artwork. The word OOF is used in comic strips when someone get punched and the caption would be the word OOF to represent the sound the fictional character would make when getting hit. This painting is bold in color. The blue background and the off yellow wording is bold which compliments each other. While the capitalization of the whole word screams at you being loud but funny when trying to say the word. At first glance the word seems weird and your pronunciation is off, but when understanding beings to kick in the realization that comic book pops in your head along with the image with the word is quite fascinating.

Assignment # 6

Artist - Do Ho Suh

          Contemporary artist Do Ho Suh is best known for this ornate sculptures and site specific installations. Do Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1962. He earned his degree in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University. He served in the Korean army for about two years when he decided to relocate to the United States to complete his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. Do Ho Suh artwork is about pieces of this life.

          "Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home,”  This installation of Do Ho Suh Korean house that is made out of transferable fabric that he can take anywhere with him. The project was about transporting space from one place to the next which in away also deals with cultural displacement. The artwork is his home that replicates the exterior of his home. He felt a desire to recreate that space in which he calls home. His mother helped him find national treasures which in his terms means people who keep traditional techniques and craftsmanship. This project is a prime example of what he try to accomplish which is that his artwork becomes part of the architecture around it.  

          Example of his contemporary artwork is "Floor" (1997) which represents personal and communal space. The huge platform is covered with thick glass plates and underneath the glass it looks like small specs of color but when you look closely it is actually an abundance of small palm figures that are holding up the glass plates. The palm figures that are close together represents the cross cultural personal and communal space between each other. 

In the interview he described as a huge city that is crowded with many people. Like walking to 42nd street and trying not to bump in to someone. 

          Do Ho Suh artwork symbolizes little bits and pieces of his life. The fact that he plays with the different elements such as size, portion and space is amazing. He is quiet diverse when it comes to the material he uses in his artwork. His installations are not only very detailed but quiet beautiful to look at. The obsession of ones space is seen through out all his artworks, and the representation of his life that people can relate to because his artwork is so diverse and can be applied to anyone. 

 "Seoul Home/L.A. Home/New York Home/Baltimore Home/London Home/Seattle Home,”

"Floor" (1997)

High School Uni-Form, 1997

Some/One, 2003