Artist: Ernst Wilhelm Nay-

Die Graue Stadt 1942

Link: http://www.artnet.com/artists/ernst-wilhelm-nay/die-graue-stadt-le-mans-a-X0aTCtx5LPfi_NRht3Abwg2

Formal Analysis: This work is super random and difficult to read. It is a lot of colors, designs, and shapes that all come together to create one random picture. You really don’t know what this work of art is when you look at it. It has a lot of green, yellow and white shapes that you can’t seem to grasp what the image actually is. The work is super textured. When staring at this photo, you can almost get frustrated while looking because you can’t figure out what the artist is trying to tell you.

http://www.artnet.com/artists/ernst-wilhelm-nay/

Iconographic Analysis: Nay was admitted to the Berlin Art Academy in 1925 and quickly became the master student of Realist painter Carl Hofer. Nay’s early expressionive paintings found success, but it was short lived. Like many avant-garde artists of the time, Nay’s modern work was rejected by the German National Socialists and in 1937 was included in “Degenerate Art,” the notorious anti-modernist exhibition. Maybe everything that he learned in his past contributed to what art he did in the future.

http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/news/9878

Contextual Analysis: In 1940, Nay was drafted into the German army as a cartographer and later traveled to France, while his art studio in Berlin was bombed. I think that maybe since he went through a lot during his lifetime and having so many works of art that meant so much to him and then they all burnt down, I could imagine that it could ruin your whole life. He was also in post world war 2 time and has seen a lot in his life time.

Paragraph 3: This work of art is so aggravating because I cannot figure out what it is. It has no form of being anything that is real so I feel like the artist did not even know what he was doing while doing this art piece. I think it may relate to what he had going on in life at the time. It may have taken some time to do this, but then again it could have been something that came unexpected as well. I do not believe that this painting or whatever you want to call it, has a purpose at all. I do not see anything of this work of art that has any purpose in any way. I think that is why I cannot make myself like it.

Paragraph 4: I guess I can see where someone would think this piece of art is pretty or “unique”. Maybe the randomness of this picture would mean a lot to someone. It could relate to people on not just an artful level but it could relate to people on a personal level that means something than just a picture to some people. Maybe other people think that the artist worked hard to create this like so. People may also like it because of its color and lines that it takes to form this. I still personally do not like this picture because it doesn’t mean anything to me and I think it is a pointless picture that was just thrown together to create something.

Representative art aims to represent objects and things from reality.

Abstract art takes items and objects from reality, but puts them in a different way than what they are really viewed as.

Non- Objective art takes nothing from reality and makes something interesting.

http://www.artnet.com/search/artworks/?q=love&page=2

Allan Teger

Lovers on the hill, 2009

Contempop Gallery

I feel as if this image represents representative art because it relates to humans sitting on a bench and kissing one another. This picture to me feels as if it real and it’s pretty much reality other than the fact that it is not in color. This picture is more representative than the other ones because it looks more real life-like.

Roy Lichtenstein

Kiss II Beach Blanket

Artware Editions

This image sort of relates to the top one but it is more comic strip like than the first picture. This also has something to do with reality so I would say it represents people kissing. (LOVE) This picture is more representative than the birds because it is having to do with people.

Dave White

Lovebird

Lawrence Alkin Gallery

This last picture I put is 2 birds that seem to look like they are kissing. They are putting their beaks together and this is pretty realistic but it seems that the other 2 pictures are more realistic than this one since the other pictures have people.

Representative:

Mr. Brainwash

Love, 2016, 2016

DIGARD AUCTION

I chose this picture because a heart shape is in real life, yet the picture seems to be misunderstood. It looks like it could possibly be a painting or a window with writing on it.

Mr. Brainwash

Love, 2017

Contessa Gallery

This second picture favors the top one, but it is in a different color and it is also misunderstood. From the color of it though, I would have to say that it represents love as well.

Abstract:

Dan Baldwin

Love Birds, 2016

Maddox Gallery

This picture flows with the category abstract because I feel as if this is a lot of just jumble thrown together in a picture to represent love according to the title yet we cannot see the “love” in the picture. This picture is more non-objective because it really doesn’t look like it serves a purpose since there is just shapes and colors everywhere.

Valerio Adami

Incontro, 2014–2016

The Mayor Gallery

This last picture was really hard for me to find and I feel like it could actually be placed into more than one category depending on how you observe it. I chose it because if you look closely, those are not meant to be people I don’t think. It looks like shapes formed together to create the people. So it kind of looks like a jumble of colors and shapes thrown together to make this picture.

Non-Objective:

1.) I chose the Mr. Clean commercial to do for this assignment.

2.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SryTi5vcuoc…………….. The video for this starts at 0:50.

3.) -I picked the Mr. Clean commercial because first of all, it was funny and it caught my attention. I thought that the colors in the commercial were bright and it showed the creativeness by making a woman see a mess and a slightly attractive guy helping her clean the mess with upbeat music that got her in the “mood” to clean. Towards the end of the video, it shows a quote that states “You gotta love a man that cleans.” I think it is different from other cleaning commercials because of its way to make people laugh and that is being tied in to a cleaning commercial rather than like a skittle commercial or etc.

-Since the colors are bright and the music has a catchy beat, it gives the viewers a good laugh and makes them favor that commercial over other commercials. It also makes people mimic the commercials so they will remember when they go to the store to use THAT product. The mood is a happy yet sexy type of feel. Because Mr. Clean has the woman feeling some type of way and when he magically turns into her husband, she instantly says that she loves a man that can clean. I think it makes people feel good about the product and makes them want to purchase it.

– I do think that the money was utilized very well being that many people remember this specific commercial and a lot of people talk about this commercial. It made the viewers laugh while getting the point across so I think it worked perfectly and worked like how a commercial should be portrayed.

In this first picture, I am standing in Covington, Georgia with two of my very best friends and we are taking pictures to have memories of all of us during the holidays. I took this picture and to me, it is a work of art. My two best friends are absolutely gorgeous so what’s more to say other than they are the art? I think that them laughing in this picture and the lights shining in the background relate to happiness and brightness just like as if were a painting or sculpture. My first impression makes me see the happiness in them and the setting as well. I think it is about them living their life and being happy and beautiful. I am the artist for this particular picture so what I was trying to bring out in this specific picture was happiness and beauty because I believe that that is what art is all about. I believe that the Christmas trees in the background let viewers know that it is during the most wonderful time of the year, with smiles on the girls faces, lights in the background, and even in front of a store let people know that this is a happy photo.

By looking at this picture, you can come up with hundreds of different observations on why this picture could be a work of art. I know its not a painting or anything like that but something doesn’t have to be a painting or statue or anything like that to be considered “art”. The angle and lighting of this picture really show what is taking place. The colors really bring forward the happiness showed in this picture as well. This picture shows elements from how bright the colors are in the photo and how the photo was taken with different lines that make this photo the shape that it is. As we can observe, I wouldn’t say that this photo has any type of “texture”.

This is the next picture I chose from 2 years ago in Saint George. We see a picture of my boyfriend and I standing on the sand beside the ocean at the beach. This picture was just on my camera roll but I found that it was perfect to do this assignment on. Most people took pictures of paintings and things that actual artists did, but I would rather use my imagination from my own photos to represent the work. In my opinion, this picture represents a couple that both has smiles on their faces enjoying a great time at the beach with such a pretty view in the background.

I love the colors of this photo because we are both wearing something kind of blue and the ocean is blue as well so I thought it was just a cool picture. It shows us celebrating life and it shows the happiness of our lives as well. This photo has a good representation of elements and colors. I think of texture when I think of the way the sand and ocean feels. This is a very cool picture because there are so many different possible things to say about it and how art is reflected in this picture.

In my opinion, art is something that can define you. Art can be something inspiring, it doesn’t always have to be just a painted picture. Art means so much more than that. It is an expression that communicates an idea of something in your life and what that reflection means to other people. Art is what you do. It is creativity that you find and it is a way for you to see things that would go unnoticed. Art is passion and visualizing things that you want to see or things that mean something to you about your past, present, and future. It can lead to the feelings or expressions that someone may be feeling. I see art as a way to express your inner feelings that lead to something more. I think of art not just with a picture but with hair, fashion, technology, decisions, sculptures, paintings…. art can lead to so much. The way I see it, hair really expresses some people. From dying your hair, cutting it, letting it get long, you are changing your whole appearance based on one thing. It is what makes you, you. I think that hair is a beautiful thing being that it can take up to hours styling, curling, combing, washing and arranging the hair. Hair art is a way to symbolize yourself and your inner beauty.

This is a picture of my hair taken by my mom a couple of weeks ago. My mom is a hair stylist and she does the best work that I have ever seen. She does an amazing job on everyone that she does and I see that for her, hair really is art. She transforms people’s hair into something that they love that personalizes them into someone that makes them feel more confident about themselves. Sometimes, she will have women that come in and have no idea what they want done. They will tell her to do whatever and she visualizes what work of art would look the best on them and demonstrates an art piece.

From this course, I have learned that art is so much more that what it really is. You can actually go into a very deep thought process over the topic. There are so many things that have to do with art and so many people that think art is different from how other people see it. It is actually crazy to me to think about how long ago these artists painted or sculpted works of art and what they were thinking in the time of making what they call “art”. I do not think that we will have a specific definition of what art is because art is life. Everyone sees it as something different and we will never truly know the actual definition of art because of how many things art actually is.

From what I learned personally in module 3 relates to how I feel about art as well. It actually helped me to get a better understanding of why art is so powerful and has been created to go beyond words. I feel as if it is something that has been going around for many many years and it is something that also defines events that have happened in history.

Lastly, I think people are naturally attracted to beautiful things and beauty is subjective to each person. Some artists choose to create something unpleasant to look at but I think that they do that to get attention and for us to wonder what on Earth they were thinking when they created their so-called master piece. I do not think that everything has to be considered beautiful for it to be art. I do not think it is what we see visually, I think it is what that piece means to someone and how it can relate on a personal level to someone. Art expresses ideas.