Do you know their names yet?
Please arrive early for your exam at 11:30 am tomorrow. We begin with slide identifications, and if you miss them, we cannot go back.
Also, under slidelists/class downloads is the latest slide list (we’re up to 7!!!) Bring a copy in for lecture on Thursday.
Good luck with your studies!
I believe that these recreations say a lot about Michelangelo’s works in the chapel. The fact that people are bringing them out more to the public eye is amazing. I think these paintings are still significant because of the fact that there aren’t others like them. They tell a lot of stories about how people felt about beliefs of our creation as well as how everything will end. They express Michelangelo’s emotions as well.
The art of Raashad Newsome presents an interesting was of picturing the motifs taken from medieval heraldry and incorporating in it today’s view of wealth in hip hop culture. To be honest do not really like his style. It looks really tacky. Especially the frames of arts colored with car paint. I understand he wants to convey his hip hop ideas but this seems to be too much. However the idea of mixing the video with music and art history is brilliant. That is very creative and shows higher level of understanding culture, people, media and art. I like the concept of heraldry, it is very interesting and worth focusing on. But when he uses it in his arts, it looks odd and artificial. I think it takes away from his art a great deal.
i find the artwork of Rashaad Newsome to be very interesting but not quite my taste. i like how he combines modern pop culture with the ideas of heraldry, showing social or economic status which is what our society is based on today. he takes the things most of us see as being material wealth and some what shows it off, adding the 17th to 18th century style to it. its also interesting that he shows his work in his frames as well. uses a sense of 17th century neoclassical frame work and added bling to it with significant colors synonymous with hip hop culture. the reason why i said its not my taste is because it bothers me that society revers material objects and loses sight on important things.not to turn this into a sociology course but violence is a product of individuals being unable to control their social status or feelings of self worth. anyways i do commend him for learning the background of the art then infusing his creative ideals into it. would be interesting to hear the publics reactions and if this would change the public’s views on hip hop and rap culture
This week you will explore the work of contemporary artist Rashaad Newsome who mixes earlier art with popular culture. Read a recent New York Times article about Newsome and watch some videos about him, including one produced by the artist. Newsome’s work is currently on display at the Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea through Dec 3. What to you seems historical about Newsome’s art? Do you think the references to history make his art more relevant to you? Why or why not?
Link to NYT article on Newsome “Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry”
Interview with Rashaad Newsome at Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum museum
Check out Newsome’s exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery in Chelsea
Groups 1, 2, and 3: Please submit a post by Thursday, 11/17
Groups 4, 5, and 6: Please comment on a classmate’s post by Thursday, 11/17
I think this virtual recreation is amazing. You can really see where everything is inside the Sistine Chapel. I just wish the developer could have added more graphics. If you compare the graphics of video games to the graphics of this virtual recreation, you can clearly see that the graphics of video games wins. I think that the developer can definitely show this in high definition to make the viewer have a better feel for the chapel and it’s marvelous frescoes. I think the reason why these painting are still significant for contemporary society because it is so real and perfect. Judging from what I have seen in the video clips all these figures look like there are coming out of the walls. All the figure, are almost perfectly proportional and have contrapposto. It also shows and tells the viewer the story about the bible.
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Ceiling in four years, 1508-1512. Read below an excerpt of Michelangelo’s biography by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), the first art
historian. Visit the Sistine Chapel with the modern art historians of SmartHistory.org in Second Life, a virtual environment. Vassar College recreated the Sistine Ceiling on their Second Life “campus”. You don’t need to open an account to visit, instead watch SmartHistory’s video of Michelangelo’s work on the Sistine Ceiling. I’ve added a video clip of sidewalk art based on Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam from the Sistine Ceiling. What do you think of these virtual recreations of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel? Why do you think these paintings are still significant for contemporary society?
Excerpt from Vasari’s biography of Michelangelo in Lives of the Artists
When the Pope was returned to Rome, Bramante (a friend of Raffaello’s, and therefore little a friend to Michael Angelo) tried to turn his mind from finishing his sepulchre, saying it was an evil augury and seemed like hastening his death to make his own grave; and he persuaded him that on Michael Angelo’s return he should set him to paint the ceiling of the chapel in the palace, in memory of Sixtus his uncle. For Bramante and Michael Angelo’s other rivals thought to draw him away from sculpture, in which they saw he was perfect, and make him produce less worthy works, not to be compared with Raffaello’s, knowing he had had no experience in painting in fresco. So when he was returned and proposed to the Pope to finish his tomb, he desired him instead to paint the ceiling of the chapel. Michael Angelo sought in every way to shift the load off his back, proposing Raffaello instead. But the more he excused himself, the more impetuous the Pope became. So seeing that his Holiness persevered, he resolved to do it, and the Pope ordered Bramante to make the scaffold. He made it hanging by ropes passed through holes in the ceiling, which when Michael Angelo saw, he asked Bramante how the holes were to be stopped up when the painting was finished. He answered, “We must think of that afterwards, but there is no other way.” So Michael Angelo knew that either Bramante was worth little or that he was no friend to him, and he went to the Pope and told him the scaffolding would not do. So he told him to do it his own way. He therefore ordered it to be made on supports, not touching the wall, and he gave to a poor carpenter who made it so many of the useless ropes that by the sale of them he obtained a dowry for one of his daughters.
Visit the Sistine Chapel in Second Life
Sidewalk version of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam
Groups 1, 2, and 3: Please comment on a classmate’s post by Thursday, 11/10
Groups 4, 5, and 6: Please submit a post by Thursday, 11/10
As mentioned in class, I included a new exhibition option for the Museum Paper Assignment. You can also review the exhibit, Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which just opened on October 28th. The museum has a suggested admission policy that means you pay-what-you-wish to enter the museum. Also note that November 5th is a Target First Saturday at the Museum, which means it is open to 11 pm and there will be free ticketed events (tickets are distributed on a first come, first serve basis). The Assignment sheet for the Museum Paper has been updated to reflect this new addition.
As for the latest Discussion Topic on Masaccio and Renaissance perspective systems, due to some unforeseen family circumstances, I will not be posting a new topic until next week. Therefore, I have extended the due date for the Discussion Topic to next week, Thursday, November 3. Tell your classmates! Please keep up with the blog and have a Happy Halloween!
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