Donatella Versace is pop culture so why not create a dress that says pop culture and use a classic cut for the dress too. This was a wonderful idea. Even though Donatella Versace isnt persay a designer but she knows what will work and what will make a statement. Gotta giver her props for that. She clearly loves her brother to keep his legacy going on, which is a big deal since she isn't really into that side of fashion. I do love this dress by all means, totally didn't get my art project from this at all. I didn't know this existed until a few days ago. ( i found it on my phone and tried to post it but my phone app was being non-responsive.) the dress says that there is so much gossip and infatuation with celebs that there are enough articles and photos to make clothes out of and people will like since they love lving through celebs.
wow. never head of this guy other than his falling out with kate moss but his stuff is amazing. he mixes modern art in his fashions. i just wonder how he keeps the lights from burning through the fabric and how he keeps the lights on for so long. im really impressed with his stuff and will keep looking out for his work. i wonder if he will ever mix earth art with his fashions.
Genius. i only know a little bit about Vivienne Westwood and read a few things. her stuff does seem a little out of this world but then again it what makes her stand out from everyone else. I bet if it wasn't for Vivienne Westwood there wouldn't be a Betsy Johnson. I like this piece because there are many decades in this outfit. I spot the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Also i love for the Lion king with the make up. Most of this could be worn out and about by non Hollywood people with the colors and easy clothes to find to best copy it for people who can't afford it. i will defiantly keep an eye on Vivienne Westwood from now. Its always good to know more designers and have more inspiration.
Yes I used this photo on my dress but i loved it so much. i love that its daisies in a shape of sun sort of. this just reminds me of summer and spring two of my favorite seasons that have baseball and no school. i love that it looks like a sun because if one thinks about it, it does look like the sun since it has rays that go all over and some long than others. its also peaceful and makes me smile. I smile because i think of my childhood playing in fields of sunflowers and make crowns out of them.
hmmm yoko ono. i've never really seen her performances but i love what she stands for. PEACE. she is carrying on John Lennon's hope for the world. Its wonderful. yes many people may find her to be the reason why the Beatles broke up but i believe she has worked hard to prove people wrong. What i have heard of yoko onos songs i really can't say im a fan. Its like Heavy metal for me, can't understand a word. :/. the one thing that i love that yoko did is the peace light that can be seen from space.
I love this photo! Not just because I love barbie( don't judge me lol). Also the reason i love this photo is i bet Beecroft was thinking about the cookie cutter girls. They all look the same down to make up and hair styles. I also feel that Beecroft has thing for stewardesses because this looks more like flight attendants than an army. totally reminds of cookie cutters, just look at high schools now days. one girl will sent the look and trends and every one else will.
I always hated those girls because they thought they were so cool and awesome and the world was there but now they realizing what the real world is and hate it and being treated like crap. sorry for the rant but that's how i feel and think when i look at this picture. Also makes me wanna watch toy story.
Alexander McQueen, a Fashion designer who climbed to the top fast and conquered. Before this class I knew who he was. I love his work, its amazing. His designs are edge and yet classic at all times along with showing off a woman's curves. I hate designers who make dresses that only look good on there 87 lbs models and look terrible on everyone else. McQueen never did that, he always made sure that his designs can look great on everyone. This is my favorite dress of his. I have a top ten list of his dresses, this number two. :)
This dress is just plain beautiful. the bodice is very vintage say about late 1940s but then its updated with the low key hole. Its a very modest dress, Sandra is all covered and showing just a bit a skin, along with simple hair. McQueen is known for making his dresses look effortless on his clients. This dress does look effortless on sandrea but then again she makes everything like that. I was very sadden when I learned about McQueen's death just like the rest of the fashion world and his clients.
Maya Lin. Using her mind the earths surfaces to create wonderful art.
Ms. Lin is best know for her Vietnam memorial in DC but of course she has done tons more. She has moved to large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works and memorials. Ever since she did the Vietnam memorial she's been tons more work, she wasn't/isn't a one hit wonder artist. She has been interviewed many times and i grabbed a few for this post. They're very intriguing because she talks like a total artist, she's slightly out there but not and she worked hard for it.
(She reminds of Lane Kim from Gilmore Girls, she worked hard for her band to make it big, Ms. Lin did the same but of course a different kind of art. )
On her website, she says or it says, she only uses earth to make her art. For the Vietnam memorial, she cut open the earth and polished it to make history embedded in the earth.
I actually saw this myself a few years ago but I couldn't find the pictures, granted i went with a huge group (not an 8th grade trip) so it was super busy. The wall its self is just amazing, it beautiful and I'm so surprised that there isn't sun or water damage to the carvings of the name. Although I do believe that there are people to care for it. You have a chance to see this GO DO IT. It will leave breathless not just by the creation and though of this wall but by all the names too.
Ms. Lin has a fascination with water and here are a few of her landscapes that reflect water.
Storm King Wavefield
Where the Land Meets the Sea
This is her exhibit: Three Ways of Looking at the Earth.
formed entirely from fragments (more than 50,000 pieces) of two-by-four pieces of Sustainable Forestry Initiative certified wood.
Of course like I said before, she is best known for her memorials so here is one she did for the Civil Rights movement.
And here is the top view of the "table"
Its a time line of all the historical movements through the whole history of America.
This is her last memorial What is Missing?
So that's Maya Lin. her website shows all of her collections if you want to see more, go check it out.
So I am a huge fan of gLee. I made a Cheerio outfit for Halloween, I was Britney. Anyways, when Mr. Zucman mentioned flash mobs i remembered when glee did flash mobs so i thought i'd share some of them with you guys.
so my friend chad is a great photographer! so hey check him out! he does deals too! he's helping me creating my costume profile with his photography. :) here's some of his work.
Well this guy gives another meaning to watching TV. he found a new way to use to TV to send messages and pictures. I bet his mom isn't mad that he watch a lot of TV because he a made a career out of it. ha ha. Anyways, this video is cool, for one its a video of TVs and two so much is going on in there, its almost as if the pictures being shown are what the TV is for. the bird flying, the skull ( for me that is like a symbol news for today since now the news is about how died or hows been kidnapped then killed, really sad but true) the cartoon, the people chatting, and other things. Its cool that that the big images are actually collages of video grouped together to make the picture. its very innovative of the artist to take all aspects of the art of TV and create a new art.
shallow hal. The main character was able to see a woman's inner beauty and all what she's worth and finally when snaps out of the spell and finds that he really likes the girl. that is what it reminds me of. Gracie Kendal found peace in second life, she learned more about herself and is slowly getting use to her own skin. her avatar is really pretty ( reminds of my high school chem teacher) its her inner beauty, in second life its the only place she can show people who she is in from the inside when other people only see her from the outside and see that she doesn't follow Hollywood type. Kendal's art is all about inner beauty in my opinion and it shows especially in this picture. she still has her glasses, her smile, and her style. her other work on second life shows that beauty isn't just fitting in size two jeans. she is real pioneer and trying to prove that a little over weight doesn't mean the person isn't a good person.
This video was fun because I'm very fascinated by muscles. The face that this artist created a thing to move them with a machine is cool. I love the two volunteers, and the face they are vastly different in size. totally says, in this demo, that size doesn't matter. I find it hilarious that Stelarc is trying to have the buff lift his shirt, that defiantly made my friends laugh when i showed them as it did for the audience. I like how the artist is all about the body. showing how it works different ways. again I've always been fascinated by the human body, if this guy ever comes to town ill go see him. the fact that he uses the human body for art and not like the insides of it like the body exhibit is cool. He's showing how the inside works from the outside.
four yip loves light colors and loves to do art about humans, animals, and nature. I find this fun since i just talked about Alice in wonderland. this is a fun twist on it since the march hare is a girl. the colors are very pretty and even makes me think of one of my dresses. four yip is cool since she wants people to interact with her art on second life. I guess that a good reason to be on SL. to get recognized and stuff but i personally can't spend hours on there. well back to the art. the floral background makes me think of 16th and 17th century art which makes this romantic then with the half girl/half rabbit's top being up open so much makes it very modern since now most art is half or naked women. the only problem I have with it is maybe the look of the girl, her face looks like she is maybe like13 or 14 and showing tons of skin for her age. I understand that a bikini does that too but like this is a lot of cleavage. I have mixed emotions about this but all in four yip does let the mind day dream in her art work.
OK i know this clips from his movie but i can't post a whole movie on here. Matthew barney has created his own universe of Alice in wonderland. These clips obviously show that he likes that story, the video has the white rabbits, the pink creature that creates havoc, random animal creatures instead of the talking flowers. He created a whole series like this too. Granted I haven't seen any of the movies but with presentation in class it shows that Barney does like the story of Alice if not i can find references to it but then again a lot things do. Another major key element to my Alice theory is that the video starts with a whole then goes to white rabbits. in the middle there is even a game similar to croquette. I may be wrong but it does seem like that also the colors are very psychedelic which I'm guessing is because of his birth in San Fran. Barney's work is interesting and out of this world and I can see why he like Bjork, they both out of this world or what is known as the main stream world.
This video is pretty cool and yet i wonder how many people enjoy it now because of japan. what i mean by that is the couple is just standing there and taking the flow of water at them and the poor people in japan had to do it but not for art. the meaning of this has certianly changed and im sure that the artist Bill Viola didn't intend to stir up sad emotions for anyone. Still it is pretty to watch because it is slow motion and to see the actions of the body is really pretty to see.
Wow this collage says everything major about the 1960s! you got the space race, Vietnam, JFK, Bobby Kennedy. Janice Joplin ( with a low top I may add), the protesters in the upper right hand corner, the death of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil riots that went on. I mean you could can show history class this and ask what do they see and what are the impacts of this collage. Its 100% American and tells so much just with the pictures. Robert Rauschenberg is a genius for creating this!!! I wonder if he knew what he was creating when he made this, well yeah I'm sure he knew but years later when all this stuff is huge in the history books, and pretty much every one in this is dead.( yeah I know sad but its true, The Kennedy brothers, Martin Luther King Jr., Janice are all gone) I mean seriously this collage sums up the 1960s pretty well with the exception of the British invasion but this collage clearly only shows the American side of the 1960s. but man I'm really impressed by this. His other work is great but this just stands out so much. Each picture tells a huge story, also each picture gives an emotion.
Erwin Redl's matrix 2. this art is cool, its cool that he gets this effect without fog machines like we do in theater. Its gotta take a long time to set up all the lights in the right way to get the effects. When I see this i think of the matrix but im sure every does, also the movies with the lasers trying to jump over them to get into the bank or to the teasure. I do have to say looking at the lights can play tricks on you and this already does with the all the triangles and soon stars. I wonder if one stands in different spots the effect changes. I would to see this person, or anything by this artist, its amazing and the time and effort. I would also love to see him at work placing the lights or however he does it.
So this totally makes me think of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. I would have to say Tony Oursler's favorite ride was haunted mansion. In this video the dummy is just on the ground on his/her side with the face being live with emotion and not knowing what just happen. This gives new meaning to art coming to life, its the same technique that they used in the ride, but of course Oursler took it to new level. I like his way of art by taking it up a notch, and why not we have the technology, using "yesterday" art techniques and mixing it is wonderful and brakes boundaries that some might scared to do.
