Reflection

I enjoyed session 2 of summer school. I had fun in Michael's class. I learned about the different genres of art that there are. We went on a few different museums thoughtout the city. My favorite museum was the Moma and the Guggenhiem museum. I learned that art could be anything you want it to be. My favorite type of art is land art which is conceptual and Art Deco, which is decorative. All though it was fun, it wasn't always a simple class. The most difficult thing that I have learned in class is about Postmodernism. I Learned the different types of postmodern texts that there are, like Irony and Parody. I also learned that family guy intertwines with postmodernism because the show shows different scenes in which postmodernism is portrayed. I am grateful that my teacher took the time to teach us all of these things. The things we've learned, like postmodernism is a topic that will be taught in college. We read an article of the 7 different postmodern texts. It was so complex that it is at a college level comprehension.  A final thing I enjoyed in class was making daily blogs. I've always wanted to make blogs and thanks to my teacher, I did just that. I hope you all have a great summer. Ciao.😁✌️☀️

Guggenheim Museum- Shapes

I created my shapes with clay because I wanted to try something different. I got inspired by the shapes exhibit at the Guggenhiem museum. I loved the material and colors that were used. I chose one simple color to show that even though there are different shapes, the shapes are still the same color. That makes them the same inside and out, even though they're different shapes. That's my concept of it.

Family Guy - Postmodern Text

I think Family Guy is postmodern when it comes to irony and parody. Today we see a lot of postmodernism on today's television, especially in the comedy genre. Postmodernism is characterized by ideologies and and theories. Since postmodernism is mostly common in the genre of comedy, Family Guy is a perfect example of postmodernism.

All of Family Guy's episodes are about making fun of another show or person. The only difference about making fun of other shows is that they put their own twists to it. That shows the parody of the show. For instance, when Peter and his son went to the Jewish people because Peter needed financial help and in a stereotypical sense, Jewish people are good with money. Postmodernism always concerns itself with undoing gran narratives. In this case, America always stereotypes Jewish people with being financially stable. .Moreover, in Family Guy, the scenes go from one to another. For instance, when Megan needed glasses and started explaining to her mother that she doesn't want to get laser surgery for her eyes; the scene then changed to Star Wars and the laser stick the characters use to fight. The point of that scene was to shows that the laser stick was being inserted into someone's eye as if giving them laser eye surgery. That shows parody as well.

Inspired by Robert Smithson

This drawing resembles Robert Smithson's concept of mirrors. The drawing is a person looking at their reflection instead of looking into a mirror while still surrounded by nature. The person is looking at her reflection and at the same time she sees her place in the environment. The birds in the sky and the fish in the sea resembles nature. Even the sun setting and the sea all resembles nature.

Check out my prezi

Check out my Prezi on conceptual art at:
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Whitney Museum - Pink Cake

This drawing I drew resembles the cake I saw at the Whitney museum. The pink construction papers represents the color of the cake, which is pink. I chose this art piece from the Whitney museum because  pink is one of my favorite color. I also thought it looked really fun and classy. I got the vibe of elegancy. So that's what my drawing is inspired by.

Bronx Museum- Caribbean house

This drawing represents an art piece that I saw at the Bronx museum. Houses in the Caribbean are built from cement because in the Caribbean there's a lot of hurricanes. This art piece spoke out to me a lot because I can relate. Back home in Puerto Rico, I have my own house. My father and some others helped construct it. My house looked exactly the same as the art piece when it was being constructed at first. When I was an infant my granddad told my father to make me a house and so that's what my father did. Till' this day it's still there. Now it's nicely constructed and finished. It's two floors.

Moma Museum - my dream city

I drew this because I know what it's like to live in a city. A city usually has a lot of buildings. Growing up in the city there's a lot of cars and it's just really crowded. Also in the city there's an incredible Amount of pollution. Now, the reason why i wrote those words down is because despite it all, I love this city because I've been here all of my life. The artist that I was inspired by was Giorgio de Chrico because in his pieces he uses many things at once. He used a lot of material things. But I also like liked his art piece because there are many things clustered at once and that resembles my drawing. Because in a city, there's always so much going on.

Independent reading

The book that i'm reading is about a high school student who commits suicide. Before doing this she records herself on a set of old cassette tapes explaining 13 reasons why she decided to end her life. She then decides to send those tapes out to each individual who was the cause of Hannah Baker's death. Moreover, a boy named Clay Jensen who is the narrator in first person point of view, is on one of the tapes and he tries to figure out what he did to be on one of the tapes. Because him and Hannah shared a kiss the night of the party. He actually really liked her and had respect for her unlike other people.

The chapter that i'm currently on is about Hannah explaining on one of the final tapes how she has her mind made up about wanting to end her life. She had too many bad things happening to her at once that she just felt she could not cope with any longer. She also felt that she just didn't have a friend to help console her. She went on explaining on how she decided to end her life. She overdosed on pills. All this makes Clay feel worse because there he is listening to a bunch of tapes and hearing Hannah explaining on how she wants to end her life and why. This makes him sick because he truly cared about Hannah and he feels heart broken at the fact that she decided to end her life. He felt closer to her through the tapes

Pop art "diabetes soda"

This is a pop art piece. Well at least it is to me. I got the idea from a soda can. The concept of this is that too much soda is unhealthy and can cause diabetes. The point was to make the soda imperfect because once diabetes ruins with your health, your body becomes less and less perfect. I wanted to add the cheetah prints just because it's my favorite animal print. Instead of labeling the soda " Pepsi" or " sprite", I labeled it " Diabetes." 

The concept behind my art is that the yellow represents a human's good side and the black represents a human's bad side. Now, the reason why there's more black than yellow is because us as imperfect human beings, we're bound to have more of a bad side than having a good side. I used the yellow as a person's good side because it's a bright color. I used black as a person's bad side because it's a dark color and a dark color can be represented as a person's dark side. I believe that colors have a lot of meaning in art.

I pretty much just wanted to show the different feelings people have of marriage. On the last slide I explain more specifically on the topic.

I enjoyed philosophy class. I enjoyed, creating art that expressed us. I also enjoyed learning different things. For instance, I learned about the Allegory of The Cave and about Robert Smithson. He is now my favorite artists.Despite the bewildering and difficult assignments, I still feel like I've learned so much. I've also learned about modern art and conceptual art. PM school was better because we actually had a chance to express our concepts behind the art that we've created which was my favorite part of PM school. I will fondly remember my teacher, Michael, because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't know about all these things. He took the time and dedication to teach us all that we know about philosophy.

This is an art piece inspired by Robert Smithson. I'm inspired by Robert Smithson because he used the environment to create his art. I thought that was really unique and amazing. The concept behind my art is that the environment reflects us all. The leaves ,sticks, and pine cones represent the environment. The mirror is used to be apart of the environment. The concept is to look at yourself and see yourself in the environment. And also, your place within the environment.

                                                            Conceptual Art- Land Art


       
How it all began:"Robert Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey, on January 2, 1938. In 1953, as a high-school student, he won a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York, where he studied in the evenings for the next two years, also taking classes at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1956. Smithson’s first solo exhibition was in 1959, at the Artists Gallery, New York. In 1964, he began to produce what he considered his first mature works of writing and sculpture." http://www.diaart.org/sites/page/59/1602

Robert
Smithson worked outside. He used nature to make designs, such as the swirl. He also used nature to place mirrors in random places. The mirrors would reflect the environment. A lot of the colors that Robert used for his artwork were really just neutral colors. Natural colors that we see in the environment. Robert didn't like the idea of getting money for his masterpieces, which is why he used nature to create art. He tried to get away from all the raucous. I do appreciate that about him dearly. It definitely makes him different from all the other artists. I think he's one of my favorite artists. To me that means that he really is passionate for art. I love the idea of using nature to create art, because i love nature. Robert did it in a way that didn't affect the environment.
           One of my favorite art pieces of Robert Smithson is the 'Spiral Jetty'. He used salt crystals, basalt rocks, mud, earth and water on the northeastern shore in the Great Salt Lake in Utah to create the Spiral Jetty. I think that Robert was a geophill. Meaning, he had love for the earth. When constructing his art, he was very careful with the environment. Another masterpiece of his that I admire is the ones where he literally uses mirrors in the environment. To him it meant that the mirrors were reflecting the environment and the person's place in the environment.

His artwork...

1. Spiral Jetty

2. Mirrors In The Environment

Art is a Pattern

Alfred North Whitehead once said, "Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern." 

This means that an artist repeats a pattern in their art work. And that’s why people like art because it’s familiar to them and maybe that’s why people like it so much. Just like a music artist, they make music that sells, music that they know that people will like and then when the public hears the artists new album, they might like it because they have heard it before.

Nature & Reality

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                                  My analysis on Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"


 The "Allegory of the Cave" was one of Plato's philosophical way of thinking. He portrayed three men in a cave who were chained up. The men have never learned about anything else and have never been exposed to anything because all they were ever familiar with was the wall that they faced all their lives. Then Plato explained what would happen if one of the men were dragged out of the cave and onto the outside world. The reality. The man would be stunned because he didn't know that trees were green and that the objects that he and the other men were observing were actually just shadows of the objects behind them all along. After awhile, he started to become adjusted to the real world and he began comprehending the way of life and learned new things that he never thought existed until he experienced it himself. His eyes even got adjusted to the sunlight due to the fact that his eyes were adjusted to the darkness of the cave.Furthermore, when the man went back into the cave he couldn't see anything because he was already adjusted to the light of the sun. When he tried to explain to the men that the figures on the wall were really their shadows and that trees are really green, he felt helpless and came to the conclusion that in order for the men to comprehend that trees are green, they would have to experience it for themselves.