Jeff Koons ‘ Puppy

  The American sculptor Jeff Koons is mostly renowned for his pop art and cartoon style sculptures and installations, such as his  iconic Balloon Rabbit piece. But in his work Puppy he combined high tech computer technology with traditional gardening techniques, to create this giant West Highland terrier in colourful plants and flowers. It is a visually…

Yayoi Kusama’s Art

Polka Dot Love Room Every body must at some point come across her art on the internet. She’s been working with many different artistic media such as  visual art, performance, film, literature, and design for more than 6 decades. We have seen her work posted on this blog, but her work is so iconic that I had…

Swans by Mike Fields

The paper folding project has had me thinking about the time in fourth grade when we read that book about a girl with leukemia who folded a thousand swans in order to make a wish. When we did the initial paper folding, before we got into the thick of Processing, I also tried making a…

humble

Though not his strongest song lyrically, I was floored by the visuals in Kendrick Lamar’s new music video, “Humble“. I am beyond happy that musicians are going the next level with their music videos and understanding that commentary can be made not only through words but also through the images that you pair with them. The…

Hana Coufalová Fashion Art Designer

Yes, I don’t know if this is a real category. If it isn’t it should be. Even if I’m in the mist of changing carriers , I can’t help myself being drawn to fashion in some sort of form. It might be out of habit, after over 10 years in that field, or I truly have…

Academy Award-Winning Animated Short: Piper

  Trailer I recently had the opportunity to visit Disney HQ in Burbank, CA where I learned that not only had Pixar been acquired by Disney, but also that they had also won an Oscar in this past awards cycle. The idea behind the award-winning Piper stirred from the writer and director, Alan Barillaro, quite…

The Return of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers

Trailer can be found here  In case you’ve been living under a rock (or for some reason are not into the Power Rangers), you might have missed that Lionsgate is producing a live action version of the classic cartoon Power Rangers. It comes out March 24th and despite the questionable editing/acting in the trailer, it looks…

A(n) US(A) Valentine’s day

Every year NY Times Square Alliance throws an annual Valentine Heart Design Competition, where design firms and architects submit a ‘romantic public art installation’ for Valentine’s Day. This 2017 winner is The Office for Creative Research  with an installation titled ‘We Were Strangers Once Too.’ It is a public data sculpture represented in pink and red on poles, that…

Forest of Numbers

The National Art Center of Tokyo commissioned French artist Emmanuelle Moreaux, who is Tokyo-based, to transform their Special Exhibition Gallery room. Moreaux decided to  use the space to create a vibrantly-colored numbers wonderland. The “Forest of Numbers” contains 100 colors and symbolizes the next 10 years. Over 60,000 figures (numbers 0-9) were used to create…

JAMES TURRELL: The Light Artist

In my class, we were talking about how modern artist used space in their images, in particular when using linear perspective. Our teacher took a brief second to discuss James Turrell and how he uses different contemporary mediums (in this case colored light) to defy the eye and it’s perception of space. For example, when…

World Wide Largest Calligraphy Artwork -by Pokras Lampas

I didn’t do anything special this past week other than studying and reading and my own work… So I went online to find something appealing and the internet didn’t let me down. I googled calligraphy and the artist Pokras Lampas from St. Petersburg, Russia popped up. This video is about his amazing and impressive massive calligraffiti work. While…

The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

I had the pleasure of stopping by the Institute of Contemporary Art (36th and Sansom) and seeing their newest exhibit on African American art and music from the late 1960s until now. While most of the exhibit was based on the jazz movement in Chicago, it beautifully and perfectly exhibited the art, music, and history…