HW# 5

1. Class #5 Fieldtrip Response: Post an image of the second work that you studied at MOMA and also your answers  to the 13 categories of content for this art object in a blog post. 

1. Willam de kooning is not trying to pursue a picture. This just an abstract drawing. 
2. There is no specific title for the painting. It is just called the "painting".
3. The genre of the artwork shows depicts that this an abstract painting with no focal point. There is no specific image unlike the usual European painting.
4. The material of the artwork from which it was made of is oil and enamel sign paint. 
5. The scale of the artwork is a medium size, not too large and not too small. However, since the figures were transferred from tracing papers. In the painting, the paints are dripping. The scale is 42 5/8 x 56 1/8" (108.3 x 142.5 cm). 
6. The duration of the artwork has been 66 years as it was made in 1948. The artwork still looks the same, well preserved.   
7. The context arriving from the artwork is expressionist from abstract artwork. 
8. The content relating to art history is the pure abstract art.
9. The colors ( black and white) make it the painting more ambiguous, not knowing what is figure and what is ground. . 
10. There is no specific iconic tradition.
11. The formal properties of the work make the artwork so simple yet complicated and very abstract.
12. The irony of the artwork is that Kooning has said "even abstract shapes must have a likeness" but the simple colors of black and white makes it so simple yet complicated that there is no likeness rather complication. 
13. I did not really like this artwork because I felt the artwork is very freely done with loose figuration that was hard to understand. The abstract nature of this artwork is very complicated when I kept on looking at it. 

2. Class #5 Lecture: Watch the lecture below and the linked video interview with Janine Antoni, then answer the following questions in a blog post.

a. Describe the process of Antoni's rope-making piece, Moor (2001), that is discussed at length in the video. What is this piece about?

The process of Antoni's rope-making piece is that she put in different material by different people merging it together to make a rope. This piece is about merging the lives together of the people in her life by merging the materials together. It is telling a story of the people being held in the material. 

b. The process of rope-tying that she learned is very different from the process of action painting.How is this method particularly appropriate to the meaning that she wants to get across?

The rope tying that she learned is very different from the process of action painting as the rope is tied together and connected with different clothing of the people in her life. She wanted to hold the experiences and memories of the person in her life by tying the materials of the person together which influences her to be who she is. The method is appropriate as the different colors of the material represent different people and different events in her life which is merged together.

c. Do you think a person completely ignorant of Antoni's work, someone with no verbal information to assist them, would understand the meaning of Moor ? What would they get? What would they miss?

I think a person completely ignorant of Antoni's work would not be able understand the concept of " Moor" completely. They would probably get that the different colors of the materials on the rope would depict different people and different event. But they would probably miss why she wanted to merge the different materials of the different people in her life together. 

3. HW:


Think about skills that you know, that are important to your family, your traditions, or that you pride yourself in knowing.

Describe in a paragraph-long blog post how you would adapt one of those skills to make an artwork that communicates something important about you, your family, your culture, or some important knowledge about yourself. Think about what materials you would use, the location where you would display the artwork, the group of people you would ask to help in the process, if any. Let yourself think about this problem throughout the week. When your write,be detailed about the how you learned the skill, why it's meaningful to you, the steps in the process, and how you would incorporate other meaning into this process, and what it ultimately is produced as a result of this process.

I love to cook so it could be my passion rather than skill. The skill I pride myself in knowing is making tibetan food. I have learned it from my mom. I can make traditional tibetan food called Shabalak. The Shabalak looks like a beef patties but it taste very juicy and has the strong beefy taste. When you are making a shabalak, you need dough, ground beef, scallion, some garlic and salt. The dough needs to be kneaded together into one large ball. Then, cut the large ball into small parts and roll it into a ball. Cut the scallion and garlic into small pieces and mix it together with the ground beef. Put some salt on the mixture of the ground beef. Since the filling is already made, the small dough must be flattened out. Then, using a rolling pin, press the flattened dough to make the skin not too thin. It has to be thick enough to hold the filling. After that, the egdes of the dough with the filling, needs to be flattened out together to avoid bursting it open when frying in the hot oil. Then, put the dough into the hot oil and fry it for 10 minutes. Tadaa... Shabalak is ready. Making such food, takes time and need patience as you would need an hour to do so. Also, when I make it at my house, I make it together with my family. In this busy New York, where everyone is constantly busy, making this kind of food, gives our family our own family time, where we share our feeling, laugh and just enjoy being a family.

I would like to make an artwork of a tibetan family in our traditional dress, laughing together and making shabalak together. I would like to display the artwork in Jackson Height where many tibetans live. I wanted to remind the tibetans youth, the importance of our culture, family as many youths are so busy following the American culture that they neglect the importance of our tibetan culture and the warmth of the family.