Xerox Project

        I spent a lot of time thinking about what part of my body I wanted to scan.  Since there was no censorship and I did want to go out of the box, I decided to do my vagina.  So I scanned it and then distorted it a little and made it extremely dark so you could barely see anything.  I didn't really want the whole world to see my vagina up close and personal.  I was inspired by the dada movement, and all the collages so I did a collage of words out of a magazine I thought reminded me of sex and the body in media.    I kind of placed the words so they appear like teeth on the lips I made out of a folder and FedEx box pieces.  I used the top of my desk, I was supposed to build months ago and I know I will never build it so I tiled the scanned pictures of myself and then wrote out what is the value on the bottom.  I finally made the lips pop off the board.  I think it looks pretty sweet.

Bahaus!

     Bahaus seemed like a fabulous institute! Bahaus literally means "house for building."  It featured most avant garde art of its time!  Bahaus was founded by Walter Gropius in 1919.  Gropius was a famous architect who wanted to bring people together through art.  Bahaus originally started in Weimar, then Dessau and ended in Berlin in 1933.  Each time the location changed, so did the directors.  Each director focused on a different concept.

Monochrome in Lincoln, Massachusetts built by Walter Gropius

      The schools focused on students ability to experiment and thing out of the box.  There were many different types of classes available as well such as pottery, carpentry, sculpting, weaving, printing and varieties of painting.  Architecture classes were also available but not initially, which I thought was ironic considering Gropius is an architect mastermind.
  










          Many art movements erupted from the institute.  One of the artists who taught at Bahaus was Wassily Kandinsky.  He was an art theorist who created completely original modern designs.  I attached one of his works called, On White II.  I really liked all the different figures and shapes combined together.  

(1923, Wassily Kandinsky)
I did not realize how influential Bahaus really is.  A lot of the modern furniture I have recently been viewing, has been influenced by Bahaus.  Also many buildings have been influenced by Bahaus architecture. Bahaus was much more than a school.  It was a community where artists could experiment with new ideas.  

Andalusion of A Dog?

      

 Whoa, I did not expect that movie to be so weird.  "Andalusion of a Dog" is a sixteen minute, black and white film produced by Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dali.  It emerged from the Dada movement around 1929. The movie is totally silent and in black and white so you have to concentrate more.  The music was not anything to pry about.  Fun Fact: This movie was also financed by Luis' mother.  The actors throughout the film were naturally extremely corny and over dramatic. It was cool to see what innovative technique would be used to change the scene.    

      I appreciated the constant fluidity within the film, it worked extremely well.  The film was very creative and had many unusual transformations.  One of the transformations I thought was cool was how the ants in the man's hand changed into armpit hair, then something that looked like a tumbleweed and finally a hand.    The scenes were pretty random, especially when the man was pulling two pianos with dead horses on them.  Check out the first part for yourself!