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Showing a Career, From the Legs Up

 

                                                                 By, Ken Johnson

              I chose this article for the art content because I enjoy this particular type of art. It's very creative and fun! This picture is festive and shows a mans legs cleverly and carefully installed into a wall - becoming the wall, thus becoming part of the art work that is! This particular art work was crafted by Robert Gober who continues to make really creative objects and implementing them into modern day art.

Article Review 9/25

                                                    



                                   Acacia Johnson's Origins

              

                 In this article the author discusses art expressed in romanticism and surrealism - specifically Acacia’s Johnson’s “origins” photography. In this photograph by Acacia Johnson, we see a wonderer gazing the land of Alaska in a way that seems so nostalgic. I only say nostagic because that is how I feel when I look at this photo. I feel nostagic for a place I've never seen or experienced. That is what makes this photo wonderful to me, the fact that I can feel something that may not even be what the photographer was feeling when she took the photo. I like the way the author brought to question about photography being seen from beneath the surface, looking beyond what we see or even looking at it from the same perspective of what the maker sees. The author discusses art and talks about how the work you put into it should reflect through the photos you take. When I look at her photographs I can feel the sense of beauty she sees in the world and I wonder about the amount of time and energy the photographer took to take such beautiful photos.

 

 

Greg Sand: Altered Memory

By, Aline Smithson

 http://lenscratch.com/2014/09/greg-sand/

            In this article the author discusses the work of artist Greg Sand and the surrealism she felt in his photography. The article is appropriately titled “Altered Memory” because that’s exactly what his photos entail – everyday things we are used to seeing altered to make you question what you are looking at and question what you know. The title immediately grabbed my attention to the article and I was interested even more when I saw the photographs. I really like what Greg Sands photos entail. I like that he took a simple photos and turned them into huge question about life and existence. In the article, Greg Sands talks about how photography allows us to capture a fleeting moment and see the temporality of life in that moment. I really enjoyed this article for the photos and I think it is a wonderful idea to play with photography the way Greg Sands did here. Our minds get use to seeing the same things everyday that we need more altered art in order to expose our brains to different ideas.

 

My favorite photo in the article by Greg Sands.

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