Roberto Baciocchi

Roberto Baciocchi is an Italian Architect who is most notably known for designing Prada stores. While being gone last week, I was able to see the Prada store in Las Vegas Nevada. It was pretty cool inside and out. He is normally known for making the stores look out of the ordinary. This was pretty hard to do in Las Vegas but I think he accomplished it. Here are some pics:

The Anne Frank Memorial

1.) The memorial is located at 770 S. 8th St. There are rocks, water, concrete, statues, and engravings with text.

2.) I think the Anne Frank Memorial represents faith in Humanity, not only from Anne Frank but many other "famous" human rights activists.

3.) The visual elements that were most dominant for me were the writing that were engraved throughout the rockwalls above the stream. I read through it and remembered how much I like text in art. Its beautiful.

4.) I think that the memorial is site specific. I think it was designed to be in this certain space and stay there.

5.) Greg Stone was one of the creators. Kurt Karst, an architect from Idaho, was the designer. The memorial was funded by Albertson's Supervalu, Fundsy, Officemax, individual doners throughout Idaho, and also by Idaho school children.

6.) Statues, Rocks, Water, engraving on stone, Audio boxes, and concrete were all used to create this memorial.

7.) I love the way the text functions. To me it is needed to help emphasize the rest of the art. The text functions as a way to help people understand the why the art was made.

8.) I think that there is a strong communication of equality. The title is somewhat questionable because there are so many people that are referred to and some of the quotes are stronger than any of the Anne Frank quotes. However, I think that the majority of quotes are from Anne.

9.) I think that the memorial is very successful because of the way it pulls you in. There is beautiful art around, architecture and sculpture, audio boxes, great quotes and everyone is welcome to it.

Pablo Picasso

Guernica

Igor Stravinsky

Guitarist

I know throwing Picasso up on your Blog is probably a little cliche, but he is one of my favorite artists. I love his art and also love his quotes. When we were watching the video on copyright infringement for art, I remembered a quote from Picasso that a friend told me. It was, "Bad artists copy. Good artists steal." I've always interpreted that to mean art done by taking ideas from others and putting your own twist on it to brand it yours is good. This is very true in almost all art. There's really nothing you can do that hasn't been done before.

Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier is an amazing architect. He did many great works but like most people, Villa Savoye is my favorite from him. I loved his idea of making an architectural promenade where you could move through and experience architecture. Also most of his building were up on columns or pilotis. He is truly inspiring to any artist or architect.

Villa Savoye

looking out towards the ramp

Corb

Gustave Courbet

Gustave's self portrait is one of my favorite pieces from a realist artist. His painting are all pretty amazing though. I feel that he spent a lot of time choosing what he wanted to paint rather than making a bunch of realistic paintings. But, he has made a lot of paintings. He is one of the innovators of realism and anyone can see why. Here's some pictures:

Self Portrait

The Wrestlers

The Stonebreakers

Janine Antoni

Loving Care

Contact

So, back when we were learning about conceptual art, we came across an artist who painted with her hair. Unfortunately, I was not able to look her up again until now. I thought it was pretty amazing and thought maybe if I became a sweet architect someday, I would hire her to paint every wall in a house with her hair. I loved how unique her idea was with the way she swirled around with her hair that was dipped in paint.

Maurizio Cattelan

I really like Maurizio's attitude. I think all of his work is based off of it. I tried to find a reason why he did some of his work, like specific reasons. But, I couldn't find any. His work grabbed me right away though. the meteor hitting the pope that he displayed at an "Apocalypse" gallery in 1999 was just awesome. I immediately thought of the molestation controversy from back then with all those priests. I don't know if thats what he was going for though. Also the Hitler praying thing is pretty funny. Here's some pics:

Maurizio Cattelan

'la nona ora’, 1999

'Him' 2001

**EXTRA CREDIT** BFA THESIS EXHIBITION

I went to the BFA Exhibition that was held at the public gallery in Visual Arts Center at Boise State University. I did see many interesting sculptures and paintings but the one that caught my eyes the most was a bracelet made by Ellen Crosby. I thought it was very simple and yet very sophisticated. I really like how it was all shiny metal and decorated with clean smooth little gabbles. It sort of reminded of a tambourine. And it was very nicely done.

Raphael

So there was something on T.V. today that was talking about when 2PAC and Notorious B.I.G. died and how they were gangster rapping rivals and all of a sudden, I started thinking that it was probably like that for Michaelangelo and Raphael. I remembered that Raphael painted Michaelangelo sulking on the stairs in the middle. Raphael portrayed himself as more of a social person. Madonna in the meadow is pretty cool portrayal of Mary too. I think he portrays her a lot different than most did back then.

School of Athens

Madonna in the Meadow

Marriage of the Virgin

Annette Messager

I'm not real big on installations but Annette Messager's work is pretty interesting. You can definitely see the hard work that goes into her art. I remember the slides of the birds that were set up in rows from class. But, I was not able to find a lot about her online but I google image searched her work and she has some pretty cool stuff. I chose three of my favorite pieces from her.