Deviantart

Do you know Deviantart?
It is a website where you can find many images, arts, pictures...etc
People can share images & comment on the orther's.
It's a site for artists or people who like art.
If you search in the categories, you can find "Digital art", it's interesting to see that art isn't necessarily with a written support or a sculpture, it could be digital too.

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Dallas Museum of Art : Artistic voices

You'ill find these podcasts in itunes u, then type "dallas museum" in the search engine, then click on the "Dallas Museum of Art : Artistic voices". Now you can see the different podcasts. (The Coffin of Horank, John Cage, A.R Penck, Victor Grippo, Linda Ridgway talks about gravity, Bronze roses, Hidden Meanings in arts, Granite stone & Houston Police Memorial)

 

The coffin of Horank 

 

The Coffin of Horank is a part of Dallas museum of art. This museum has a web-based digital media library (on itunes' podcasts).

Those artistic voices is an important contribution of the museum.

It's important for museum education technology model for greater access to programming and information about the collections.

I'll try to explain to you what the podcast says :

In the inscrptions at the button of the coffin we can see the name of Horank & Osiris, the gard of the afterworld.

The figure represents the momie. The face is Osiris and green because egyptians believe in rebirth & in the afterlife and the green is the color of the birth.

All in this figure indicates that it's a royal firgure : the beard, the hair for example.

In this figure what really identify immortal life are the eyes because they are wide open to the internal life.

John Cage

J. Cage is a composer. Some pieces of his work (oeuvre)
are into the Dallas Museum.
This pieces are pieces of contemporary art collection;
That referred in the podcast represents world for Cage.
Sound is used as medium : each person has his own music
In different speeds etc is the way we received the world.
I didn't found any photos on the web about this piece. 

 

 

 

 

 

A.R Penck

As the sculpture of John Cage, this one is a part of the contemporary art collection of the museum of Dallas.

A.R Penck is a German artist.

This scuplture is made by duct tape because it was the own thing he had at the moment he made the sculpture.

For the person who talk in the podcast the sculpture shows what was life for Penck, he exprimes his sensitiveness throught this sculpture.

 

Victor Grippo

As the two previous sculpture, this one is a part of the contemporary art collection of Dallas Museum.

This one is made by Victor Grippo, the person who comment the podcast explains that the artist filed shapes and into those shapes he filed black beans.

He chose black beans because it a food foundable anywhere in the world & eaten by every people.

 After subsequent time the shapes exploded
& the artist had no idea of when
the beans would be deposed.

The sculpture show the persons
& the kind of person. 

 

 

Linda Ridgway talks about gravity

In this episode, the artist Linda Ridgway talks about gravity.

She explains that she likes playing with the gravity, she likes catching things at different moment.

For her it's exciting because she can catch a drop for example & in the real life we can catch a drop.

Bronze roses

In the episode, at the beginning we can see a place where the bonze roses are made & how they are made
For Linda Ridgway, each roses are specific.
The American artist Linda Ridgway says that she's picky & that the shadow is important.
The effect is made by a special ink.


 

Hidden Meanings in arts

The vision of Jesus Moroles is to give too much information & people have to made their own solutions.
He learns more about the work from other people.
For him, you can know more about a person by his work than other things.
The explanation is not on work it's on experience on work.
When you told them what it is you take the mystery out of it.

Granite stone

The granite sculptor Jesus Moroles said that he changed his perspective now he wants to speak to him, he thinks that it's not just a piece of rock he thinks that he is the stone.
He realized a connection between him & a stone when hi was
working with the stone he
didn't realized that there

was 25 persons around him.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Houston Police Memorial

In this episode, Jesus Moroles explains his emotion with the Houston Police Memorial.
It's growing out of the ground.
When you look it from the sky, it's a cross.

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What do you think about art?

What do you think about art?
Or What is art for you?
Yestarday I came to Grenoble Museum & I discovered the "Hidden collection" of Gauguin.
Personnaly, I'm just disappointed because I discovered that Gauguin was married & that he was "in love" with another woman...
I adore Gauguin's work (oeuvre) but the fact that he was married & that he "loved" another woman disapointed me...
I hate men that are in this way of thinking.
But, I reflect myself & I realize that Gauguin (from that I know), never "cheat" his wife so I think that art could be an expression of ourselves & it can allow expression of what we have in our spirit.
I went to the "abstract section" & I discovered many "strange things" that I never saw before & I thank in myself : "They are crazy!!".
Yes, I think they are crazy.
But, are not we all crazy?

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