collage much? : a different perspective on my identity

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back view





side view



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So this is my collage of myself. kinda strange of idea of a collage i know, but i wanted to be different. so i used a styrofoam head. first i sprayed painted it all different colors because i am a mixture of many different things. then i placed believe it or not catnip, yes the catnip plant on the part of the head to represent my GREEN side of me, since im very earthly (also my nickname is cat, so it was ironic) lol the head also has a headband like i wear alot, and a flower in my ear cuz i wear flowers alot. the reason the mouth is half-way sown shut is because sometimes i need to learn when to keep my mouth shut, it is a part of what i expect to be a part of me. anyways, i placed pictures all around it then popping out everywhere, since im really unpredictable and random.

the pictures represent me in everyway.

FRONT VIEW: penguins (favorite animal & i adopted one), my friends.

SIDE VIEW (green side): my within a green forest, the earth being green symbol.

BACK VIEW: my family (mom && stepdad), me laughing as a child (&& since i live to make ppl laugh), i am a strong, independent woman, picture of my with my friends snowboarding (one of my fav things), a picture of ukraine and its national colors ( my heritage).

SIDE VIEW: music coming out of my ears (music is what makes me feel alive), family (my three half sisters and half brother from my real father), and symbol to represent equality among the world.

all of these things are my identity and many more things are too. this was just to give an idea that i am a eccentric person who has yet to be tamed in this world of mislead pathways. i love my life, and who i am. hopefully this shows that.

LACMA :)

So fyi: i hate, let me repeat, i hate blogger, like i cant even figure out how to move pictures and place them where i want on this page. but watever.

anyways, the los angeles county museum of art was simply fabulous. i loved it. my favorite section of the whole museum i say was the contemporary art section with the painting above in it. it had so many outrageous things in this section, such as a HUGE version of a ballon dog. and it had huge kellogs boxes (as shown above). it was simply to die for. everything was so eye catching and extremely well put together in a way that might as well be undescribeable. i spent so much time wandering around it again and again. my second favorite part was of course, the modern art section. this is where i found jackson pollocks work as well as many others. i also deiscovered that i enjoy weird things such a sculptures and inanimate objects like charis,shoes, and lights (such simple things) placed in such an order that it became art. makes me wonder if my room is art in some way...

i also discovered my favorite painting...that head of a woman by pablo picasso. its the first picture up above. this painting just for some reason took my attention of paintings to a whole new level. i dont even really like picasso's work all that much, but for some reason i love this painting. a woman came by me, who worked there, and said why i was staring at this painting. i told her it was beautiful, that i cant tell why but i love it. she explained to me to look deeper into the painting. use the idea of time. so i stared as she explained, do you see the hand moving in time...do you see the two faces, but how it is really one face? do you see the ears, the eyes, the hair? all of sudden it was like the painting was moving and it made sense. i guess people can all see different things with paintings, i saw a head of a woman who was progressing through time.

finally i walked through the american art building, european art, and the egyptian art. at the very end before i left, i sat in on a painting seminar for 15 min, where a lady would speak on a painting and tell about the artist, etc. i learned about the painting by georges barque called the concert. i learned about cubism and even some more on picasso, since georges and him were fellow artists.

overall, i had a splendid time and i plan to go back and take my family since this time i went all by myself.

new blogggg

so here is the new blog. totally bumming it because i really liked my wordpress account. but oh well onto the next blog lol
so basically last class we started talking about identity art. identity art is art the reflects one self, basically. it can also who you are or what your not. it can reflect a persons' religion, race, or gender, if not more.
some of the identity art we saw in class gave me the idea that identity art somewhat is trying to get a viewpoint across. && i guess our identity can be choosen, however most of the time it is just put on us.  i have never really seen, well at least noticed any identity art until this class. so identity art as we saw in class ranges from like 1980-2000 and is 20th century art. well at least this is what i was gathering from the quick lesson :) i also really liked Nikki S. Lee's work and how it was her intergrating into those lifestyles for a period of time and having her picture taken that way. it was definately an original work of art. Also trueism was broughten up through Jenny Holzer's work. very interesting.  i actually really dig it. as well as those artists i really thought the angry little asian girl identity art was pretty f***in hilarious. i even went on youtube to watch the different ones!

so im stoked to make this a collage for our project. i have such a great idea! its gunna be sickk, well at least i think so. and to also look up this artist that i have. i pulled the name Komar + Melamid. we will see whats up in my next blogg. toodles :)