Apply and reflect week 14

 This week we dove into the topic of racism a bit by looking at the Concerto in black and blue. The process behind the Concerto in black and blue was to walk through a gallery, the same thing is true here with Olafur Eliasson piece The Weather Project. Only his was trying to relate back to climate matters. He took people and brought them into the space to experience the "new" world around them and form there allowed them to determine how they felt about it. He made the space available for interpretation. He wanted to talk about climate control and the effects but wanted people to create there own ideas with it. I love the way artist can do this. With 3D spaces you have the opportunity to physically bring in your audience and have them go through this experience with you to try and see what you do but also to allow them to see whatever they see. I would love to try to incorporate that kind of idea into my works. Allowing my work to be somewhat open ended to where the viewer can have a completely different experience, weather that is physical or emotional to the work then what I the creator has. I love it when artist ask you to come into a space and experience a kind of feeling that they want to convey. That means the audience is subject to a physical and emotional experience to your work. This makes the experience of seeing the work different from that of just looking at a painting or other traditional art foam. This needs peoples involvement to be conveyed, it needed to be walked through and experienced because a picture of a film of it will not do or have the same effect as physically walking through it will. 

Images from : 

https://sarahpadbury93.wordpress.com/2016/04/07/olafur-eliasson-the-weather-project-and-the-green-river-series/ and https://www.cnn.com/style/article/olafur-eliasson-experience-phaidon/index.html

Week 14

The weeks reading really dove into the work of art that was the gallery experience of Concerto in black and blue. This work had a lot of controversy with it in order to figure out what the artist was trying to say by creating this exhibit. Many saying that it was political, about the blacks and blue being police. Critics may have concluded at this decisions due to the fact that the arts of this exhibit has had past work that has had similar meaning of blacks being suppressed due to police or other cultural things. Once hearing that perspective of the exhibit I could see where the colors could be representing that. However first looking at it I would had never lead to the conclusion of that. I saw the work talking more about the unknown of the ocean. Never would I have thought of it to be anything that is political or racial in any way. I think there is black art and then there is art created by black Americans. I think there is art that black artist make that is art, some of that art may be art of other black Americans, or whites or a sculpture of a piece that has no people or color at all. Black American artist that don't want their race to have any effect on the piece and how the viewer sees it. Then there is Black Art. Art the speaks for or to the black culture. Weather it be created by a black person or not but the targeted audience is still the same. I think most Black Art is created by black Americans because they have more of a connection to that type of feeling and how to relay it back to the current cultures. 

This is a painting of our former president Obama receiving his painting by Kehinde Wiley, an black American painter.  https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/kehinde-wiley-s-obama-portrait-controversy-shows-americans-don-t-ncna849156