Two of my favorite artists Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin are up on a poster at the National Portrait Gallery in the Ballyhoo! exhibit. I think back to the songs I sang with them. Not many people my age have their albums on vinyl, but I do. I admire them, so it is hard to [...]
In the Irvine Contemporary Gallery religious sculptures made of ammunition give praise to physical human remains. I found the work to be very creative with an astonishing ability of craft in metal. The methodical and driven skill of the artist is celebrated in these emotive sculptures. These metal works stay among my favorite works seen [...]
My visit to Ballyhoo Poster gallery was a good experience. I had never visited a graphic design gallery with a variety of older and newer poster designs before. This gallery was featuring sixty posters about American movies. There were also some other interesting non movie posters, like a reward poster for John W. Booth for [...]
You can view a live show of the peace at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWIrZYC25g I am going to talk about Martin Creed’s peace “A Show That Will Run and Run.” I understood where Creed was coming from when he created this peace. Being a runner myself, I felt like I understood his thought process behind it. I found [...]
Maya Lin’s most popular peace the Vietnam Memorial has won her a lot of fame. At a young age Maya was nominated to design the Vietnam Memorial. Memorials are meant to be appropriate for their topic but also they are designed to perform a functional task for viewing individuals. They are designed to tell stories, [...]
During my trip to see the Ballyhoo exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery I also stopped in and saw Kehinde Wiley’s paintings in the exhibit: RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture. In a previous class I was able to do a little research on him and his unique paintings. Kehinde Wiley appropriates paintings from 15th, [...]
A lot of thoughts go through your head when your surrounded by you’re enemies, not knowing their next move, or your own for that matter. Your skill and wit may have gotten you out of this situation before but this time, there wasn’t enough time to figure out a logical means of escaping the predicament. [...]
The exhibit Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture, in the National Portrait Gallery, is a fascinating collection of posters from the late nineteenth century to the present. The featured posters advertise movies, Broadway shows, specific events, war propaganda, music, and everything in between. It is particularly fascinating the role of woman in the design world and how [...]
Progression through adversity and hardship characterizes Lance Armstrong, a man who had stood in the face of death. Facing testicular cancer that had spread to his brain and lungs—a despondent diagnosis. Regardless, he survived and went on to win the Tour De France seven times in the name of raising awareness for cancer. With such [...]