Some of my Art

[GZ06]

This is a peice i just finished. From beggining to end...

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-13-06_1125.jpg

5 Plaster Casts of George Washingtons face

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-13-06_1537.jpg

Put em on the a large peice of scrap metal, think it was an old door or something

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-13-06_1538.jpg

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-16-06_1528.jpg

White Splatter

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-16-06_1724.jpg

Painted it up

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-16-06_1725.jpg

My favorite face

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/49850016.jpg

Hung it from the ceiling

The peice is called "We The People" and anyone who looks at it can write whatever they want on the back of it, so it becomes a sort of cultural conversation. I provided paint pens to do the writing.

Got to love bieng a studio art major.

[IllegalSmile]

i was into until i read the part about letting people write on it...ive never seen that type of thing work out

[GZ06]

A lot of folks just wrote we the people on the back, was pretty cool. I dont really give a shit what people write on the back, thats the point, its their freedom to write whatever they want. Part of the experience of the peice.

[egghead mittenhands]

i think the black face is too distracting. maybe that's what you were going for, but it takes away from the rest of the piece to me.

[Cus D'Amato]

overkill with all the colors, I liked it more when it was just the scrap door and maybe the splatter.

[BUFFAkilla]

i think it lokks wasome but maybe a bit too many colours it looked nice though

[Raiden]

was definately most appealling at the white splatter stage

[Theo.Huxtable]

interesting

[tabloid-]

here's a couple of points

1) you could have stopped w/ the white splash. I'm guessing your trying to make some kind of political statement. Maybe something to do w/ the Masonic star ( 5 points ). Or maybe how we have lost touch w/ the original founders ideas of democracy. Whatever. Aesthetically it's kind of week, and the whole thing about bringing the viewer into the piece doesn't really work, because it's the back of the piece and you can't look at the image and the rebutale at the same time. Anyway, I'm guessing this is a sophmore effort.... keep thinking about it.... and re-work it.
2) when using imagery that evokes such strong feelings of patriotism from so many, you need to really understand your intentions. THe concept needs to be solid.

[GZ06]

The concept of the peice basically lies in self expression and freedom of speech, hince the title "We the people". Simply celebrating the fact that I am able to take the founder of our country, an almoust idealistic god to this country and deface it and paint all over it. I used the colors that I did because I wanted the peice to be loud and I wanted it to "pop". I considered stoping at the white splatter, it was subtle, but it felt incomplete to me. When hung up you are face to face with George and I wanted that effect. Also since the peice is suspended from the ceiling you can walk around it 360 and that gave the back some more meaning.

[tabloid-]

George Washington was not the founder of our country. He was the first elected president. Some people wanted to make him king, but he refused. The history lesson aside..... freedom of speach and dessicration are 2 different things. You have to take into account the power of the image that you are defacing. You can't take a powerful image like, scribble on it, and say it's only about freedom of speach. Once you put it in the public eye, your simple comment on freedom of speach turns into something else. As far as making it "pop"... just throwing a bunch of contrasting colors at a surface doesn't make it " pop ". You need to have an uderstanding of color to make something " pop ".

Don't get it twisted; presentation aside, I don't think the piece is remotly offensive. I just think you missed the mark in your concept.

Oh one more thing.... the phrase " we the people" refers directly to the Constitutional based Republic and demcratically elected officials.... not specifically the 1st amendment.

[seeking]

tabloid,
you wouldnt happen to be dephect/tabloid, would you?

i concur, it was best with just the white splatters, but even then it was pretty trite. when you're trying to make social/political commentary, it's veeeeeeery easy to cross the line and become cliche. infact, probably 99% of all political art that gets made is mind numbingly dull. had you stopped at the white splatters, it would have fallen into this catagory. when you added the colors it just became attrocious. the fact that your favorite is the mask with the eyes and mouth sprayed black signifies even further how little you really understand, and how cliche your intention is. scratching out the eyes is soooooooo 1999. try harder please.


seeks/not trying to be a dick, just trying to be honest.

[El Mamerro]

This was the point you should have stopped at:

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-13-06_1537.jpg

That is ill. Everything after that point, including the splatters, completely ruins it for me.

[King Of Hell]

I feel mounting these on seriously rustd metal would have been a better illustration of the point. Then you wouldn't have felt the need to tart it all up with the paint and turn it into more of a joke then something to be taken at all seriously.

[tabloid-]

I'm still curious as to what the 5 represents.

[heavyLox]

This was the point you should have stopped at:

http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k41/jster0121/09-13-06_1537.jpg

That is ill. Everything after that point, including the splatters, completely ruins it for me.


this is def the time when things had the most petential. the splatters and such are irrelavent to the piece as far as i can tell.

Althought som resolution would have been needed becasue that mounting plank seems a bit 'oout of' convinience instead of a well thought out solutiion.

Id like to see you some more of these with these comments taken into consideration.,

[El Mamerro]

Exactly, don't be discouraged by any of the criticism here. It's part of the process of being an art major, you'll probably be producing strong work in a year or three.

[Little Drummer Boy]

That's awesome. I think it would look awesome with less color though.

[lwk]

overkill with all the colors, I liked it more when it was just the scrap door and maybe the splatter.

Agreed, less is more.

[De sign]

yeah, same. :S

shoulda left it at the white splatters at most.
its like way "political violent confuseing color patriot shit and the rest of perception"

[De sign]

p.s mabie let the people draw on the front. like, layers, fuckin layers.

[anker.]

did you sculpt the original piece that was molded? or did you make a positive off of a mask or something...

[diggity]

mams and heav beat me to it.

[RIVEROCK]

i think u should of put a cold brick of ten g's in each of the plaster molds,,,
to give it a more,,,hidden meaning!!!!!,,,,and dont ever tell anyone about
the 50,000g's!!!!,,,technically,,,,all that money u paid the art school is inside those
plaster molds,,,so u better hurry up and make some money out there!!!!!