Collection #12

David Gilbert- Studio, 2011

I think this is a very cool peice of art, David Gilbert uses the artists habitat as his mediam for his work. He will stage a studio and then create the light and photograph it to have a really cool looking photo to show you the crazyness of a real studio, but also the things around that are used to inspire the artist and the actual setting of where the artist would work! All the objects work together to help you understand the story. In this scene there is lots of colors and it reminds me of a kids birthday partty!

I also love all the hearts around and the randome things laying on the floor like the lamp, tools, and string!

David Gilbert was born in 1982 and lives in Los Angelos, CA. In 2004 he went to Tisch School of the Arts, New York Unversity and in 2011 he went to UC RIverside in CA. He is a newer artist and just started to gte noticed in 2010.

Darwin Martin House

Friday we went to the Darwin Martin House. It was such a beautiful and different house from all the other homes in Buffalo. Darwin Martin worked with Frank Lloyd Wright to make this house of everyones dreams. It was so advanced for homes of that day because it had a kitchen inside, when that was uncalled for back then! The house was made out of bricks that were aupposed to look like silk wrapping around the house, it was framed with tons of beautiful stainglass windows, and had a not so obvious hidden entry to be something different than Victorian style. He wanted his home to seem like something that sprouted up from the earth, and nature was something very important to the house, where they had huge planters and plants all around with all the newest technologies. The inside of the house was a very open floorplan but still seperated diffferent rooms with lowing the cielings instead of using walls. If the cielings were low that meant to walk through.

I really enjoyed this tour because I love walking through cool homes in general, if its Mumford, a open house, or just my friend's house I think houses are all so unique and different. It;s cool to see things in houses you never could have imagined on your own, like how did Wright come up with this plan? It is so unique and a masterpeice!

It is so cool that they are doing all they can to restore this to its original beauty, The tour lady said it was abandoned for 17 years (or maybe it was 14?) and then the house kind of fell apart. They have put alot of money and hard work into it, $44 million so far and they are still expecting to put another $11 million into it!

It was a very nice tour and such a beautiful day for it, was definitly a great way to end the semester, and I got my mom a beautiful wooden lantern with the stainglass pattern on it so she can enjoy some of the beauty of this house!

Collection #11

This is the picture I chose for my collection this week, it is 12"x16" acrylic on canvas, done in 2010 by Maya Hayuk.

Maya Hayuk loves symetry and bright colors. She likes to embrace sexuality and spirituality in her work. She does huge murals alot. But also works with other artists and musicians. She has worked on Album Covers and stage sets for well known artists like The Beastie Boys, Rye Rye/M.I.A., TV on the Radio, Oakley Hall, Dan Deacon, and many more. She went to Skoowhegan School of Painting and Sculpting in 2011.

I like this painting of the Elephant because of the bright colors and eyes, I also like the interesting patterns, they remind me of something that would be in Henna art or something! Because of the eyes that she painted on, all the other dots she uses make you think of eyes so you end up seeing/imaganing more than the four eyes that are actually there. I think this peice is very fun and young vibe!

Chevy Sonic Street Art

The other day I saw a commercial for Chevy Sonic and it briefly said that they made a street art car and said go to letsdothis.com to see more. So when I did I found this cool video. It kind of has to do of our ongoing topic of 'Is it considered art?' I think just because a robot did it, Jeff Soto, a muralist artist, was still the one who was driving the car and they had to plan the movements the robotic arms would go before too. So I do think this can be considered art.

Jeff Soto is a muralist painter that graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 2002. He also has his work in the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York City. He started seeing graffiti around when he was 13 and started becoming curious and interested. At first he was sceptical that a robot could do what a human could. But decided to give it a try. The robot was nto easy to control but he thought that was part of the fun, and made things up as he was going. He didnt habe it all planned, and said, "I love that about art making, embracing the unknown." This robotic art car seems strange to a lot of people, but could be a new style of art coming up. Technology is becoming more and more important in people's lives now, they want things fast and perfect and maybe artists will begin to use technology more to make new and exciting art. They can make things bigger and faster than ever before.

But this isent like the car did all the work, Jeff Soto also got out an started painting himself. I think it makes it cool how him and the car kind of worked on the mural together.