Artist Blog 10: Haribaabu Naatesam

"Ever wondered what happens to obsolete walkmans and out-of date video tapes? To blunt saw blades and to dead cell phones. To ancient floppy discs and fused light bulbs? What happens to what we generally call ‘scrap’? Just because they have out-lived their use, do they deserve to be forgotten away in attics, thrown into bins? Or, just piled up in one corner of a scrap yard?" - Haribaabu Naatesam 


Haribaabu Naatesam puts the old, and used into a respected piece of art. He transforms found broken objects and creates a new form to function in an eye catching way. His materials coud be anything from an old iPod to a guitar hero guitar he will create art for the world. Naatesam says his phyilosophy is to try and enfluence people to reuse their old parts in a productive way. 

In this particular piece it looks like a trolly, but a Dr. Sues trolly with the crazy instruments. This could also look like a yellow submarine. There are several geometric shapes. This piece is made out "e-wast" the electronic gadgets that get thrown away. The colors all complement each other well. It looks like he spray paints his hart work after he places it to the wall. 


Personally i like the cute little sea horse. The color to me is quite interesting. It looks like the pieces have been tainted, it looks like a natural wearing to the mechanics. The seahorse is well put together and representational to an actual seahorse. The way you can see all the gagets mixed into the art work is very cool and interesting. There are a lot of geometric shapes that create the seahorse, like his tummy. 

Artist Blog 9: Urban Zen

Urban Zen is a program to promote the Haiti Artisan Project. Where a group of artists travel to Haiti and one-on one help with Haitian artist. The artists produce pots, chandeliers, jewelry, and many other objects with stone and metal. This project is going towards a good cause to help and promote Haiti.

 This is a neckless made by a Haitian women. The beads are very geometric shapes. I would totally wear this neckless, I like the several repeating loops the neckless makes. The necklaces are make out of recycled cardboard. The beads are hand sewn on to  make the neckless.

The vases below are made out of tobacco leaves. The leaves are wrapped around a vase to create a naturalistic tone. 

The chandlers are very cool in my opinion. They are made out of patinas, wood, and handcrafted iron work. The beads create a horizontal line, and all pulled together create a great effect of a organic shape and texture. I like them they are very pretty.

Blog Post 8: Wim Delvoye

Pimp my ride check out this artist, Wim Delvoye carves the outside of tires into fashionable designs. At first Delvoye's company was trying to make money but the tire carving turned out to be a artistic hobby he thought he would never have. The portfolio he has is incredible, I would have never thought of an idea like this. Attention to detail is a huge part that makes these tires look great.

This tire has flowers carved into, with organic lines and geometric circles. Who needs sick rims when you have beautiful tires? I personally like this tire the best because of the flowers and the circles around them. It makes the tire seem more feminine, when cars are more of a guys toy then a ladies. The repetition of circles is what really catches my eye on this piece.

Most of the tires carved have fancy doily like designs. Lacy Victorian style designs like the picture below are what a lot of Delvoye's tires look like. This kind of art intrestes me because it is a grungy material that gets dirty and goes through all weather. Delvoye is feminizing the dirty object.

  

Artist Blog 7: Banksy

Possibly one of my favorit artists is Banksy, because of his choice of art and his reasoning behind it. I also like that he is a graffiti artist that paints around the world. Banksy's work is targeted toward politics, culture, and ethics. His art work is anti war, anti establishment, and pro freedom. Graffiti is vandalism in many citys, but Banksy's art would not be the same if it was painted on a private wall in a museum. His art is directed to the question right and wrong, art and vandalism.

This piece shows the conflict with homosexuality. To police officers making out on the side of the street. This is a huge concern in society today, and Banksy creates the law going against what society thinks and setting the example. This painting is hard for me to explain, but I understand what Banksy is trying to portray in this piece.








This portret of the Mona Lisa with a rocket launcher cracks me up. Mona Lisa is known for her undesirable facial emotion. Once placing a rocket launcher in her hands her expression turns into a smirk for distraction. Peaceful Mona has suddenly become hostile towards all of the wrong in the world, she does not want war any more, so she is going to take it out.

Artist Blog 6: Mike Stilkey

Unusual enough Mike Stilkey creates his art work on top of a book, or antique paper. What caught my eye about this artist is his choice in using books as his canvas for his artwork. The books do not just make a rectangle but form the body of the painting and converts a painting into a three dimensional piece of art.

Twelve Moths of Drama for the Average Church
13 books, 5X6 inches

Most of Stilkey's pieces are hard for me to understand. There is such a deep meaning in all of his art. Again in pretty much all of his art the figures are gloomy and unhappy. In Twelve Months of Drama for the Average Church the horse seems sad and looks like he is dressed for a funeral. I personally like the colors in the background because it makes the black shirt stand out and think about why he is wearing a black shirt. His figures are very cartoony, to me they seem like they would be on some adult cartoon show. They are quite humerus in a way.

A Love Eternal
13 books, 5X6 inches

A Love Eternal is another depressing piece of art. There is a women standing over what appears to be a dead man. From the title I can tell they were probably lovers, maybe even married. What I get from this piece is that the wife caught the husband cheating and she killed him or she came home one day and found her husband dead, and she has no pity for him. What really stands out to me from Stilkey's work is how he uses colorful books as the background. Although his art is a little gloomy he cheers up the art with colorful books to make the painting seem more funny then deep and dark.

Artist Blog 5: Helmut Smits

Where do we draw the line of what is art and what is not art? Helmut Smits is one of those artists that you may see his work and not think it is art. That is what I thought when I started to look at his work. After reading the titles of the pieces I could see how it could possibly be art. By using ready made objects and altering them slightly he creates art.

Two Beams Saying Hi 

Real Life Photoshop #1

At frist glance I thought this was nothing, I didn't get it. After I looked at the title I thought to myself "oh that is cute" To me beams are always so far away from each other they don't really have a friend and can't say hi to each other very often. For some reason I like it, I have no idea why I like it. It may be because of the concept of the beams saying hi to each other. In the other piece Real Life Photoshop Part #1 made me laugh. THis piece i think is so funny. I feel like he is pocking fun at people today, because people are becoming lazy and not wanting to pick up or clean, so if they want to take a picture but they don't want to pick up trash that is in their picture they just photoshop the trash out of the picture. 

Artist Blog 4: Dalton Ghetti

Normally artists use a pencil to create their art work, but Dalton Ghetti turned the table and made the pencil the piece of art. Some how Ghetti crafts tiny figures in to the led of a pencil and creates an amazing creation. His medium is a single pencil. Ghetti wanted to challenge himself to sculpt as small as possible. To make these tiny sculptures Ghetti uses a sewing needle, a razor, and a sculpting knife. All of his work is subtractive, he scraps away the graphite to create the sculptures.  

Dalton Ghetti does not really name his pieces, he names them from what they look like. I like the combined hearts because of the hearts and its symbolism of love. I like how the hearts are combined just like love is, hearts would be attached like this if they could be. I also find it interesting how he constructed this piece. This is one pencil and the artist made the hearts connecting and hollowed out hearts. The size of the art work is mind boggling as well. How does this man create such tiny sculptures. Smaller the art the hard the piece is by far. The tiny hammer is crazy because it is really tiny! All of Ghetti's works are very detailed and defined. He puts a lot of work into his pieces. The time it takes to make one pencil sculpture is about several months. The longest pice of art he worked on took him two and a half years to complete. 

Artist Blog 3: Patrick Dougherty

Patrick Dougherty is considered an architect because of his work. He has figured out an effective way to build primitively with sticks. To date he has build over two hundred sculptures all over the world. Dougherty combined his love of nature and art to create beautiful architectural sculptures to please the world. From looking at his pieces they look sturdy and strong. Dougherty's sculptures are made out fo tree branches and the natural resources around. Many of his colosal projects required truckloads of sticks.

Close Ties, Scottish Highlands, 2006

Nine Lives, Columbus, Ohio 2006

All of Dougherty's pieces are naturalistic and organic. He likes to work with nature and expand on natures concepts. Doughetry's work is earth work, because he uses sticks to create his art work. In Close Ties he made some sort of building. Each section is a different level and the shape is slightly altered from each section. The assemblage of the structure looks cozy and a possible place to live. It seems like it could house someone from the rain. I think the artists is trying to make a natural art that blends into the landscape other then stand out like a house today does. Not all of his projects are buildings, like in Nine Lives he created a family. This piece of art speaks to me saying that mother nature pulls us together and is what can keep ups close. I feel like it means family and the earth are what give us the aspiration to live and pick us up when we have fallen.