CHICAGO!!!! PART TWO

And I'm back now the art museum was so big I didn't even get a chance to see all of it. We were required to find ten artist and do research on them so here are my ten.
1.Robert Mangold.
2. CHARLES RAY
3. PHILIP GUSTON
4. Richard Tuttle
5. Lee Bontecou
6. MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTC
7. Alighiero C. Boetti
8. Ed Paschke
9. Felix Gonsalez Torres
10. Ana Mendieta

Charles Ray is a Los Angeles based sculptor that is known for his strange enigmatic sculptures that draw the viewer's perceptual judgement into question. I couldn't find his own website but this one takes you to a site where they show several of his works. http://www.regenprojects.com/artists/charles-ray/ I chose to photograph one of his big works in the museum and present those in this blog you can visit the site posted to see more of his work.

 Now a little about this piece. His most work-intensive to date is the ten-year re-creation in Japanese cypress (Hinoki) of a fallen and rotting tree he had found in a meadow. With Hinoki (2007, Art Institute of Chicago), Ray had a mold made of a large rotting tree he found in California. He then hired a team of Japanese woodcarvers in Osaka to essentially re-carve the tree in Hinoki, a different wood than that of the original tree. In a forthcoming interview, Ray made it clear that the purpose of the piece was not to photorealistically carve an exact replica of the tree. He was so intrigued by this tree that he wanted to show what has happened to this fallen tree that he came across. He can be quoted “The tree had that beautiful interior that fallen logs have,” he says. “It happens when bugs eat out the hard wood, so you have this hollow thing. All I knew was that I wanted to carve that, I wanted them to have a sense of that interior [of the log] because it’s in there, even if normally it couldn’t be seen. So that was really important. And then I became involved with the outside as well…It mattered to me that somebody had looked at it, and I wanted to make it matter to you.”

 This was incredible yet so simple I was astonished that he could have so much passion for this project which he needed since it took ten years to complete.

The detail is so strong and the hollowness is amazing. The Guard told us that it is transported in big pieces.

 Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from Abstract expressionism to Neo-expressionism in painting, abandoning the so-called "pure abstraction" of abstract expressionism in favor of more cartoonish renderings of various personal symbols and objects. This is another artist that really stood out to me his work caught my eyes and I got a mixture of feelings and it was pretty cool.  This is something cool I found about him 
http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=2419

This picture stood out to me because at first I thought it was cute but then I realized what was really going on and it was brutal. Still this piece is interesting simple with a big story. Good narrative. 


Michelangelo Pistolettc was born in italy in 1933. His early work was an inquiry into self-portraiture character. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings, which directly include the viewer and real time in the work, and open up perspective, reversing the Renaissance perspective that had been closed by the twentieth-century avant-gardes. He was at the front of the forefront of the Arte Povera movement that emerged in Italy during the 1960s. Artist that associated with this group broke with traditional art practices in favor of using everyday materials and unconventional processes. 

 These just amazed me it was so elegant it almost felt so real. An alternate reality perhaps.

While at the museum I took some more photos that were really interesting so here are the few of the many. 

Untitled, 1960 Lee Bontecou steel, canvas, and copper wire. This has lovely movement its also very geometrical at points which make the piece more interesting. 

This was another untitled piece of gold beaded strings. Very simple yet very elegant. It was by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. 

This was also very interesting it was done in blue ball point pen. Pretty neat and time consuming I bet. This one was done by Alighiero e Boetti. Its blue ballpoint pen over graphite on white wove paper. 

The last three were just so eye popping because the colors were extremely vibrant. Such a nice piece to look at. These were done by Ed Paschke and they are very unique. 


Again we saw so much stuff it was really great to see the variety in artist everywhere.