Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was a french sculptor in the nineteenth-century. He was regarded as a greater sculptor since Michelangelo. Rodin had created his own sense of personal artistic expressions that focused on the human spirit. His techniques were to captured the movement and depth of emotion of his subjects by altering traditional poses and gestures. His pioneering work has been a critical link between traditional and modern figurative sculpture.

He was born in Pairs, France. Even at a young age Rodin study to become an exceptional sculptor. He was also an illustrator, graphic artist and a painter. He was more know as the founder of impressionist style in the art of the sculpture. No matter how many times his work of art was reject he never gave up. Robin has over 150 work of art in his life time.

Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth, a English sculpture born in West Yorkshire, England. As a growing artist she received scholarships to Leeds School of Art. She then was awarded a scholar ship to the Royal College of Art where she received her diploma in 1924. She worked with both wood and stone and did direct carving even when that was not popular at the time. In all of her work she showed a great understanding of the quality of her materials and craftsmanship. By the 1950's she was a international hit and revived many honors and prestigious public commissions, one of which is the memorial to Dag Hammerskjold-Single Form-at the United Nations in New York. She later moved more into working with bronze, mostly for her larger pieces but still had a soft spot for direct carving. Hepworth died tragically in a fire at her studio in St Ives. The studio is now a museum dedicated to her work. More of Hepworths work will go on display at the Hepworth Wakefield Museum which should be completed in 2011.

2 more photos of Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder was a sculptor, artist, and inventor. He is most known for inventing an artform called "mobile", a form of kenetic art. He lived to be 78 years old and died on November 11, 1976.

He has many sculptures around the world, some of those places include: Netherlands, Germany, Venezuela, Australia, and Israel.

Alexander worked in many different fields doing many different styles of art. He made jewelry, tapestry, paintings, sculpures, lithographs, and mobiles.

He graduated from college with a degree in mechanical engineering, and was a member of Delta Tau Delta. Some of his most known pieces of work were "Circus" and " Le Halebardier"

Youtube video "Circus" by Alexander Calder

First Artist posts are due before class tomorrow.

Twitter

I encourage all of you to get a Twitter account and follow the Art Department. It's free and you don't have to make "Tweets." You can just "follow" along. We'll be posting news about event's, articles, awards, deadlines, field trips, etc. We will also be "retweeting" from Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, Oklahoma Arts Council, Individual Artist of Oklahoma, Allied Arts Oklahoma, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, and many more. There won't be any junk; it will only be useful information that you need to know anyway.

look for ecuartdept on Twitter and then "follow."

Liza Lou

An artist who projects a political and personal of view that shows pleasure, pin, captivity, vulnerability and injustice through her work. She took something small and made it big. She took glass beads and turned them into works of art. Some critics however do not agree that this is art; they state she is a secound-rate jewelry maker - arts and crafts person, not an artist. On the other hand some critics consider her one of the most original artists of our time. In 2002 she was awarded the MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship award and won $500,000.

Liza Lou was born 1969 in New York City, New York. To a mother and Father that by all accounts was not suitable to be so. A story of her life called Born Again is told in an up close setting that is a 50 minute film monologue. It was said that she was tormented as a child and maybe that is what drives her as an adult. She attended The San Francisco Art Institute and studied painting. After wandering into a bead store during her first year of college she thought what a great way to paint. She soon after dropped out of school when one of her teacher told her that what she was doing was not art. She spent two years learning how to work with beads. In 1996 she presented her first piece called the Kitchen at the New Museum of Contemporary At in New York City. The piece took her five years to crate. It was a 168 square foot piece, consisting of 10 million tiny glass beads covering every surface of the suburban kitchen. This piece was a message to all women that they had to wash dishes for centuries and now she the artist does not have to anymore. In 1999 she produced Back Yard A piece measuring 600 square feet, contained over thirty million beads, of which 250,000 of the beads were the bleads of grass making up the lawn. This piece was exhibited at Grand Central Stations former main wating room. With her surpluses of work that she has produced she is most famous for Kitchen and Back Yard.
Lous's works of art are made from different types of mediums steel, wood, papier-mache and fiberglass. These are all covered in Czech Republic glass beads that she with the help of her family put on with tweezers. With great work comes great strain. She was diagnosed with acute tendinitis from working on the piece Kitchen.
Lou has moved to Durban, South Africa where she is creating her most recent series of sculptures and relifs. The main reason that she moved to this area was to find another way to produce her work that may help to make a difference to other people's lives. She is working with 30 Zulu artisans in a non-profit centre. She continues with her efforts to develop an economically sustainable project, while producing her own artwork.

Lous has exhibited her art in numerous museums and galleries all around the world including, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; The New Museum of Contemorary Art, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica. California; Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis, Minnesota; the Smithsonian Institution of American Art, Washington, D.C. as while as many other. She also has been published in books and catalogues including the Leaves of Grass in a 2002 interview with Selene Wendt and Liza Lou, Liza Lou 1n 1998 by Peter Schjedahl and Marcia Tucker, and Liza Lou in 1996 by Robert Pincus, John Natsoulas Press. She has other biblographies in several other magazines.

By: April Gaither

Written Proposal

Dear Mr. Hauck. | I propose to work with a quantity amount of one object to create something not only different in form, but also different in meaning. I want to glue vhs tapes together to make a scale recliner I also want to explore the possibilities of working with found metal objects. Namely welding and exploring the relationships of various metal objects.

Puryear videos

Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear was born in Washington, D.C. in 1941. In his youth, he studied crafts and learned how to build guitars, furniture, and canoes through practical training and instruction. After earning his BA from the Catholic University in Washington, D.C., Puryear joined the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, and later attended the Swedish Royal Academy of Art. He received an MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 1971. Puryear's objects and public installations-in wood, stone, wire, and various types of metals-are a marriage of Minimalist logic with traditional ways of making. Puryear's evocations, dreamlike exploration in abstract forms reattain vestigial elements of utility from everyday objects found in the world. In "Ladder for Booker T. Washington," Puryear built a spindly, meandering ladder out of jointed ash wood. More than thirty-five feet tall, the ladder narrows toward the top, creating a distorted sense of perspective that evokes an unattainable or illusionary goal. In the massive stone piece, "Untitled," Puryear enlisted a local stonemason to help him construct a building-like structure on a ranch in Northern California. On one side of the work is an eighteen-foot-high wall-on the other side, an inexplicable stone bulge. A favorite form that occurs in Puryear's work, the thick-looking stone bulge is surprisingly hollow, coloring the otherwise sturdy shape with qualities of uncertainity, emptiness, and loss. Martin Puryear represented the United States at the Sao Paolo Biennial in 1989, where his exhibition won the Grand Prize. Puryear is the recipient of numerous awards and was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Art and Letters in 1992, and received an honorary doctorate from Yale University in 1994. Martin Puryear lives and works in the Hudson Valley region of New York.

Bio attained from PBS Art:21

I believe that Martin Puryear is an incredible artist. His ability to work with hard objects and give them a certain movement and fluidity that I have never seen before. His minimalist approach is perfect for the amount of curvature that his sculptures posses. He also gives his work a certain craftsmanship that makes you think that it was machine made.

this was VERY heavy!

I think it was over 100 lbs

Lead sheet. It's heavy stuff...

Look for more-Sarah Sze

My assigned artist to blog about is Sarah S e (weird, keyboard won't put the letter there). I'll have to use a different computer when I get my research done.

She does airy, large installations that have that "mobile," scaffolding, scatter toys, or artificial living environment feel. Look for more from me on her work.

carving tools at Woodcraft in OKC or Tulsa

5 piece Japanese kit Power Grip (I demoed this set) for $39.99 plus tax and a 7 piece set for $49.99 plus tax (same set plus 2 more) I recommend

6 piece USA set (not one that I demoed) for $49.99 plus tax should be good too

8 piece Asian made (based on price it's probably China) for $19.99 plus tax very risky and probably not worth it

6 piece unknown origin for $39.99 plus tax Woodcraft store brand

www.woodcraft.com

Adding photos to the blog

Probably the easiest way to add photos from the internet to the blog is to...

1. locate a photo on the web
2. right click and "save photo as"
3. save to desktop or flash drive
4. Then click the icon above (see screenshot below)

5. Click "choose photo"

6. Now click "upload image"

7. now delete the photo from the computer (move to trash on a Mac)