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Question: What is your view on digital vs. traditional art? Photoshop or the canvas? Who’s got the power? Should an artist specialize, or be skilled with both of them?? Comment below in 3-4 complete sentences.
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“If I Were a Celebrity for a Day…”
Many celebrities apply their fame and fortune to community work for a cause of their choice: children, world hunger, the environment, etc. If you were famous for a day, what cause would you choose to help and why? Comment below in 3-4 complete sentences. Public art is often site-specific, meaning it is created in response to the place and community in which it resides. It often interprets the history of the place, its people, and perhaps addresses a social or environmental issue. Being public, the art is free and accessible to everyone. Public art creates a heightened awareness in the viewer of the site of the people and the broader context of what’s around them.
If the people in the district of Saigon you lived in asked you to choose one of the above artworks to display in your neighborhood what one would you choose and why? Think about what the people would like, not just what you like.
In 1938 Walker Evans went underground to photograph passengers on the New York City Subway. Interested in capturing the everyday routines of anonymous people, Evans wanted to catch his subjects unaware. “The guard is down and the mask is off,” he wrote, “even more than when in lone bedrooms (where there are mirrors). People’s faces are in naked repose down in the subway.”Between 1938 and 1941, using a hidden camera, Evans photographed his subjects in these unguarded moments. In order to create his clandestine photographs, he orchestrated a way of taking photographs “undercover.” He painted the shiny chrome of his camera black and hid it under his coat so that the camera lens surreptitiously peeked out between two buttons. Despite the public setting of the subway, Evans managed to capture people lost in their own thoughts and moods, displaying a range of human emotions. With these black-and-white photographs, Evans managed to pull off a complicated feat: creating truly unposed portraits. - MOMA l Learn
Pick one image from the Subway Portrait series and
write a short story in which you imagine the inner life of the person photographed.
 Donald Judd. 'Untitled'. 1984. Concrete. Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Donald Judd said, “If someone says his work is art, it’s art.”
Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not? Write 2-3 complete sentences explaining your view. In complete sentences answer the following questions.
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