Steina, Allvision, 1975

Steina Vasulka puts two cameras facing each other that are blocking their own views.  If someone walks by them, they are captured in the image and the images from the cameras are displayed on the wall that is also seen when the cameras rotate on a "lazy suzan."  This is a fun way to see things from a different perspective and doubled views.

Bruce Nauman's Performance Corridor

This is a video of a lady walking back and forth through a narrow corridor and staring at herself on a couple televisions.  Bruce Nauman made this video around 1970 and it has stirred a lot of attention.  Interesting piece of art.  Strange, a little creepy, but interesting...

Bicycle Wheel

This was a bicycle wheel that Marcel Duchamp stuck on a barstool, upside down.  He found it very fascinating to spin and didn't think about it as a piece of art.  Later it became known as a "readymade" and another version was put out.  It's amazing how something so simple and entertaining can be a famous work of art.  Especially the toilet from my earlier blog.

Propaganda Poster

My Pro-Gun, Pro-War, Pro-2nd Amendment, Propaganda Poster

Vector Exercise

This vector was created using my initials RJB.  I experimented with the effects and added backgrounds to each 4x4 tile.  I created various anchor points and had some fun with the various tools that were available for Adobe Illustrator.  I was impressed with how easy it was to catch on to using Illustrator, as opposed to trying to learn the PhotoShop program.  All in all, I had a lot of fun playing around with Illustrator and I'm excited to learn more features as I progress through the class.

Video Art (1963-1986)

Chapter 2 talks a lot about the introduction of video art, but the art that stands out the most to me is not the actual video, but the pictures of the televisions propped on their sides.  Nam June Paik was famous for filling galleries with television sets positioned in different orientations to portray a piece of artwork.


Name June Paik also created the Suite 212 and Butterly with the help of Shuya Abe.

Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain"

According to one version of the story, this piece of art was bought from the J. L. Mott Iron Works by Marcel Duchamp and was just oriented at a 90 degree position for display.  Another version has it that Duchamp did not create this piece and was submitting it for a friend.  Whether it is considered a piece of art or not, it has got people thinking when they see a urinal in this position, in front of what may have been a fabricated background.  Duchamp was trying to shift the focus of art from "physical craft to intellectual interpretation."  The fountain has been lost, and since then, there has been reproductions in 1950, 1953, 1963, and an eighth in 1964.

This is considered to be the most influential artwork of the 20th century and replicas can go for as much as 1.7 million.  It's toilet.  Really?!?!