ART F200X Blogs

     For this week's non-western blog, I have decided to stick to the modern time period and these type of art pieces are something that has been made into something that is related to modern times but also life themed. (Abel Rodriguez, "Tree of Life and Abundance,"  Rocio Polanco, Tropenbos International Colombia Archive)      "The story "the tree of life and abundance" narrated by the indigenous elder and researcher Abel Rodriguez includes the traditional management of food and the understanding these communities have regarding well-being as presented in their mythology of origin."  (“The Tree of Life and Abundance”). To my understanding, this is all about the importance of the food cycle and how every life that is taken, has a part into keeping others alive. Like how "at a cultural level, there are multiple symbolic references to well-being, to the proper formation of the body, the proper diets, the management of wild and cultivated products an...

    (Andy Warhol, "Marilyn Diptych," 1962, Acrylic on Canvas, 208 x 145 cm (82 x 57 in), Pop Art, Tate Modern, London, UK)      One of the known artists of the early postmodern art is Andy Warhol (1928-1987), "an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s who's mass-produced art apotheosized the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States." (Wainwright). This work of "Marilyn Diptych" mostly look like it "explicitly references a form of Christian painting" which Warhol has got his inspiration from. Of course, the image was turned into something appropriate for that modern art and contemporary life.   (Andy Warhol, "Cambell's Soup Cans," 1962, Synthetic Polymer Paint, 51 x 41 cm, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, United States)     This painting was weird for me at first because why would Warhol paint this kind of things? Apparently one reason was because "he wanted a fr...

 For this week's blog, I will be showing three different art pieces that is influenced by The Great Depression. As we know The Great Depression was one of the worse events that has ever happened in American History and many outcomes that comes with it is what made things harder, for the people of America, to live. To help put "light" in this depressing times, President Franklin Roosevelt has created the "Works Progress Administration"  Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), " Approaching Storm ", 1940 Lithograph, 113/4 x 16 in. (29.8 x 40.6 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Anonymous Gift (1942) As we know one of the events that has happened during the Great Depression is the Dust Bowl. This drawing of the "Approaching Storm" by Thomas Hart Benton, has shown a scene of a farmer with his horse and farm field before the big dust storm has hit them. "Thomas Hart Benton was an America painter, muralist, and printmaker." (...