Thursday, November 20, 2008

art

title: Nighthawks
artist: Edward Hopper
Nationality: New York white dude
Year: 1942
Movement: Pop
This art piece evokes emotions. It shows hella loneliness for this
people eating some food at a late night diner. It is pretty
prototipical for people in the city. You are all in it alone. No
sense of community. It does form communication between the artist and
me. He is showing a piece and it makes me tink about life in an urban
environment. It does reflect the time when it was made. The people
are all white. the dude behind the counter is whering white. the men
are in suits and are whering those bowler hats from the 40's. Also
the women is all done up to have white face and vibrant hair and
close. Shows some tech skills that this guy knows how to paint a
picture. The lines go. I especially like the colors in side the
diner. Bright inside and cold and dark outside.

what is art?

What is art?
In the bay area the rap music is very different. It has many names
such as hyphy but mostly it is all electronically produced. I enjoy
listening to a lot of the music but I am slow to calling the music art
or the creators' artist. When I think of music that is art I always
figure that the artist are the ones to create the sounds. Like a
drummer beat on a drum, or someone playing a piano. Today's latest
popular rap music is synthesized and the beats are computer generated.
What I love about rap music in the 1990's is the samples they use are
pieces from instruments that people created. In my mind it makes the
music much more artistic. Also some members of the rap community make
music themselves and rap over it like the roots and the beastie boys,
both are bands that decided to become rappers.
Also much of the music in the bay area is only produced from a few
people and they sell out their beats to other rappers. The music ends
up sounding much the same. I am saying that a type of music that is
over copying each other and is created by processing machines is not
artwork.