Monday, May 6th, marks our last lecture for the Introduction to Western Art with Professor Plesch! While I am incredibly sad to be finishing this semester and class, I am so grateful for the amount that I learned from Professor Plesch. I really enjoyed this class, and I can’t wait to take more classes with Professor Plesch next year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our last class finalizes the semester with Postmodern Art. The focus of this course lies in the idea that modernism is beginning to take over art today. Modernism is thus avant-garde, looking to the future to create progress and new narratives for the public eye. The semester concluded with the study of Postmodernism and Pop-Art, including Andy Warhol\u2019s Campbell\u2019s Soup Cans<\/em>, bringing an off-beat focus on reality to modern art. Lastly, Frank Gehry\u2019s Guggenheim Museum and Michael Graves\u2019 Public Services Building, both present sleek, minimalist architecture for the public eye on the streets of major cities, ultimately in hopes to enlighten viewers with Postmodern themes amidst their busy days.\u00a0Sol\u00a0LeWitt’s\u00a0Wall Drawing\u00a0<\/em>located in the Colby College Museum of Art, allows for modernism and a pop of vibrant, rainbow colors on the campus for all to see when passing by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We looked at Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party<\/em>, a structure promoting a form of activism toward feminism. Chicago’s work is shaped in a vaginal form, displaying a sense of eroticism and notion of the female body. The Dinner Party<\/em> remembers and acknowledges women today. 400 women were selected by Chicago to assist her with the commission of The Dinner Party<\/em>. Each plate is an acknowledgement to a different woman and the floor beneath the structure contains several powerful female figures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Continuing on, Jean-Michael Basqiat is our first graffiti artist we’ve studied this semester. American artist, Basqiat partnered with Warhol, and ultimately learned from Warhol and took great inspiration from Warhol and his works. Maya Lin’s Viennam Memorial, located in Washington D.C. presented us with a ground-breaking monument, known for its keel and minimal look, yet a structure that provides strong symbolism as it lays beneath the ground like a wound or gash, perhaps nodding to those lost during the war. Finally, El Anatsui’s Dzesi\u00a0II<\/em>, composed in 2006, is made up of aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire. This material and use of recycling challenges the staid views of early Pre-Modern Western art, and ultimately challenges the trajectory of modern art and the shift in materials to create and present art to the public. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, May 6th, marks our last lecture for the Introduction to Western Art with Professor Plesch! While I am incredibly sad to be finishing this semester and class, I am so grateful for the amount that I learned from Professor Plesch. I really enjoyed this class, and I can’t wait to take more classes with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}