Professor Arianne Fernandez

For my final project, I decided to interview my history teacher Arianne Fernandez; she is currently an Adjunct in Art History for the Humanities Department, and double as the part-time Slide Librarian for the Art area.

 Last semester she taught me Art History Renaissance to Gothic Art and this semester Art of 20th century.  Her perseverance for trying to make each student to learn as she says when I asked her if do you feel this is a successful career achievement? If so why?  “I do feel very successful because I have the opportunity to teach students about Art, which in my opinion is essential in understanding all other subjects (Math, Science, Literature, etc.) But, most importantly to understand our culture, different cultures, and where we are or going to be as Art reflects this.  I love teaching and hold that this is a reciprocal relationship, students learn from me but I also learn from them. Once I receive my MA in my field I will have achieved another stepping-stone.”  And for this reason she manages that students will have a great respect and deep admiration.

I also asked her what education, skills and knowledge did you have to acquire in order to reach this level of success?  She says, “I had to study hard.  Art History is not easy… all those artists, movement and dates.  At first, I was hesitant as a Fine Art student, I wanted to create my Art, not learn about other people that much.  After my BA in Art History and coming MA, I have solidified my understanding of the importance of art in a society, and developed my writing skills, diction and oratorical skills.”

And most importantly, she respects each student, understanding their problems, and managed to get the most optimal performance in its class.  Although the class is not easy because you have to be continually studying and memorizing names and dates, pick at the end of the semester all your effort and the greatest reward is to get a good grade for your sacrifice of long hours and days without sleep study.

To see all the effort she has made to win the respect of his co-workers and students makes me feel inspired and know that if I work hard in my life purposes is that I can get it too.  

David Smith

       David Smith Born on March 9, 1906 in Decatur, Indiana. He studied at the Art Students League of New York. He died on May 24, 1965 at the age of 59 years, in an accident tráficoBennington, Vermont.In 1933 he made his first sculpture in iron to look at photographs of Pablo Picasso and Julio Gonzalez.

        In World War II he worked at a locomotive factory where he began an interest in machinery and buildings.  It was a radical critic of violence and human greed as evidenced by many of his works.  Highlight their work called Cubi consisting of large blocks of metal on high pedestals.  Smith had discovered a way to wrap the emotion in classic containers balanced.  

        

         A new look at the work of the great American sculptor David Smith (1906-1965), cubes and anarchy offers new perspectives on participation throughout the artist's career with geometric shapes.

        The show at the Whitney Museum includes sculptures, drawings, paintings, and photographs.  Blue Construction, 1938. Sheet steel with Baked- enamel finish, 36 1/4 x 28 1/2 x 30 in.  (92.1 x 72.4 x 76.2 cm).  Which is a beautiful piece of art and one of my favorites for its composition of different geometric shapes with perfect harmony between the blue and black, which gives a clean style and delicate as a rigid material such as metal.

       

"Bad" Drawing

9/11 memorial plaza

9/11 Memorial Plaza

World Trade Center, New York

           

The 9 / 11 memorial has been built where once stood the Twin Towers in the World Trade Center in New York City.   The monument was created in commemoration of one of the greatest catastrophe of the planet in a terrible Tuesday morning, on September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets.   The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours.

9 / 11 Memorial Plaza opens to the public for 10 years after a tragedy for the first time. After 10 years of tragedy was first opened to the public on 9 / 11 memorial plaza, located at ground zero. The centerpiece of the memorial is the two giant, square pits and reflecting pools that sit in the footprints of the two towers. The waterfalls cascading down the four walls of each fountain. 

It was a special feeling be found on the same site where nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in this terrorist attack of September 11 and after 10 years have cried and prayed for the deceased and the pain of their relatives and friends.

Just that the only thing that I totally disagree is the extensive and tight security to get in, after showing the entry ticket which is achieved by reservation only, and a long walk through metal detector, then empty out your pockets, and continue to display the entry ticket to enter the memorial, I think an unnecessarily extremely security.   Whenever I thought of the place of remembrance for taxes do all these people I imagined it more "open" a large park where anyone could go and sit and remember everything we've gone forward, not a place for us to mourn we need to make a reservation.

Black and White Eggs

Color Wheel

Lee Ufan: Making Infinity



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From Point, 1977
Glue and mineral pigments on canvas
National Museum of Art, Tokyo
Lee Ufan



     

       Lee Ufan is a very important Japanese philosopher and artist who has been recognized for his important contribution to the development of contemporary art in Japan.

      Lee's artwork evokes nature in a simple but great spiritual content. His exhibition "Making Infinity" at the Guggenheim museum in New York calls to the basic principles of life, one pause for a moment in our lives and think about what really matters for each of us in our lives, our jobs, our families.

      The "From Point"  is a painting from the exhibition Making Infinity where Lee combines the glue with a beautiful and vibrant mineral pigment cobalt blue on a white ground.  This rhythmic composition of blue dots, which disintegrate and re-view is like waves dancing on a pure white sky.