tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9971661662140411892024-03-18T20:18:48.488-07:00AnyaV BlogAnya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-72713432047519573012009-04-21T22:54:00.000-07:002009-04-22T00:20:20.517-07:00Laura Mulvey Explained<span style="font-family:arial;">For those who are interested in Laura Mulvey work:</span><br /><p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">I published the internet article on Sunday to follow up on my presentation in Prof. Betty Brown class: </span><br /><br><br /><a href="http://www.videodigitallive.com/lauramulvey/"><span style="font-family:arial;">http://www.videodigitallive.com/lauramulvey/</span></a><br /><br><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">that provides the detailed analysis of Mulvey's work "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". As I was reading the article and working on my presentaion, I realized that it's impossible to fully understand the content without in-depth structural analysis and the diagrams that illustrate the key points. So I followed through trying to resolve some contradictory aspects of her writing. </span></p><br /><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px;" align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The current research attempts to explain the central part of Mulvey's article: "Desire, born with language, allows the possibility of transcending the instinctual and the imaginary..." , and it opens up a number of questions.</span><br /></p><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Analysis reveals the important points of Mulvey's writing:</span><br /><ul><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">The language of patriarchy affects woman's unconscious</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">The concept of Woman's Desire is a subject for further research.</span></li><br /></ul><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The research also: </span><br /><ul><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">1. provides the analysis of relationships between Freud and Lacan in reference to Modernism and Post-Modernism</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">2. attempts to define the position of Mulvey in relationship to Freud, Lacan and Feminism. </span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">3. defines the central theme of her article - "new concept of desire"</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">4. suggests further analysis of relationship between Mulvey's work, Lacanian psychology, and contemporary psychology (main aspects: woman's desire, castration complex, gaze, looking, self-awareness)</span></li><br /><li><span style="font-family:arial;">5. suggests detailed analysis of the movie "Riddles of Sphinx"</span></li><br /></ul><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Note: This research is in progress, so the list of the items to be continued. I'm extremely interested in further analysis of Mulvey's and Wollen's work, biography, historical research and the possibility of the interview. It would be also helpful to have a psychologist involved in the research.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The diagrams below provide:</span><br><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">a. historical background</span><br><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">b. overview of Lacanian psychology in relationship to Mulvey's work</span><br><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">c. in-depth structural analysis of Mulvey's work</span><br /><br /><br><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GLwhhKQ0ZOh662vZ48uiF_SXEh6JlffXsSvHextI5X29DRwDQFL6aucw-Y4L8sGq8XVy39319jJ5smQTKooifQGIq_KZr8YRdtURmJpId4HWiHd8H2tz-JEoxm6aOGmd74zUmD_MNDQ/s1600-h/Freud-Lacan-chart.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 369px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GLwhhKQ0ZOh662vZ48uiF_SXEh6JlffXsSvHextI5X29DRwDQFL6aucw-Y4L8sGq8XVy39319jJ5smQTKooifQGIq_KZr8YRdtURmJpId4HWiHd8H2tz-JEoxm6aOGmd74zUmD_MNDQ/s400/Freud-Lacan-chart.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327398483787623474" /></a><br /><br /><br><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADyvrRagEoWbuNiLrFm2NLWX9IDEwSSz6KsYm0Z9Zvmc9r746zrWVDU2rByOtPlYNC7RNqboWaeYEHiqMZB3sNXScXbyG0FRm27eJDBTnXdI-jVPW0Jh2uCGubCdbu5nLXPEWgnVHWNI/s1600-h/chart1-sources_mulvey.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADyvrRagEoWbuNiLrFm2NLWX9IDEwSSz6KsYm0Z9Zvmc9r746zrWVDU2rByOtPlYNC7RNqboWaeYEHiqMZB3sNXScXbyG0FRm27eJDBTnXdI-jVPW0Jh2uCGubCdbu5nLXPEWgnVHWNI/s400/chart1-sources_mulvey.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327397738477064562" /></a><br /><br /><font style="font-size: 30px;">Lacan:</font><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3rSKjK2wAERFYDpAfcSD9ceVaRfApFuVBMxMdu8GXr5C8Lesi6IifKPB5vor9fckgl8gLUtSMaHIyQSFiX62zcLnWYmZC6Xg_tM8jaSwK99ICJpMZBUX1R0E4o9kMFo88Z3D77VLHKc/s1600-h/lacan-orders.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 90px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk3rSKjK2wAERFYDpAfcSD9ceVaRfApFuVBMxMdu8GXr5C8Lesi6IifKPB5vor9fckgl8gLUtSMaHIyQSFiX62zcLnWYmZC6Xg_tM8jaSwK99ICJpMZBUX1R0E4o9kMFo88Z3D77VLHKc/s400/lacan-orders.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327399330588710194" /></a><br><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtF0T4fdNq02VdLOUjp7nb32sXcI0F28P470y3nF65yhSm7dxxpmQ1xTYfQ5jqrJ43xjn22xgD7NhRwt8HoRQPmzvotOimGSSiQEqnAlBvGxoQEhBbWYNBtpX9r_0o2hvMDJu7c2ccYA/s1600-h/symbolic-order.jpg"><img style="display:block; 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font-family: Arial, san-serif;"><br /><br /><font style="font-size: 30px; color: #ff0000">Laura Mulvey:<br>Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema</font><br><br />Voyeuristic Scopophilia<br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3yrr0N5VniOSGgSh4MdZcSrn9nVC6w0X0qJmEWuKAmmVztPOGsjvs7AxrLebGDCK_pwcpdWkjZi68BM9EpOlXWrg4IiBElLdHlu0cfggkSYKoeaaUE6Ea9gAdMN-eWX7wZCGfHHG7YU/s1600-h/mulvey_graph1_scopophilia.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3yrr0N5VniOSGgSh4MdZcSrn9nVC6w0X0qJmEWuKAmmVztPOGsjvs7AxrLebGDCK_pwcpdWkjZi68BM9EpOlXWrg4IiBElLdHlu0cfggkSYKoeaaUE6Ea9gAdMN-eWX7wZCGfHHG7YU/s400/mulvey_graph1_scopophilia.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327403287691179618" /></a><br />Scopophilia in its Narcissic Effect (Lacan-Mirror Stage)<br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgcTS019ij9DZW8ppvge_P2tye5bclGdddI_3a4SjlPGPz0Po_eb2yFCSTI5G9PUHFebN-Bv2XI2CjstxMuWl_Jj7mKXfrMmWULQgNkYsOtiWYBsCBkG75vsGqWBG2ofSnC2a81qVLs8/s1600-h/mulvey_graph2_mirror_stage.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSgcTS019ij9DZW8ppvge_P2tye5bclGdddI_3a4SjlPGPz0Po_eb2yFCSTI5G9PUHFebN-Bv2XI2CjstxMuWl_Jj7mKXfrMmWULQgNkYsOtiWYBsCBkG75vsGqWBG2ofSnC2a81qVLs8/s400/mulvey_graph2_mirror_stage.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327403762346849330" /></a><br />Cinema Contradiction<br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8h7nTY5sJ2-_eZ1Mmgbi14H5y5AVZ1s5KHGl5uftyyUl2FhwwgBDSE7hnZKpaGO1tSN2WD7FJiZ0oIPFdysL7ucdDcQmlpJfAq1xBr7Ty78sLvrADMhWkWX7_eKnv6gOohyphenhyphenLYFsM6Rok/s1600-h/mulvey_graph3_contradiction.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8h7nTY5sJ2-_eZ1Mmgbi14H5y5AVZ1s5KHGl5uftyyUl2FhwwgBDSE7hnZKpaGO1tSN2WD7FJiZ0oIPFdysL7ucdDcQmlpJfAq1xBr7Ty78sLvrADMhWkWX7_eKnv6gOohyphenhyphenLYFsM6Rok/s400/mulvey_graph3_contradiction.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327404400018247826" /></a><br><br />Pleasurable Structure 1 - Scopophilic<br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2cc9brrFGSiFjG34W69d3ub007WDbDoMc23833uliSwjiz72RLMO2_6VaeiU_pcnn83btqgIwMd3ESfUqgoeimob8_xMYCNThTMfkVAREdhsHhpRXtvmL0Y7pdLWZgszzliPHVOfJhaU/s1600-h/mulvey_graph4_structure1.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2cc9brrFGSiFjG34W69d3ub007WDbDoMc23833uliSwjiz72RLMO2_6VaeiU_pcnn83btqgIwMd3ESfUqgoeimob8_xMYCNThTMfkVAREdhsHhpRXtvmL0Y7pdLWZgszzliPHVOfJhaU/s400/mulvey_graph4_structure1.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327404649953070370" /></a><br />Pleasurable Structure 2 - Narcissism / Constitution of Ego<br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdNnjWw1K8XH2YE74rwd7kF4putMBkRIeiN8wMHu9bhHdfA98bo9ssjZRQlEgWbdRzaw2Stq1geBRNKobc9OgBuyWXmiYQsdNt8a3t_nx2CTk8bvouf_XGoW3Vs7YhfO9JKMnmV37or0/s1600-h/mulvey_graph5_structure2.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 187px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdNnjWw1K8XH2YE74rwd7kF4putMBkRIeiN8wMHu9bhHdfA98bo9ssjZRQlEgWbdRzaw2Stq1geBRNKobc9OgBuyWXmiYQsdNt8a3t_nx2CTk8bvouf_XGoW3Vs7YhfO9JKMnmV37or0/s400/mulvey_graph5_structure2.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327405270338316994" /></a><br /><br />Mulvey makes an analogy between the world of the cinema and Freudian definition of pleasure as tension between instinctual drives. The diagram above corresponds to both the world on the screen (emotional tension between the movie characters) and the relationship between the cinema screen and the viewer.<br />She also makes an analogy between the cinema world and Lacanian definition of symbolic orders / stages of development : the viewer corresponds to the silent world of Real (instinctual) and imaginary (Mirror stage), while the screen is the analogy of Symbolic that produces language and desire.<br /><br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOBGVHbTOhTCXJ3Y3wOuh6yg05FHhOLA-FBqAN5lBT3nvZ5oSHgzhRinNkmyOQmg9CNjij5GUG4Uylfa3tnWZVcdVTFHbC6Xi2YGpHF7eZIODEDzd5lnFQkbxJrxnW2x3-3p0A-TCf-yo/s1600-h/freud-cinema-dictomy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 339px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOBGVHbTOhTCXJ3Y3wOuh6yg05FHhOLA-FBqAN5lBT3nvZ5oSHgzhRinNkmyOQmg9CNjij5GUG4Uylfa3tnWZVcdVTFHbC6Xi2YGpHF7eZIODEDzd5lnFQkbxJrxnW2x3-3p0A-TCf-yo/s400/freud-cinema-dictomy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327406215633785602" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_vvjhiC6A5dfzI9uTkDS2FVDNH9ECtnr75Qjwf6nC2b5_bwwgsC-FBtVxPzlt2WXXvE0uN_F-4xR4uPUz_CKN0MsN65QcH7pDbFUAzcUdBaZkaoQE-LzTsbtoIWCmpBlkRm2eCpiOCQw/s1600-h/desire.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 170px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_vvjhiC6A5dfzI9uTkDS2FVDNH9ECtnr75Qjwf6nC2b5_bwwgsC-FBtVxPzlt2WXXvE0uN_F-4xR4uPUz_CKN0MsN65QcH7pDbFUAzcUdBaZkaoQE-LzTsbtoIWCmpBlkRm2eCpiOCQw/s400/desire.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327409009620704354" /></a><br /><br />"Desire, born with language, allows the possibility of transcending the instinctual and the imaginary, but its point of reference continually returns to the traumatic moment of its birth: the castration complex."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSv-O3hKiyXcHzs6zHPMURgLxHuXXGDA5dMozzhC8bFrGSKavl3vv0mgCZ3enHxvlJanPab5bzuc7FYBitN6Mx4ZnOTnLj3TKiRxpfB1ceYNIqJIauSMbFrNDXmKhaKwSU4aY0-3uZAdw/s1600-h/chart-lacan-cinema.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSv-O3hKiyXcHzs6zHPMURgLxHuXXGDA5dMozzhC8bFrGSKavl3vv0mgCZ3enHxvlJanPab5bzuc7FYBitN6Mx4ZnOTnLj3TKiRxpfB1ceYNIqJIauSMbFrNDXmKhaKwSU4aY0-3uZAdw/s400/chart-lacan-cinema.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327407354333642418" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_YxTWcsyTn4e-gcJzgVnu3FKIqwOiwU7ZbYq18G4T-Ox9nSROWQjgtEr1R-gTR0zKZZnTXxe0Yv1bVh6K4xUB-6bAPiIE8nbcfWxZXnmTOdhd55_ghIJq-AyfoSvSH5KOMko8eHGtgE/s1600-h/mulvey_graph6.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA_YxTWcsyTn4e-gcJzgVnu3FKIqwOiwU7ZbYq18G4T-Ox9nSROWQjgtEr1R-gTR0zKZZnTXxe0Yv1bVh6K4xUB-6bAPiIE8nbcfWxZXnmTOdhd55_ghIJq-AyfoSvSH5KOMko8eHGtgE/s400/mulvey_graph6.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327405695257268978" /></a><br /><br />"Hence the look, pleasurable in form, can be threatening in content, and it is woman as representation/image that crystallises this paradox."<br />I think at this point it would be interesting to go back to her previous premise that looking represents self-awareness and do further analysis.<br /></div>Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-69503853907908334842009-02-21T13:09:00.000-08:002009-02-21T13:34:01.842-08:00Vermeer's "A Lady Writing" at Norton Simon<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVFIu-ExhZ0taeQ6XeM-qeDiNPZt9v1PhT1I5xALq3RQ7cBRgPpCD_o9-OnTNQTMIqceSQ6R4VdchOS-ZWsDy1yPgE0MvsrLoy8Ghay0nrlP2z_25uh0bQiHmsylaFoNZA-P4pXUVbjs/s1600-h/Vermeer_A_Lady_Writing.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 350px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghVFIu-ExhZ0taeQ6XeM-qeDiNPZt9v1PhT1I5xALq3RQ7cBRgPpCD_o9-OnTNQTMIqceSQ6R4VdchOS-ZWsDy1yPgE0MvsrLoy8Ghay0nrlP2z_25uh0bQiHmsylaFoNZA-P4pXUVbjs/s400/Vermeer_A_Lady_Writing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305360959589772994" border="0" /></a><br />I noted a few things about Vermeer's A Lady Writing when I saw the original painting at Norton Simon:<br /><br />1. diagonal composition intersecting with the frame at the background, the direction of the look, and the immediacy of the moment captured draws the viewer into the piece;<br /><br />2. softness of chiaroscuro and the size of the painting make it very intimate;<br /><br />3. this painting certainly has some mysterious quality: there is undercurrent contrast/tension between the warm yellow coat the lady is wearing and the cold green color of the table cloth (lost in this reproduction); also, the light (from a window?) makes the viewer uncertain of the time of the day and the weather/season.<br /><br />4. the painting is also about the look, and the way the lady is looking makes you guess who she is and the relationship between her and the viewer (artist).<br /><br />I was hypnotized by the artwork.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-77765147624941132652009-02-07T15:23:00.000-08:002009-02-07T16:34:42.343-08:00Animated PaintingOK, I'm back to blogging. I found the most interesting book at CSUN library "Animated Painting" published on the occasion of the exhibition in San Diego Museum of Art (2007-2008). Here is a list of work that I liked.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Barnstormers.</span><br /><br />Letter to the President, 2003.<br />It's an anti-war political movie, a combination of animation and fast-forwarded live footage with the layers of painted images overlapping each other. The layers of meaning, merged together in the most creative way.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Jeremy Blake</span><br /><br />Mod Lang, 2001<br />Abstract Digital Animation-transition of shapes and colors, meditative and almost philosophical feel. "To create these works, the artist would undergo an intense period of creative activity-what architects and designers call a charrette-resulting in series of drawings that convey the rhythmic ebb and flow of glacially moving forms." (Animated Painting)<br /><br />Sodium Fox (2005)<br />Produced in collaboration with David Berman, this piece touches on childhood vs. corrupted adult world of politics: "Kidnap Yourself".<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sebastian Diaz Morales</span><br /><br />Ring (The Means of Illusion), 2006-2007<br />It's a curved projection of four-channel video, a juxtaposition of the images of nature, crowd, and boxer. It has a psychological feel to it, and it reminds me some of the short stories of Jack London.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">William Kentridge</span><br /><br />Tide Table, 2003-2004<br />I love the work of Kentridge, everything looks so interesting in his handdrawn animated technique. It also has an old-fashioned feel of the early 20th cenury, that appeals to me.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />Ann Lislegard</span><br /><br />Bellona (after Samuel R. Delany, 2005)<br />I'm not a big fan of 3-D animation, but this piece has nothing to do with mainstreem movies. It has a very interesitng feel to it. "Although the work directly references the novel, Lislegard discards the human narrative and uses the story's architectonic structure as a metaphorical mise-en-scene to visually probe the cognitive gap between perception and apprehension, that slippery moment <span style="font-style:italic;">after</span> seeing and <span style="font-style:italic;">before</span> knowing". It reinforces the perception of the interior space, some alienation and search for inner self.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Serge Onmen</span><br /><br />Counterfeiterphillanthrope, 2007<br />This is an installation piece tht seems the most interesting, but it's hard to fully embrace it in a DVD format, as most of the installation work.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Wit Pimkanchanapong</span><br /><br />Untitled piece-digital animation-a play of black and white shapes overlapping each other. It reminds both modern avant-guarde art and op-art. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Qiu Anxiong</span><br /><br />The New Book of Mountains & Seas, Part 2, 2007<br /><br />It's a tranquil, meditative piece that reminds me Tarkovskiy's movie "Solaris". The transitions from space to cave paintings to nature refer to macro and micro reality. The movie is based on the ancient Chinese book Shan Hai Jing (dates from the third century BCE). "Taking the stories in the Shan Hai Jing as a theoretical basis for his animations, Qiu proposes the possibility that they cold be true in some form-that the book's magical creatures and imaginative chronology might have existed, although perhaps not in the miraculous states that the book describes. These stores developed from contemporaneous knowledge and served as explanatory models for understanding things beyond that era's technological capabilities: hence, the poetic accounts in Shann Hai Jing became the grand narrative in ancient China, the foundational truths that make the incomprehensible logical and believable". (Animated Painting)Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-17193586862594887222007-05-21T23:05:00.000-07:002007-05-21T23:13:58.560-07:00Hammer Museum: Permanent Collection (Daumier)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjADMuRE8KyQqscQiQNNTjzsR5e6UjlmQ-9O8pSWWR0aTqlEZ53uW3WlMmZnIKqQ2GyDAqIovkEMWpMoliP-upgUvysZtvggF0uDhX3cBI0BuMEof8E7PDJAE1reDHHB2_zkq8wKIpfwQA/s1600-h/Daumier.TheLawyers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjADMuRE8KyQqscQiQNNTjzsR5e6UjlmQ-9O8pSWWR0aTqlEZ53uW3WlMmZnIKqQ2GyDAqIovkEMWpMoliP-upgUvysZtvggF0uDhX3cBI0BuMEof8E7PDJAE1reDHHB2_zkq8wKIpfwQA/s400/Daumier.TheLawyers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067262901794049106" /></a><br />Honoré Daumier collection is great. It's so contemporary! The lawers (c. 1860) haven't changes since then. He has a great talent of capturing the character and telling a story.<br /><br />My other favorite piece is Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (c. 1866-1868). It has a great composition that certainly comunicates the aspects of materialistic and poetic.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBVuns14JqnbNctR3fWK-hpgZm8YuMPO0bRM38kmQkV5jO9WV_O5WK6tUnEkhnDyAX_lai9ZDYZ9foWRE5powdFWNQzIJvr2VyhSaMPTg9Cnw5eVNUhwLIS1whyphenhyphenq4k3t2VNkYQmcgJ18/s1600-h/Daumier2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqBVuns14JqnbNctR3fWK-hpgZm8YuMPO0bRM38kmQkV5jO9WV_O5WK6tUnEkhnDyAX_lai9ZDYZ9foWRE5powdFWNQzIJvr2VyhSaMPTg9Cnw5eVNUhwLIS1whyphenhyphenq4k3t2VNkYQmcgJ18/s400/Daumier2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067263129427315810" /></a>Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-23706396297366312902007-05-21T22:26:00.000-07:002007-05-21T23:02:20.715-07:00Show at the Hammer Museum<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCd-HJFMzY6tL1O4k9AOJef-a_5_8ENvNrTEGDjX_PmO8brlJhk54UZT8XtyYPyB5YyJZqd-XwktNXDMhQ1MbgNLo-cMiLWUrP7LX_bPKOEp5kjomlR3Kk6HhigdI7oqJ9lhsk7_8FU_w/s1600-h/sky.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCd-HJFMzY6tL1O4k9AOJef-a_5_8ENvNrTEGDjX_PmO8brlJhk54UZT8XtyYPyB5YyJZqd-XwktNXDMhQ1MbgNLo-cMiLWUrP7LX_bPKOEp5kjomlR3Kk6HhigdI7oqJ9lhsk7_8FU_w/s200/sky.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067260908929223730" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtA2oFv2Xg68dlzwLWPQW8RjLlv3jlBBk1Jy1UUxYsPSnDCnxedgQxAdTuGO_tGK8ArI1tTP1JtvfDocD9InFFwqhvyWzNavKO3BxlNg5KQqmwpfJfs3cPCdMxe9LV1UDbXEkZugdWitg/s1600-h/Celmins_Letter_07.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtA2oFv2Xg68dlzwLWPQW8RjLlv3jlBBk1Jy1UUxYsPSnDCnxedgQxAdTuGO_tGK8ArI1tTP1JtvfDocD9InFFwqhvyWzNavKO3BxlNg5KQqmwpfJfs3cPCdMxe9LV1UDbXEkZugdWitg/s200/Celmins_Letter_07.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067261153742359618" /></a><br /><br />I wasn't really impressed. My overall feeling is that Vija Celmins is a little bit obsessive. I like to look at the night sky, too, but why produce so many of them? Although I understand the artists who create their work for therapeutic reasons, that seems to be the case. She is very skillfull, though, and I liked some of her work that had political aspect.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeTZhltON23O5y2RFoYgzoV_8Foiq_8n3gZ7RZtOATRLFEJyFQwGdT0AwQ7FHStM-qQOzg9XZ9G0hwU8JZ8vbOQek6SueddB-8mLESXREyZDryuYr1b5sDEVefGlL-RDZNOnAgdW3Kws/s1600-h/forest.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeTZhltON23O5y2RFoYgzoV_8Foiq_8n3gZ7RZtOATRLFEJyFQwGdT0AwQ7FHStM-qQOzg9XZ9G0hwU8JZ8vbOQek6SueddB-8mLESXREyZDryuYr1b5sDEVefGlL-RDZNOnAgdW3Kws/s200/forest.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067257571739634674" /></a><br />Regarding the film by Austrian artist Mathias Poledna "Crystal Palace": It's nice to bring the nature into the movie theaters. But so what? It lookes like an attempt to be unique and experimental without having a great idea.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0GPT67QIKAU681w-e1L2s3BJK36bWnG0dRV8olrClpd2MJZv8piIKVCeLK3XaRFlL857nzWhWVJRt4vZBO-RQHUVfmF8iie_xpTr4XGm7uBo_XQ-wXRLB8UzU7WdnxEZNw7oL1yHHwuM/s1600-h/happiness(red-head).jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0GPT67QIKAU681w-e1L2s3BJK36bWnG0dRV8olrClpd2MJZv8piIKVCeLK3XaRFlL857nzWhWVJRt4vZBO-RQHUVfmF8iie_xpTr4XGm7uBo_XQ-wXRLB8UzU7WdnxEZNw7oL1yHHwuM/s200/happiness(red-head).jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067259238186945538" /></a><br /><br />Erik van Lieshout is not my type of an artist, either. I like the art that has roughness to it, but I want to see a great idea and aesthetics, too. His stuff looked like another desperate attempt to be unique by a graduate student.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-42033348985229322962007-05-21T21:49:00.000-07:002007-05-21T22:21:58.669-07:00Georgia Rule<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_O88LgOkCbe5xPzn_jubEwnd-gK1Nm8nv56SD6FwBrq6LDUWFU5HUZxUCA-o6GRoDtntMYNYZpzGmUPEwsjqYu5oZ5r-0jXcLjn9PbFFlmpKWytQ4Q0acflJJF4JaURphbgzzb-EExh0/s1600-h/poster2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_O88LgOkCbe5xPzn_jubEwnd-gK1Nm8nv56SD6FwBrq6LDUWFU5HUZxUCA-o6GRoDtntMYNYZpzGmUPEwsjqYu5oZ5r-0jXcLjn9PbFFlmpKWytQ4Q0acflJJF4JaURphbgzzb-EExh0/s200/poster2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067245425572121522" /></a><br /><br />I certainly enjoyed it. The film is directed by Garry Marshall, and the cast includes Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman, and Dermot Mulroney. <br /><br />The film shows three generation of women in the family, and their past is unfolded in an interesting way. It's a very good attempt to analyze the characters. I also liked the contradiction of values between California and Idaho.<br /><br />My mom made an interesting comment: "Why such whore women got such great guys?" That's a mystery to me, too.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-42308566043103965292007-05-21T21:12:00.000-07:002007-05-21T21:49:14.553-07:00Multimedia Festival at CTVA department, CSUNIt included the student work from web design and video/film classes. It was certainly very informative. I got a very good idea on how they teach web design, and I'm planning to take a class there to improve my skills. <br /><br />In terms of the short films, I liked a lot of them. There way a n interesting short by Eric Jerome made in a silent black and white movie style. <br /><br />The other one I remembered is called "If You Smoke, You Die" by Marten Weydah. The story is about a guy who is addictive to smoking and his girlfriend who is trying to stop him. Very Funny. Cigarettes play a lot of tricks with the poor guy, finding him anywhere... <br /><br />The film I liked the most is called "Her Interests" by Chris Goodwin. It's a comedy about a very shy guy who is having trouble with dating/building relationships, and his friend who is trying to help him. It's hilarious.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-86589965029546216672007-05-18T15:05:00.000-07:002007-05-18T17:03:04.128-07:00Venturous Vanguard Video Festival 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixl95oPOXj_iKThbRQ3Y2mUxjIZQ66vBrH52QYHZ1vTpqWdkDe7igL7H7HZuyM300eGCIWAwxGquzg43EKmJfUpYHL3s6Q8w4JdF1BSZj7BdHMdjkPCc6K05IwWLWiPgrVs4m93WeVxRA/s1600-h/fest2.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixl95oPOXj_iKThbRQ3Y2mUxjIZQ66vBrH52QYHZ1vTpqWdkDe7igL7H7HZuyM300eGCIWAwxGquzg43EKmJfUpYHL3s6Q8w4JdF1BSZj7BdHMdjkPCc6K05IwWLWiPgrVs4m93WeVxRA/s200/fest2.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066055333084072866" /></a><br />I really liked the variety of work there. It ranged from experimental animation to experimental documentaries. <br />I think my favorite piece was Ode to Persephone (3 min) by Swati Khurana. She is from India, but she lives in New York. The piece is very poetic, it basically shows the women against white background playing with the flowers, and it's inter-cut with narrative poetic interpretation of the myth: "Her love for flowers led her into darkness... She is not afraid of winter, she is afraid of forgetting that spring exists..."<br /><br />The other piece that I really liked was Tudo (5 min) by Maria Rosa Jijon, Italy. It really reminded me "Nostalgia" by Andrey Tarkovski. It looks like a short film in a documentary style. It has a very poetic narrative (which I really appreciated as I know some Spanish) that compares the life conditions and circumstances of people of upper and lower social class. The narrator is a homeless person. This long list of comparison and contrast ends with the words: "...but we love life, too..."<br /><br />For more info go to www.contemporarymap.org<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp998HrDehy0MSijzea1gCpOK60tZZts82ROJOwyiWlGWeLjCwxtc4NYU5k3ia9wrGDcY88oa5R47IshqqHOHhzViMljhCWV_DQTLD5pLGrRN_uUeSGwl8A7rzuUGzkF9eric8tzPfR6U/s1600-h/fest1.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp998HrDehy0MSijzea1gCpOK60tZZts82ROJOwyiWlGWeLjCwxtc4NYU5k3ia9wrGDcY88oa5R47IshqqHOHhzViMljhCWV_DQTLD5pLGrRN_uUeSGwl8A7rzuUGzkF9eric8tzPfR6U/s200/fest1.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066055208530021266" /></a>Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-90277955000938470612007-05-18T14:59:00.000-07:002007-05-18T15:04:51.374-07:00Kim Abeles: show at SCAPE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWrHuyX712n2AxTnd0bIgso3KC8B7xsjcv0sV2l_onFmxocN7kae-9pZ0wnAseghHeUCPdCFD-qL4BQ2qjEWLa4narrcBTb7t2up9T7PthacVizcBHOi7WvmS495M6FDkO0Wa_XeVsik/s1600-h/one-shelf-for-each-tree-dow.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAWrHuyX712n2AxTnd0bIgso3KC8B7xsjcv0sV2l_onFmxocN7kae-9pZ0wnAseghHeUCPdCFD-qL4BQ2qjEWLa4narrcBTb7t2up9T7PthacVizcBHOi7WvmS495M6FDkO0Wa_XeVsik/s200/one-shelf-for-each-tree-dow.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066024924715617154" /></a><br /><br />I really enjoyed it. Kim made a series of 3D work that is based on her observation that homeless people don't have their shelters under the trees. She mapped the homeless people's locations in the downtown LA, and she mapped the trees in the same area. Her work is both conceptual and beautiful, which is a rear quality in today's art world.<br /><br />I noticed the pair of children's shoes wrapped in the newspaper, and I really liked this piece. It seemed so personal to me. <br />For more info, go to www.scapesite.com<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFwgqj0WPLWtAljdFyeDycLNVc4ph57WsupGYAnmuf9zxkWlJwQS6cTMHRxat2FpmOFcLEoqohUAXbOyTef6Lgfw0B79JL8s4IpxTRkRCQPwyHIpzQ5Xa40IlivLHw5_Zztok7gc0vtE/s1600-h/terracotta-palms.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFwgqj0WPLWtAljdFyeDycLNVc4ph57WsupGYAnmuf9zxkWlJwQS6cTMHRxat2FpmOFcLEoqohUAXbOyTef6Lgfw0B79JL8s4IpxTRkRCQPwyHIpzQ5Xa40IlivLHw5_Zztok7gc0vtE/s200/terracotta-palms.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066024709967252338" /></a>Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-60898630143978426442007-05-18T14:55:00.000-07:002007-05-18T14:58:13.262-07:00Lecture at the Hammer museum: Paul McCarthyHorrible. Really horrible. I left after an hour and a half, and I only regret that I didn't leave earlier. 90 percent of the staff that the guy was showing was porn and shit (literally). And he is the professor at UCLA. Well, fine, if you do so-called "conceptual art", at least explain what the concept is. No. He would just go like: "And here me and my friends did this piece of porn", show the slides and move on. I<br />was hoping, since he is a professor and got international acclaim, he would play with the audience and say something smart at the end, but the more I looked at him, the more I realized that this may not happen. Anyway, I finally decided that I'm not going to be a guinea pig for him.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-37430841315516971532007-05-18T14:47:00.000-07:002007-05-18T14:55:00.932-07:00Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art, 1968-1988 at the Getty<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_NRKE3FahDYPs-fYzg53QlImGMRTYTg7ABBTntUesEP0ZqzrDJK6flP5jGbH8SBdTQIknxikAUHGH_gx3DlidrEwzx-6Dag7lIZPyRTUnWwC0y3OE2fR8ManpIcAm7bC0puVAY1D-qk/s1600-h/title.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE_NRKE3FahDYPs-fYzg53QlImGMRTYTg7ABBTntUesEP0ZqzrDJK6flP5jGbH8SBdTQIknxikAUHGH_gx3DlidrEwzx-6Dag7lIZPyRTUnWwC0y3OE2fR8ManpIcAm7bC0puVAY1D-qk/s200/title.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5066022313375501154" /></a><br />It got a few interesting pieces in it. I particularly liked "Statics of an Egg" (1973) by Fujiko Nakaya. It has a lot of psychological tension. The other one that I liked is "TV Drama" (1987) by Yoshitaka Shimano. I can perfectly associate with his hatred of television. And I really enjoyed "the happy end of the TV drama".<br /><br />Some of the work was too much technological based, that was certainly interesting at the moment it was created, but now it doesn't look that interesting, although it certainly has some historical value in it.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-47175698333382210872007-03-27T12:31:00.000-07:002007-03-27T12:35:16.960-07:00The Namesake<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRF2s5jwLvKSpn6SIycGrH8m_qv1T6HPSeKkCzb_LCh3f12CTrqWAvBHpWKT-cX3jJBXG2ZTkN2WIi-nkZUNnNkWnhqsrBxcEJkaIGgQywzWphH_yuiJ4cmQCrJjdHDrF-Be0yiijQ4ok/s1600-h/10m.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRF2s5jwLvKSpn6SIycGrH8m_qv1T6HPSeKkCzb_LCh3f12CTrqWAvBHpWKT-cX3jJBXG2ZTkN2WIi-nkZUNnNkWnhqsrBxcEJkaIGgQywzWphH_yuiJ4cmQCrJjdHDrF-Be0yiijQ4ok/s320/10m.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046689361202708210" /></a><br /><br />Very nice movie about indian immigrants, mostly second generation. I was surprised how they put together indian, american and russian cultures (the main character was named after the Russian writer Nikolay Gogol). I like the way the relationships between the immigrant parents and their children who grow up in the new culture are portraited.<br /><br />It is ironic though that even the "immigrant" movie happened to be about the upper middle class again.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-88473476641511031752007-03-24T12:22:00.000-07:002007-03-24T12:58:33.505-07:00Revealed: Women, Art, Life, SuccessI really liked the discussion. It was very informative. I think my favorite question was about combining artistic career with raising kids. (It was actually the first question asked by the audience members). There was a variety of answers united by one theme: "It's hard". Although woman who already have kids didn't regret it.<br /><br />Here are a few comments that I liked:<br /><br />"We behave like we have a profession. [ ] We have a calling." - Judy Baca<br /><br />"When you do public art, you're invisible."- Kim Abeles<br /><br />"For the public art, I'm always amazed how it can be so personal." - Kim Abeles<br /><br />"You are talking about emerging... if it doesn't work, just re-emerge. [ ] Just find the place for yourself."<br /><br /><br />I also liked the comments of Judy Baca on the concept of success in art. I always defined it like being able to make the living with art. According to Judy, the real success in art is to be able to express yourself, to say what you want, and to work with people that you like.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-33224641712922783592007-03-17T13:47:00.000-07:002007-03-17T14:24:04.560-07:00Drive By<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OKa779uGHXBZqEMeDgQyznNORZNhGVOx8G7sneaXnz63lNkBhqz2-vGyN7nSea-HkyEuG3L9FPONbmJcjC6wTPxb1Zvfi4oy9FrbeGuGH318MWsqSXFjJAaJ1lHtORgqk_4dOeRoIAk/s1600-h/Fgallery0046-009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1OKa779uGHXBZqEMeDgQyznNORZNhGVOx8G7sneaXnz63lNkBhqz2-vGyN7nSea-HkyEuG3L9FPONbmJcjC6wTPxb1Zvfi4oy9FrbeGuGH318MWsqSXFjJAaJ1lHtORgqk_4dOeRoIAk/s320/Fgallery0046-009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042998275931452658" /></a><br /><br />It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon when I made it there. Here are the artists that I liked:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGwpUtC2zMf_caU42vXcPfvmh5G__jYl-k9ywG8kqIgsb0YJOyZPKk3xymZBE3C1YS70BBgcMPgkI3keUek6Dk1tnkOZPyzVk0mf6Xl4wf9__i0ALjjkyBlKH6SH5m5n73jlQ6WhBOGrY/s1600-h/Fgallery0059-002.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGwpUtC2zMf_caU42vXcPfvmh5G__jYl-k9ywG8kqIgsb0YJOyZPKk3xymZBE3C1YS70BBgcMPgkI3keUek6Dk1tnkOZPyzVk0mf6Xl4wf9__i0ALjjkyBlKH6SH5m5n73jlQ6WhBOGrY/s200/Fgallery0059-002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042999908019025186" /></a>Bruce Gray (www.brucegray.com)<br />My favorite pieces are "High Heel Shoe#1" and "The Big Cheese #3" I think there is something about the dimentions of the work: It is interesting to see the small objects that we use everyday made as a large-scale sculptures.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bcNN3EaAjSdlaDS5ogUDqHJXAgWJMX0voR7AePOEIUoSCptPCVGi06_cliNmY71-B1GPK8hPcCimZAdVcELLeY8olRSUUBOuLq2olejtct40SKm43gi-xlVptJI7Psn1VcwjbToTxuo/s1600-h/Fgallery0059-001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7bcNN3EaAjSdlaDS5ogUDqHJXAgWJMX0voR7AePOEIUoSCptPCVGi06_cliNmY71-B1GPK8hPcCimZAdVcELLeY8olRSUUBOuLq2olejtct40SKm43gi-xlVptJI7Psn1VcwjbToTxuo/s400/Fgallery0059-001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043001355423003970" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFvAC4guuYMvnOs4uk8gCzbziMDR0Sb9LED5OKSM7AxRyTV2yux2L6zvlOWP4iJXnqKtyAD9Mr2jPsaIE26DHRzrv7yxf-MuzYOKzoZwAHW7xMAntzYKXAfwY8k6iV26H_foLzpZbfOKQ/s1600-h/Fgallery0060-002.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFvAC4guuYMvnOs4uk8gCzbziMDR0Sb9LED5OKSM7AxRyTV2yux2L6zvlOWP4iJXnqKtyAD9Mr2jPsaIE26DHRzrv7yxf-MuzYOKzoZwAHW7xMAntzYKXAfwY8k6iV26H_foLzpZbfOKQ/s320/Fgallery0060-002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043002643913192786" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_2rgShmumadxn-go0Qln0xK9kz9YMqLlf26HS6R8NlQZS5UhX8I4CFRTuE2vjTZO56QHBARFzUQBBp5JYKmcBkWQA3ebzdwwo_d8_qgHtV8Gyyj8_U1k5ar4sIT5F4xFcO5aK5IENFI/s1600-h/Fgallery0060-001.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_2rgShmumadxn-go0Qln0xK9kz9YMqLlf26HS6R8NlQZS5UhX8I4CFRTuE2vjTZO56QHBARFzUQBBp5JYKmcBkWQA3ebzdwwo_d8_qgHtV8Gyyj8_U1k5ar4sIT5F4xFcO5aK5IENFI/s320/Fgallery0060-001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043002880136394082" /></a>Stuart Rapeport<br />Title: (choose from the following)<br />1. "School"<br />2. "Fish out of water"<br />3. "Don't Bite off more than you can chew"<br />4. "Bait"<br />5. "Fishwatch" <br />6. "The Stalker" <br />7. "The Infinite Patience of the Feline Eye" <br />8."Crouch"<br />9."Stay focused"<br />10."Look at the book picture"<br />11."Curiosty killed the cat"<br />12."Individual, family, friends, community, nation, world "<br />13."A dozen fish one cat"<br />14."look before you leap"<br />15."Safety in numbers"<br />16."Stay in school"<br />17."Bait and switch"<br /><br />I chose #19.“Mother told me there would by days like this". Even though my mother never told me this, I still want to believe it. Especially now.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgerjSAhyphenhyphenffLjiGPe2BLlMdNvq_1irEiG5fmwRcJAUlxAVKcmwu1NfJAwGRqhgx3gFXL6KTjnjtg8pa6GsLwIh5LsfaepqR4e0ZPusvMvQhjVZpzlIbN4BqlCm8T4L6uHC46G0EVK4SIiA/s1600-h/Fgallery0062-001.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgerjSAhyphenhyphenffLjiGPe2BLlMdNvq_1irEiG5fmwRcJAUlxAVKcmwu1NfJAwGRqhgx3gFXL6KTjnjtg8pa6GsLwIh5LsfaepqR4e0ZPusvMvQhjVZpzlIbN4BqlCm8T4L6uHC46G0EVK4SIiA/s320/Fgallery0062-001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043004778511938930" /></a><br />Farzad Kohan<br />Title: Puppeteers<br />Mixed Media 2006<br /><br />Somehow this piece made me think of my current job at the company.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-9920907259468020592007-03-17T12:42:00.000-07:002007-03-17T13:19:05.619-07:002007 Women's Music, Art, Dance & Word Festival: Celebrating Diversity<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSDB8rj22AbXuRr9I1-tJ5wKlMZ2Uf-EYBL1LDKnpE8gSv9322Yz3pkz-7DYFe3mGcf05mvg1s2MonVq_W7PhpSPx93EhI3KCY_jiyGRzakBGaV7Z6DypnFfkn4QnvtbyffU-2gLMRKXQ/s1600-h/invite__long_beach.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSDB8rj22AbXuRr9I1-tJ5wKlMZ2Uf-EYBL1LDKnpE8gSv9322Yz3pkz-7DYFe3mGcf05mvg1s2MonVq_W7PhpSPx93EhI3KCY_jiyGRzakBGaV7Z6DypnFfkn4QnvtbyffU-2gLMRKXQ/s320/invite__long_beach.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042981439659652322" /></a><br /><br />The show was opened at the 2nd City Council gallery on Saturday, March 10 (http://www.2ndcitycouncil.org) I really enjoyed the diversity of work that included all sorts of art mediums, as well as performances. Here are some pieces that I liked:<br /><br />Judy Y<br />Model #5047<br />Lightjet C-print<br /><br />This is the photographic portrait of a doll against dark background. The light on the mirrored image is perfectly symmetrical, and that probably makes it more disturbing. It talks to the value of the individual and the way it's perceived in the media.<br /><br />Linda Bundlin<br />Ruby Slipper<br />35 mm Film Tapestry<br /><br />This artist has been working as an editor for a while. Her piece is a collages put together from the pieces of 35 mm film. It looks like some sort of 3D installation from the distance, but then the viewer can move closer and see the individual images on the film.<br /><br />Eileen Anderson<br />self-portrait<br />mixed media<br /><br />This is a 3D installation of a female figure covered with the product labels and the wire (the kind of wire that is used on barber-wired fences for animals). "Women are often objectified and treated with disrespect".Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-45150591621874630502007-03-10T12:13:00.000-08:002007-03-10T13:39:04.105-08:00Casting Nature: François-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_BSU7on3vDQ9ebek4DL-Pi6OJdjVCmDZpxdBK1hL5pn2kfEAoDcbwSBFuTOvsR2y_AsYPpeQjVr4REbQ3OErF4tp7r6Rs7qWuwYXc8dV6uy_YRl2Cv-hNbJiPlk9wv1nacPvy_lGVVqc/s1600-h/26675401.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_BSU7on3vDQ9ebek4DL-Pi6OJdjVCmDZpxdBK1hL5pn2kfEAoDcbwSBFuTOvsR2y_AsYPpeQjVr4REbQ3OErF4tp7r6Rs7qWuwYXc8dV6uy_YRl2Cv-hNbJiPlk9wv1nacPvy_lGVVqc/s320/26675401.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040401037744083746" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Aw7K76B_EqtlRJtW1sqsSsQjQnow3QwrdowxUzRDLOVNZJjCkz3VHpQvxzlHcISMXFAJVz-B1d4EZ4aNkplkSsiVrgI-yCkul8Ele_b25ThUtxaq9iGL2A64Rg0g8uTrrm8s9fmyoD4/s1600-h/266754T9V1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Aw7K76B_EqtlRJtW1sqsSsQjQnow3QwrdowxUzRDLOVNZJjCkz3VHpQvxzlHcISMXFAJVz-B1d4EZ4aNkplkSsiVrgI-yCkul8Ele_b25ThUtxaq9iGL2A64Rg0g8uTrrm8s9fmyoD4/s320/266754T9V1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040407377115812706" /></a><br /><br />Casting Nature is the show of 18-century art that is designed around Machine d'Argent, a silver masterpiece by François-Thomas Germain. What makes the sculpture unique is that, unlike the other table centerpieces produced at that time, it had no function outside of being a decorative object.<br /><br />Somehow this show really made me think of the purpose of art making. I noticed that the piece doesn't appeal to me emotionally, but, on the contrary, makes me thing of the dead rabbit and birds and regret the fact that the majority of humans are not vegetarian. Could it be because of my mindset on that day? But at the same time, the other silver pieces that had certain functionality assigned to them didn't evoke the same kind of feeling. (By the way, I'm not a vegetarian, although I'd like to be one.)<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb48CGPdEgE2GGheAYEeepfsX6An8-ugZ6oDc1RJBsM8bObejrTSXenspHHTPaMDCrdBZKyYPL_bxyatPcbXFoTzspB11bIgCG5rgebAz7A7sCU_WMQ2lY3ce90V57S9bZFMDJcBTWkQo/s1600-h/detroit_tureen_zm.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb48CGPdEgE2GGheAYEeepfsX6An8-ugZ6oDc1RJBsM8bObejrTSXenspHHTPaMDCrdBZKyYPL_bxyatPcbXFoTzspB11bIgCG5rgebAz7A7sCU_WMQ2lY3ce90V57S9bZFMDJcBTWkQo/s320/detroit_tureen_zm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040406887489540946" /></a><br /><br />Similar is true about paintings. Speaking outside of the admiration of the technical skills of the painter, I felt sorry for the dead little birds. Maybe because in my mind little birds are not supposed to be eaten. Perhaps, for the 18th century person who didn't get much meat on the table, this art was telling a different story. <br /><br />Perhaps there is a change in perception between 18th and the 21st centuries. During the period of Enlightenment, people (artists) were trying to replicate and rival the nature. Now, with all the ecological issues, there is a concept of how fragile life really is.<br /><br /><br />http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/casting_nature/Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-76575067290147081332007-03-10T11:49:00.000-08:002007-03-10T12:12:59.569-08:00Icons of Sinai<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFtiMie7ZyZGzZwJ4sSHSB0JDyhGiT8CvOH7FxJNK5gwk7Cjr0PZy-xFV28txV_MP4PV-8syHAMXElGs9qLe06nxP8F3bwKgBRzv-vR6EYSEC1unPT7kRVBTzMwOsL1aAcPKpFJajw69k/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFtiMie7ZyZGzZwJ4sSHSB0JDyhGiT8CvOH7FxJNK5gwk7Cjr0PZy-xFV28txV_MP4PV-8syHAMXElGs9qLe06nxP8F3bwKgBRzv-vR6EYSEC1unPT7kRVBTzMwOsL1aAcPKpFJajw69k/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040386739797955346" /></a><br /><br />I made it to the Icons from Sinai show on the last day. I wish it wasn't the last day, because the show was magnificent. To me, it really had a healing effect. I spent about 3 hours there, meditating on the icons and researching the historical background. One of the interesting things that I learned is that the monastery of St. Catherine was built at the spot where, according to the legend, Mouses saw the burning bush. There is also a very interesting (symbolic and poetical) parallel between the burning bush and the Virgin Mary.<br /><br />Among the icons that had the strongest impact on me are the large icon of St. Peter (realistic-looking face-I believe that's what St. Peter looked like). Very interesting icon by El Greco with St Catherine's monastery at Sinai, the way he imagined it. Virgin Mary with Archangel Gabriel (I forgot the English name for the scene)-golden leaf-you can see the Holy Spirit descending. If you look at a certain angle, you can see the crucifixion in the center.<br /><br />I wish I could come there again, but it was the last day of the show.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-55294027738331351892007-02-24T13:47:00.000-08:002007-02-24T13:48:56.566-08:00Art JournalFeb. 18<br /><br />I visited a very interesting show of German painting at Getty. It is base on comparison and contrast of the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and Gerard Richter (born 1932). <br /><br />Friedrich was one of the first artists that made landscapes their subject matter. The pieces of Richter are large-scale abstract paintings, the examples of German Expressionism.<br />In general, Friedrich's art is contemplative and meditative. Richter's work as emotional and energetic. But at the same time there is always a sense of something greater that hides behind the detail-oriented painting of Friedrich. For example, his "Bushes in the Snow" communicate a great sense of anxiety, that brings it very close to Richet's abstractions. <br />Looking at the historical background, Friedrich was affected by the French invasion in 1800. Similary, Richet was getting his art education in the postwar East Germany, and he moved to West Germany in 1961.<br /><br />"Cross in the Mountains: by Friedrich made me really stop and think. It depicts the mountain and the crusifiction, but there are the beams of light coming from a light source behind the mountain, like projectors in LA. Very surprising.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-80505257547624797652006-12-09T16:37:00.000-08:002006-12-09T16:40:32.891-08:00Stills from my recent footage<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAuwwfnfxulTLOjl9w4Eym7MWtCk8fuO-Ny_HmIRqEXp18H7yQJdO1_Y7R9A1O_guF5964EEMEgB5e4CxVxfB8iZSSXWtZjJUM7w66p4wRxoPSVJhoworsjBxwOw4xhUkIQSE7XUFJ2A/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvAuwwfnfxulTLOjl9w4Eym7MWtCk8fuO-Ny_HmIRqEXp18H7yQJdO1_Y7R9A1O_guF5964EEMEgB5e4CxVxfB8iZSSXWtZjJUM7w66p4wRxoPSVJhoworsjBxwOw4xhUkIQSE7XUFJ2A/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006691296082134242" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH0GHYL6bLlpj9vHxp8rfsn5aspDCv6qlrYkKiiSFNjckG6bpY277A2R3vZFLB3hy3PlDuZc1EXi8LeLOHH6k08B8ibLCu7-RhtnO1YQ_82waV70V1Hp1ZTnsexm4M2oRu49GvgCXZAEY/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH0GHYL6bLlpj9vHxp8rfsn5aspDCv6qlrYkKiiSFNjckG6bpY277A2R3vZFLB3hy3PlDuZc1EXi8LeLOHH6k08B8ibLCu7-RhtnO1YQ_82waV70V1Hp1ZTnsexm4M2oRu49GvgCXZAEY/s320/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006691300377101554" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7XTtpAN73OKim2ZG7HpGaetoOkSXaz5j4t16vvf6DsNAr2bdQ_jc4271J-FA10T-F6XCwRfxjKgm5PdA8d1nS0CyBRbGoc-3wIRMasETI4cIZLELG0cDh3fd9mHZTmhi4reSjABD-SU/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo7XTtpAN73OKim2ZG7HpGaetoOkSXaz5j4t16vvf6DsNAr2bdQ_jc4271J-FA10T-F6XCwRfxjKgm5PdA8d1nS0CyBRbGoc-3wIRMasETI4cIZLELG0cDh3fd9mHZTmhi4reSjABD-SU/s320/Picture+3.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006691304672068866" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS80sI5BLE2NsZnsmcBN0aZ42mvzQAXDU6LsNhB5fyptAewKZ-G3nqGNAp-PtcBYe1z-YLLIny8-eNnFNMjokrmkEFfejsaQ_TuIuMIUnFXTF_orQ1rp2XjQKQzlzuobm21Ah_LDFqmao/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS80sI5BLE2NsZnsmcBN0aZ42mvzQAXDU6LsNhB5fyptAewKZ-G3nqGNAp-PtcBYe1z-YLLIny8-eNnFNMjokrmkEFfejsaQ_TuIuMIUnFXTF_orQ1rp2XjQKQzlzuobm21Ah_LDFqmao/s320/Picture+4.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006691304672068882" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOEaNvgS84cAAzF4YPDCZPRcTa2ixN02efp3s2dKsGyhj075YOEMPBRE-KQt0YhnGy0qvKNQisIgvZWKxxejXPBNDQFohg5LDPIMVryOBpCtK3v1hzTp0uCMKtqbPp25k3dB1mxQ9eO3U/s1600-h/Picture+7.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOEaNvgS84cAAzF4YPDCZPRcTa2ixN02efp3s2dKsGyhj075YOEMPBRE-KQt0YhnGy0qvKNQisIgvZWKxxejXPBNDQFohg5LDPIMVryOBpCtK3v1hzTp0uCMKtqbPp25k3dB1mxQ9eO3U/s320/Picture+7.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5006691308967036194" /></a><br />Here are some stills from my recent footage...Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-69522990733305783302006-12-08T14:37:00.000-08:002006-12-08T14:46:21.981-08:00More staffRon,<br /><br />I just want to mention that I actually took into consideration you advice about using more interesting props for my future projects and shoot some stuff that I really like. I will publish some stills from the footage tomorrow... I'm thinking this footage might work very well to represent the mindset/emotional state of a person, and I think this is specifically what I'm interested in as a theme for my future work.<br /><br />Also, I picked up some very interesting ambient sound for my current project.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-54094310524674123522006-12-02T15:04:00.000-08:002006-12-02T15:22:42.476-08:00Some ProgressI saw "Nostalgia" by Andrey Tarkovki, and it is so deeply close to what I feel like and what I'd like to be doing. As I was watching it, I realized that that I saw the movie before, but wasn't able to fully comprehend it at that time. Also, I felt somewhat different. Anyway, I will show the episodes in class. I'm also planning to show the episode from "The Mirror" by Tarkovski.<br /><br />Here are a few quotes from Suzi Gablik that I like :<br /><br />"The post-avangarde doesn't try to conquer the new territories or concern itself with radical new futures; it understands that the modernist impulse has exhausted itself, but makes no predictions about where our culture is going, or what will take modernism's place.''<br /><br />"instead of keeping culture moving, nothing new is produced. This is the politics of drift, or "hovering'; Peter Halley calls it "rear-guard" (as opposed to avant-garde) action, by which he means feeding the culture only that which is worthless: guerilla ideas that know how to keep their cover; eccentric ideas that seem innocuous and so are admitted unnoticed by media mechanism; doubtful ideas that are not invested in their own truth and thus are not damaged when they are manipulated; nihilistic ideas that get dismissed for being too depressing."Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-39884023296627419862006-11-27T19:20:00.001-08:002006-11-27T19:20:50.943-08:00Hi everyone,<br /><br />Hope you had a good turkey!<br /><br />I couldn't post anything except for the comments for the last few days. Looks like my internet browsers at home just freeze up when I click the post button. <br /><br />Anyway, I started to read "The Reenchantment of Art" by Suzi Gablik. Finished chapter 1. Looks interesting so far, very much what I've been thinking. The major comment that I have at this point is that she seems to focus (at least in the first chapter) on the ecological and social aspects of art, which have a great value to me. I wish my art develops into this direction in the future. However, I'm also very interested in the therapeutic aspects of art. Here, I would like to differentiate between art as a therapy for the artist and art as a therapy for the viewer. Although I have been mostly focusing of the first category, the second one is of an equal or greater importance for me, as it is actually related the tradition of iconography.<br /><br />Ron, I keep thinking about my project #1. So far the only thing that I really want to change is the thickness of the letters. I kind of like the mechanical, san-serif look of them, and the idea of putting them together like the pieces of the puzzle. That is something I envisioned from the beginning. But I think your suggestion in terms of using unusual props is really valid, and I will certainly try it for my future projects.<br /><br />Also, I started the mental draft of the narrative-I hope I will be able to show it to you on Tuesday.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-91700504377994811572006-11-27T18:38:00.000-08:002006-11-27T19:10:33.877-08:00Reading/Project thoughtsHi everyone,<br /><br />Hope you had a good turkey!<br /><br />I couldn't post anything except for the comments for the last few days. Looks like my internet browsers at home just freeze up when I click the post button. <br /><br />Anyway, I started to read "The Reenchantment of Art" by Suzi Gablik. Finished chapter 1. Looks interesting so far, very much what I've been thinking. The major comment that I have at this point is that she seems to focus (at least in the first chapter) on the ecological and social aspects of art, which have a great value to me. I wish my art develops into this direction in the future. However, I'm also very interested in the therapeutic aspects of art. Here, I would like to differentiate between art as a therapy for the artist and art as a therapy for the viewer. Although I have been mostly focused of the first category, the second one is of an equal or greater importance for me, as it is actually related the tradition of iconography.<br /><br />Ron, I keep thinking about my project #1. So far the only thing that I really want to change is the thickness of the letters. I kind of like the mechanical, san-serif look of them, and the idea of putting them together like the pieces of the puzzle. That is something I envisioned from the beginning. But I think your suggestion in terms of using unusual props is really valid, and I will certainly try it for my future projects.<br /><br />Also, I started the mental draft of the narrative-I hope I will be able to show it to you on Tuesday.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-72452614752781809812006-11-20T18:56:00.000-08:002006-11-20T18:59:46.787-08:00some thoughtsI think I identified for myself that for the first edit I want to create something I would call "surreal abstraction". Now I'm in the process of editing, and I'm trying to define how much "surreal" I want it to be...Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-997166166214041189.post-17202454783515705982006-11-20T18:24:00.000-08:002006-11-20T18:26:26.837-08:00Work ProgressI ordered the book that you recommended-"The enchantment of art". Should get it on Tuesday. <br /><br />Also, I shoot some footage-the diary and the fire. Continued editing my first approach.Anya Zinovevahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14057474481680695964noreply@blogger.com0