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All right, I've been all over Cooper Unions site--where do you find their hometest questions? I was gong to steal some for next year's home works, etc. thanks

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:36:09 -0400

I found out about most of the prompts from past years looking through the Cargo search engine:

http://cargocollective.com/search/cooper%20union%20hometest

try using different words for the search to get different results and what not.

Louise Bourgeois' Influences

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:35:00 -0400

Bourgeois was influenced heavily by the Surrealist Movement; looking to defy its heavily masculine approach.

Some of the Artists from this movement are: Max Ernst (above painting), Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp and André Breton.

There was also a very strong Feminist Surrealist tradition that followed which Bourgeois continued. Leonora Carrington (painting below) was one of the most celebrated artists from this group.

It is also crucial to note Borugeois’ heavy influence from Marcel Duchamp (Installation of “First Papers of Surrealism” below) individually. She did once say “Marcel Duchamp could have been my father” (1988).

(Below, Duchamp’s Étant Donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Bourgeois was also influenced by and an in turn influenced contemporaries like Eva Hesse who delved into feminism and experimented with Installation (Sculpture below).

Louise Bourgeois

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:55:00 -0400

Louise Bourgeois:

A nice biography

MONOPRINT

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:10:00 -0500

Monoprint tutorial for beginners

Making a Monoprint

Artist Trading Cards

Monoprint through selective pressing

some more…

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:57:04 -0500

some more…

Photo 3 Semester Project. in the works…

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:34:00 -0500

Photo 3 Semester Project.

in the works…

Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture A MoMA exhibition about...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:23:48 -0500

Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture

A MoMA exhibition about the intersection of the two mediums

Adaptives Franz Klein

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:19:17 -0500

Adaptives

Franz Klein

A Banquet/ A Fashion Show of Body Parts For this performance at...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:14:46 -0500

A Banquet/ A Fashion Show of Body Parts

For this performance at the Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art in New York, Bourgeois invited an audience of critics, art historians and scholars to watch their contemporaries model a series of costumes designed by the artist. The audience were seated in boxes around the perimeter of the gallery creating a narrow pathway for the models to pass along, between a table laden with forms in the centre.Whilst the models walked, a commentator, allegedly a former Playboy bunny narrated and Susan Cooper performed ‘She Abandonned Me’. For the duration of the performance Bourgeois destroys the critical distance of the professional viewers of art by inviting them into the space of the work for a specific duration. In this way each participant is invited to loose themselves in a space with definite categorisation or heirarchy. The central fixture, both banquet table and stage, references that in Bourgeois 1974 installationThe Destruction of my Father and Confrontation, a sculptural piece also from 1978. In the former work, the table is at the centre laden latex objects arranged as food but resembling body parts. In Confrontation a table is laid with similar part-objects but two longer poles extending from top and bottom reference a stretcher used for carrying the wounded or dead. The installation of this object with surrounding box-like seats becomes the stage for the performance of A Banquet. Bourgeois’ use and re-use of similar forms creates a chain of reference between food and the body and consequently referncing psychic states of attachment and abandonment, destruction and recuperation. The recurring table structure is ritualistic, denoting both everyday activities of eating dinner with a family and religious or cultic celebrations; Bougeois conflates the two creating a referential cycle which defies absolute meaning or categorisation.

Portrait of Jean-Louis Louise Bourgeois

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:02:39 -0500

Portrait of Jean-Louis

Louise Bourgeois

The Reticient Child Louise Bourgeois

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:00:57 -0500

The Reticient Child

Louise Bourgeois

Femme Maison Louise Bourgeois

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:58:22 -0500

Femme Maison

Louise Bourgeois

Morgan Balfanz

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:55:30 -0500

Morgan Balfanz

Nick Cave

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:54:34 -0500

Nick Cave

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:54:17 -0500

Nick Cave

Laurie Simmons

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:52:59 -0500

Laurie Simmons

Cover of Dimanche by Yves Klein. This work was a published four...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:29:29 -0500

Cover of Dimanche by Yves Klein.

This work was a published four page newspaper detailing one of Klein’s Sundays. It covered his activities, thoughts and photographs of himself.

My first in-class print will be a small book of 12 mono prints. Each will be a gesture of a photograph I took in the exact place where I was every hour on the hour from 7am - 7pm on wednesday the 22nd of February.

Photo 3 Semester Project Update! Thinking about possibly doing...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:15:45 -0500

Photo 3 Semester Project Update!

Thinking about possibly doing still lives instead of stop motion…
Or maybe very short clips/gifs of some actions.

I’ve been working on all of these figures and objects.
Still have to get some gels to work with lighting and what not…

Thinkin’ bout:

Kim Keever
Laurie Simmons
David LaChapelle

(I mean I could also do this kinda thing)

Justin Bland

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:26:43 -0500

Justin Bland:

This is what I want to do for my in class work.
interesting books in small editions.

self printed.

intriguing.

controversial.

intimate.

minimal and simple.

repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:51:00 -0500

repetition