Art and Identity: The Museum of Modern Art

During my trip to the museum of modern art I viewed a couple of artworks from “Cindy Sherman” and the “Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now” exhibitions. Even though Cindy Sherman exhibits had nice arts I really didn’t find anything that caught my caught. The artworks that really caught my eyes were the artworks from the “Contemporary Galleries: 1980-Now”. These artworks were from Martin Kippenberger and Ashley Bickerton. This artiste explores the ideas of historical, personal individual and cultural identity in their artworks.

The first piece of artwork that caught my eye was an untitled piece from the series Dear Painter, Paint for me by Martin Kippenberger (1981). Here Martin explores the idea of historical identity in the way how he’s sitting in the corner of an urban city on a couch where you barely see anyone on the sidewalk compared to how it is now in our era. Today urban city is crowded with over population of people and traffic. In this image it seems that this guy has time in his hands. He sits and wonders. However now a days we don’t due to how fast everything has become. Everyone today seems to be in a rush to get to where they want to get to.

The second piece of work that caught my eyes was when I walked into a room and saw a man standing with his hands on this back facing the wall. This was an artwork of Martin Kippenberg "Martin, Into the Corner, You Should be Ashamed of Yourself" (1992). The guy wearing a white shirt had a globe printed on it making it look like a cultural identity type of artwork. The globe seems to represent where the guy came from or where he’s been trying to go to but got caught and punished.

Last but not least the third artwork that caught my eyes was Ashley Bickerton, Tormented Self-Portrait (1987-1988). This portrait was a great way of showing a person’s individual identity. When I saw this portrait I stood there figuring out what is this portrait really about. I was so confused with all those logos on the portrait until I read the information about Ashley’s portrait. Each one of those logos represented her day to day choices. Instead of just drawing it out she used logos to describe it and make it clear. The logos showed her favorite things such as her hobbies as in surfer and her cigarette brand. This portrait was a great way of showing a person’s individual identity.

All of these contemporary artists really amused me in the way they showed their type of artworks. It expressed ways of communication seen through his historical, personal individual, and cultural identity. I love how each one of the artworks vary showing demonstrating people type of art works that we never thought it was art.

Martin Kippenberger
"Untitled"
Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
(1981)

Martin Kippenberg
"Martin, Into the Corner, You Should

be Ashamed of Yourself"
Cast aluminum, clothing and iron plate
(1992)

Ashley Bickerton
“Tormented Self
Portrait”
Synthetic Paint,
bronze powder and lacquer on wood, aluminum,
rubber, plastic, leather, chrome-plated steel and canvas.
(1987-88)

Narrative Digital Collage

This image specifically shows how i would like to get married in the future. Ever since i was little i always dreamed of getting married at the beach. Its just a beautiful sight and amazing feeling the breeze hit you. I've seen so many weddeings at the beach and i must say its beyond beautiful. Hopefully in the future when i get married I've accomplish my dream which is to get married at the beach.

Good Art vs. Bad Art

Good art is something that engages you. Something that you see and be amused by it. Other wise good art is something that inspires you. For example the 5points building. The 5 points is a building fulled with graffiti. All the graffiti on the building didn't have any tag or gang names. There were paintings such as cute little babies, smiley faces, peaceful words and other beautiful graffiti. The graffiti of the babies on the wall show some type of happiness because of the way they look. To me that's good art. Another good art are pictures of wonderful admiring pictures of ancient peoples.

In other hands bad art is something that doesn't gets your attention. The type of art that doesn't engage you. Some type of bad art is arts like pornography. In other words crude drawings. Arts where guys and girls are doing their business. There's arts where men and women are drawn naked. To me that's not pleasing at all. To some other people it may be but i still consider it bad art. Other types of bad art are pictures of bad actions. For example pictures of people killing other people, people holding guns and doing other illegal activities.

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