Reflection about Art Appreciation Class

Reflection about Art Appreciation Class

This is my first time to take Art Appreciation class in the U.S.A. This class makes me met the old friend such as Jaun Carlos and Su Jung. And this class makes me met new friends. For the subject about Art Appreciation I think some lesson is too difficult for me to understand, but some of them are interesting me. Since I was in this class, we went to many museums in Chicago. Some of them I never know and never go there before. It is good and fun. For the on line work I think is good to let a student learn and find the art that related in their life. I like team work more than individual project work, because I can work with friend, discussion together and we can go to the museum together. Finally, I think everything in class totally good. Everything in class help me to appreciation art more than before. I knew something new. I learnt something that I never know before. I knew more about many artists all over the world.

Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons"Art in the Twenty-First Century," production still2007Season 4 Episode: "Romance"

Diary Art : Collage

This is a collage work of my boyfriend. He made this collage when he was study art class in BIR school. I saw it everyday on the wall in my bedroom. He put an idea from his dream and the thing that he like. He put the image of liberty statue, because he wanted to go to New York. He put images about Chicago. I like his art work, because I think I have the same idea with him.

Diary Art : Love Frame

My love flame photo. I got this flame from the first floor in my apartment. Someone threw it away, but I think this flame it still good. It not broken, I don't know why they threw it away. I kept this flame in to my room and I cleaned it. I put my photo with my boyfriend and decorated it by a little dolls on top. I hung it on the wall in my bed room. I really like this flame, because I got it free and it cute.^^

Diary Art : Japanese's tea cup

This is Japanese's tea cup in my work place. I used this ceramic cup for serve hot green tea. The pattern is "Kanji" japanese language. I like this cup because is beautiful. I always used this cup to drink hot green tea in the restaurant. I like the pattern of Kanji hand writing.

Diary Art : Tree Visions

This painting is hang on the wall in my work place. The artist name Ellen Lusting pained this oil painting. She gave this painting to my boss for show in the restaurant, because she wanted to sale her painting about tree. She has gallery at 817 W.Washington Blvd #404.

Diary Art : The Crane

This is the paper crane bird that I have to make for the restaurant. It is my side work when I have nothing to do. The owner used this crane for rest the chopsticks. I made this crane from white plain paper. In my country they believed that the crane bird is the bird of hopeful.

PUBLIC ART

Edward Kemeys 1894
Lions

Millennium Monument in Wrigley Square(Peristle)

Idiana & Limestone

The Bowman

The Spearman
Commissioned by the B.F.Ferguson Monument Fund

Minna Harkavy, Milton Horn, Lewis Iselin, Henry Rox, Charles Umlauf 1953

Merchandise Mart Hall of Flame

Jaume Plensa

The Crown Fountain

James Earle Fraser

Henry Hering 1928

United, known as The Picasso
Artist: Pablo Picasso

Clarence Buckingham Fountain

Artist: Marcel Francois Loyau

Cloud Gate
Artist : Anish Kapoor

Modernist Work

This is the modern series of oil painting all begins with "Mr. Big."The Portrait is an Art Deco-inspireed panorama of New York City in, 1930. The middle of an era of streamliningand everything modern. The brilliant color shining down on the man. It's obiously by his top hat, white tie, and cigar, that Mr.Big isrich and powerful in this city. The artist used complementary color in the painting. I found that the artist doesn't used many pattern. He used straight line, curve and light. I think the artist trying to show color and meaning of the painting. I think this work is a successful work of art.

Most Expensive Painting by Gustav Klimt

Most Expensive Painting Ever
There has been a lot of news around about the most expensive painting ever to be sold recently, so I thought I would go see what people have been saying about it.
For those that didn't hear, a Gustav Klimt painting sold to Ronald S Lauder for about $135 million (American dollars).

The Spiegel in Germany called it the "Mona Lisa for America"..
Is Adele worth its record price of $135 million? Only three years ago, the last top-selling Klimt managed to fetch all of $29 million. Norman Rosenthal, chief curator of the London Royal Academy of Arts, calls Adele "an icon of a specific, important epoch in art history" and believes the price is justified. But, he adds, "art is like gold; one has to believe in its value." Spiegel

A columnist at the Guardian in the UK thinks the value may be in the gold on the painting..
There are experts and there are art experts. Experts I admire. Art experts are mostly fruitcakes. I was therefore on raisin watch this week when Gustav Klimt's gold-encrusted Adele Bloch-Bauer I was declared to be "worth more" than the £73m world record it had just fetched. Worth more what? Surely not money. Was it the value of the gold if you scraped it off? Guardian

While another writer at the Guardian thinks the painting could be worth more..
The reason his 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I is worth so much is not the gold that dazzles and dissolves in the painting's mysteriously unanchored visual field, or the striking long features and hands of the sitter. It is that this is a piece of real estate in an invisible city, a chunk of the vanished Vienna before the two world wars that tore the life out of it. The very reason such a prime painting has come to auction is that it was successfully claimed by the heirs of the rightful owner, from whom it was looted by Hermann Goering in 1938. It is a glittering fragment of a cruel century whose madness Klimt was one of the first to see coming. Guardian

And Bloomberg says there could be more impressive prices paid for Gustav Klimt paintings this year..
Richard L. Feigen, a New York dealer, values the remaining works by Austria's most famous artist at $130 million to $140 million. He puts the 1912 portrait, showing Bloch-Bauer in a long dress and hat, at about $60 million, and the landscapes, 1903's 'Buchenwald/Birkenwald,'' 1912's 'Apfelbaum I'' and 1916's 'Hauser in Unterach am Attersee,'' featuring birches, apple trees and houses, at $18 million, $25 million and $30 million, respectively. "But they may go higher,'' said Feigen, an expert on 20th- century art. 'There's a tremendous amount of money out there looking for ever-decreasing supplies.'' Bloomberg

I personally don't have an opinion either way. If it gets people thinking about art it's probably a good thing, but I do think about the good that $135 million could do. We should value great paintings highly, but more because they are great paintings and not because a wealthy art collector paid a lot of money for it.