Lionel Maunz work

Lionel Maunz

I visited MoMA PS1, the museum of modern art on Monday. I went with my friend around 4:00pm till 6:00pm. I wish I could have stay a little bit longer because at the end most of the works were getting more interesting. Anyway two hours was enough to admire most of the works in this museum. The work that coughed my eye the most is this one from Lionel Maunz. This work is titled “Fertilize my mouth” which is a sculpture made of cast iron, concrete and steel. Maunz made a lot of sculptures of different figurative forms, and in all of them he used Cast iron and concrete material. The works of Lionel Maunz are based on his vision of the body as a fulminating, grinding, butchered thing. He reinforces a sense by incorporating materials like hair, bone, and semen. Mainz’s works forms suggest artifacts excavated from the aftermath of a catastrophe.

This specific work consists of a concrete ramp over which spills a sprawling, formless and object mass. At first resembling the melted ruins of a building destroyed by fire, upon closer inspection the bronze mass depicts textural fragments. At the base of the ramp stand two dismembered iron legs whose scale evokes a child’s body and whose upright positioning and abrupt truncation suggests the aftermath of a sudden violence.

In this drawing i used the head that Jean Michel Basquiat used in one of his works. I used it as a symbolism of complain since this face is yelling. Around that face i putted little details from what is going on nowadays. Those people fighting each other represent the wars that is happening now or is about to happen against ISIS. Probably the beginning of war world 3. Also there is a fabric representing pollution. Fabric are all over and are one of the main reason of global warming. There is the earth crying as a result of what is going on. The world is in a chaos and the most important feeling that is love is disappearing each day.

A homage to Jean Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat was a Neo-Expressionist painter in the 1980s. He was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. With a Haitian-American father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat's diverse cultural heritage was one of his many sources of inspiration. Basquiat showed a passion for art at a young age and was encouraged by his mother who had an interest in fashion design and sketching. He started to gravitate towards the graffiti movements and street culture in NYC. Basquiat made many paintings by just pasting his own drawings or making photocopies of them onto the canvas as is displayed in the picture above. In this work he came up with some drawings and put them together at once, they are not perfect. It looks like in many of this drawings is used the surrealistic method, more specifically the exquisite corpse. Also it is used continuous drawings of faces, cars, bikes, plants etc. Some drawings contains heads, bodies, lines, cubes, circles etc. We can see that he put some kind of description or thinking next to some drawings. Also in this work Basquiat used some of his graffiti's skills.  However all this drawings and colors are next to what it seems to be a big head of a robot, alien that is yelling! 

This work shows a kind of a disorganization of  ideas putting as a whole. However this makes the work expressionist in a artistic view. And believe it or not, one of Basquiat's works is costing around $50,000.  Basquiat called my attention since i found out that he attended at LaGuardia Community College. It is very important to me to know that very important people from NYC went to the same school i am attending, so they can play an important role of motivation in my life.

exquisite corpse drawings

Continuing Drawings

Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe is made not from roughly hewn blocks but from cleanly carved limestone pillars splashed with bas reliefs of animals, a cavalcade of gazelles, snakes, foxes, scorpions, and ferocious wild boars. The assemblage was built some 11,600 years ago, seven millennia before the Great Pyramid of Giza. It contains the oldest known temple. Göbekli Tepe is a monumental architecture the first structure human beings put together that was bigger and more complicated than a hut. When these pillars were erected, so far as we know, nothing of comparable scale existed in the world. At the time of Göbekli Tepe's construction much of the human race lived in small nomadic bands that survived by foraging for plants and hunting wild animals. Construction of the site would have required more people coming together in one place than had likely occurred before. Amazingly, the temple's builders were able to cut, shape, and transport 16-ton stones hundreds of feet despite having no wheels or beasts of burden. The pilgrims who came to Göbekli Tepe lived in a world without writing, metal, or pottery; to those approaching the temple from below, its pillars must have loomed overhead like rigid giants, the animals on the stones shivering in the firelight emissaries from a spiritual world that the human mind may have only begun to envision.

Hi my name is Boris Armijos, i am 23 years old and i am a student from LaGuardia Community College and my major is Criminal Justice. I am a friendly person who would love to interact through this media. I am from the beautiful country of Ecuador and i been living in New York from approximately 10 years. I got interested on this class of intro to art because i want to find out my drawing skills, and my interpretations on the art in the museums.
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