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The cost of education, and how it affects your future

Important topic, so here's a summary for those not interested in reading on…

"You might have a passion for philosophy or dream of being an investigative journalist. But computer science or public relations are more likely to pay the bills, so you change your major—indeed, your whole life—accordingly.

Is that selling out or just trying to survive?

For young people education has become as commercialized as anything else in modern life. Over the course of a single generation, education has been transformed from a relatively affordable public good into a social necessity priced as though it were a luxury item.

In 2013, the average student was almost $30,000 in the hole after graduation. Total student debt has nearly quadrupled in the last decade alone and recently surpassed $1 trillion in total, most of it held by individuals from low-income families. Combine these facts with dreadful employment options and stagnating wages, and it’s no wonder 20 percent of borrowers will be delinquent within their first five years of paybacks.

The rising price of education changes us at an existential level, forcing young people and their parents to apply a cost-benefit analysis to learning. The prospect of a lifetime of student loan remittances will turn anyone into homo economicus looking for a return on investment.

Some will ignore these changing conditions, preferring instead to wag their fingers and lament that “millennials” just don’t care about the state of society… Too often conversations about selling out devolve into inquests focused on personal purity when it’s the larger, screwed-up economic system that we should be putting on trial—not individual choices. Selling out still matters, but only because more and more people are being forced to do it."

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE

A Painter's Trajectory, or Supply and Demand. Labor, production, and the art-market.

Please read this article in today's Times, on Oscar Murillo:

 Art World Places Its Bet

How do you respond to the work (watch the slide show, and look up some reviews of his shows)?

Finally, what do you think about the role the art-market plays in art production? How may it work to limit, determine, undermine, create opportunity for, allow freedom for artistic expression for, support for artist? Pros and cons

How about investors and collectors? Investors vs collectors?

Is it possible for an artist to "keep their head down" and not consider the market?
Why would the art dealer want to keep the prices down?

Explain the author's desire to communicate the artist's supposed uncomfortablilty with his quick rise. If something is wanted today, why would it not be wanted tomorrow? How can art be "good" today, but "bad" in just a few years?


Post your comments here.

Ann Veronica Janssens 

"defined as an exploratory journey into the sensory experience of reality."- Galerie Micheline Szwajcer


Ann Veronica Janssens is a french artist who began working in the mid-80's, a lot of her work has to do with light infiltrating matter.

  Blue, Red and Yellow, 2001 are mist chambers in light rooms. The idea is that when all obstacles are abolished, the viewer is left to question materialism. The installation gives a sensual experience where people become locked in "colored matter." The installation was created by covering the gallery walls in different colored film and letting the room fill with mist; the viewer would then have a different experience depending on his location in relation to the proximity of each color.


Another way she uses light is by having it mimic the infiltrate of liquid. Her sculpture work is mostly composed of aquarium's of different color. Experimenting with the density of liquids and colored oils, creating an elusion that color is floating at the surface.



http://vimeo.com/68697406

Scarlett, 2010

Untitled(orange), 2010

An artist similar to her is Carlos Cruz-Diez. He is a Venezuelan kinetic artist living in Paris. I have seen his Chromosaturation rooms and they are stimulating and will make you go crazy. Carlos Cruz-Diez uses space by filling each room with a different color to infiltrate and distort the senses.

http://www.cruz-diez.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Cruz-Diez

I was introduced to a lot of this type of work when I visited the DYNAMO exhibition in the Grand Palais. So check out all the links if you want to see more.

http://www.grandpalais.fr/en/article/dynamo-teaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1TGXmx_i5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QlFfGwb51g






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Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic  was born in Serbia on November 30th, 1946, she is currently 67 years old.

Abramovic is a performance artist who began her work in the 1970s. Abramovic's parents were both part of the military and she was raised in a very strict house hold. Abramovic attributes her body studies to her parents military pasts. Marina uses her body for her pieces to test the bodies limits and the minds endurance but also so to explore the relationship between the audience and the performer. Ulay, a performance artist collaborated with Abramovic for some performance pieces in which they explored the ego and artistic identity.

i chose to post about Abrovamic because i feel like i can really relate to her work because both of our works have to do with manipulating the body. i really like how she is not afraid to hurt herself or push her body to the limit. and i also like the way she documented her pieces.

related artists:

• Uwe laysiepen
• Vito Acconci
• Bruce Nauman
• Chris Burden 
• Yoko Ono

http://www.marinaabramovicinstitute.org/mission/the-abramovic-method
http://marinafilm.com/
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/965

 

                              - xoxo pilar

Getting Started for REAL this time

It was three weeks ago that we decided to start this blog and we've been waiting for Mr. Lambert to set an example for us but he claims to be busy with other things. So I, Amy, have taken initiative to get this party started.

* we've also decided to make it an open and ongoing assignment. So you don't have to wait your turn but you do have to make a solid post by the end of the semester.

How to make a post:

Pick an artist: 

     (duh!) You can pick anyone! Anyone you think relates to your work, anyone who inspires you, anyone you've seen in a museum, anyone a teacher has referenced you to. As long as they are a legit artist who has shown in some show at some point. 

     some helpful sites: art21

                                   Saatchi Gallery

                                   Getty Museum

                                   LA MOCA

                                  Miami MOCA

                                  PAMM

                                   Whitney Museum

                                 Rubell Collection

                                De La Cruz Collection

                                  Tate Modern Museum

some sites you shouldn't use: tumblr, etsy, pinterest

Research: 

 get some basic info (birth place, time period, artistic movement, etc.) and anything else you think is relevant to their work.

what are some related artists? who are they influenced by? what is their relation to other things outside of the art world?

What you should give us: 

• Who are they?
• When were/are they making art?
• Where were/are they making art?
• Why were/are they making art?
• How did/do they make art?

* cite any source you get the information from so that it's not considered plagiarism and so that we can use it if we'd like to know more information

Show the pieces you like the most (and give us a link for more)

Give us some related artists, who they are influenced by, and what their relation is to topics outside of the art world. 

Tell us how you respond to this artist, why are you sharing it with us?

Post a link to their website if they have one.

Here's a picture of Our Mother Mary to help guide you on your path to success

NWSA Sculpture Portfolio I & II (Fall 2013) First Post

if you recognize these people, you've come to the right place.