3 Discussion Questions, 3 Student Reponses .. and 2 Assignments

HUM106: Experience of Modern Art

Week 7 Discussion

Part 1: Preparation

Chapter 19 of your text introduces West Coast Pop artists, Thiebaud, Kienholz, Jess, and Ruscha, in this way: 

"America’s West Coast offered an especially sympathetic audience for early experiments in Pop art, as evidenced by the reception of Warhol’s first major exhibition in 1962. The region’s investment in the film industry as well as its comparatively young cultural institutions tended to mitigate the influence of traditional aesthetic hierarchies and expectations. The four Californian artists discussed here—Wayne Thiebaud, Edward Kienholz, Jess, and Edward Ruscha—made work that is only tangentially related to Pop" (1). 

To prepare for this discussion:

· Read Chapter 19, “Poetics of the “New Gomorrah”: West Coast Artists,” pages 483–486. 

. These pages cover the artists, Thiebaud, Kienholz, Jess, and Ruscha. 

· View the four artists’ artwork contained on these pages. 

· Select one piece of artwork from one of these artists that speaks to you.  

Please respond to the following in a post of 150 to 200 words:

· Post a screen shot of the artwork you selected.

· Describe what you think the artist’s intent was in creating the work. 

· Offer your best artistic reaction to what speaks to you about this piece of art. 

Note: To help get you started, you might want to view one person’s response to Edward Kienholz’s The State Hospital. Please do not feel constrained by this example. This is just one person’s artistic reaction to a piece of art. Also, it goes without saying: don’t use this person’s language in your response. That’s called plagiarism.

In a post of 60 to 75 words, please respond to at least one other post. Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses.

Sources

1. H. H. Arnason. 2013. History of Modern Art (7th ed.). p. 483. Pearson.

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Part 2: Student Response (Respond to the below Student Post)

Carl Phipps 

RE: Week 7 Discussion

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Dear Classmates and Professor,

            The West Coast Pop Artist that has select is Edward Ruscha.  I selected Ruscha because of the style he presents.  Pop artist, consumption artist, or surrealist artist take your pick he can even be a photographer.  This guy could even have been a model but not by his looks.  He had a certain pose that looked COOL especially his glaze.  Multi talent like myself which works with others merging artwork to introduce a masterpiece.

This artwork speaks to me cause of the side work that I do to make extra cash.  I’m like an amateur carpenter.  I see that he even put L. C. initials for Leo Castelli for his 90th birthday in 1997 which was nice and shows heart.  Which he was a nice guy that love L. A. and got along with everyone.

I think Edward's intent is getting straight to the point by using words or letters in his artwork.  I guess working as a printer double and a graphic designer had something to do with it.

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