Mid or Post Modern Exhibit

Loopy

Loopy is a high gloss Fujiflex print done by Jeff Koons in 2000. I like explaining the art elements in this print. There are lines that contour Loopy’s facial features like his nose, his excited eyes, and his expression, the spoon with cream whip and a red cherry on top, and the cereal bits. There are different colors such as yellow, white, green, red, grey, maroon and black in the picture. Loopy’s face and the creamy whip are white, the cereal bits are yellowish-tan, Loopy’s nose and the cherry are red, his eyes are black, the plastic pieces are green, yellow, and blue. The spoon is shiny silver. There are different shapes, like the cereal bits are circle, and his eyes are oval. The pattern of the cereal bits make a pattern along the bottom of the print.

Balloon Dog

Balloon Dog was made by Jeff Koons in 1993. Two of the Balloon Dog sculptures are located at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Broad Contemporary Art Museum in downtown Los Angeles. The “Balloon Dog” is a representation of breath and human life. This sculpture is in the 1980 to present influence of Post Modern Art.

The art elements of Balloon Dog included in the sculpture are lines, shapes, color, contrast, pattern and formation. The lines are curved and rounded that makes the shape of the “Balloon Dog“. In this picture, the color is pink. The shape is like a dog made with a long balloon. The contrast is that the “Balloon Dog” is shiny, and reflective. The contrast brightens the room with the light that reflects off of it. The pattern are the entire “Balloon Dog” are in the way the balloon is twisted and shaped to create the formation of the sculpture.

I want to connect this sculpture to my reaction to it, I remember when there was a guy that aired up long balloons and made all of us students a balloon dog out of the balloon by twisting it and twisting it again and thought that it was cool to try it on my own, but I could not do it without the help of the guy helping me with the step-by-step instructions on how to make them.

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects and turns them into high art icons. Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania on January 21, 1955, and he is currently 66 years old. Koons studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art Institute of Chicago and received a BFA at the Maryland College of Art in 1976. Koons’ work is in the 1980’s era of the postmodern art period.

“I’ve always loved Surrealism and Pop, so I just follow my interests and focus on them”
Jeff Koons

Moon, June, Spoon

The Moon, June, Spoon sculpture was created 1987-1989 by Joseph Havel. It is made out of bronze. The sculpture is located at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. There are lines that create the shape of the sculpture. I see the shape of the moon, a branch, and a shovel. The contrast of the sculpture is a dark color, which is bronze and resin.

Dark Star

The sculpture “Dark Star” was created by Joseph Havel in 2015. It is made with bronze and patina. It is part of an art exhibit created by Joseph Havel at the Fine Art Gallery located in San Francisco, California.

There are lines, color, contrast, and form in the sculpture. The lines are like a cut out snowflake from paper and puffed out into the form of a disco ball. The color of the sculpture is black which takes the name of the “Dark Star” into a dimensional perspective, and the contrast is that it looks like a dark star with the lighting above it.

Joseph Havel

Joseph Havel is a postmodernist American sculptor in contemporary arts who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1954. Havel earned his BFA from the University of Minnesota in 1975, and his M.F.A at the Pennsylvania State University in 1979. Joseph Havel has many art exhibits that are on display at the Fine Art Gallery in San Franciso, California.

The Crawick Multivers-The Universe Cascade

The Universe Cascade is located in the Garden of Cosmic Speculation at Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. There are lines, color, and pattern in the landscaping creation of Charles Jencks. The lines make up the formation of “The Universe Cascade”, the colors are green and white, along with the shimmer of the water, and the pattern of the stairs makes it a mind-bending landscaping creation. I love the creation.

Garden of Cosmic Speculation

The Garden of Cosmic Speculation was created by Charles Jencks. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is located at Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. There are lines, color and shapes in the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. The lines make up the checkered squares and the spiraled mazes of the landscaping creation! I love the scenery and the landscaping work. It caught my eye, so I decided to make a blog on it.

Charles Jencks

Charles Jencks was an American cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres. He published over 30 books, and became famous in the 1980’s as a theorist of postmodernism. Jencks devoted his time to landform architecture, especially in Scotland. Charles Jencks was born on January 21, 1939 in Baltimore, Maryland, and died on October 13, 2019 in London, United Kingdom.

He attended the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1965, and also attended the University College London.