Humor Project Idea

What I want to make: A Book Bag

Materials: Wire (clothes hangers?), lots of books

How to Make it: Bend wires to make a frame. Paste pages from books to form an outer shell... thus making it a Book Bag!... get it?... I know, it's not really a knee slapper, but it's a little ironic, and I think it will make a good 3-D piece for my portfolio.

Text Notes on Charles Ray

3 Questions

1. What is the purpose of his art?

2. What kind of mediums does he use?

3. How does he relate to our current project?

I think Charles Ray is cool. His art is a dark humor. I look at a lot of his stuff and think how did he do that. The longer I look the more I see. It relates to my personality because I like to look at art that is entertaining sometimes, not just some big political meaning. It’s a breath of fresh air from all of these serious artists trying to push a very concerning topic.

Comments on Questions

1. The purpose of his art is humor. It entertains.
2. He uses all kinds of mediums. They all seem 3-d though. He uses mannequins and sometimes even uses himself.
3. He is a good artist to look at for inspiration on our current project on humor.

3 more Questions

1. What are some ideas I can take from him going into this next project?

2. Is all humor in art dark? It seems to be the trend…

3. How would Charles Ray go about doing this project?

Self Evaluation Project 3

I thought the idea was really good. I liked using the quote and the images. I think it is powerful. The colors relate to what we are talking about. The letters getting smaller is supposed to symbolize how talk/teaching of the holocaust is slowly fading away.

The idea of cutting out the letters was good. Once we had that done we really didn't know what to do though. Our original idea was to hang the letters, but we learned in the time frame that we had we just couldn't pull it off. So then we thought of pasting them on a background. But that kind of defeated the purpose of cutting out the letters in the first place. We also wouldn't have a way to carry the piece, it would be too big. So we decided to lay the quote out on the floor/table. This wasn't as effective. It was definitely the downfall of the project.