Final Blog Prompt-- Erik Benvie

FINAL BLOG PROMPT

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FINE ARTS LEARNING OUTCOME #2

Explain how artistic endeavors both reflect and affect culture

Explain how the work of one or more artists we’ve discussed this semester successfully reflects our culture and may even attempt to affect it. What issue or issue/s are addressed in the work, and (in your opinion) how does the artist hope to make viewers feel, think, engage, or react? How does their creative approach support their message?

• Owen Mundy, “I Know Where Your Cat Lives”
• Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Candy Spill” (or one of the other works we looked at)
• Olia Lialina, “My Boyfriend Came Back from the War” or “The Most Fragile Gif on the Web”
• Natalie Bookchin, “Now he’s out in public and everyone can see”
• Alexis Rockman, “A Fable for Tomorrow”
• Olafur Eliasson, “Little Sun”
• Kutiman, “Thru-You”
• David Horvitz, “241543903”
• Andy Deck, “Glyphiti”
• Duane Michals, “Christ is Beaten Defending a Homosexual”
• Emily Allchurch, “Tower of Babel”
• Jake Scharbach, “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”
• Adam Miller
• Jeff Gillette
• Banksy and others, “Dismaland”
• Michael Mandiberg, “Buy Michael Mandiberg”
• Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, Dot-Store, “Credit Card Numerology” and “Teach Birds to Sing Ringtones”
• Alexei Shulgin, “See Free”
• Christophe Bruno, “WiFi-SM: Spectacle of Pain”
• Darren Solomon, “In B-flat” or "Every Bad Thing But Forever"