presentations 2

1) the first presentation was good but i think more needs to be said about impressionism and more artists should be in the paper. I think it should be more then just a comparison of impressionists from other art forms, but also impressionists from each other and what they were trying to accomplish. I thought the comparison to photography was very interesting and a good point to make.

2) Starting a presentation with a brief history on the artist is always a good idea to me, and thus i thought the dali presentation was good. Once again, i think a stronger connection should be made between both other surrealists and then other forms of art work that was occurring during the same time. I thought the relation to freud and dreams was interesting as well, and i was not aware of that. I know that Dali does other forms of work other then painting and i think those should be discussed to create a strong surrealist argument concerning dali.

3) the graffiti presentation was amazing. Perfect. I liked that it started with a thesis and then used three diverse movements and a brief history in order to prove that thesis. I liked the work that was shown and the points that were made, and i expect that the paper will be very well organized and structured based on the presentation. I also liked how the actual term graffiti was defined with multiple definitions showing the different perspectives.

4) I liked the oldenburg presentation but i felt like somehting was missing. It just needs to be more argumentative i think. the thesis said how his works added to new associations and interpretations but those need to be defined more explicitly and proven with more discussion on his work. I liked the talk on soft sculpture though and the idea that the skill of the artist is taken out as the gravity makes its impact.

5) I thought this presentation was very good and important. It described different variations of teh virgin mary through a feminist and gay rights activist perspective in which i ahd never thought about. It described an artwork that i did not think of as art for some reason, and i never stopped to take notice of the virgin mary as artwork. I think a lot of important points were made about the connection between the authority of religion and the rights of females in the artwork.