Ryan, Karen, Sierra, Brianna

Ryan: I think it is interesting how Warhol chose a wide variety of subjects for his work, from celebrities to carcrashes, soup cans to himself, and yet the same thing happens with each work, something is turned into an inexpensive object that can be bought and sold and hung up in a museum or a person's home. You talked about his life style and how he hung out with the rich and famous a lot. I wonder what can be said about the superficiality of his life, and if this tranlastes through to his work. For example, I read somewhere he wore wigs. Oh yeah and about the whole idea of his art being turned into consumerism, campbell's soup made a disposible paper dress called the "souper dress" that was printed with warhol soup cans that they used to promote their product. And Warol himself also made a "brillo" dress for one of his show openings...


Karen: I kind of like how even though Miro's work doesn't really have recognizable figures in it, they are not purely abstract. I wonder what the significance of the women birds and stars was? I saw lots of stars but i didn't really see women or birds. Maybe you could focus on why he chose to depict women in that way?

Sierra: Your paper is really interesting, it's just that I don't feel it is all that original. It would be nice if you could find a way to link it to the class more concretely... Maybe say something about what painting a whore does to the value of the piece, and how people feel about it know.. I mean no one cares whether she was a prostitue or a princess, it's famous because it's manet...


Brianna: I think looking at the objectification of women, and the use of their bodies in advertisement is interesting, but why did you start out with traditional nude paintings? I feel like you should look at some old time ads that don't use naked women. The jump from that 1930's painting to contemporary advertisements just felt too big. Another way to transition would be to find some contemporary art that objectifies women, but that might be harder.