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I think the piece based on Sol LeWitt in class would have been a bit more interesting if each panel had a little more to it. To me, at least, it just looked like squiggles on the pin board. Nothing really of interest. I really enjoyed the concept though, which I guess was the point. If I could change it, like I said before, I would have each piece we had to duplicate be a little bit more intricate and interesting as to lend to the over all design.

dutch hams

I really like Duchamp's Large Glass. It, in it's own way, is mystifying. At a glance there is no real reason or rhyme to the piece, it simply just is. After reading excerpts from The Green Box a reason was put to the piece. It is representative of the interaction between a bride and her nine bachelors on two separate glass panels

ppaptptpeprpn

The pattern assignment was actually kind of difficult for me. I focused too much on the individual shape rather than the over all pattern. I think my finals suffered a little bit because of that. My single panel alone was very interesting, evenly balanced and dynamic but when put into a repeated pattern, it lost some of this interest. When repeated the large patterns started looking very similar because of the very even balance through out the single panel. It was equally weighted on both sides and in retrospect if I were to go back and re-do the assignment I would make the positive/negative balance remain equal but have them each be heavier on each side of the individual panel as to lend itself more to the large pattern.

This is for you, Pat

BLAH!

My proposed performance piece involved 2 people, a news paper, an exacto knife and the soggy parking lot. Ashley and Liz both constructed a poem using random newspaper clippings and read them aloud in the parking lot. I think it would have worked a lot better if they actually read the instructions carefully, because there seemed to be some confusion. This was the second take of the piece because Ashley stopped and questioned Liz on what they were doing the first time, before reciting their poems.

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"Thought is made in the mouth."

Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara was what some would call a very angry and intense poetic writer. Helping launch the DaDa movment, he wrote many of their manifestos and literature. Noted for his poetry preformed early at the Cabaret Voltaire, it is considered to be some of the first performance art. He was the first to have poems read simultaneously on stage. This idea was taken from methods used by Futurists. After becoming tired of nihilism, he became involved in many political and revolutionary movements as well as surrealism, both of which he believed brought him closer to his fellow man. Although according to most he was "one of the most fiery and enthusiastic little men you'd ever want to meet." [though it was said that this energy was indespensible to the DaDa movement]. Towards the end of his life, Tzara lost interest in DaDaism and it was reflected in his work. His poems became to have a bleak optimism to them, showing more in his post 30's work when his interest was fleeting.




Tristan Tzara - http://www.spa.ex.ac.uk/drama/dada/page8.html
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Tzara
Art History Archive - http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/dada/Tristan-Tzara.html
Famous Poets and Poems - http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/tristan_tzara/quotes