welcome to our last slide presentation please hold you two here still next week so I don't have to see them but this is our last presentation where I'm gonna kind of go a little bit different from the book on this one chapter 23 in the book it goes and I think kind of a weird direction and it's it's hard to define contemporary art or art of today because we're living it right now so I'm gonna go in a slightly different direction as we go from neo Expressionism to artist living and working today and then I'd want to showcase or highlight some of the sort of quirky artists that's been out there I don't know if you've noticed this semester I kind of like the odd and quirky art so I'm gonna talk a little bit about some weird art that's out there as well alright so if you remember we ended chapter 22 talking about postmodern art and specifically art of like Alice Neel we live in a postmodern world the difference between modern art and postmodern art is modern artists to create something new and postmodern art of course seeks inspiration from the past and they appropriate either concepts or ideas or styles within their work one of the things that we talked about with Alice Neel is she was doing figurative art work during abstract expressionist period when it wasn't really popular but she kept creating that style of art and the art world finally kept caught up to her and an interesting thing about the art we've talked about so far is we've kind of looked at art through a lineage approach that there's one movement then that movement ends and then there's another movement and that movement ends one thing we have to realize is artists don't always fit in those boxes or those movements there's artists that are creating sort of abstract art during representational time periods or artists that are doing representational time periods during abstract periods and there's regional artists that may not be talked about because they're in a different region from maybe New York when New York's a center of the art world or what have you and here's the perfect example this is Nathan aloevera and he was known as a Bay Area figurative artist and what he was doing along with Richard Diebenkorn and a couple others they were kind of combining this figurative art of painting people with abstract expressionism of kind of throwing paint around they were known as the Bay Area figurative artists of course because they're the Bay Area and the West Coast wasn't really that popular of an art scene in the 1950s 1960s when they were making art I gotta be honest I grew up in Chicago I never heard of these guys until I came out to California I wasn't around in the 50s and 60s I'm just saying that even as a history of art they're really big in California though I've heard of them a lot as a history of important painters Richard Diebenkorn he's another one so you can see how he's painting the figure but then also sort of abstracting it or or making these really bold sort of marks of the artists like an abstract expressionist would have this is Francis Bacon he's another figurative artist that was working during the abstract expressionist time period he kind of got lumped into the surrealist which he denied he said he wasn't a surrealist and this just goes to show there's artists that don't really fit in these boxes he's a British artist and he comes from a lineage of these British figurative artists and again when I say figurative art these are artists that are painting the human figure within their work you could see how he gets tied into the surrealist movement they almost look like dreams or paintings out of dreams or unworldly type of figures this is his self-portrait he was an alcoholic and very depressed throughout his life and I always thought sort of the expressionist marks that he makes in this painting really highlights his personality this is Chuck Close and we talked about him when we talked about the photo realist and what's interesting about Chuck Close is when he was in grad school he said he was a really bad willem de kooning but he was painting Abstract Expressionism then when he came out of grad school he felt the art needed a change and that changed in the art world ironically enough was to go towards representational art that no one was doing and he started making paintings off photographs so we looked at him also we were talking about he would grit off his photographs and they look different up close than they do far away do you remember these when we were talking about color theory so what he would do is he would grit off his photo then he would grit off his canvas and then duplicate what he saw in each grid in this case he's abstracting but this is the first painting that he did in the photo realist style where he duplicated the photo exactly the way he saw it and these are huge paintings so photo realism comes around in the seventies doesn't really get big until late seventies early eighties but Chuck Close is definitely a champion of that movement and again it's a reaction against sort of abstract expressionism this is the size of his paintings and if you ever run into one they're pretty remarkable to see he did a lot of the early ones in stark black-and-white and he calls them his mug shot images they're beautiful beautiful paintings this is Lucien Freud he's another figurative artist that's coming out of Britain after artists like Francis Bacon Lucian Freud is actually I think he's the nephew of Sigmund Freud but feel free to look that up and one of the things I've always amazed what Lucian Freud had the ability to do is he's painting representational painting but he's kind of pushing paint and throwing paint around to describe different linear planes of the face a linear plane of the face like my nose would have a top it has two sides and a bottom to it and it's hard to describe that three-dimensional quality on a flat two-dimensional picture plane but the way he would use different shapes of his paint strokes and the angles of his paint strips and the value in color he would have top sides and bottoms look at that cheek has a top aside you've got a little dent in it that he always I thought had an amazing ability to reproduce in painting one of my favorite self-portraits I love self-portraits doesn't it look like we've interrupted him while he's painting what are you doing here I'm trying to work this is Jenny Saville and she's the third in this sort of lineage of British figurative artists she's a contemporary artist living and working today and when I love when you go from Francis Bacon to Lucian Freud to Jenny Saville is there still throwing paint around and Jenny Saville had this amazing way to literally throw paint almost like a Jackson Pollock but to still make shapes that are representational that we can see these figures sort of come out of the paint splatters Jenny Saville was fascinated by the fleshy quality of the human form she comes with a warning if you do a research on her work she painted a lot of cadavers in dead bodies she liked the decomposing of the human body she liked the the meat of the human body which is politically incorrect to say but human bodies are meat and she liked the carnal fleshy nature the human body that she could create with these bold colors and literally just throwing paint around she would use palette knives and sticks but it's amazing how she can still get representational figures out of them these are really large paintings as well so again like Abstract Expressionism it has the sort of physical nature to creating the painting so photo realism we talked about remember artists like Richard estis this gets really big in the 70s and 80s where artists start to work from photos so instead of this non representational art that you saw at the end of the modern era and now we're seeing more representational imagery now one of the things I've always found fascinating about a history of art is that we talked about a history of art is like a blob the tradition of arts like a blob and every time an artist creates art they're adding to that blob and the art world sort of grows exponentially outward well what's interesting is if you take that blob sometimes that blob gets weighted in one side and that side for a while was about concepts is about how you paint not what you paint but how are you painting about ideas and concepts and the blob got weighted this way too whereas the other end that was formal elements how do you paint representational objects or things we see in space they get lost for a while then and what happens here is that side of the the blob gets a little bit heavier where people are like no we need realism back we need to paint realistic object well what ends up suffering is that conceptual side and this is the perfect example this is a photorealist Ralph's goings that there's an amazing representation of this donut and coffee but there's no heavy concepts to this work right no one's ever looked at these paintings by Ralph's going to say what is he trying to say with a donut in that coffee like we could try to go deep and say it's about Americana or the diner but it's really just a don't have been a cup of coffee pain and really really well and so artists started to learn how to paint more representational again or that becomes popular again but then we need some concepts to come back and they do if the bomb was to drop today we can at least be comfortable and knowing the art world is in a comfortable space where we have great formal art and we have great concepts combined together so here are some amazing paintings by Ralph goings but again it's really just a bottle of ketchup and a pepper shaker no a salt shaker okay so there's no real concepts to these work but amazing the way he's able to take paint and create something like that is pretty amazing and the art world needed it at the time right it was done with conceptual art for a while it needed some representational imagery again this is Dennis Peterson he's a contemporary photo realist that we looked at he is trying to bring some more concepts within his work he's talking about social and justices and what-have-you this one called don't shed no tears is when he went to Darfur when they were going through their great genocide and he photographed the people and then brought those photographs back and made paintings this is one called the apocalypse where he's talking about the homeless specifically in New York and this one but it's an amazing representation on this one is actually acrylic inks and watercolor pencils and then amazing this one is called star if this homeless guy really cares about what Britney Spears or who's ever in Star magazine is doing next weekend this one's the vortex another homeless man outside of Ranade hotel but it's just amazing how realistic these paintings are look at that wall incredible yeah so the ability to be able to do that in paints pretty incredible um this is Ron muic but at the tail end of photorealism people like Dennis Peterson and in this case Romney work they were making artwork that you know wasn't really only like a photo they became real it looked like reality and so there's a new art movement that came out in the 90s and 2000's called hyper realism hyper realism are artists that are able to basically reproduce life in art in such an amazing way this is an actual sculpture it's an oversized sculpture so these are real people here and this is romulox culture and he creates this realistic image by using different late X's and rubbers and uses real hair animal or human hair sometimes he'll go in and paint these things he'll make his own clothes oversized clothes with a figure so this is a real person here and this is the sculpture and that incredible so we'll go in and paint to get these skin tones and everything on there this one I found is a picture of him actually creating the sculpture he had to make tools so then he could create this image like hair curlers and stuff that were oversized so he can create these type of imagery this is one that I found that I love because it's a quite often they say art isn't born until an audience witnesses it right and an audience sees the art and so it's born in a crate right like an artist will create something in the studio they'll then create it and ship it to the museum and then when it's uncreated the art sort of comes alive so I love this fetus photo of this fetus that I saw that's being uncreated Ramu ik he also did small pieces these are kids hands on a pedestal and these two smaller figures here and then so the art movement of today where all of this artwork is built in a postmodern world and we talked about postmodern art as a appropriation artists like Ron English who's recreating Guernica and it's hard to really disseminate what the art movement is today it's hard to put your finger on what we call this art movement because there's so many critics out there today and a lot of it has to do with the internet and art blogs and all the art magazines and most of the art movements come from an art critic and a lot of artists don't want to be sort of put in a box or associated with a certain art movement so there's a lot of different names for movements going around with the same type of artists one of them is called lowbrow art that I know Ron English likes that term of lowbrow art he lowbrow is like getting inspiration from comic books and toys and things like that that are considered lowbrow he brings that into a fine art world and so here's some are on English's work and he's tackling pretty heavy subjects here sort of gun laws in America but he's sort of sugarcoating it for us by having this little kid holding this killing machine that looks like a toy looks like a plastic toy because of its colors and he's wearing this clown outfit in this full camo gear but it's that look in his face like is this real or what do I do with this thing it's just that a whole idea of that toy gun which I've always found kind of ridiculous I never thought those two words should go together a toy gun this is sort of what are we teaching our kids are our heroes this is a superhero you know anything about Hulk he's a mild-mannered science scientist who when he gets angry he turns into this Green Monster that goes and crushes things like what are we telling our kids on how to handle our anger this is the one he did I don't know if you ever saw the movie supersize me but he did the artwork for supersize me Ron English has always been against sort of capitalists consumer America and he makes images like this if Ronald McDonald was to actually eat his own restaurant this is what he would look like and it seems like McDonald's tries to promote that there their products come from a sexier style cow or something this is one he did yellow dripped road and you can see this appropriation as art as well he's appropriating for multiple soy sources and then making it his own so these contemporary postmodern art movements like I said there's so many different names for him lowbrow is one like I just talked about I really like the one pop surrealism because it combines pop art and surrealism Takashi Murakami I think would fit into that description his work looks so realistic it looks like it's unworldly but it's got a lot of poppy colors and pop imagery that he uses within his work juxtaposed is a term that you hear I mean it comes from juxtaposed magazine it's an art magazine that highlights these contemporary artists that are in the imagery from popular culture and like graffiti and tattooing and car culture or all of that comic books all that kind of wrapped into one Street pop is another one again the pop imagery a lot of these artists are working on the street ron english does a lot of graffiti and a lot of street art and then street art is one that became really popular as a term especially surrounding shepard fairey and Banksy and those that we talked about before I said here's Takashi Murakami again and we talked about him when we talked about acrylic paint one of the things that these contemporary artists have done which i think is pretty fascinating is they blurred the line between commercial art and fine art we talked about Andy Warhol who shifted from a commercial world to a fine art world now these artists have just combined the two what's really in these days is you know painting imagery from entertainment or combining with entertainers like this one with Kanye West and designing his bear designing using a fine artist to design this type of imagery he also did Louis Vuitton purses so you got this mix fine art and commercial art today this is Mark Wright and he's a really popular pop surrealist here on the west coast he splits his time between the Bay Area and Al if you go to galleries and museums up in LA you might run across some of his work I love the sort of that appropriated imagery that he uses I don't know if you remember this painting when we were talking about surrealism by Juan Miro and I talked about automatism when you made marks and then turn it into a bumblebee devil character wearing a thong Mark Ryden his is a little dog he's turned it a little devil but he's looking at this painting by Juan Miro and he's reproducing it in his own style right and so just remember that we're definitely in a in a postmodern world where appropriation is really big right now this is one that he did called Saint Barbie pretty similar to what Ron English was doing what are our kids looking up to for their heroes he's really into this sort of dreamlike surrealist style his figures had these really big heads and these big eyes and he uses a lot of imagery from popular culture within his work this is one that he did of Christina Ricci there's a lot of symbolism so here's Mark Ryden today and what's really interesting is you know you can see how these artists are being inspired by artists from the past whenever I look at this picture of him in his studio it looks like a German expressionist from the 1920s and so you can see how he's looking inspiration from what came before him this is a German expressionist from the 1920s his name is Otto Dix and it looks like the two of these guys would hang out together this is a painting by Otto Dix from the 1920s and so you can see the inspiration that Mark Ryden is taking from this style of art but then of course altering it and making it his own and then of course we talked about the street artists and we watched the documentary exit through the gift shop I shepard fairey is one of them he talked about his Obama poster and his clothing line that he does today his clothing line was inspired by Keith Haring Keith Haring did this in the 80s where he opened up the pop shop so you could buy fine art work at a reasonable price and you can get it on hand and t-shirts and stickers and buttons and stuff you don't need to buy a multi thousand or even million dollar painting in a gallery or museum and so this is a print by Shepard Fairey where he's honoring Keith Haring here and jean-michel basquiat that we talked about before without these two artists there is no street art of today they kind of opened the doors for what artists are doing today and then of course Banksy Banksy who used stencils and very pop imagery to talk about ideas from politics to social order in all kinds of concepts this is what a dog that he appropriated from Keith Haring sort of give accolades for those that came before him this is a dog of Jeff Koons is dog which he wants to put a muzzle on he thinks jeff koons and other contemporary artists that we talked about that are sort of using art as a commercial venture to make a lot of money Jeff Koons is a billionaire so he's made a lot of money off his art and he thinks he got to put a muzzle on that this is one of Jeff Koons his balloon dogs that we talked about before this is ki Hindi Wylie he's a contemporary painter who he's from New York and what he does is he goes and he paints the people of New York specifically African Americans that live and the Bronx or Brooklyn or what have you and he makes portraits of them but he paints them in a Victorian style so he's appropriating sort of art of the past like Baroque art or Rococo art that we talked about before with these flowers and sort of this over exaggeration of opulence the age of kings and so he's sort of combining the two this is one that he did a LL Cool J in that style I love this one here because you know growing up in the streets of New York there's for him there was always this idea that men should be macho and they should show their wealth and opulence or power by you know the clothes that they wore these jerseys are crazy expensive I grew up in Chicago and Air Jordans were really big and they were crazy expensive and people were getting in fights and killing over these shoes to show that you're cool or you're tough and you're there's this like in the Latin culture they call it machismo and in in the hip-hop culture they call it Street you know about being tough and being a man out on the streets and I love that he takes that and he paints him with these flowers or this decoration and if that Rococo period and so he's almost de masculine he's damask you lysing them are sort of combining the masculine with the feminine ki Hindi Wylie is an african-american he's also a homosexual and so growing up within that street culture was difficult for him and he he found this interesting dichotomy between the two that he uses within his own work he was also the one I don't know if you've seen I had a slide of it I don't know where it went but of Barack Obama's presidential portrait that was painted by Kehinde Wiley I heard Trump doesn't want to put it put it up or put it on display here's another contemporary artist his name is Sasha Goldberg and what he does is these are actually photographs where he finds models it's not Christopher Reeves but to me it looks exactly at Christopher Reeves if you know the old spider-man or Superman movies but anyway he photographs them and then he had he makes the clothes and he he's asking like if these superheroes were to live during the Victorian age that Rococo period and had to make their own clothes and is this the kind of outfits that they would use all right so that's kind of where we are today painting has its very poppy bright colors its imagery and content that we are aware of stuff we grew up with and that's kind of where painting is and I just want to end with some conceptual art because I don't think your book talks enough about conceptual art or performance art or just some really wild [ __ ] let's just talk about that a style that's been throughout the art world that gets kind of overlooked sometimes but I find it pretty fascinating what artists have done and a lot of it actually starts around this guy I don't know if you remember this guy but this is Marcel Duchamp okay he's the one that put the urinal on display and called it art and he sort of ree categorized what art can be right we look at our differently ever since him this is a series that we talked about that he did where he was just having fun and he would dress up as this woman and he would go to these gallery openings and he'd go to these parties in New York and people would say um I said is that you and he was like no no no I'm rose c'est la vie right and he went better this su name and when he started doing that people started to say oh wait the artist can be the artwork and so he kind of described what performance art is this is Yves Klein what he used to do is paint these models and then he would orchestrate these models sort of dragging themselves around the canvas so again redefining these traditions of art instead of the model being the muse that an artist looks at an inspiration and tries to reproduce him painting why not use the model to create the art like to physically create the art so he physically paints the model and then he would orchestrate this whole thing he would have an orchestra there you could go witness the event and he would direct these women how to drag themselves around the canvas and then also direct the music being played and then these were the paintings that were created by this very conceptual style we're talking about conceptual art or concept art it's not like video games concept art is where the concept comes first and then how you produce it comes second whether it be a painting sculpture what-have-you these are all about the concepts how is art created or what am i trying to say he actually came up with his own blue called the patented blue called Yves Klein blue this is Piero Manzoni who took it even a step further instead of painting on the model and using the model he just would go sign his models because artists sign art of course this had a huge political backlash because it's very disrespectful to go up to a woman and just sign her almost as he's saying you know this woman is mine but that's what conceptual art is is where the ideas and the concepts come first I always thought this one was kind of funny so this is a pedestal and in in French here it says the pedestal of the world and the pedestal is upside down give it a second but um it's kind of like a bad uncle joke that this is a pedestal of the world see the world sitting on it okay so these concept ARS where the concept comes first so artists have done a bunch of crazy stuff throughout the years and people have said you know artists are saying that they can be art or they can sign our can anything be art and in this case Piero Manzoni says yes I what he did is these cans are Merida des artiste if you don't speak French he also made English as one this is literally his feces that he canned and sold as art in 1961 you can google it these are I still seen these that are being resold people are still selling and this is literally just the artists ship can you tell where I got the title of this presentation here you know what the really gross thing is that there it's kind of a conservators nightmare because this canning is cardboard and little tin rings that they used to cam in and the feces is starting to decompose the cardboard it's starting to escape so really really gross stuff this is vito a Conchie there was a performance art battle kind of thing happening in the 60s and 70s you had the East Coast performance artists and the West Coast performance artists and they were trying to do performances to sort of outdo each other Vito akancha was an East Coast performance artist he did this series called the following where he would in the morning he would leave his apartment and when he went outside and if you've ever been in a big city there's always someone in front of you you always see people walking the streets and so he would go outside and the first person he saw he would just follow them and he would follow them and the rules were he couldn't say anything he couldn't communicate with the person he would just follow them when the person went in any public space he continue to follow them when they went into a private place or a place of business he would stop turn around find someone else and then just follow them so they would get on a train or going to store he would just follow them people have asked where did people get angry at him and oh yeah people got angry they try following someone all day and see how they like it without saying anything so that was his performance and it's about human interaction it's kind of interesting with kovat 19 how much these concepts kind of come home today this is the West Coast performance artist his name is Chris burden and Chris burden used to do performance art where he would use his body a lot and it was his pieces were mainly about the endurance of the physical body and what humans can endure this is one he did in graduate school this is a UC Irvine he went to graduate school and at a vine and he locked himself in the middle locker for five days and then above him in the locker was a five gallon jug of water and below him was an empty five gallon jug and he would he sustained life by drinking the water and then he filled up the bottom jug in in a different way but it's about sort of the physical endurance of human beings this one here he actually crucified himself to his Volkswagen Beetle he had a friend put nails into his hands into the beetle and it's talking about car culture and how we're sort of crucified to our cars and it's about physical endurance it's about Christianity in the history of art and all those things everyone sees these and say wow is this guy ridiculous but there was a I forget the name there was a group there was movies that came out Oh jack ass if you ever seen the movies jackass these are guys that are doing very similar stuff or I look in the body in door and it all started with Chris burden he also did Chris burden did a piece called shoot where he had a friend shoot him in the arm with a 22 caliber rifle and if you look for it you may be able to find the video of it but no one ever died he never died from his artwork but this is an artist named Bastian Adair who did this performance piece he's a Swedish artist where he had a gallery show in Sweden and he had another one in New York and he wanted to do this performance where he took a boat from Europe to New York and crossed the Atlantic Ocean well this is the boat that he took and so I don't know anything about sailing but that boat is way too small to cross the Atlantic and he actually got lost at sea no one ever heard from him again so most people believe he died some people believe maybe it was a some kind of a performance the best performance art piece ever where he's in hiding or something hanging out with Elvis or something but most people believe that he just got capsized and died now this is Sam Shea who he's a Chinese artist that did this he would do these year-long performances so he would do a art performance that lasted a whole year in this one this one was pretty amazing this one he punched in to a time clock every hour on the hour for a whole year okay not for a day not for a week not for a whole year he so he never slept more than 59 minutes in a row and he would punch into this time clock and take a picture and then I saw these once in a museum long long time ago and it was really cool because they put all these time cards up on the wall and they held all these photos this is him at the beginning this is him at the end after a year and then they had a time lapse video of every time he punched in would be a picture and they ran it in this time lapse video and it was really cool to watch him misses him at the very end look how long his hair got New Year jeez it was really cool this is Cindy Sherman she did a lot of these cool self-portraits where she started photographing herself in these different movie stills and one of the things that happened after a Kris Burton did the shoot piece if you ever do find the video it's really dull it's really boring and so people said you know if I'm going to be performances we need to document them better so the documentation of the performances becomes art pieces within their own and so she focused on these compositional elements and looked at these film stills as she's doing sort of these self-portraits this is Yasu masamori mora he's a japanese-american artist that when he came to America he wondered where he fit into a Western art world and so he did these performances in these photographs where he would dress up as Western artists and so this is Cindy Sherman's this is Yasuo Masai Mara Mara dressed up as Cindy Sherman this is Yasu Masai Mara Mara dressed up as mayonnaise Olympia that we looked at before he's also the servant here okay and so he puts himself in the place of famous people in a western world he said he associated more with the women in the muses in Western art and so he quite often would depict himself as the women instead of the men except for this one you all know who that is right you don't know who that is drop the class don't take the final I'm kidding Vincent van Gogh of course this is Nikki as Lee she did these really cool performances or it still does she's a contemporary artist she's a Korean American and when she came to America she was fascinated about all the different subcultures in America all the different cliques or groups of people in America and so what she did is she would submerge himself submerge herself into this subculture for two weeks time periods so for two weeks she would live with this people of the subculture they would she would get jobs if it took painting jobs with them and then she would photograph herself sort of hanging out with these cultures of people this is from her hip hop series that she did this one she called her Ohio series other people gave it a different nickname this is one she did from her schoolgirl series this is one she did from her elderly series and people have asked me did people know within that subculture of that group that she was doing this and unless you had an amazing makeup artist I think people probably guessed on this one she did a skater series and this is another artist that we looked at before this is Roberto Quay he remember in our first discussion about what is art this is one where he dressed up as his father and disguised himself at his father so another performance artist the word the art isn't just in the gallery museum it takes over their lives this is one that took seven years of his life that he lived as his father for seven years of his life and he was in his 20s I believe this is Harvey Abhiyan north and I love this one unfortunately you all didn't get to go to a museum this semester but you're all going you all promised me at some point when we can get back into museums you're gonna go but when you go to an art museum there's a security guard there and often when you get too close to the earth they want you to step back and it's for obvious reasons people have damaged arts just by accidents or just being too close to them and so what he did he got it's kind of making fun of people that kept them telling them to stay away he would dress up as part of these abstract paintings and then stand right in front of them and have his friend photograph him and then cool so he would wear clothes and paint his clothes I loved that he also has the cast shadow here I thought that was kind of neat that's Matisse's circle of life and then this is the last one I want to focus on he's a Chinese artist that does these really cool performances that talk about society that talk about civilizations about our impact on the environment and what have you this is one of to add one meter to an anonymous mountain of stacking these people and just sort of how we respect or even disrespect our environment and how the environment adds to our livelihood or our health this is one where he went to this village in China where there the main product of the villages fish their fishermen that's other make their money and so whatever the pond or the lake in which they fish if it's prosperous if there's a lot of fish the the village does well if they have a bad season or they don't have many fish that the village does bad and so that that pond has a lot that fish pond has a lot to do with the people and they interact within it and so this one he asked people all the men in the village to get into the pond and so it's to raise the water level of a fish pond how what is our impact on this pond but one of the things I always liked about what he did is the photographs are beautiful you know he does the performance it's about being there at that time in that day but then he documents them with these beautiful beautiful photographs this is a cool one that he did in 2000 called a family tree and what he did is he invited the script artist to come to a studio at different times of the day Chinese artist that writes script and they asked him asked them to write script on his face and so they came on a know every hour or whatever starting in the morning into the early evening and they came and they weren't supposed to be influenced by the script that was written there before just kind of write their own script and what ends up happening his face gets completely covered and so this art worker this performance talks a lot about our individuality in relation to our culture sometimes our culture sort of takes away our own voice or takes away our individuality within this work because he gets totally covered by the words of his culture all right so hopefully you were inspired I'll see you all at the next zoom but or unless you watch this after the zoom but just thank you so much for a great semester and one of the things I love about teaching this class is to grow a fellowship of artists and so your responsibility now is to bring other people to arts and when these museums open back up again bring a friend bring a date bring family bring someone to an art museum so we can get more people to art museums and grow the art culture in America thanks for everything going