Blog 3

Andy Goldsworthy: 

Work Stands Out Before It Blends In  - They say he works a lot in nature and that working with a crew and machinery is unlike Andy, but everything I've read about him says that he doesn't work without a crew or technology for a reason other than he usually has no reason to. Most of his work seems to be him walking through the woods when he has an idea that he wants to fulfill and he does so. This work was way bigger. It is a bigger idea and on a much larger scale... a scale he couldn't handle on his own.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/arts/design/X03SMIT.html?ref=andygoldsworthy - This is another article that I thought was bizarre. They say his work is diminishing, drifting further from the nature of his usual work. His has been known to point out that man is no less nature than the trees and leaves in the woods. A hybrid of rough stone and architecturally placed stone, in a form that creates an awe inspiring view is neither any less impressive not any farther from art than leaves pinned together by thorns floating down a river.

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First Blog

1) Gutenberg's press sped up and cut the cost of mass producing, storing, and spreading information. This lead to increased knowledge in the lower class and the spread of information from nation to nation.

2) These advancements continue to effect modern art works by allowing the idea that something printed could be spread from one person in one culture to millions of every culture.

3) Both a photocopier and a letter press can both mass produce images. Photocopier art would have been influenced by the the letterpress because the letterpress was a way of reproducing a print, the photocopier is a way of reproducing any image. They are different because the letterpress can be altered to create a new image, the photocopier can only copy an existing image.

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Corybantic: Chaotic

Disingenuous: Untrue

Sacrilege: The violation of anything sacred

Viscous: Thickness