I really enjoy Ty’s work. There is a lot of creativity to it and it gives me the impression that she does what she feels like and does not try to follow anyone else’s rules. A lot of the works seem to have a sense of irony to them. The ebola-cola made me laugh a little, it made me think of companies that try and market a product like it is completely healthy and fine, when really it is not the best thing to be putting in your body. I enjoyed the rubric cube as well; it reminded me of something Andy Warhol would create with his pop art. I do not know if that was the intention, but I happen to really enjoy his artwork and so I immediately was drawn to it when I saw it. The other work of art that I really enjoyed was the one where the writing is all over the walls, I have complete respect for the time that it must have taken to cover the entire room. I think that it is amazing how interesting a white walled room can become something like this just with black writing.
Reading the first couple of paragraphs of the introduction I was extremely surprised to read that people were so questioning about the change in art that the author made. I find it senseless when people think that they have the right to comment on what people choose to do with their artwork. Artwork is something that I feel is an expression of ones self and if they choose to create something people disagree with then yes, criticize the artwork, but I do not feel they have the right to criticize the artists decision in the kind of style they choose. If someone chooses to change the type of artwork they create it should be completely there choice, I understand the fact that people may be taken back by the fact that all of a sudden it is taking a change, but I do not think it is right for them to question them so much.
I find a connection in Ty’s work and the reading because the author writes that the art today is focusing on social problems but does not focus on “self expression”. I do not think that Ty’s work entirely relates to this statement but I do see a connection to the social problems or a political side to the work. I don’t think I agree with the statement that because art reflects political or social problems that it no longer is self-expression. I believe the artwork that is created is derived from how the person feels. It is the artists expressing themselves due to how they happen to feel about what is going on in the world around them. I think that although Ty’s artwork comes across to me as relating to social or political issues that that in no way says that it is not a form of self expression.
A piece of Andy Warhol’s work I was reminded of when observing Ty’s rubric cube.
