Navigating Contemporary Art

Me looking at Gerard Richter’s 256 Farben (256 Colors), 1976, Oil on Linen Going to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was a very insightful experience seeing many great artworks I’ve never seen and some that I’ve learned in class. The exhibition's main mediums were paintings, sculptures, and mixed media with the theme of loss and remembrance in Germany in the 1960s. Every exhibition I saw was after the 1960s, however, the ones that I witnessed more were after the 1970s. Artists who were a part of the exhibitions were Gerard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Yayoi Kusama. The ones I will focus on will be Gerard Richter and Yayoi Kusama. Gerard Richter (German, b.1932), Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Picture), 1987, Oil on Linen  Gerard Richter was born in Germany in 1932 and created abstract works that started to develop in 1976. With this work of his, his process took layer by layer to finish, working slowly over time. He applied the paint and at times would scrape i...

Alanna Anderson, an art student at Sacranmento State, curated her own exhibition with her own paintings. She calls her exhibition "Painting with Rainbows" because of the fact that her works are very colorful, lively, and vibrant. After walking around the exhibition I was in awe of her painting style and the colors she used. Her art style is her very own and they each have an original story she created. "Little Park Date" I asked Alanna where she gets her inspiration from that inspires her work and she mentioned that she gets inspiration from video games, cartoons, and other artists' around her, but her main inspiration are video games that she plays to which she was able to create another realm of video game styles and characters. She excitedly said she wants to create her own video game someday with the art style she's developing. Her artistry stems from creating a scene and a character that goes along with that scene...