Art 21Raza RizviArt 21 Project

Robert Mangold One of the most inspiring artist I came across while

doing my research was Robert Mangold. Mangold prides his work on simplicity. He uses simple shapes and lines to make his paintings, drawings and objects. Mangold uses simplicity in his work to describe complex ideas. The below image is Mangolds column painting. He uses simple shapes and lines to make his artwork. The one thing that gets overlooked in his paintings is the complexity. The lines are swirly yet evident the blocks are simple yet they provide a viewer with a thought. The viewer is left with awe over what this is about and what it represents.

Title: Three ColumnArtist: Robert Mangold Work Data: 2003Dimensions: Not given

My response to MangoldThis is a drawing that I drew after looking over Mangolds works. My idea behind this drawing was quite simple, it was to keep it simple. I wanted to use common shapes and simple evident lines. I also wanted there to be a sort of confusion in the viewers eyes when he saw the drawing. I wanted to add complexity to it. I decided to combine two shapes that we see everyday circles and rectangles , two shapes Mangold uses very often. I decided to shade it in to instead of coloring it to avoid the audience seeing the drawing as a graph. I wanted the audience to let their imagination decide what it was. The biggest inspiration I got from Mangold was simplicity, to keep the objects simple yet the make the picture complex. And that is what I tried to do with this image.

Columns of circlesTitle: Columns of CirclesArtist: Raza RizviWork Date: 11/24/13Dimensions: 8” x 10”

Paul Pfeiffer Paul was by far the most inspiring artist for me because I

consider myself a sports junkie. Paul has a whole new take on sports where he eliminates the most important thing in the game and that is the players everyone wants to see. He wants to shift the viewers focus away from the player or the name on the jersey. Instead Paul wants the viewer to focus on the things that often get overlooked like the audience or other objects. In one of his images Paul took the back from a players jersey and erased the name and number. The idea behind that was to eliminate the audiences focus from the name and number on the jersey. He wanted the audience to think and to look at the plays or the game as a whole other then just the player. A lot of times sports fans get to caught up in the name and number on the back of a jersey and forget to focus on the game itself.

Title: Four horse man of apocalypseArtist: Paul PfeifferWork Date: 2001Dimensions: 60 x 48 inches

My response This was a picture I took while attending the Redskins vs.

49ers last Monday night. I had seats in the nose bleeds section but that was perfect for my project. This image was inspired by Paul because I wanted to eliminate the players and even the field from the viewers eyes. I used digital technology to blur out the field and the players. I wanted the viewers attention to be focused on the audience and even more so the stadium itself. I wanted the viewer to see how truly amazing of a articular work a sports stadium really is. That is one thing that often gets overlooked when watching a game on TV. The surroundings and where the game is happening is one of the best things about the game.

Title: The game within the gameArtist: Raza RizviWork Date: 11/25/13Dimensions: 3” x 7”

Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer is a very unique artist. Many casual viewers may

not even consider her work actual art. I for one love her artwork. She uses language and words to make her artwork. She uses words and sentences that will provoke a user and get a reaction out of them. That is the purpose of a great artwork in a snapshot. To get a reaction from the viewer and to get them thinking about your work. Jenny makes words the focal point of her work and that is one thing I have never came across previously with any other artist. In her work "Truisms” she uses the words “Protect me from what I want”. These words get a reaction from the audience because it gets the audience thinking about what Jenny meant and what she was thinking. Jenny says she makes work to focus on “unnecessary cruelty” and she wants people to wake up and change the way they do things as a reaction to her work.

Title: Truisms Artist: Jenny Holzer Text: Survival Work date: 1986

My response In my response to Jenny`s artwork I wanted to work on it backwards. I wanted to come up with a word or a sentence that would provoke the audience first then make the background. Like Jenny I wanted to focus on something that was important to me and something that I felt was cruel. I used the phrase “ Live , Laugh, But don’t fall in love” . This is a different take on the famous saying “ Live, Laugh, Love” . I wanted to provoke a reaction from the audience after seeing the last part. I feel a lot of the younger generation specially makes a lot of mistakes when they fall in love and they do a lot of stupid things as a response to it. I want them to think it through before they go around falling in love with someone blindly.

My response Title: Blind Mistake Artist: Raza Rizvi Work Date: 12/1/13 Dimensions: Not give