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= Andrea Zittel: = Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, in 1965. Zittel received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University in 1988, and an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island of School of Design in 1990. Andrea is an artist of sculptures and installations. She shows transformation of everything necessary for life— eating, sleeping, bathing, and socializing. She portrays this from her own home. I discovered how her art is literally an exploration of how we function and live. I think her art is 21st century because it is participatory for the viewer. The viewers can interact with her art and relate to it because we all wear clothes, we eat, sleep and do everyday things to be naurished and Andrea shows this through her art. I chose to do this artist because of concept of her art. I love that she can design her own ways of living and make it look so real and actually useable for everyday life. I really enjoyed learning about her art and she shows the beauty of the essentials we need in this life.



Sarah Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969. Her art is on an architectural scale. Its a combination of a material called domestic detritus and office supplies. She often incorporates electric lights, fans, water systems, and houseplants. Her compositions seem to mirror the improvisational quality of cities, labor, and everyday life. Her work is alive with a mutable quality—as if anything could happen, or not. Her work is 21st century because of the technology drive. Her work has so much life and light to it that is makes it stand out and that's why i chose this artist. I love how confusing and awesome her work is. It keeps the viewer wondering what exactly she is portraying. I compared/contrasted her to the artist Jan Steen because of their concept of life and a little bit of choas. Jan was a painter and showed the choas of life and mess and it kind of reminded me of Sarah's work because she shows life with light and a little confusion wherefore Jan shows darkness of life and doesn't use to much light in his work. But they overall have the same concept of showing life.
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=Do- Ho Suh: = Do-Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1962. He earned his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University. He is best known for his sculptures that show conventional notions of scale and site-specificity. A lot of his work has to deal with his life in Korea and draws close attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. One of his pieces he made was his own house that was made with fabric. He tells the viewers of his work that he is able to put his fabric house in and out of his suitcase for when he travels. His art is 21st century because it represents global themes. He shows his life in Korea and what its like to be there and I like that about his art because I hadn't known a lot about Korea but reading his concept and seeing a video on him gave me a good idea of what its like in Korea. I related Do-Ho Suh to Vincent Van Gogh because both Do-ho and Vincent show their art about there life. Vincent showed his illness and anxiety he had in his art and Do-Ho showed his life in Korea. I think these artist are very similar with their concepts but being different with their media. I really liked learning about Do-Ho because i've never seen art like his before using fabric to build a house and making a piece with tiny army soliders holding up a glass panel. = =



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