Grid Art

Here are a few pictures from my grid art project. I wasn’t able to show how it would look in a dark room with a light shining through the punctured paper, yet I think everyone understood the idea.

“L.H.O.O.Q.” is an assisted readymade art piece by Marcel Duchamp. Here we see the famous Mona Lisa with a very humorous twist- a moustache and beard! How interesting that this became a legitimate art piece, simply by changing and declaring it as so in a gallery. Here we see how important the understanding of language is while appreciating humor. “L.H.O.O.Q.” is the title, when phonetically pronounced in French it sounds like “ her ass is on fire.” Of course if you did not understand French you may not understand this at all!

This humor can be traced to the Dada movement as a way of breaking apart the long line of traditional art. Duchamp was making fun of what was sacred and attempting to expand our perspective. This made people think differently about what is art, what are the possibilities of art, and how we as the viewer can change art.

“Un Chien Andalou” was a silent film that was very important, it was a film created by two surrealists: Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. This was a very bizarre film; I was pretty grossed out after the woman’s eye was sliced open. I thought the skull on the moth was really cool. This short film reminded me of a very bizarre dream, where nothing quite makes sense when you think about it later.