This is the taxonomy that I made about the piece of art I love. This work of art is a wall drawing created by Sol Lewitt. It is exhibited at the Dia: Beacon contemporary art foundation. I chose to make a pretty architectural and organized taxonomy because I felt like it fitted the artistic world of Sol Lewitt. Sol Lewitt’s art is always very structured and geometric. I also put some pictures of one of his sculpture and also of some other geometric work of art, but this time with plenty of colors. I did this to show at the wall drawing I picked would look like if it was in 3D or in colors.
I also selected some words that I think really represent this wall drawing. For example conceptualism is to me one of the major characteristics of Sol Lewitt’s art since he creates an idea, a concept, makes the plan and the instructions for the creation of a wall drawing which is then realized by a team of assistants.
I also dedicated a part of my taxonomy to phrases, because I thought they were necessary in the understanding of this wall drawing.
My goal, with this taxonomy was for the spectator to really understand the entire process, the entire wall drawing from its creation to its creator.
This taxonomy is about the piece of art I don’t really appreciate. Even though I don’t like the aspect of it I really admire its creation and originality.
The way I structured my taxonomy was to refer to Niki de Saint Phalle’s mosaic technique.
I used close-ups to show every different sort of materials she used for her sculpture.
I also put a picture of the same sculpture but in black and white to show what would be her art with no colors. What was very interesting is that even though it is the same sculpture the fact that there is no colors changes the entire style of it. It makes us understand how colors are connected to her work and how she would be a total different artist without the use of colors.
I also thought it was interesting to put a portrait of her because even a picture of her reflects who she is as an artist: someone original and colorful.
Finally I wrote down the information, I thought was needed for the understanding process of this Buddha.
My goal was to visually represent in its entire complexity the Buddha, Nikki de Saint Phalle created.
This is the taxonomy I made about my journal entry. My journal entry was about this graffiti I saw in Brooklyn on Bedford. I really appreciated this graffiti because it was pacifist way of fighting for art. The violence is represented with the boxing gloves, but the real medium used here to fight is Art.
While thinking about which journal entry I should use for the taxonomy, I realized that this one was the perfect mix of the two works of art I had picked for my previous taxonomies.
This graffiti is a perfect balance between structure, geometry and the over use of colors.
Since we had to use the elements of the other taxonomies to create this one, I chose to make the graffiti a little transparent in order to be able to superpose parts of the other taxonomies. since all three of them are related by geometrical shapes and the use of colors, I chose to recreate the geometrical and colorful bottom of the graffiti using the mosaic technique of Nikki de Saint Phalle by assembling square shapes taken from the two previous taxonomies.
This taxonomy had for goal to blend all of the three taxonomies together focusing on the mix of the style of Sol Lewitt and Nikki de Saint Phalle in order to recreate the style of the graffiti.
