Shag: The Flesh is willing. Laguna Beach CA. 12-1-07
The Flesh is willing, combines two of the artist’s interests which include nudes and purgatory. His work combines the essence of 1950’s cocktail culture and the notion of sin. The exhibition was inspired by a recent trip to the Prado in Madrid. Some of these pieces possessed one figure of a very hip looking nude woman, and others were large scale murals of people enjoying cocktail hour. Shag also wanted to give his pieces the feel of punishment and fear, used as a deterrent against indulgence with three interactive pieces such as a turn wheel which viewers can turn and determine their fate. I loved Shag’s pieces! They were fun edgy, and very easily understandable.
I have to say this gallery is not one of the interesting one I have visited throughout this quarter, many artworks have the feeling of they are being put up after a drawing class is over. However, the upstairs is more interesting. Acrylic, bright color, comic style, it is definitely more interesting part of the gallery.
I was disappointed to have paid $8 to see the Laguna Art Museum. In fact the best part of the whole experience was the view of the ocean. I hate how if you go to a museum near the beach, you get beach art. While some of the paintings were sort of nice, a lot of them looked like hotel art and very decorative. I suppose that kind of work sells, but it’s not worth my $8. There were these weird paintings of dogs playing on the beach, but they looked as if the dogs were splattered on. It was as if the artist was trying to capture their movement, but instead they looked pretty stiff and kind of goofy. The artist who was featured upstairs was at least different. Shag: The Flesh is Willing, wasn’t necessarily thought provoking, but it was fun. There was a vice machine, and a few other things that the viewer was expected interact with. The work was graphic and a bit like advertising. It didn’t seem that difficult to produce, but it was still creative and a bit kitschy. I enjoyed it especially after all the beach stuff I saw before.
We are a group of Art students from the University of California Riverside who are attending a series of Art Galleries in several parts of Southern California. We have decided to use Blogger.com to post the pictures we take, and record our thoughts and opinions about the work we visit. You can find our critiques and thoughts on the work in the "comments" field, which appears below the pictures of the art.
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Shag: The Flesh is willing. Laguna Beach CA. 12-1-07
The Flesh is willing, combines two of the artist’s interests which include nudes and purgatory. His work combines the essence of 1950’s cocktail culture and the notion of sin. The exhibition was inspired by a recent trip to the Prado in Madrid. Some of these pieces possessed one figure of a very hip looking nude woman, and others were large scale murals of people enjoying cocktail hour. Shag also wanted to give his pieces the feel of punishment and fear, used as a deterrent against indulgence with three interactive pieces such as a turn wheel which viewers can turn and determine their fate. I loved Shag’s pieces! They were fun edgy, and very easily understandable.
-Rebecca Lopez
I have to say this gallery is not one of the interesting one I have visited throughout this quarter, many artworks have the feeling of they are being put up after a drawing class is over.
However, the upstairs is more interesting. Acrylic, bright color, comic style, it is definitely more interesting part of the gallery.
~Carol Huang~
I was disappointed to have paid $8 to see the Laguna Art Museum. In fact the best part of the whole experience was the view of the ocean. I hate how if you go to a museum near the beach, you get beach art. While some of the paintings were sort of nice, a lot of them looked like hotel art and very decorative. I suppose that kind of work sells, but it’s not worth my $8. There were these weird paintings of dogs playing on the beach, but they looked as if the dogs were splattered on. It was as if the artist was trying to capture their movement, but instead they looked pretty stiff and kind of goofy.
The artist who was featured upstairs was at least different. Shag: The Flesh is Willing, wasn’t necessarily thought provoking, but it was fun. There was a vice machine, and a few other things that the viewer was expected interact with. The work was graphic and a bit like advertising. It didn’t seem that difficult to produce, but it was still creative and a bit kitschy. I enjoyed it especially after all the beach stuff I saw before.
-Drue-Ann
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