Blog Assignment 9-Respond Site And Surface

Site-specific art is a kind of art medium which use to create artwork in a certain place. Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created outdoor site-specific art and environmental artworks. One of their most influential artworks they created is the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin. The Reichstag was the former German parliment building and is located right next to the Berlin wall. Christo and Jeanne-Claude designed it could be transformed to something special. By making this masterpiece, more than 100,000 m2 of fireproof polypropylene fabric were used, covered by an aluminum layer, and 15km of rope were needed. When viewers look at the wrapped building, particularly at night, there were yellow lights around the building, the dark side color is deep blue and the color between the bright side and dark side is purple. It looks like a white castle comes from fairy tales or dream. People who viewing this will just enjoy this beauty thing instead of talking about Reichstag's negative symbolism.

Lot's of significant environmental artworks all over the world, just like wrapped Reichstag or surrounded islands Christo and Jeanne created have the function of making a big impact. Because they have large scale and millions of people can view at the same time. However, huge artworks are not the only medium to make big impact, little scale can also astonishing people. Like surface artworks, many artists create beauty through hand drawing, copy or print. They probably not large like outdoor artworks, they may small. Such as Andy Warhol's Artworks.

Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. In 1962, Andy Warhol's first one-man art gallery exhibition displayed his artworks 100 Soup Cans, 100Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills which made him famous. He always using those mass media images like coke bottles as his basic elements repeatedly setting on his artworks. He intentionally remove the emotive color. In fact, viewers can find a specific dull, repetition in his works. He tried to describe a blank, alienated feeling.

Different art methods can give viewers different impact and enjoyment. If you like use Large scale to deliver nature, universe, then you can also use surface or small scale to talk about something inside people's heart.