We Are Beautiful

In this unit of my You Are Beautiful course, we talked about private vs. public art. We investigated a little of what it means and if its legal or illegal. After we saw the difference we decided to do a public art piece and place it outside of our garden. What we did for our piece was cut out letters to form the phrase You Are Beautiful and wheat-pasted two pictures of people who we think are beautiful onto them. This artwork was inspired by the artist JR and Matthew Hoffman. I am proud of my work because I had lots of difficulties with the wheat pasting not sticking so I had to do that process lots of times to make it stay. One thing that I learned was how creating an art piece in a group because I do my art work individually.

KIS. You Are Beautiful. (2013)

KS
We are Beautiful
15 inches by 320 inches
Plastic, Pictures, Wheat-pate, wire stick

My definition of Public Art is art that is meant for the people to see and that is allowed to be there (legal).

The purpose of this art piece is to create public art of our own, inspired by the artist JR and Matthew Hoffman.

One of JR’s big project was in New York, him and his team went out to the streets with a truck that takes pictures and prints them out. So what they did was ask random people in the public if they want to take pictures, once they did take the picture it printed and they post them on the floor of the streets or put them on buildings. Matthew Hoffman’s project was a sticker that he created that says “You Are Beautiful”, that started small and now is big with an big installation. So what we did was combine both artist work into one (which is ours).

The way we planned this artwork was get the phrase into big letters, put pictures of people on the letters and place them outside of our school garden as a form of public art.

We started the project be taking 3-5 pictures of people who we think are beautiful, then we had to choose 2 pictures out of the ones we had. After that we enlarged the pictures up using pixlr and we print them out. When we were done we choose a font that we liked (block font). Later on everyone choose a letter from the phrase. When we choose our letter we did the same process as the pictures(we enlarge the letter and printed them out) and we trace the letter onto a plastic. Later we cut it and wheat paste our pictures onto the plastic.

The way we installed them was putting a metal stick through the letter and stuck the letters onto the ground.