Ryan Brooks
Why It All Came Crashing Down
Postmodernism started in the 1980s, strengthened in the 1990s, and in 2019 there are rumblings that it’s on its way out. It rejects...
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I’m Ryan. I sculpt things. Some of the things I sculpt are very conceptual and critical of the collapsing American Empire. Others are just for fun.
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Engagement Journal
1-15-19 I free wrote about my artistic process as of late. There's been a lot of Otto Dix and George Grosz. I'm excited to start this new...
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Disrupt The Comfortable: A Journalistic Endeavor
Throughout the last few articles I’ve assumed the role of an art critic for works both old and new. But this one is slightly different. I...
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Cindy Sherman and Art Theory
Cindy Sherman has an interesting relationship with theory. When I was first learning about art history and postmodernism, her and Barbara...
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The Frightening World of Tony Conrad
On Wednesday, April 10th I left class in the middle of the day to go on a brief excursion to Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary...
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An Afternoon at The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Figure 1: Marc Chagall, The Watering Trough. There are a lot of elements of this painting that are disparate, but fit together...
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The Importance of Asking "What Does It Mean?"
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering...
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Ancient Philosophers Confirm That Jeff Koons Sucks
It’s not cutting edge to say that Jeff Koons sucks, but I’m young so I haven’t been saying it as long as everybody else. His work comes...
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Where Does My Art Come From?
My place in art history is a bit odd, because the artists that inspire me don’t come from a long line of artistic tradition of aesthetics...
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How Courbet Continues to Offend, 150 Years Later
In 1866, Gustave Courbet painted a woman. Or rather, he painted her vagina. She’s heavily foreshortened and cropped so the only visible...
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