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Laurie Anderson: Four Talks - Final Analysis ARTIST'S INTENTIONS As what the artist, Laurie Anderson, was trying to do or evoke through this art piece, I believe that her intentions were quite striking. Just like the room and artwork of this room surrounds or even embraces you, Laurie's intentions do as well. The piece itself is a statement, a conversation from the artist, to the viewer, an act of vulnerability. Laurie's intention was to think about, and talk about issues and many topics, alongside every other passing thought and conversation within daily life. The artist's intention is to get our minds racing about the topics she chooses, to get us to ask questions, get us thinking, make us think about the past and the conditions of the present. "What are days for?" it asks, "Who owns the moon?" "Are mountains aware?." She used it to synthesize the many themes she's been circling in her mind for decades, and all the notes of this bizar...

Laurie Anderson - Context and Body of Work Body of Work Laurie Anderson, born in June 5th, 1947, is a Grammy Award winner, artist, and musician, is certainly best known for her bold drive to create, and her ability to combine art, pop culture, world matters, and avantgarde within her work. Normally performing theatrics, her works combine several types of media; performative art, poetry, music, linguistics, anthropology, and much more in order to illicit strong emotional reactions from her viewers and those that see her exhibits. Her artwork is well-known across the world, being exhibited in places such as the Guggenheim and SoHo. Laurie is one of the most renowned, creative, and artistically daring pioneers of the art world. She's toured the United States numerous times, and has published six books. As a composer, she's contributed music to films from Wim Wenders, and Johnathan Demme, and interpretive dance pieces by Trisha Brown, Bill T. Jones, Molissa Fenley, and many more. R...

  Laurie Anderson: "Four Talks" Laurie Anderson's most intricate, interactive, and mesmerizing piece within the Hirshhorn museum, "Four Talks" is my personal favorite, and in my opinion the most interesting piece on display within the museum. It's a wide, painted black room, absolutely overwhelmed with rugged and unique white graffiti. PERCEPTION OF OBJECTIVE PHENOMENA To start with, "Four Talks" is a black and white room, with black walls adorned with white lettering and graffiti. There are a variety of words and phrases, facts, and sentences written on the walls and floor. The colors are bold, and stand out, and the room is brightly lit by lights from above. I could see four physical pieces sitting within the room. One being a greenish parrot sat atop a perch, speaking aloud in a monotone, robotic voice. The next, was a large, shiny, black crow figure. It sits with it's wings behind it, and it's long beak outstretched. On the other side o...

 My Day in DC!  The Hirshhorn Museum Experience  Over all, I had an amazing day in D.C, visiting each museum. Each one was a great and unique experience for my classmates and I. Both the Hirshhorn and International Gallery of Art were really unique in their own special ways. The Hirshhorn, which is where we initially started our trip, was really strikingly bold and different, it had a really unique building-shape, kind of like a circular form or cylinder which I've never seen architecturally before, and I really enjoyed it! The many hanging windows and marble workings really made you feel as though you were entering somewhere wonderful. There were lush bushes and greenery all around the building, and everything was extremely clean. It really put you in the middle of everything, and the round, circular alignment of the building made the gallery really uniquely and easily navigable. Each exhibit lead beautifully into the next, and rooms contrasted really nicely. Some rooms ...