Midterm

     The artist that I was given is named Lynda Benglis. Lynda Benglis makes installation and sculptures that are dimensional. Her sculptures were made with liquids that turned to soild forms. Benglis considers herself as a painter because she was always interested and enjoyed using painting materials. She uses materials painters are known to use such as polyurethane, foam, and wire mesh. She also has considered herself as a painter because she doesn't use glue as an artist. Benglis says she choose to be a painter because she likes the idea of the materials forming their form and the spaces it creates. She's very interested on using her movement of her hands and body to make her sculptures. Benglis uses a bucket or can filled with paint and she kind of just uses her body movement, like dancing to a rhythm as she states in the video to make her sculptures. Benglis also shows an interest in the idea of having a perspective on gravity and on reading the form gravity forms. In the video she compares one of her sculptures to a waterfall that has been frozen, which is her view on gravity like what would a waterfall look like if it just froze while flowing. She also worked with the idea of knots in a couple of her sculptures. In the video she has a sculpture and she made a two headed snake and the snakes body is made with knots. She states that knots are like a explosion of energy or a meaning of beginning of new life. With wire mesh she made some sculptures with knots, she says it was way she also created space by tieing the wire mesh into knots. With cast polyurethane she liked how it looked like ice or glass or frozen water. She made a sculpture and was glad that people were given the illusion that the material was glass and out of that she wanted the sculpture to be a fountain. I think Benglis sculptures are great and definitely covers her interests on using movement and gravity as a way of creating space and sculptures. What I found to be interesting was using your own body movement to create art, I never thought of being able to make art by the movement for your body or hands as Benglis did. What also caught my attention was her perspective on gravity. She made sculptures out of her thought on how gravity creates a form when or if something froze.