ART FOR ART SAKE meets ART THAT SERVES

A presentation by Andrew Courtney

Bean Runner CafePeekskill, NYMay 4, 6pm

The Weeping Woman & GuernicaPicasso, 1937

AdvocacyGoya

Dorothea LangeDiego Rivera

Banksy , Bethlehem wall, Palestine

Ai Wei Wei

Occupy, Zucotti Park, NYC

PicassoOtto Dix

Steve McCurry

Daumier

Keith Haring

Banksy

Reclaiming SpacesSan Diego

Philadelphia

Senegal

West Belfast, Northern Ireland

Edward Snowden monument, Brooklyn, NY

Five Points, Queens, NY

JR (French) Bethlehem, Palestine

Posed?

Susan Meiselas

Robert Capa

Sullivan Jacob Riis

Joe Rosenthal

Selma to Montgomery march. 1965 Jim KaralesAttica rebellion, Officers helmet. 1971John Shearer

US wounded soldiers, Larry Burrows

Kim Phuc, 6 years old Napalm attack. Nick UtExecution of suspected Viet Cong. Saigon. Eddie Adams

JFK Funeral. John Shearer

Andrew’s Checklist Gently shared with Art Students over the years

ChallengeEclecticismVisual plagiarismTrends and fashionscompetition

Meanings to Avoid making artNice MeanAppropriate InappropriateAcceptable UnacceptablePleasant unpleasantTasteful TastelessPretty Ugly

Art & Delivery SystemsArt & Democracy*

Not to be confusedDrawingPaintingSculpturePhotographyPrintmakingPhotoshopArchitectureAdvertisingPerformance*Anyone is an artist if they say so

Wrestling matchIndividualism CollectivismCatered dinners Potluck dinnersEuropean masters Square dancessoloist sing-alongs

Draw, doodleRuminateKeep a sketch book and journalHone curiosity

SeductionsNostalgiainjusticeClayModern Jazz Quartetchallenging authorities

Make, never take PhotographsThanks, Susan Sontag

“Learn by teaching. Think by writing. See by drawing”. (Latin)

Lakota mother and daughterSouth Dakota

Salvadorean, Refugee campHonduras

Nanking, China Bedouin, Jordan

Hau KolaHolaNi Hau MaMarhabaChao EmZdravustziaCa VaUnjani

Viet Nam

Amerasian youth, Ho Chi Minh CityFought the French, Dien Bien Phu

Moung Boy, west of Hanoi Family, Dien Bien Phu

Northern Ireland

Antrim Farmer Family Catholic Boys, Ardoyne

Tinkers, ArmaghProtestant, Shankill Road, Belfast

Cuba

Cienfuegos

Santiago de Cuba

Siboney

Havana Viejo

Nicaragua

Bluefields

Managua

Rama Cay Corn Island

South Africa

Mfengu Villagers

Khyalesha Township Alexandra Township

Port Elizabeth Township

Lebanon

Druze men, Shouf Mountains

’48 Palestinian Refugee, Shatila Camp ‘48 Palestinian Refugee, Bourj Al Bourajneh Camp

’48 Palestinian Refugee, Ein Al Hilweh Camp

Palestine

Rodeina Jabber, Home destroyed

African Palestinian,Mohammed Boulala

Ahmed Jabber

IDF destroyed Belata refugee homeHome destroyed, Hebron ValleyHome destroyed, Hebron Valley

Zuhra Mohammed Al Qadi

Courtney photographs in the 50/50 Arts Westchester Anniversary exhibit. May 15. White Plains, NY

Syrian Soldiers, Damascus, Syria

Sandinista Pieta, Managua, Nicaragua

Good Friday Mourners, Peekskill, NYPeace Couple, West Point, NY