R. McCall, Argosy #2

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  1. Hi, my name is Margaux Alvarez.
  2. I'm a graduate student at the University of Arizona, getting
  3. my master's in art in visual culture education And thank
  4. you for stopping at my tour stop today.
  5. We're going to be looking at robert Mccall who is
  6. famous in Tucson, Arizona and Arizona in general and all
  7. around the world.
  8. He was a famous Nasa artist and I'm sure that
  9. a couple of you are familiar with his work, um,
  10. here is the man, the myth, the legend or Mccall.
  11. Um, well known for what he did um with 2001
  12. Space Odyssey.
  13. He did the artwork for that as well as um,
  14. I think you did some stuff for Steven Spielberg to,
  15. but anyway, his stuff is everywhere.
  16. He's done large scale murals.
  17. But one of the things that I'm really inspired by
  18. what he's done is what he calls floating worlds.
  19. And you can see that on his website.
  20. But I really enjoyed seeing all of these different images
  21. of these floating spaceships and Oftentimes you can see a
  22. desert scene and I think that that's from him being
  23. inspired by the southwest landscape.
  24. And it's very cool for me to see these super
  25. awesome futuristic renderings and um, this just like artistic way
  26. of thinking about the world around us and envisioning the
  27. future of space travel and flight in our own backyard.
  28. And uh, The one that we are going to be
  29. looking at in particular is the Argus C# two.
  30. And uh, for my activity that I would like to
  31. have everyone practice is that when I'm looking at art,
  32. oftentimes if I'm in a quiet space, if I'm in
  33. a museum or if I'm just taking a second to
  34. look at it, it can be a little meditative.
  35. So I tend to just quiet myself quiet my mind
  36. and I would like to do that with this piece.
  37. Not this one, I'll show you the one in just
  38. a second.
  39. Um but I would like you to take a deep
  40. breath in and out and kind of let your I
  41. follow the movement of the painting, sort of what details
  42. emerge. And then if you start to think about it,
  43. like what sounds are you hearing?
  44. And that's typically what happens when I'm viewing a piece
  45. of work is I almost give it a soundtrack.
  46. And so it could be anything from a very, oh,
  47. I don't know, um like Super steven, Spielberg, very orchestrated
  48. um orchestra epic like that.
  49. Or maybe you don't hear much.
  50. Maybe you just hear a song that you heard on
  51. the radio.
  52. But something that I hear when viewing this kind of
  53. work is um I hear this group called Black moth
  54. Super Rainbow and their song goes something like this and
  55. I'll end with the image and you guys can pause
  56. on it.
  57. But um yeah, just start to listen to what sounds
  58. are coming through with your head.
  59. I think it's a very harmonious way to look at
  60. art. So I was