Contemporary & Global Art

Introduction- summary of what is significant about your artist’s work, style, their influences

1. What style is this artists work? i.e., Site-specific, Conceptual, Installation

Anish Kapoor, Indian-British sculptor, one of the most influential contemporary artist.  

Most known works are large scale installations and site-specific works

Common materials used: Steels, mirrors, stone, wax

2. Who are their influences?

Conceptual:  Philosophy, engineering

Cultural: Indian and Western culture

Artists: Mantegna, Beuys, Barnett Newman and Yves Klein

Main body- Show a minimum of 5 slides that are good examples of your artis’t  most important work and be familiar and knowledgeable about these artworks

3. What is innovative about their particular work in terms of process or use of materials?

Sample slides

Slide 1: Cloud Gate

Slide 2: Sky Mirror

Slide 3: Temenos

Slide 4: Dirty Corner

Slide 5: ArcelorMittal Orbit

Slide 6: ArcelorMittal Orbit (After modification)

Conclusion- Brief statement that summarizes this artist’s style,  What common themes or concepts do they work with?   

4. What common themes or concepts do they work with?

Concepts:

1.      Existence of physical object proofs the Existence of void spaces / nonphysical objects.

2.      Infinity possibility of a physical object shows or evokes proofs that of the nonphysical objects.

3.      These infinity possibilities are discovered through the interaction between viewers and works.

How to achieve:

1.       Manipulation of scales, colors, spaces and  perspectives

Use of colors and scales : imply spacial and psychological perspectives result from the interaction between viewers and works. 

Museum of Modern Art

Cubism was a revolutionary style for modern art that is developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Barques, it is the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20^th century in response to the world that was changing with unprecedented speed. This paint by Pablo Picasso is “Factory at Horta de Ebro” in 1909. It’s an oil on canvas and its about 50 cm by 60 cm.

It’s a way of denying the essential difference between reality and a painting, and so flattened his image and explored the surfaces and qualities of the 2 dimensional canvases. Its colorful and all the buildings are facing toward to the center.

Surrealism was developed in the early 20^th century, it was sought to explore the subconscious mind or dream world, it visual paradox and defies logic influenced by the works of Marx and Freud it became a major international movement. This painting by Vladimir Kush is “Breach”, it’s an oil on canvas and size of 31 by 38 inches done in the late 1990. Normally a whale would be inseparable with water, but in this colorful painting, a group of human in the foreground tossing a giant whale on a tarpaulin made of sea water. The whale surfacing in the ocean appear as if they are emerging from out subconscious mind and their leaps above the water always evoke surprise and delight.

Postwar Modern Movements

Mark Dion is an American contemporary Artist. Mark’s art works are majorly sculptures and installations. Instead of fantasizing and overly thinking about creating art works based on idealistic or romantic expectations, Mark is focused on capturing the realism of the happenings – his fundamental believes of what contemporary art should be based on.

Marks concepts behind his works seem to be more practical than theoretical. Most of his works are based on analyzing the ideas resulted from the interaction of science and art. Therefore, most of his works demonstrated the inseparable relationship between science and nature.

Assignment #6: Early 20th Century- Dada photocollage

Assignment #5: Early 20th Century - Between World Wars

1. Describe a Dada artwork:

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

     What is art? Is a urinal signed by an artist and displayed in an exhibition considered a piece of art work?

     Artist Marcel Duchamp asked the public these questions when he presented this piece of work in the “First Annual Exhibition in 1916. Like many Data artworks, Fountain is made from ready-made object and by signing name on the urinal and displaying it in an exhibition; Fountain challenged and ridiculed the art society in an unconventional approach.

2. What were the influences of Jacob Lawrence? (include a description of his work)

Influences by Harlem renaissance and African American history, artist Jacob Lawrence depicted the lives of African Americans during 1940 and celebrated African American culture in his works, which solidified his influences in the early stage of The Civil Rights Movements.

This is one of the paintings from Jacob Lawrence’s the migration series, it illustrated how African Americans’ lives and safety were threatened as they were prisoned. The cold color used in the painting hinted the depressing mood of these oppressed live.

assigment 4

During this time period, rather than creating drawings based on stereotypical presumptions, the Impressionist art works were made through direct visual observation of things.  Because they were trying to capture what they were seeing at the moment rather than what they remembered that they have seen, the impressionism artists would need to create their works as quickly as possible under constantly changing conditions.

 In one of the most iconic impressionist artist Claude Monet’s painting Irises in Monet's Garden, the subtle differences of warm and cold color on the irises captured the change of light, suggesting the change of time. The rapid stokes of the leaves on the tree and the irises resembled the movement of wind. The plants in this garden are dancing in harmonious colors and patterns.

The post-impressionism paintings, often influenced by non-western cultures at the time, were more focused on capturing the artists’ personal interpretations of what they observe by creating rhythms in strokes and patterns, and using unconventional colors. In post- impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting The Starry Night, the artist inputs his emotions onto his observation of view: the depressive navy blue of the town and the sky is contrasted with the radiance of the yellow moon and stars; the silence of the town is interrupted by the lively rolling movement of the in the center of the starring sky. 

 

Renaissance and Baroque

Scene from a Novella by Liberale da Verona (Italian, Verona ca. 1445-1527)

Wolf and Fox Hunt by Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577-1640)

The renaissance period of art began in the 1400s in Italy, where it was considered one of the most important in Europe’s history. The art work from this time period are inspired by the ideas and forms of ancient Greece and Rome. The effect of humanism on art, the emergence of the individual figure in place of stereotyped and symbolic figure. It emphasis on education of expanding knowledge, belief in individual potential. Some of the characteristic of the art work from this time period is the use of linear perspective, the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer. The individualism showed individual people instead of groups and realism, also the use of nudity and directional light. The use of shading give viewer the illusion of volume in the art work.

            The first picture is “Scene from a Novella” by Liberale de Verona, an Italian artist in renaissance period, the theme of the paint is the beloved appearing at the window, and it is found in a number of chivalric tales and novella. The king’s daughter standing from inside the window is over watching the chess game. This scene of paint is in outdoor, and used the linear perspective, and the people outside the window is bigger than the person that is inside the window since she is farer away. And the use of light and shading to create the depth and illusion of volume.

         The baroque art was a reflection of political and culture changes that is emerging across Europe, baroque art is not just about figures that needed to be realistic, but also their surroundings as well and their place in the overall painting. This paint is call “Wolf and Fox Hunt” by peter paul rubens from Flemish, siegen. This paint showed a group of people and dogs hunting wolf and fox, the style is very similar to renaissance art but it is more focus on the action of the story and gives viewer the exciting feeling of what is going on.