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.