Sculpture Material and Conceptual Investigation
Narelle Mulrooney 15759274 Portfolio 1 Project 1: The Kit, Exercise 3 Project 2: Exercise 1 and 2 Project 3: Exercise 1 and 2 Visual Diary: Documentation of entries Web-based and artist research VSW13 SP4 2011 Best viewed in slideshow view Tutor: Shannon Lyons Assignment Attachment Form Project 1: The Kit, Exercise 3 “The practice of Soma evolves from one piece to the next. Each of these pieces explores ways to SOMA transform calligraphy into texture and into structure. In each piece various particular relationships are created between the surface, light, and shade. The by Ayala Serfaty configurations show a more abstract authenticity of I have used this piece as inspiration for my the Soma practice, a form created by free drawing in resolved work. I like how the material used space, captured like a frozen moment of existence.” glows from within without being transparent. - Ayala Serfaty, 2005
Translated from Greek is the word Soma meaning ‘body’. It took Israeli artist, Ayala Serfaty six years to create, Soma, which represents the topography of light using thin glass filaments that are woven into a skin like membrane. The artist has created a number of variations of this piece all with different topographical landscapes. I think it looks like the glowing white of a fresh snow fall because of the inner lighting. Sabine7.2009. Aqua. SOMA BY AYALA SERFATY. http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/012555.php Midden I have taken inspiration from the Australian Aboriginal ‘midden’ by representing the dry, bleached shells with organic wax shapes. I have made three sizes of organic shapes, the three lives represent the male and female adult and the children in the tribe. I have stacked the shapes to show the layers and generations and the passing of time, the interior illumination represents the spirituality of the site. A 'midden' is the remains of an occupation site of the Aboriginal people. It is where they left the remains of their meals, discarded artifacts and sometimes burials occurred in ‘middens’ if the surrounding soil was too hard. Some locations have substantial deposits that grew over layer by layer as generations used of the same area, and some middens are as deep as three metres..
When the Aboriginal people temporally settled in a certain area, they intentionally left the remains of the food they had eaten to the top layer of the ‘midden’ pile so that the next group of people to visit the area could see what had just been harvested. They would then choose something else to eat so they didn't over-use the natural resource. In this way ‘middens’ were a blueprint for the sustainable harvest of the local resources. ‘Middens’ are also an archaeological treasure trove because along with the oyster and cockle shells there were animal bones, artefacts and tools made from stone, bone or shell as well as human remains.
Korf, Jens. Creative Spirit. Aboriginal sites and places. http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/land/aboriginal-sites.html. Site accessed on 18/12/2011.
I decided to used a combination of wax and light for my exercise. I used fruit such as watermelon, rockmelon and passionfruit to mould my shapes. The individual shapes were quite delicate and a little difficult to handle therefore I would present my piece as a marquette and would suggest that the final piece be made from acrylic for example.
I used whatever lighting sources I had at hand; a halogen desk lamp, a small halogen torch and a mechanics light, unfortunately this gave different colours from a blue/white light to a yellow light. I would prefer just one pure white light throughout the entire piece. The Wax
Each component was created by dipping either a watermelon, rockmelon or a passionfruit into the hot wax. I found these pieces were very fragile to handle but the delicate nature would allow the light to grow and be defused within the shapes.
I wanted to create an organic type shell shape in three different sizes. The different sizes represent the individuals in a family, the father, mother and child. The shell shape is gives the opportunity to stack, fill and upturn to allow variation and randomness. The Light
I used a number of different light sources; what ever I had on hand. A flood light, a halogen light and three small spot lights. I set my wax pieces on a piece of Perspex, covered the negative space with black paper and set my lights under the Perspex allowing for the light to defuse through the shapes.
The different types of lights gave different colours. I would have preferred the one colour. The spot light gave the whitest looking light and defused more evenly through the piece. Close-up of components Resolution Luminated view from above Resolution iluminated view from above Resolution Luminated Side view Suggested Installations
My wax and light model is a maquette for a future project. The wax has given the translucency I was looking for with the up lighting. The lighting I would choose would be permanent pure white lights. The final installation will be made from white opaque moulded acrylic sheets in a much larger scale than the model. The larger ‘shells’ would be approximately two meters in diameter, making the overall size approximately six metres long and two metres high. Background Image: Howard, Caleb. 2002. Caleb’s Personal Site. Image Creations: Moonlit Beach. http://hiddensquire.com/mycreations/NightBeachWithMoon.html Background Image: Tracy, Robert. 2011. Gallery of Fine Art. Art 495-695: Special Topics in Art—The Bellagio. http://roberttracyphdart495695bellagio.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/art-495-695-special-topics-in-art-the-bellagio-gallery-of-fine-art/ Aboriginal Image; Shariffah Zeenat Sofea Binti Rahman Shah. Digital Photographer. Aboriginal Dancer. http://www.dphotographer.co.uk/image/101439/aboriginal_dancer Post Script: I animated the demise of this sculpture to show the effect of light/heat (candle) over time.
Have a look here to see the animation
http://youtu.be/EuJh8itBlxA
Oh! I hope I don’t need to revisit this piece! Every body needs a little color. - Mark Project 2: Herman Colour and Context
The truly wise person is Color is joy. One does colorblind - Albert not think joy. One is
Schweitzer Colors fade, temples carried by it. - Ernst crumble, empires fall, Haas but wise words endure - Edward Thorndike
Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which Life is a to communicate. celebration of Nature is not on the passionate surface, it is deep Art is just a pigment of your colors - down. - Paul Cézanne imagination - Tony Follari Leialoha Cator
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites - Marc Chagall
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Yves Klein, The Earth is Blue http://www.yvesklein.de/ Black is not a color. "Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity. Black Edouard Manet
I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black Auguste Renoir If you love Black you are If you are going to think black, Strong - willed and Love think positive about it. Don't think Power down on it, or think it is something Black color denotes in your way. And this way, when independence and you really do want to stretch out, Determination. Black color is a and express how beautiful black is, sign of sophistication and everybody will hear you black lovers are mostly non – emotional as they lack color in Leontyne Price their life. Black lovers are
often artistic and sensitive , People can have the Model T in love to be in control of any color - so long as it’s black situations and very serious in Henry Ford nature. They like to keep a distance with people and keep
Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about their emotions at guard. They you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black are very methodical in their Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Facts About the colour Black. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black work and love to follow Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. details. (Samy, 2011) Red
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think If you love Red you are we're stupid Bright, Dynamic and Jules Feiffer Dramatic. Red is the color of love, joy, When in doubt, wear red anger and bravery. People Bill Blass who often wear red are generally energetic and I love red so much, I almost optimistic in their nature. want to paint everything red. They love attention and Alexander Calder enjoy being in the spotlight. Those who love red color Painters use red like spice. believe in living life to the Derek Jarman fullest and are stubborn, very persistent in their endeavors. Red color lovers are mostly found to be impulsive, sexy, athletic and they are generally prone to Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. mood swings. (Samy, 2011) Konstantin Dimopoulos’ kenetic sculpture, Rothko is moved by the wind. The piece is modeled on the innate and dynamic movement and shapes of nature.
The use of the vibrant red colour and the movement bring an element of surprise echoing the natural beauty and elegance of the location. Dimopoulos said that it does not dominate the environment it enhances it because the Australian environment can not be dominated.
This piece is dynamic and as it moves it makes a clicking sound as the pieces hit each other. The wind also changes the shape of the work from perfectly upright to the Chris-cross patterns that are created with a stronger breeze.
Rothko's Chapel - Konstantin Dimopoulos - 2006 High performance composite resin on concrete h: 500 x w: 100 x d: 100 cm Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. Author Unknown. 2011. Konstantin Dimopoulos. PYD. http://www.pyd.com.au/exhibitions-1071/konstantin-dimopoulos.aspx. Anish Kapoor Anish Kapoor was born in India, a country known for its use of strong and vibrant colours. The artist explains that ‘Leviathan’ is a biblical beast and with his huge installation he allows the viewer into the body of the beast. The entrance to the installation is dark and opens into a red organic shaped area. If this work were done in a different “I want to create an all-encompassing monochrome experience, to drench colour it would change the the viewer in colour” experience. For example if Anish Kapoor. it were blue it may feel like being under the sea or flying in the sky. For this reason colour is a most important aspect to give Unknown Author. 2011. Monumenta. Colour. http://www.monumenta.com/en/2011/la-couleur Cina, Mostre. 2011. Crisinabolzani. Leviathan (Grand Palais, Parigi) – Anish Kapoor per Ai Weiwei. context to ‘Leviathan’. http://cristinabolzani.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/leviathan-grand-palais-parigi-anish-kapoor-per-ai-weiwei/ Tony Cragg Tony Cragg is a British contemporary sculptor; his works is known for embracing a wide variety of materials, textures, and conceptual approaches. He created World Events, a statue for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 1988
In his piece1983 ‘Red S’, Cragg’s collections of found objects reflect the production, functionality, and waste of our modern industrial society. Here, the colour red unites objects ranging from children's toys, to industrial containers are coloured to warn of their dangerous contents. Cragg’s arrangement on the floor is reminiscent of a city map.
Unknown Author. 1983. National Gallery of Canada. Collections. http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=17033 Pink is the navy blue of India Diana Vreeland Pink
I fell off my pink cloud with a thud Elizabeth Taylor
More pink here, if you please. If you love Pink you are Franz Liszt Romantic, Sensual and Sensitive . Pink lovers are loving, Christopher Robin is giving a party. generous and very kind to Oh! said Pooh. ... others. Pink color is very calm Will there be those little cake things and so are the people who with pink sugar icing? A. A. Milne love pink color. Pink lovers are generally sympathetic and Pink is the colour of passion. compassionate to people around them and they Aerosmith extremely dislike controversy of any kind. They are reserved ‘Cause Pink, It's My Favorite Crayon. and non - violent which gives Aerosmith the impression that they are shy. Most of all pink lovers have a maternal instinct, they see the good in everyone and Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black possess a positive outlook in Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. life. (Samy 2011) Orange Orange is the happiest colour Frank Sinatra
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow." - Wassily Kandinsky Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital, and a good If you love Orange you are color generally, indicating Social, Warm and thoughtfulness and Optimistic. consideration of others Orange is the color which Edgar Cayce denotes spice and warmth. People who love Orange aids the focusing in the orange are extremely head, just as red stimulates the friendly in nature and solar plexus and green has a generally very pleasant at definite effect upon the heart heart who get along with and life streams almost everyone. They Alice A. Bailey tend to help people around them and are always full of positive energy. Orange color lovers are tolerant at heart and easily accept Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black other the way they are . Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. (Samy, 2011) David Sequiera
“If you mix yellow with red something magical comes into existence. Orange is not as hot as red, but it is warmer, more sun ripened than yellow. Orange has a bit less intensity or aggression than red, but it is calmed by the cheerfulness of yellow. Orange is vibrant and as a combination of red and yellow it shares some common attributes with those colors. It denotes energy, warmth, and the sun. I wish I could stop collecting orange stuff.”
David Sequeira
Sequeira, David. 2010. David Sequeira. Orange stuff. http://www.davidsequeira.com/orange.asp Yellow "Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I am here." Lance Armstrong
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transfer a yellow spot into the sun. Pablo Picasso If you love Yellow you are "How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun." Creative and Artistic. Vincent Van Gogh Yellow is the color associated
with happiness and cheerful "What a horrible thing yellow is." Edgar Degas spirits. People who love yellow are very social and "A yellow circle will reveal a spreading movement imaginative. They tend to be outwards from the center which almost markedly intellectual and idealistic. approaches the spectator; a blue circle develops Those who love yellow are a concentric movement (like a snail hiding in its usually very clear about their shell) and moves away from the spectator." thoughts. They love to have Wassily Kandinsky high ideals in life and favor "Well, my favorite color I guess I would freedom of thought and say yellow." Fran Drescher action. They are impulsive and love to make quick decisions. (Samy, 2011) Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. Pantheon, Noon, June 14, 2011 Spencer Finch
Pantheon Interior looking up into the oculus (heavenly symbolism)
Spencer Finch as used the “found” light in California to bridge an actual location with his memory of a visit to Rome. Rather than recreate the physical contours of the arcchitecture of Rome, he has evoked the moment and mood of a place by controlling the light with the use a simple color filter. At the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Finch connects the architecture of Rome’s Pantheon, with its centre piece, the single circular skylight, to the Museum’s star shaped entry court. Finch translates the Pantheon’s skylight with the use of a an large yellow fabric-covered disc suspended between the floor and the ceiling. The clean circular shape of Finch’s minimal sculpture counteracts the elaborate lantern like structure. This installation filters the light into the entry count and it reflects Finch’s experience of a recent visit to Rome’s Pantheon in the Summer time. Because the fabric is yellow the light will create the glowing summer light even on a dull day. Unknown Author. 2011. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Spencer Finch: Rome (Pantheon, Noon, June 14, 2011). http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/spencer- finch-rome-pantheon-noon-june-14-2011/ http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/philolog/2005/12/imperium_in_the_pantheon_in_ro.html Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca Green Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches Federico García Lorca
Green, which is Nature's colour, is restful, soothing, cheerful, and health-giving. Paul Brunton If you love Green you are Practical in Pure emerald green, particularly if it has a life, Loyal and Affectionate. dash of blue, is the color of healing. It is Green color is regarded as color of helpful, strong, friendly Edgar Cayce generosity and compassion. Green Green is the fresh emblem of well lovers are frank ,very stable and founded hopes. In blue the spirit can down to earth individuals. They wander, but in green it can rest. always like to do the right thing and Mary Webb. possess high moral values. They are loyal friends and are very faithful partners. Green lovers love peace and have a strong will. Green lovers biggest desire is to belong and to Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about love and be loved at all times. you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- (Samy, 2011) crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. I never get tired of the blue sky Vincent van Gogh Blue In blue the spirit can wander but in green it rests. Mary Webb
If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue. Paul Gauguin If you love Blue you are
Trustworthy, Confident and Self Blue color is everlastingly appointed Controlled by the deity to be a source of Blue color is considered as delight. serene, the color of peace and John Ruskin contentment. Blue lovers are
very sensitive and are not My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is impulsive or spontaneous in a large blue sky, and larger than the their nature. They take their biggest I have seen in June -- and in it responsibilities very seriously are my friends -- every one of them and are genuine at heart. Blue Emily Dickinson lovers love harmony and make
very good friends. They crave for There is no blue without yellow and wisdom and thirst for knowledge without orange. in their area of interest. They Vincent Van Gogh seem to worry for very small Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black things in life and are always Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. extremely cautions. (Samy, 2011) Konstantin Dimopoulos
Konstantin Dimopoulos applies blue to the cherry trees as part of his instllation at the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale. Griffin, Kevin. 2011. Artist paints Metro Vancouver trees blue. The Vancouver Sun. http://www.vancouversun.com/Artist+paints+Metro+Vancouver+trees+blue/4523626 /story.html. (accessed 3rd July, 2011). Brown Brown sugar: Brown bagging: Brown out: Brownstone: In a brown study:
"The only color I don't have is navy brown." -- Yogi Berra
Moralistic is not moral. And as for If you love Brown you truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's are Reliable and not in the spectrum. Truth is so Confident generic.” Iris Murdoch Brown is considered as the color of stability and Sincerity. Brown lovers "I cannot pretend to feel impartial are very honest and about colors. I rejoice with the down to earth people. brilliant ones and am genuinely They are very friendly sorry for the poor browns." -- and approachable in Winston Churchill nature, sensual warm and supportive. They God has a brown voice, as soft are very hard working and do not like unfair and full as beer - Anne Sexton and unjust things. Very contemplative people
Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about who love simple, safe you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black and secure life. (Samy Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. 2011) I think it pisses god off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. Alice Walker Purple When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn. Alexander Pope
That purple-lined palace of sin. If you love Purple or Violet you John Keats are Compassionate and Sensitive
Purple color is associated with But this was one way of knowing luxury and sensuality. Purple people, she thought: to know the color lovers are artistic in nature, outline, not the detail, to sit in creative and glamorous. They are one's garden and look at the supportive and always think of slopes of a hill running purple others before themselves. They down into the distant heather. possess a strong desire to be Virginia Woolf different and often achieve high authority positions in life. They are true in nature and generous givers. Very idealistic and often impractical, love to live in an Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black imaginary world of fantasy. Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. (Samy, 2011) White If you love White you are Optimistic and Far – Sighted The color white is associated with innocence, purity and cleanliness. White color lovers are mostly very organized and logical people. You can never find The first of all them with clutter around, single colors is and are very hygienic. They white ... We shall are very confident and set down white for practical in nature. They are the representative not at all prone to impulsive of light, without behavior, are very poised which no color can and self assured. They love be seen; yellow for simplicity in life. (Samy, the earth; green 2011) for water; blue for Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. air; red for fire; Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about you. and black for total http://expertscolumn.com/content/fa darkness. cts-about-colour-black Hasan, Dian . 2010. Tideas Inspiring Leonardo Da Innovation. he role of color in brand- Vinci building… beyond mere eye candy. http:/ideasinspiringinnovation. wordpress.com Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. Diana Boulay Recycl’Art
Bouley’s collections of ‘Trinkets’ and ‘Tidbits’, shows her style of assembling discarded objects which in ‘Trinkets’ are multicoloured and then in ‘Tidbits’ are of the same colour. Each grouping is encased in Plexiglas. The collection is housed in a clear Plexiglas from and is sectioned off like an old-fashioned collectors shadow box.
In her work Boulay is responding to an ecological problem creatively, her work explores the use of colour and juxtaposition by using cast off plastic items, recycling them into art with a message.
Trinkets - Found plastics, recycled objects sculpture - © 2003 Tidbits - Found plastics, recycled objects sculpture - © 2004 “I use acrylic boxes to display these interpretations which can also be installations. I do not paint the objects as I prefer playing with the natural hues and gradations of a colour and each one suggests a world of it's own. ” Diana Boulay
Boulay, Diana. 2011. Diana Boulay – Statement. http://www.dianaboulay.com/db_biography.html Grey
Better grey than garishness Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres If you love Grey you are Self Reliant and Independent The fundamental grey which The color grey denotes differentiates the masters, stability, respect and expresses them and is the soul wisdom. Grey lovers of all colour are very cautious in Odilon Redon nature and usually find it difficult to make up their mind quickly. They avoid making decisions. Grey lovers love comfort and constancy. They are mature and responsible in nature
Samy, Ruby. 2011. Expertscolumn. Colours talk: What does your favourite colour say about and believe in you. http://expertscolumn.com/content/facts-about-colour-black practicality.(Samy, Unknown Author. Scrapbook-Crazy. Scrapbooking Colour Quotes. http://www.scrapbook- crazy.com/colour-quotes.html. Accessed on 25th December 2011. 2011) Multicoloured Solomon LeWitt was born in 1928 and lived to the age of 79 He was an American artist working in the Conceptual and Minimalist art movements. Sol Le Witt
In the 60’s he started reducing his art to bar elements such as; using primary colours, lines, grids, curves, and geometric forms. In He became noticed around this time when he started his ‘Wall Drawings’ and his sculptures which he preferred to call ‘structures’. He was also a photographer, printmaker and painter with his works exhibited through out the world.
LeWitt frequent use the shape of the cube as his inspiration for his modular structures, this influence is evident early in his career. He decided to moderate his art to its basics , “to recreate art, to start from square one,” he said.
He was a prolific artist completing over twelve hundred Wall Drawings as well as hundreds of photographs, ‘structures’, and paintings. These pieces range in size from huge monumental outdoor installations to gallery room sized pieces.
Doeringer, Eric. 2010. Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Recreations. Eric Doeringer. http://www.ericdoeringer.com/ConArtRec/LeWitt/LeWitt.html. Unknown Author. 2011. Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism. Architectural Grammar. http://architecturalgrammar.blogspot.com/2011/06/sol-lewitt-master-of-conceptualism.html. (accessed 4th July, 2011). Author Unknown. Sol Lewitt Biography. MetroArtWork - Contemporary Art For Everyone. http://www.metroartwork.com/popup_manufacturer_info.php?products_id=173. 27th June, 2011 Author Unknown. 2007. Sol LeWitt’s sculpture. Answers to the Questions. https://maryt.wordpress.com/category/sol-lewitt/27th June, 2011. I agree with the critics when they describe LeWitt's early works as, “Austere, simple, stark, unemotional, serial, minimal, conceptual, architectural, modular, systematic, ...stunningly beautiful.” This is because his flat colours, clean lines and balance are almost mathematical in application, which is something I find aesthetically pleasing.
Wall Drawing #766 (1994) 21 Isometric cubes of varying sizes, each with color ink washes superimposed. Color ink wash San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
LeWitt, "The best that can be said for either the square or the cube is that they are relatively uninteresting in themselves . . . they lack the expressive force of other more interesting forms and shapes. They are standard and universally recognized . . . released from the Cube Without a Cube necessity of being significant in themselves, they Kimmelman, Michael. 2007. Sol LeWitt, Master of Conceptualism, Dies at 78. The obviate the necessity of inventing other forms and New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/design/09lewitt.html Kennefick, Kevin. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospectives. MASS MoCA. reserve their use for invention." http://www.massmoca.org/lewitt/walldrawing.php?id=766. (accessed 4th July, 2011). QuoteZuki . 2010. http://www.quotezuki.com/author/sol-lewitt/page2 . Wikipedia. 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt. (27th June, 2011) Angela Bulloch Canadian artist Angela Bulloch’s ‘Ideation and Reflection’ work consists of six 'pixel boxes' which project a sequence of readymade solid colours from the colour Ideation and Reflection, 2003 6 DMX-modules, 3 Plexiglass boxes, waxed palette of the Apple computer. birchwood, aluminium plate, white glass, diffusion foil, cables, RGB-lighting system, DMX-controller, Each box, or pixel contains one transparent vertical plane to catch the reflection (position variable) 153 x 153 x 51 cm red, one blue, and one green florescent tube, which in combination can produce any one of the 256 Apple colours. The colours change gradually progressing through the spectrum from the bottom of the boxes to the top.
The installation is in a dimly lit room which gives the impression that the pixel boxes are floating. Another aspect of this piece is the reflection the light has on the other reflective surfaces in the room. This reflection is random and can not be controlled by the artist.
Unknown Author. 2010. Constructive Playthings. Angela Bulloch. http://constructiveplaythings.wordpress.com/abo ut-2/fiche-artiste-angela-bulloch/ “But otherwise I just Michael Albert strive for a harmony American Pop artist, Michael Albert between the colours.“ often plans his artworks to be predominantly one colour. He took inspiration from Matisse’s “The Red Studio” in his piece ‘Heart’ where he Etude (Study in candy logos A to Z), created in honor of his one man show at Dylan’s Candy Bar NYC collaged cut outs from cardboard boxes of predominately red logos of things he loves.
Albert often used a technique where he cuts the packaging from food boxes and packets. It looks like he has simply
Reese’s (2002, Giclee on canvas) – from the C’andy fracture a cereal box and reassemble it Warhol series like crazy paving. Henri Matisse - The Red Studio 1911
"You can still recognize the identity," said Albert, displaying a mosaic'd Frosties box.”
Albert, Michael. Michael Albert, Modern Pop Artist. Welcome to the Official site of New York POP Artist MICHAEL ALBERT. http://www.cerealism.com/default.aspx?pageid=1. Accessed on 25th December, 2011. Chicago Public Library’s Teen Advisory Council. Chicago Public Library. Interview with Michael Albert, aka Sir Real. http://www.chipublib.org/forteens/teenspages/malbert.php. Accessed on 25th December, 2011. Hoylen, Julie. 2009. Sensational Color. Color and Inspiration- A Quick Chat With Pop Artist Michael Albert. http://www.sensationalcolor.com/liveinfullcolor/color-and-inspiration-a-quick- chat-with-pop-artist-michael-albert/ http://www.encore-editions.com/henri-matisse-european-master-painter-the-red-studio- Heart, 2009 1911/framed-print David Batchelor I was so curious to know c why he called these sculptures “Parapillars”. He bought the items at the 2$ shop which is called ‘Pound Paradise’ so the ‘Parapillars’ is an collection of name is a tribute to this totem pole like structures and on shop (Scotsman, 2007) closer inspection of many cheap and colourful domestic consumer products bought from the local two dollar shop. There are toys, kitchen utensils and other bits and pieces that have been arranged in different themes. Some totems are based on colour, some are grouped on the purpose of the item and some by the shape of the item and then some of the totems use all three methods. The totems range in height from one to three metres. These sculptures are fun and colourful. The monochromatic totems stand nicely next to the multi-coloured.
unknown Author. 2007. Scotsman Behind the scenes. http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/visual-arts/behind_the_scenes_1_909775 Batchelor, David. 2007. David Batchelor. 3D Works. http://www.davidbatchelor.co.uk/works/3D/ Parapillars 1-23 2006-07 Cowlard. David. 2007. David Cowlard . David_Batchelor-3.tif. http://photourbanist.photoshelter.com/image/I0000rem0oqB.oFY Excerpt from David Batchelor’s Chromophobia “[...] The notion that colour is bound up with the fate of Western culture sounds odd, and not very likely. But this is what I want to argue: that colour has been the object of extreme prejudice in Western culture. For the most part, this prejudice has remained unchecked and passed unnoticed. And yet it is a prejudice that is so all-embracing and generalized that, at one time or another, it has enrolled just about every other prejudice in its service. If its object were a furry animal, it would be protected by international law. But its object is, it is said, almost nothing, even though it is at the same time a part of almost everything and exists almost everywhere. It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that, in the West, since Antiquity, colour has been systematically marginalized, reviled, diminished and degraded. Generations of philosophers, artists, art historians and cultural theorists of one stripe or another have kept this prejudice alive, warm, fed and groomed. As with all prejudices, its manifest form, its loathing, masks a fear: a fear of contamination and corruption by something that is unknown or appears unknowable. This loathing of colour, this fear of corruption through colour, needs a name: chromophobia.
Chromophobia manifests itself in the many and varied attempts to purge colour Artist and writer David from culture, to devalue colour, to diminish its significance, to deny its complexity. More specifically: this purging of colour is usually accomplished in Batchelor is known as an one of two ways. In the first, colour is made out to be the property of some ‘foreign’ body - usually the feminine, the oriental, the primitive, the infantile, the artist and writer. Through vulgar, the queer or the pathological. In the second, colour is relegated to the realm of the superficial, the supplementary, the inessential or the cosmetic. In both disciplines he has one, colour is regarded as alien and therefore dangerous; in the other, it is perceived merely as a secondary quality of experience, and thus unworthy of explored how colours are serious consideration. Colour is dangerous, or it is trivial, or it is both. (It is perceived by the individual. typical of prejudices to conflate the sinister and the superficial.) Either way, colour is routinely excluded from the higher concerns of the Mind. It is other to In his book Chromophobia, the higher values of Western culture. Or perhaps culture is other to the higher values of colour. Or colour is the corruption of culture. [...]” Batchelor, focuses on the
fear of colour. David Batchelor, excerpt from Chromophobia, London: Reaktion, 2000, p. 22-23. The Color of Palo Alto
Art installation
by Sam Yates
Reflection As Samuel Yates drove a solar and wind powered electric scooter for six years around This installation is the city of Palo Alto in California taking another photos of all 17,860 homes and buildings. interesting and He later he digitally mixed the surface colours mammoth task. to determine an average paint color of the th But Art….I am not town. On the 5 August 2008 Yates revealed sure? This is what the colour palate for the city of Palo Alto. the Google Earth car does 365/27/7, so is that art too. Looking at the resulting colour I think that it would have been fairly obvious.
Maybe his art is in the performance, and not necessarily the final product. I think Yates’ work is obsessive, he puts an astonishing level of intensity into his projects.
Title: Rainbow Year: 2010 Materials: acrylic paint Photos by Lotte Stekelenburg
‘Rainbow’ is a beautifully simple, fun and colourful piece by Dutch artist Helmut Smits. I think this piece is inspirational because if you were to recreate this on a windscreen of a car you would be creating and enhancing the landscape as you drive. In the city, the country or a freeway the colourful arching rainbow would change the context of the view from your car as you drive.
I have just the one wiper that sweeps across my whole windscreen, and I assume this technique has been replicated many time….. I just have to try this.
Le Chariot, Dans. 2010. Blog-Esprit Design. Helmut Smitts designer. http://www.blog-espritdesign.com/artiste-designer/designer/helmut-smits-designer-didee-hollandais-4837 Smitts, Helmut.2011. Helmut Smitts. Welcome to the website of Helmut Smits.http://helmutsmits.nl/public-spaces/rainbow My DIY Rainbow
“Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz…….
I am a remnant of the 60’s hippy generation and I was reminded of the Janis Joplin song when I looked at the rainbow I had created on my old Merc. Rebecca Baumann
Automated Colour Field (2011) 100 Flip-clocks, paper 130 x 360 x 9cm Duration: 24 hrs Photography: Andrew Curtis
At first glance this installation looks like a Dulux display at the local paint shop, why hasn’t Bunnings thought of this? Automated Colour Field is a grid of battery operated flip clocks but instead of seeing the numbers Baumann covered them with solid coloured paper rectangles. The clocks are not synchronized and therefore the colours flip at different intervals with all changing every minute. As the clocks flip over minute by minute the colours flip over. This piece is continually changing as the colours flip at random creating a work that is in a constant process of self-renewal and change. Colour is the obvious theme in this piece but as you watch the mechanism and timing become a focus. I love the geometry of this piece and the precision is juxtaposed to the randomness of how the clocks have not been synchronized.
Note. All the descriptions of this piece state that there are 100 flip clocks, but I actually think there are 200. The grid looks like it is 20 X 10.
Baumann, Rebecca. 2011. Youtube. Automated Colour Field (2011). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRCnPd6Rz0 Pica Perth. 2010. Youtube. Winter Arts Review 2010 - PICA: Rounds (Part 1 of 2). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnjj_fd8g40 Takashi Murakami
Murakami’s art is all about small, flat, graphic patterns. Capitalizing on the popularity of Japanese anime animation and manga style comic books Murakami is evolving his training in fine art into the art of animation because, as he has said, “it was more representative of modern day Japanese life.”
Lonesome and Hiropon, by Takashi Murakami. Image: http://artobserved.com/2008/11/takashi-murakami-to-open-animation-studio-in-los-angeles-under-kakai-kiki/ http://asymptotia.com/2007/11/ http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20071025a1.html “I think that most people would agree that color is among the most important elements of my work and when we look back on the life of Yves Klein, the reason becomes clear. Color is much like the means of Japanese Zen Buddhism, it is a tool that can instantaneously guide people to a world outside themselves. I would like to dedicate this exhibition to the artist who has most passionately pursued this exploration of color Yves Klein.” Takashi Murakami
I love Muramaki's use of color combination which are outrageous and vibrant and his work is appropriately quirky and fascinating. I like the geometry of his pieces as well as the happy cartoon elements. I could not imagine owning something like Bennett, Colette. 2010. Colourlovers. The Colorful World of Takashi Murakami. http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2010/03/26/the-colorful-world-of-takashi- the installation to the left, but I could look at it all murakami day. Dale Chihuly
MILLE FIORI INSTALLATION
Dale Chihuly is an American artist who creates amazing and beautiful sculptures in coloured glass. Like a magician Chihuly uses fire to transform sand into glass. This artist’s hand then transforms the molten glass into diverse organic forms of glorious colour. Chihley has created a gleaming glass arrangements of opaque and transparent glass shapes. White Chihuly’s work is similar to Murakami’s flowers because of their use of bright colours it is also a contrast because of its more organic shapes and natural forms.
Fischer, Peter. 2011. Dale Chihuly. Writings about the artist. http://www.chihuly.com/high-dosage-beauty-%E2%80%93-dale- chihuly%E2%80%99s-mille-fiori-installation-.aspx Polly Apfelbaum
Las Vegas, 2009 Sequined Fabric Dimensions variable
I think that colour is a major element in American Feminist Artist, Polly Apfelbaum’s work. When I first saw her floor bound installations I wondered what it would be like to walk amongst the pieces. I wondered if the gallery allowed people to enter the room or if the viewer was only able to look from the doorway. These installations incorporate pieces of fabric that has either been hand dyed or adjourned with sequins. She seems to arrange these pieces of fabric like abstract paintings. She uses regular and irregular shaped pieces along with large bolts that have been positioned in very organic arrangements across the floors and down walls.
In ‘Las Vegas’ Apfelbaum was able to buy seventeen different colours of sequined fabric which she cut and laid out without a plan. She said, “I just started and stopped when I was done.”
Apfelbaum, Polly. Youtube. Get Your Art On: Polly Apfelbaum and Sheila Pepe, on "Las Vegas”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxtkAblfgJ8 Unknown Author. 2011. Frith Street Gallery. Polly Apfelbaum.http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/artists/bio/polly_apfelbaum Westfall, Stephen. 1989. Bombsite. Polly Apfelbaum. http://bombsite.com/issues/27/articles/1184 Trevor Richards Trevor Richards’ Bunkers Intervention would be fascinating to see. He painted the small concrete bunkers near a lighthouse in two of his four preferred colours. He only painted the interiors of each bunker. One he painted in a bright, reflective orange colour. He painted the walls, floor and ceiling with the same solid colour. The second bunker was painted in a dark grey absorbent colour. He placed a chair in each bunker to give a focus and a purpose. He had the bunkers locked for the duration of the project, with the barred windows and doors being the only access to see the work. To see the installation the view must look through the door or window.. He returned the bunkers to their original condition when the project was finished.
Richards, Trevor. 2011.Trevor Richards. Bunkers Intervention, South Mole, Fremantle. November, 2004. http://trevorrichards.iinet.net.au/Trevor_Richards/Bunkers_Intervention_2004.html#6 Unknown Author. 2011. Turner Galleries. Trevor Richards Solo Exhibition In Paris http://turnergalleriesperth.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/trevor-richards-solo-exhibition-in-paris/ Bunkers Intervention, South Mole, Fremantle. November, 2004. All Colours Permitted as Long as Balcony Art They Don't Interfere With Business Richards had sign writers create adhesive translucent film cut in a series of circular forms. The artist wanted to create a soft barrier between a public and a private space. He adhered the large circular semi transparent vinyl to a clear glass sheet. The viewer is still able to see the view but the shapes obscure items closer to the installation. Richards’ ‘All Colours Permitted as Long as they Don’t Interfere with Business’ is a collection of objects from the city of Katowice. He collected consumer items in the colours of blue, yellow, orange and green. There colour are the four main colours the artist used for a period of time. Richards installed the objects on the white wall of a gallery. He grouped the items according to their colour, creating relationships between the items which previously did not exist.
Richards, Trevor. 2011.Trevor Richards. All Colours Permitted as Long as They Don't Interfere With Business. Richards, Trevor. 2011.Trevor Richards. Balcony Art. http://trevorrichards.iinet.net.au/Trevor_Richards/All_Colours_Permitted....html#3 http://trevorrichards.iinet.net.au/Trevor_Richards/Balcony_Art.html#1 Project 2: Colour and Context Reader Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind According to About.com, a metaphor is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. For example when Neil Young sings, "Love is a rose," "rose" is the metaphor for "love” because it is beautiful and delicate.
Jaynes also includes similes and personification under the label of the metaphor. He explains that the metaphore (similes and personification) are seen only with the mind’s eye and that the metaphor is the language of the mind.
In this article Jaynes uses Jessica Stockholders’ Madonna and Child sculpture as an example. If I were to try to explain this piece I would be grasping for metaphors and similes. For example a large body like shape is the mother who has a papoose or baby that is swaddled in a blanket of string. The baby is clinging to the mother like shape like a child to its mother. The objects are connected to the building with umbilical like electrical cords.
Madonna & Child, 1988 metal studs, lamp base, newspaper, enamel paint, fluorescent light, sweaters, and string. 1 metre high
Jaynes, J. (1995)The Origin of Conciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, In L Cooke, B Schwabsky & L Tillman’s, Jessica Stockholder (pp. 92-97). London: Phaidon Press Limited. Reader Catherine Grenies, Topography of the Body, Topography of the Soul Exercise 1 Make a sculptural work about colour Exercise 1 – Example Number 1 - Process • I used Trevor Richards’ technique of using adhesive vinyl film to make a geometric design to adhere to glass. • I made this decal from black vinyl and I then adhered it to the windscreen of my car (from Helmut Smits). I did not want to create a barrier like Richards. I wanted to frame the space from the front of my car. • With all the sections in my geometric shape I can divide the space into compartments. • Once photographed I selected a segment to examine closer. • Time is evident in the change of colours in each frame because even though the photos were only taken one minute apart the colours change depending on the light and what is in the frame at that particular moment. • I had the idea of using multiples of this tiny section showing the changes over time. I filmed at one minute intervals over thirty minutes. The time change is evident in the car lights and the fading daylight.
Click here to view the YouTube evidence of all photos taken during this activity. Exercise 1 - B Found objects Time and Space Modem Time is portrayed in the thought Router process because of the Mouse presentation of the items looking Memory Stick like museum pieces lost in time. Mother Board Head Phones Space is demonstrated because Electrical Plug the found items are all tightly Mini Cassette contained within the glass jar and CD filled with water. The colour Numerous Cables change is interesting because Ear Buds even though blue water was used Glass Vase the yellow items appear to be green, hopefully giving the Yellow paint thought of recycling and reusing Blue food colouring the found objects. Water Glad Wrap
No water With water With water and blue colouring Blackboard Online Activity - Project 2: Exercise 1 – Two Examples Exercise 2 Process 1. Downloaded and resized a Mac 256 Colour palette 2. Arrange colours in order on keyboard 3. Drew a spider web onto transparent film 4. Tried a number of locations 5. Nature: in a tree 6. Hot story: near chilli bush 7. I settled on a paper white background representing the paper of the book, with the transparent film spider web between the camera and the keyboard. 8. I tried positioning the keyboard behind a real spider web but it was not effective. Quotation from a Non-art source
My husband is an early childhood educator and story teller. He is often “Weave A told he “Weaves a very colourful story” and when I was reading through the Ashton Scholastic book catalogue looking for Christmas gifts. I read Colourful this description for a very popular set of books:
Story” “Award-Winning Authors Board Book Pack Delight toddlers and younger readers with sturdy versions of enduring classics from award-winning authors and illustrators, from the riotous rhymes of Hairy Maclary to much-loved treats from Jill Murphy, Allan Ahlberg and Giles Andreae. Full of well-loved, colourful stories crafted and illustrated with masterful skill, this pack is sure to awaken a joy in reading, giving you books that will last to be loved again and again. The perfect way to build up your home library!”
The words, ‘colourful stories’ stuck a cord with me. Children are taught to write and craft stories at school and they usually use the computer as a word processor. The first thing they do is use Wordart to make the title. They spend a lot of time getting the font and colours just right.
I have interpreted these words in my visual outcome through the use of the computer keyboard. I used the Mac 256 colour chart to recolour the keyboard keys to show the idea of a colourful story that could be written using this keyboard. I considered my idea a little further by including a spiders web to extend on the words to say, “Weave a Colourful Story”.
Unknown Author. 2011. Ashton Scholastic Book Clubs. Award-Winning Authors Board Book Pack. http://clubs-kids.scholastic.co.uk/products/77707 P[‘=-06y Blackboard Online Activity Project 2: Exercise 2 Project 3: The Ready Made
Madden, Chris. Chris Madden Cartoons. Modern Art Cartoon. Tracey Emin and Marcel Duchamp compared. http://chrismaddencartoons.wordpress.com/category/art/. accessed on 5.1.12 Marcel Duchamp coined the term “The Ready Made”
Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917)
Campbell, Wendy. 2010. Art-e-Facts:. 5 Random Art Facts XIV. http://www.dailyartfixx.com/tag/readymade-art/ Unknown Author. Listal. Picture of Marcel Duchamp. http://www.listal.com/viewimage/867549. accessed on 5.1.12 Web-based Research
Tony Cragg 5 bottles Tony Cragg uses numerous components that he methodically arranges to highlight the relationship we have with the commercial products that are around us all the time. He wants the viewer to see that when we identify these items arranged together we associate them with a part of our life. In the ‘Stack’ the artist has arranged random objects and materials into a large solid, geometric shape, a cube. It looks like the contents of a builders skip bin has been sent to the scrap yard and then put through the crusher. Stack 1975 5 Bottles unconfirmed: 2000 x 2000 x 2000 mm The artist has arranged the items in layers, like the geological strata layers showing how the natural and man made items have been incorporated into our landscapes that has evolved over time. In this piece Cragg is demonstrating humanities impact on the environment through the progress of science and technology. I wonder if the artist has placed the items in cronological order of manufacture with the older items at the bottom of the stack.
‘5 Bottles’ is different because Cragg has used just one type of found item, the plastic bottle. The bottles are in five solid primary and secondary colours simply arranged side by side on a white shelf. By arranging these items in this way the artist is highlighting the discarded, ordinary, Unknown Author. Tate Collection. Stack 1975. and every day item in a way so that the viewer has to http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=262 contemplate the gross waste of the modern world. 31&searchid=8570. Accessed 5.1.12 Mark Dion Mark Dion’s ‘Wunderkammern’ is one of my favourite art pieces. Dion set up a scientific archaeological dig into the bank of the Thames river. He used a scientific processes, systems for collecting, and a presentation taxonomy to present the findings of the dig.
Dion established a precise scientific method for exploration of the river bank. He worked out where to look, how long to look, how deep to dig, and what to look for and collect. The artist had a group of volunteers who set upon two sites and they collected an array of items that included pottery to bottles to chains to bits of mobile phones and human bones.
Dion appropriated archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting the objects that were found. All the items were cleaned, recorded, classified and installed in a cabinet of curiosities. Viewers are asked to open drawers and examine the piece. Genuine artefacts and rubbish are placed side by side sorted by type or size, for example found buttons from all eras are presented together. Wunderkammern
Hudgens, Christopher. 2010. Bad at Sports. Episode 251: Mark Dion. http://badatsports.com/2010/episode-251-mark-dion/ Markonish, Denise. 2002. Brown University. Mark Dion. http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/dionpfahl.html Stockholder uses paint and colour Jessica extensively in her sculptures. Her use of found objects are items that Stockholder are commonplace, some elements are items that have been discarded by others. Her installation ‘It's Not Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings’ was named by her grandmother. It includes objects from her parent's home. She has placed a chest of drawers on a platform and then attached a large papier-mâché shape on the chest of draws. It looks like an alien type creature is engulfing the drawers.
Percoco, Anne. 2011. Anne Percoco. Difficulty & Discomfort . http://annepercoco.wordpress.com/ http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/stockholder. html http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/stockholder/# It's Not Over 'til the Fat Lady Sings Damien Hirst In 2006 Hirst said, "Lucky for me, when I went to art school we were a generation where we didn't have any shame about stealing other people's ideas. You call it a tribute".
Hirst has been accused of using the ideas of many other artists….. I think he is the king of the ‘Ready Made’.
Thomson, Charles. Stuckism International. THE ART DAMIEN HIRST STOLE. http://www.stuckism.com/Hirst/StoleArt.html. accessed 6.1.12 Jason Rhoades’ epic work Black Pussy Soirée Cabaret Macramé was sensory Jason Rhoades overload. In 2006 the artist choreographed a series of wild parties held in various warehouses and in his Los Angeles studio. These parties were private and by invitation only. The invited guests would walk through the space and interact with each other. Rhoades filled the space with shelving that were loaded with thousands of domestic and more exotic items for example there were American Indian dream catchers, hookahs, camel saddles, chrome shopping trolleys and cowboy hats. There were also numerous neon signs spelled out various words for female genitalia. Rhoades asked the guests to contribute to the multicultural collection which grew and evolved to fit the location. I am sure this installation would be facinating to see and I know I would spend a lot of time examining the contents….. But I really think that this young man should be sent to his room to tidy it up.
Unknown Author. Hauser & Wirth. Jason Rhoades. http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/37/the-estate-of-jason-rhoades/biography/ Accessed 6.1.12 Unknown Author. David Zwirner. Jason Rhoades. http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/jason-rhoades/. Accessed 6.1.12 Peter Fischli and David Weiss:
Fischil and Weiss’ ‘4 Stewardesses’ and ‘4 Women’ are groupings of plaster figures finished in ghostly white paint. The figures are arranged geometrically in a diamond shape and side by side. The artists have removed all detail and personality from the figures which has made Four women, 1989 4 Stewardesses, 1988 them look generic. I like the pure and clean look of these arrangements. The figures are only 56cm tall and with very little detail. I think these pieces look like the children’s toy craft kit where there is a supply of paints and a plastic paint brush. The child is able to paint details such as facial features and clothing to give the white figure personality. Therefore, to the adult viewer looking at this sculpture in the gallery they are transported back to their childhood.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/fischliandweiss/ Unknown Author. 1988. Phillips de Pury & Company. Peter Fischli & David Weiss. http://www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions/lot-detail/PETER-FISCHLI-DAVID-WEISS- /UK010111/9/1/1/12/detail.aspx# Zürich, Kunsthaus. 2007. Art Core. Die Wunder dieser Erde. http://www.kultur- online.net/?q=node/241&nlb=1 Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s Untitled (five pedestals) is a simple, white stack of cheap MDF boxes and Things (2009), consists of 50 white plinths boards. The displayed in a room, each equipped with artists arranged internal speakers emitting a verse of a pop and stacked these song at irregular intervals--in each excerpt the items to look like word “thing” is heard. Peter Fischli and David unused museum Weiss’s Untitled (five pedestals) (2000-04), a display podiums in trompe-l’oeil stack of cheap MDF panels the back arranged like unused museum props, mocks storeroom. In abstract art by bringing usually ignored objects doing this and to the front of the stage. putting them centre stage in a gallery Fischli and Weiss were able to show these items in a new light. Untitled (Five pedestals), 2011
Unknown Author. 2011. Timothee Chaillou. Appear Here. The Object Speaks: The Podium and the Pedestal Apparaître ici. http://www.timothee haillou.com/texts/podium/ Hans-Peter Feldmann
Oriental carpet and toy animals, 2000
Hans-Peter Feldmann's ‘Oriental Carpet and toy Animals’ is simply a carpet with plastic animals. When talking about this piece the artist said, “I wanted to combine animals with a carpet. Sometimes you can find symbols in my work, but I can’t put a finger on it. That is why I can only describe it and not explain it.” As a conceptual artist Feldmann wants to be recognised for his ideas not necessarily for the look and materials of the finished piece.
Chaillou, Timothée. 2011. Timothée Chaillou. Hans-Peter Feldmann . http://www.timotheechaillou.com/conversations/hans-peter-feldmann/ Haim Steinbach
Haim Steinback’s installation, Display #67 ‐ Forsythia ‐ PLS5/2SB, places items from the building industry side by side on a yellow plastic laminated, wood shelf, which was attached to a free‐standing wall. The items were similar because of their original yellow colour and their original use. The artist had the laser beam project from the level in five different directions.
I like the monochromatic look of this installation and how the artist has positioned found objects in close proximity to each other. He said, “In order to investigate aesthetic links between them and to generate unexpected social or cultural associations. “
Lake, Quintin. 2010. Quintin Lake Blog. Photos of Haim Steinbach at Louis Vuitton featured on Artinfo. Display #67 ‐ Forsythia ‐ PLS5/2SB http://blog.quintinlake.com/tag/haim-steinbach/ Jeff Koons
Michael Jackson and Bubbles 1988 SFMMO – Photo by me
Blue Balloon
Unknown Author. Guy Hepne . Michel Comte. http://dev.guyhepner.com/pieces/michel-comte-classic-part-ii-jeff-koons . accessed 4.1.12 Kernan, N. (2000)Jeff Koons: Coloured By Reflection In Apocalypse Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art (pp. 230-233). London: Royal Academy Of Arts. Reader Kernan, Nathan, Jeff Koons Coloured by Reflection
Unknown Author. Wordle . Create your own . http://www.wordle.net/ . Accessed 8.1.12 Kernan, N. (2000)Jeff Koons: Coloured By Reflection In Apocalypse Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art (pp. 230-233). London: Royal Academy Of Arts. Jeff Koons Puppy ’Puppy’ 1995 Museum of I saw Jeff Koons’ “Puppy” looking out over Circular Quay on Sydney Harbour Contemporary in 1995. I am almost embarrassed to Art, Sydney admit that this piece is the most spectacular and inspirational Photo by Me sculpture I have ever seen in real life.
Koon’s decision to use plants and flowers is a celebration of life and the way things change. By using flowering seedling Koons has produced a piece that changes colour daily as the flowers bloom and then fade. I think that his choice of placement looks random allowing the different colours and heights of the plants emerge as the days pass.
Koons has sited “Puppy” in different locations through out the world…… maybe he is trying to spread his message of “Love and Happiness” through the use of ever changing colour.
One version of ‘Puppy” was commissioned privately at a cost of $23M and it has a maintenance cost of $100,000 every year. If I had the money I would definitely commission Mr. Koons for my own copy of “Puppy is a piece about love ‘Puppy’. and happiness.” Jeff Koons Reader Adock, Craig, Marcel Duchamp's Approach to New York: Find an Inscription for the Woolworth building as a Ready-Made
“Find inscription for the Woolworth building as a readymade.”
Woolworth Building This idea was written on a note that was inside Duchamp’s Green Box. This ‘idea’ especially illustrates that the readymade takes a revered work of art (in this “Green Box” case an iconic building) and places it into everyday life and out of the high art gallery.
Unknown Author. Wordle . Create your own . http://www.wordle.net/ . Accessed 8.1.12 Adcock, C. (1986) Marcel Duchamp’s Approach to New York: “Find an Inscription for the Woolworth Building as a Ready-Made.” In R. E. Kuenzil (ed.) New York Dada (pp. 52-65). New York: Willis Locker & Owens. Reader "I resurrect Ewan Lajer-Burcath things that Metamorphoses In Cornelia Parker have been killed off... My work is all about the potential of materials - even when it looks like they've lost all possibilities."
Unknown Author. Art Seen Soho. Cornelia Parker. http://www.artseensoho.com/Art/DEITCH/parker98/parker2.html. 8/1/12 Unknown Author. Gautier Deblonde. Artists - Cornelia Parker. http://www.gautierdeblonde.com/print_sales_detail.lasso?productID=37. accessed 8/1/12 Exercise 1
My Items:
1 Pink Paint Brush
1 Roll of Paper Towel
1 Toy Wind Catcher
1 Very Cute Toy Dog Frozen in time Floating in the bathtub Hanging Around Buried Treasure Flaming Hot Getting a Grilling Lost in time Caught in a net Singed Stuck between a rock and a hard place….. Deconstructed Reconstruction Total Reconstruction Exercise 2
Blackboard Online Activity Optional Exercise
My item of choice is a white roll of paper kitchen towel. Inspired by Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ Inspired by Christo Inspired by Cornelia Parker ‘Inhaled Cliffs’ Inspired by Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’ Inspired by a white snow fall