My work will continue to reflect my opinions and ideas about technology and its prevalence in our world. I will be updating the week after next with a new artist and hopefully more information about my next piece!
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Blog 9
This week, I am done with my latest piece (based off of "The Treachery of Images"), and getting ready to pull everything together from this semester and last spring for the winter art show. I'll be displaying four pieces (the gerber baby one, the apple kids, and the two I made this semester). Basically, the rest of this week I will be preparing everything to be shown downtown, so I probably won't start another piece until next semester (2016!!). At the moment, I am planning on appropriating another René Magritte work, titled "The Son of Man" and it looks like...
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Blog 8
(December 2 blog)
This week, I asked my art teacher for some suggestions of artists to observe and research, as I have been struggling to find work that I can relate to and artists who use the type of appropriation that I do. The person she suggested was Sherrie Levine. She creates art that is appropriation from 20th century pieces, whether it is with photography, watercolor, or other mediums. Through her work, she questions "Modernist myths of originality and authenticity", and argues that because of how modernist art has developed, it is nearly impossible to truly create something new. Mainly her work applies to mine because she conceptually and formally pursues appropriation, however, my pieces typically have different underlying concepts. Here are some of her pieces! (the gold one has the original before it)
This week, I asked my art teacher for some suggestions of artists to observe and research, as I have been struggling to find work that I can relate to and artists who use the type of appropriation that I do. The person she suggested was Sherrie Levine. She creates art that is appropriation from 20th century pieces, whether it is with photography, watercolor, or other mediums. Through her work, she questions "Modernist myths of originality and authenticity", and argues that because of how modernist art has developed, it is nearly impossible to truly create something new. Mainly her work applies to mine because she conceptually and formally pursues appropriation, however, my pieces typically have different underlying concepts. Here are some of her pieces! (the gold one has the original before it)
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Blog 7
*late post for November 18th
In a blog on MoMA's website called "Creative Appropriation: The Smallest Move is Often the Hardest" by Michael Mandiberg, he explains some of the process that goes into appropriation and says that "The artist's challenge is to marry just the right image with the perfect move that recontextualizes the image and, in turn, changes its meaning." This is a great description of appropriation because, often, I find myself looking for just the right image to use in a piece, but after that I have to decide what object or change I can make that best conveys the message I want to be understood by the viewer. This process can be slightly difficult since there are so many details that can be in a specific work. Mandiberg included these pictures showed reinterpretations of "Tank Man", a painting after the Tiananmen Square massacre, that reveal how different people can interpret a work in different ways (It's almost a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type of thing)
Some didn't want to add the man, Mandiberg said, for "unclear reasons" and perhaps "political or aesthetic?" purposes. One of the artists refused to paint it at all. It's interesting to see how different people approach appropriation.
In a blog on MoMA's website called "Creative Appropriation: The Smallest Move is Often the Hardest" by Michael Mandiberg, he explains some of the process that goes into appropriation and says that "The artist's challenge is to marry just the right image with the perfect move that recontextualizes the image and, in turn, changes its meaning." This is a great description of appropriation because, often, I find myself looking for just the right image to use in a piece, but after that I have to decide what object or change I can make that best conveys the message I want to be understood by the viewer. This process can be slightly difficult since there are so many details that can be in a specific work. Mandiberg included these pictures showed reinterpretations of "Tank Man", a painting after the Tiananmen Square massacre, that reveal how different people can interpret a work in different ways (It's almost a "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" type of thing)
Some didn't want to add the man, Mandiberg said, for "unclear reasons" and perhaps "political or aesthetic?" purposes. One of the artists refused to paint it at all. It's interesting to see how different people approach appropriation.
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