First of all, great job in critiques. You're drawings have turned out great and I have already heard a lot of great feedback from other instructors concerning the work on display in the hallway.
Tonight we will be introducing the human figure. The next two weeks will be focused on model sessions and practicing the introduction of visual measurement.. It is crucial to understand that your presence is necessary over the next two weeks. Each night of model sessions are worth 15 points participation grade (60 total).
D2: Your response to the article "Pictures" will be due next Tuesday.
Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks.
PICTURES
ReplyDeleteReading the article "Pictures" makes me take inventory of the past month's art assignments for both art I and art II classes. In the most recent for me, was the non-traditional self-portrait task of creating images that would focus on the new mode of representation of self. My thoughts had a conviction of past perceptions of my life as being rippled experiences of peaceful images building upon each other from one generation into another. Yet the peace lilies represented flashes of time when peace was compromised and the representation of the flower was to console the broken hearted. So for me, the original thought process of carefully transforming memories into objects and still yet into a personal narrative, is like Douglas Crimp's comments. Crimp says, "The new notion of presentation of the picture emerged, challenging the authority of any single medium." He was speaking of the mediums of narrative flowing into images paralleling to dreams. I agree with him when he said that, "Underneath each picture there is always another picture."
In the Art I class assignment, they were challenged to transform images of an object by deconstructing the object using layers of abstract to manipulate the final drawing. The viewer would perceive "a new mode of representation based on the appropriation and manipulation of found images." The narrative of their finished art would reveal that "underneath each picture there was always another picture."
Douglas Crimp's exhibits demonstrated a variety of mediums in art covering images not exclusive to painting. I guess letting the imagination loose.
Artist: Douglas Crimp
Article: Douglas Crimp: The End of Painting
Art: Modern Art Desserts
Web: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61699186/Douglas-Crimp-The-End-of-Painting
I had a really difficult time reading this article…but I got through it and I think I understand, finally, what it’s talking about. The exhibition Pictures seems like it fits right into the Death of the Author idea. Sherrie Levine, one of the artists whose work was in Pictures, is mentioned in Death of the Author. The artists, using various mediums, appropriated other works and changed them so that they no longer held the same meaning. The idea was to take an image and make it profound, as the article says, to “isolate an image from its original context and transform it into a fragment of a lost narrative.” The article describes the metamorphosis of the image into “simulacrum.” The first definition given for simulacrum is likeness or similarity, but a more appropriate definition is given—“an unreal or vague semblance.” So the artwork in Pictures was “neither icon nor sign,” and it wasn’t at either polarity of figuration or abstraction. The works are meant to look like real objects but have some shrouded meaning rather than the offhand depiction. Douglas Crimp, who organized the exhibition, said that the title Pictures was meant to convey both the characteristic of “recognizable images” and “the ambiguities it sustains.”
ReplyDeleteI couldn’t find any pictures of the Pictures exhibition, so I chose artwork from two of the artists featured in Pictures. Both works are of recognizable images but seem profound in their meaning.
Artist: Troy Brauntuch
Work: Untitled (Hand) 1993
Link: http://www.troybrauntuch.com/work/view/1699/10620
Artist: Robert Longo
Work: Untitled (Hector) 2007
Link: http://www.robertlongo.com/work/view/1068/5184
-Sonya
To my understanding, the exhibit "Pictures" portrayed what it means to be a picture and not what the actual content of the pictures represent. The artwork wasn't realistic nor was it abstract.The article describes this as "a new strategy of picture-making". It also talked about having a picture within a picture which I always think is an interesting concept. Although I didn't quite understand the article, I looked up the exhibit and hopefully I'm on the right track with my examples:
ReplyDeleteexample one:
http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2009/09/troy-brauntuch-at-friedrich-petzel/b8211c74/
artist: Troy Brauntuch
title: unknown
example two:
http://itchybonbons.tumblr.com/post/43620914815/cry-damnit-image-by-sherrie-levine-1975
artist: Sherrie Levine
title: Cry, Damnit!