Oral Report Outline Assignment #9

Tim Hawkinson

Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, in 1960. He is known as a sculpture that made installation art. The source of inspiration for Hawkinson art has been the re-imagining of his own body. He make self-portrait of his new fictionalized body.What makes Hawkinson special is the way of how complex his sculptures are, but at the same time how his art work is simple to understand. 

Outline

• Tagalong
• Animal treasure
• Pentecost
• Aerial Mobile
• Emoter

Sources

http://www.art21.org/images/tim-hawkinson/emoter-detail-2000-0

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/karlins/karlins2-23-1.asp

http://www.acegallery.net/artwork.php?pageNum_ACE=75&Artist=1

http://www.acegallery.net/artwork.php?pageNum_ACE=75&Artist=1

Bill Viola Assingment# 8

BILL VIOLA

Bill Viola is a video artists who born in 1951, he is consider a pioneer in video art. When Bill Viola was 6 years old he felt into a lake all the way to the bottom, which for him was seemed like a paradise. Viola says “There’s more than just the surface of the life” “The real things are under the surface.”

As a child Viola felt that the world inside his head was more real than the outside world. When Viola discovered video was in 1969. Where he says that the blue light from the first camera that he experienced remained him of the water from the beautiful lake where he almost died in when he was 6. Viola used to felt that home videos should be kept separate to his artwork, but after the death of his mother’s and the difficulty of understanding this transition of life disappearance, he slowly changed his point of view realizing that things could not be kept separate. For Viola “Cameras are soul keeper”. Where people will play this videos probably five, ten or even hundreds years from now, because this media will continue to evolve until is gone. For him cameras hold our life making us humans think that what we see is something is real or even though it doesn’t exist anymore.  

“Nantes Triptych” was created in 1992 this was Viola video artwork where he take the form of the triptych, usually used in western art for religious painting to present through the video his contemporary form of spiritual iconography. The three panels of Viola triptych shows a video footage of birth on the left, in the middle he shows a body floating in water and on the right side he shows the death of his mother. This three footage are accompanied by a soundtrack of crying, water movement and breathing in a 30 minute loop.

Surrealism & Pop-Art Assignment# 7

Surrealism

The surrealism was cultural movement that began in the 1920. These was created by a group of writers and painters aiming to resolve contradictory conditions of dream and reality. The surrealism perceived a deep crisis in western culture and responded with a revision of values at every level by getting inspired by the psychoanalytical discoveries of Freud and the ideology of Marxism.

In this image called “The Menaced Assassin” created in 1927. Rene Magritte provide an enigmatic clue where we can see three distinct perspective of view, where we can appreciate in the outside of the small room three men’s watching the inside of the room from the outside, probably looking amazed the dead body of the women in the couch or either the man listening music so calm. Also we seen two men’s in the inside of the room by the wall, on the left side we can see a man with a cudgel on his hand and on the right side a man with a net. What makes this painting be part of the Surrealism is that the environment inside this little room looks very intriguing and so calm at the same time, creating a feel of thrill by making us the viewers have a mystery that would never be solved.

"The Menaced Assassin" Rene Magritte 1927

Oil on canvas 

Dimension: 59 1/4" x 6' 4 7/8"

Pop Art

Pop-Art was an art movement in painting, sculpture and printmaking that started in the mid-1950s in London. People like Richard Hamilton defined Pop art in 1957 as something popular, expendable, mass produce, sexy and glamorous. Pop art used to present traditions of fine art by including popular culture Ads, celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and news. In other words Pop art used to made fun of advertisements, billboards and comics.

One of the most important artists of pop art who became popular around the half of the twentieth century was Andy Warhol an American artist who led the figure in the visual art movement. One of his famous art work was called “Campbell’s Soup Cans” which consist in thirsty-two canvases of different varieties of can soup of different flavors. In this art work Warhol shows how American were out of mind with this mass consumption of can soup. Also we can appreciate how Warhol repeat the same image with the same scale making the canvases uniform and ubiquity of the Campbell’s can creating visual repetition showing how advertisements used to repeat this product name.

"Campbell's Soup Cans" Andy Warhol 1962

Each canvases dimension are: 20 x 16"

Material was Synthetic polymer paint.

Assignment# 6

RAYMOND PETTIBON

Raymond Pettibon was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1957. He is an American Artist who lives and 

works in New York City. Pettibon earned a degree in economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. After getting graduated from college, Pettibon worked as a high school math teacher, but soon he set out to launch a career as a professional artist.

Pettibon went to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album are mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his brother Greg Ginn. Pettibon acquired an international reputation as one of the foremost contemporary American artists by working with drawing, text, and artist’s book’s.

Pettibon works primarily with India ink on paper and many of his drawing are black and white. It is says that he sometimes introduce or use colors through the use of pencil, watercolor, collage, gouache and acrylic paint. His art works focus on the American culture that shows the deviances of marginal youth-culture to art, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. His art include suffers, baseball players, homicidal teenage punks, Elvis Presley, and a cartoon figure called Gumby. Gumby is an American clay animation franchise, centered on a green clay humanoid and modeled by art Clokey the creator of this series.

In the 1990s, Pettibon extended his artwork beyond the print page and onto walls of the exhibition space, creating wall-size drawing and collages. His artworks have been shown at Philadelphia Museum of art, Santa Monica Museum of art, and the Museum of contemporary art, Los Angele.

Raymond Pettibon has received numerous awards and prizes were in 1991 he was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award for which a catalog produced. In 2004 Pettibon create an installation of drawing for an exhibition at Whitney Biennial. Most of Pettibon Collection are in many institutions worldwide located in Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, Switzerland and other places.

Here are some Pettibon Art Works