Intro to Visual Arts 121

Here you can find additional artist, videos, projects, and various notes as supplemental material for the course.

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"Colors are real

The body is real 

The spirit is real 

Mythology is real 

Mythology feeds the brain

The soul is not real

Truth is not real 

Truth feeds the soul 

Art is real” 

—Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle's textile installation, I Don’t Know, The Weave of Textile Language," is on display at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall through April 6, 2015. Photo: © Andrew Dunkley, Tate Photography.

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The Nylon Rope Sculptures of Mozart Guerra

Mozart Guerra

Born in Recife, Brazil, in 1962, Mozart studied architecture at University Federal of Pernambuco and obtained his degree in 1986. He worked as a set designer for theatre, cinema, and TV in Brazil while developing in parallel his work as a sculptor.

Mozart has been living and working in Paris since 1992 and has taken part in several individual and collective exhibits in art saloons and art galleries in Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Luxemburg and Italy.

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Turkish multimedia artist Erdal Inci experiments with cloned motion in video to create awesomely hypnotic looping videos and gifs of himself moving through public spaces, sometimes carrying lights or other objects. Depending on the exposure, Inci sometimes appears to be no more than a shadow or isn’t visible at all, making his videos even more mysterious and dreamlike.

He states: “I realized that if you clone a recorded performance contiguously it will become perpetual. So that you can see all the time phases of the same performance in a small amount of time like 1 or 2 seconds. This gives you the chance of thinking like a choreographer with a mass crew or painter who fills its frame not in forms and colour but motion. At this point I could tell I am inspired by patterns in traditional arts & crafts , dance and repetition. Motion, performance and real environments are the outlines of the work.”

Check out more of Erdal Inci’s mesmerizing video art (and at much higher resolution) over on Vimeo, Facebook or Instagram.

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Almost to goal. SUpport the ride. 

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Excited to announce that we’ll be showing the cut paper works of artists Hari and Deepti in our upcoming May paper cuts group show.

Join us Saturday May 3rd at our San Francisco gallery space for the opening night reception.

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Metaphor

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If one is good, two would certainly be great, and 23 is out of this world. Keeping this in mind, we’ve shared below 23 sketchbooks with the theme “Make Mine A Double” from The Sketchbook Project collection!

This year we’ve released 20 BRAND NEW themes for you to choose from. Check out the...

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Paul Winstanley - Art School (2012)

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Andreas Franke, The Sinking World

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Artist working in collage

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Florian Maier-Aichen was born in 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany. He studied at Högskolan för Fotografi och Film, Göteborg, Sweden; the University of Essen, Germany; and earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. Alternately romantic, cerebral, and unearthly, Florian Maier-Aichen’s digitally altered photographs are closer to the realm of drawing and fiction than documentation.

Florian Maier-Aichen via @art21

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Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative.

Trenton Doyle Hancock via @art21

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Vija Celmins was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1938. Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family when she was ten years old, settling in Indiana. She received a BFA from the John Herron Institute in Indianapolis, and later earned her MFA in painting from the University of California, Los Angeles. Celmins received international attention early on for her renditions of natural scenes—often copied from photographs that lack a point of reference, horizon, or discernable depth of field.

Vija Celmins via @art21

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John Baldessari was born in National City, California, in 1931. He received a BA (1953) and MA (1957) from San Diego State College, continuing his studies at Otis Art Institute (1957–59) and Chouinard Art Institute. Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language, Baldessari’s deadpan visual juxtapositions equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge meaning. He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, often by drawing the viewer’s attention to minor details, absences, or the spaces between things.

John Baldessari via @art21