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Final Projects

Cindy and I created a “Quilt of Chance” for our painting as object project. For this, we glue gunned some canvas paper to one of the poles in the room. We used a mixture of soft and woven techniques, seen in the fabrics used. We want to have a sense of both chaos and order which is shown through all of the fabric as well as the sticky notes. Though it doesn’t use actual paint, the bright colors and their application acts as the “paint” in this case.

For my warm and cool painting, I chose to create a landscape collage. My plan is to separate the different “planes” with different hues, so a reddish hue for the bottom, a blue/violet for the middle and a yellow/orange for the top.

To create contrast, I am going back and adding texture with different colors than the base. However, I do want to retain some of the translucency that can be seen. Particularly I want to keep it in the top middle section where the glacier-type object is.

Richard Prince

Richard Prince was born in 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone. He is known for rephotographing the work of others and appropriating them. By copying, scanning, and manipulating the work of others, he has crafted a technique of provocation.

In 1977, Prince photographed four photographs which previously appeared in the New York Times which would jumpstart his process of rephotographong. His Jokes series (beginning 1986) deals with the sexual fantasies and sexual frustrations of white, middle-class America.

He is controversial because of his tendency to reproduce the work of others which has led him to several lawsuits. His appropriation of others’ photographs has been labeled as reckless and uninformed.

Prince also shows how dependent messages and icons are on the context in which they are presented. When you isolate them their original location, it forces the viewer to scrutinize that which is usually consumed in a quick glance.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/richard-prince-portrait-detroit-controversy-13504/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theartstory.org/amp/artist/prince-richard/

One of the most infamous appropriation artists, Richard Prince rephotographed, copied, scanned, and manipulated to provoke viewers.

Zoë Ligon has decried the artist’s use of her image for an artwork on view in Detroit.

Collage Research Discussion Questions

When an artist uses a ‘found’ image in their work, what does it mean?

By using a found image, an artist is using an image that exists outside of their work that they have acquired. This could then be used as a specimen for their artwork.

What are some ways in which we might find an image? What are the limitations of these ways?

One way could be through a screen-based device such as a phone or computer. The disadvantage to this is it can’t be used physically and doesn’t exist in reality, but is limited as a manifestation of digital pixels. Another way is finding a printed image which could be used for its physical texture. A limitation here is that the printed colors may not be 100% accurate to the colors one might be looking for.

How are images transmitted to us (how do pictures find us)? How might they affect us?

Pictures find us through several ways. They can be found digitally on the Internet (social media, news sites, Google images) or print ads and posters. Some might be on display (art galleries, decorative photos on home walls.) Certain pictures can evoke different emotions, for example a black & white photo might be more dramatic or sad while a photo of a forest might be calming or serene. Certain photos can also take us back to a specific time, giving a sense of nostalgia.

What are the qualities of certain image types?

Old or classic images might be black and yellow/white. Images on social media could be filtered to look more appealing, with either vivid or washed out colors depending on the intended look. Accidentally taken pictures would probably be blurry or out of focus. A newspaper photo is grainy.

3 Artworks Using Collage

Max Ernst

Butterflies (Papillons)

1931

Ad Reinhardt

Collage

1940

Hannah Höch

Indian Dancer: From an Ethnographic Museum

1930

3 paintings that have a sense of ‘objectness’ in their physicality

Charline von Heyl

Carlotta

2013

Pamela Bianco

Pomegranate

1957-59

María Freire

Untitled

1954

3 sculptures that are painterly

Kaari Upson

In Search of the Perfect Double (I)

2016

Nobuaki Kojima

Untitled

1964

Alexander Calder

Cow

c. 1926

Word Painting Progress

Word painting is going pretty well. I chose the word lens and made it a radial shape to mimic a lens that might be found on a camera. The underpainting still needs a background and a few letters. The green has a bit too much blue in it but I hope I can work this out in the glazing phase.

daniellekerracm-blog

Agatha Gothe-snape is an Australian artist born in 1980. Some of her more famous works include POWERPOINTS, a lifelong series that she continually works on. With these pieces, she draws influence from concrete poetry, color field painting, and the emergence of the internet. Gothe-snape often explores emotional and historical responses to the reception of art and has exhibited in some major international biennales.

Sources:

https://thecommercialgallery.com/artist/agatha-gothe-snape/biography

https://thecommercialgallery.com/artist/agatha-gothe-snape/exhibition/4/powerpoints-2008-ongoing

ramilolc

Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. Born and raised in Chattanooga. In 1986, Wayne became a designer for the hit television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and his work was awarded with three Emmys. His most successful works have been the world paintings featuring oversized, three-dimensional text painstakingly integrated into vintage landscape reproductions. The message of the paintings is often thought-provoking and almost always humorous, with Wayne pointing a finger at vanity, ego, and his memories of the South. Wayne has been traveling the country delivering an incredibly entertaining hour long talk where he discusses his life and work, while making time for a little banjo and harmonica playing.

daughteroftheurbanmind

The artist that my group and I worked with was specifically John Beldassari. John Beldassari had an interesting art journey (as I have reposted), but I really appreciate the most recent work. His text work contradicts that expectations of beauty that has been placed on “art” and society in general. He simply paints words and allows a moment of free association to to his audience. For example, in his “pure beauty” painting, I was challenged to understand what “pure beauty” is in art and the real world. I was faced with the questions; What constitutes pure? What constitutes beauty? Do I also have my own bias/stereotypes? This artist was very thought provoking and so my group was extremely intrigued.

Our piece, “GUNK”, took this inspiration and put a spin on it. We made the display itself very simple in order to create a thinking atmosphere. In addition, the word took a good amount of space to exaggerate the filth the is captured in the word. We also used a textured medium to make the words appear gooey, sticky, or filled with garbage. I really enjoyed this exercise and I cannot wait for my finished individual word art.

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Bruce Nauman

“I’ve always had overlapping ways of going about my work,” Bruce Nauman once remarked. “I’ve never been able to stick to one thing.”1 For more than 50 years, he has worked in every conceivable artistic medium, dissolving established genres and inventing new ones in the process. His expanded notion of sculpture admits wax casts and neon signs, bodily contortions and immersive video environment"

You can notice that his art is very pop art-ish, but in an unconventional way. I always LOVED neon, so this artist is very interesting.

American, born 1941. “I’ve always had overlapping ways of going about my work,” Bruce Nauman once remarked. “I’ve never been able to stick t

cindythecreat0r

For part 1 of our painting exercise, we researched some artists who use text in their work. In regards to the perimeters of the assignment, our paintings should reflect on mood and how the text is played into the context, materials, process, effect and intent.

A great artist to look at is Glenn Ligon, who says “it’s not about me, it’s about we.”

He was born in the Bronx, and is still living and working in NY. His paintings draw of writings and speeches of many diverse figures. Essentially he reveals the ways in which slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

Some of his techniques include silkscreening, neon and photography. He layers text in an abstract way we’re it becomes difficult to read but exemplifies the context of layering meaning.

daniellekerracm-blog

Our painting based on Agatha Gothe-snape’s work

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Josh Smith

Josh Smith is a New York artist who does very expressive and abstract paintings, as well as collage and sculpture. He became well known as a result of his series of paintings that depicted his name painted in a abstract form. He mentions that his ontent in his work is to "The message is indefinable, but the gist of it is; we are alive and here together....Here is a group of painted poems if you like...take a look and absorb what you want from them"

Jon Campbell is an Australian artist who has become a significant figure in Australian Pop Art. He makes contemporary word paintings with bright colors and intentionally makes the letters large and illegible. His letters are primarily geometric and he uses the technique of color blocking create contrast. Different spaces have unique colors to make them stand out

Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha is an artist who is known for his word paintings. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, where he encountered a reproduction of Jasper Johns’s Target with Four Faces (1955). Being an abstract artist himself, Ruscha was drawn to Johns’s use of readymade images to help compose an abstraction.

Target with Four Faces (1955) Jasper Johns

His first word painting would feature his first initial and his full last name but in a manner that is transformative and abstract. The majority of his last name takes up most of the composition with the first initial in the top left. The last two letters of his last name don’t fit with the rest of the letters and is moved to the top row with the first initial, and it is adjoined to the rest of the letters with an arrow. Reading it from left to right would be “E. Ha Rusc” which is presumably intentional as it provokes the viewer’s mind.

E. Ruscha (1959)

Ruscha explores the impact and visual effect that words can have in a composition. This really resonates with me as a graphic designer because using type is such a significant part of design. One of his paintings, Oof, is a favorite of mine because of the simplicity and effectiveness of it. The onomatopoeia is visualized through the distinct colors of the foreground versus the background, as well as the subtle texture of the strokes.

Oof (1962)

He also wrote artist books including Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations (1963) and Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) which certainly helped influence his work.

Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations (1963)

Standard Station (1966)

Ed Ruscha is a fascinating artist and I respect his appreciation for typographic elements in art. Typography is not only textual but also encompasses a visual aspect to it which I think Ruscha fully embraces.

https://gagosian.com/artists/ed-ruscha/

Learn about the work and career of artist Ed Ruscha. Artworks, biography, exhibitions, editorial content, news, museum exhibitions, press, a

10 Words:

1: Exotic

2: Relish

3: Equate

4: Elucidate

5: Genesis

6: Procreate

7: Dazzle

8: Blank

9: Swift

10: Symbol

High Key Painting

High key paintings use light tones exclusively, giving the painting the effect of being washed out or dream-like. We had to create a still life in high key which was a bit challenging because it meant making a lot of the colors we saw lighter than they really were. At the same time I feel like it also gave us some freedom by making the colors less accurate to the objects in real life, making it more fantastical. Even so, I think my colors could be a little brighter especially on the greens but I think I have a pretty solid base to work off of from what I currently have.

Class 14 Reflection (10/21)

In this class we talked about discord in relation to colors. A discord is when two colors are next to each other and have the exact same tonal value. To achieve this, we had to mix together different colors of acrylic paint to get two colors with the same tone. I created a muted blue color by mixing together pthalo blue with a bit of cadmium red, then adding a lot of titanium white. My next color was a limeish green which was made by mixing cadmium yellow with a bit of pthalo blue.

The assignment was to recreate the simple collage we had for homework but using different colors and incorporating a discord. It was definitely difficult trying to get the right tone, which we checked by painting each color side by side, taking a picture and desaturating it. There was quite a bit of trial and error, but thankfully this allowed me to use a lot of paint which was needed. In my case I had no objects touching in the collage, so I had to create a discord with an object and the background.

The masking technique really helped me get clean lines though it was hard to make the final painting 1-to-1 with my collage. Overall, the composition is the same and I’m happy with how the colors turned out.

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