Cooper Gallery

Upon my arival at the Cooper gallery i found all of the work to be photos, all of the photographs were in black and white and this looked very admirable as they were all the same and uniformed, therefore you could tell it was all one persons work, if I were to try to copy one of these i would use pencil on white paper or maybe black paper and white and grey pencils... I also would like to try the black and white photos in the photography workshop as i found the work in the Cooper gallery very appealing!

Artist research

For my artist i chose to look at a tattoo artist named Robert A Borbas, he is a freelance iillustrator/ designer/ animation designer located in the middle of Europe, Hungary, Budapest. Better known as GRINDESIGN he has worled for tons of bands all over the world from Europe, through the US and Australia.

His media choices include pens, pencils and adobe Photoshop or illustrator. 70% of his work is hand drawn and then colour is added by using a computer.

I decided to use pencils as i think it best shows his work, this also made my work a critical study as the media chosen is the media in which the artist uses.

Glossary

AVANT GARD:

Applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovatory, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter

CARL ANDRE BRICKS

Kinetic art:

is art that depends on motion for its effects

e.g. Alexander Calder- Antennae with Red and Blue Dots 1960

Installation art:

is used to describe mixed-media constructions or assemblages usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time

e.g. Cornelia Parker Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 1991 &   Rachel Whiteread

Figurative art 

Describes any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world and particularly to the human figure e.g. Picasso 

Abstract art

 is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect; it could be based on a subject such as a figure, landscape or object or may have no source at all in the external world e.g. : Kandinsky

Other Key Words 

Liner

Stop motion : Onion skinning 

Meditate and synthesis an image 

silhouette

Zoetrope: Reciprocal Action & Persistence of vision 

Objets trouvés

Theater d'ombre

What is time based media?

Typical examples of this category are video and sound artworks, film or slide-based installations, software-based art and other forms of technology-based artworks, many of which can also be regarded as installation art. The Guggenheim collection contains several hundred time-based media artworks, including works by Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Jason Rhoades, and many other important contemporary artists.

Civic propaganda exhibition

Jonathon Borofsky

Jonathon Borofsky was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He received his Bachelor of Fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University in 1964he then later continued his studies at France’s Ecole de Fontainebleau and received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1966. He lived in Manhattan until a teaching position at the California Institute of the Arts brought him to Los Angeles in 1977. He resided in Venice and Tuna Canyon, Los Angeles from 1977 to 1992, in the 1960’s, Borofsky’s art sought to interconnect minimalism and pop art.

On May 21^st, 2006, Borofsky received an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon, his alma mater. Jonathan Borofsky's most famous works, at least among the general public, are his Hammering Man sculptures. "Hammering Men" have been installed in various cities around the world. The largest Hammering Man is in Seoul, Korea and the second largest is in Frankfurt, Germany. Other Hammering Men are in Basel, Switzerland, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and Lillestrom, Norway.

Commissioned by developer Harlan Lee, Borofsky’s 30-foot-tall sculpture Ballerina Clown was erected above the entrance to a drug store in a mixed use, residential and commercial building in Venice, California in 1989.

Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski was born in paris, France in 1944, he was a French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker. 

Boltanski in 1986, began creating mixed media/ material instillations using light as a key factor of his work. Using tin boxes, altar-like construction of framed and manipulated photographs of Jewish school children taken in Vienna in 1931 which was then used as a grim reminder of the mass murder of Jews by the Nazis. Boltanski’s work featured in an exhibition at Basel, Museum Gegenwartskunst, 1989. His enormous instillation titled ‘No man’s land’ (2010) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, is a great example of how his constructions and installations trace the lives of the lost and forgotten. 

 

Boltanski has participated in over 150 art exhibitions throughout the world. He has also had solo exhibitions at the New Museum (1988), the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Magasin 3 in Stockholm, the La Maison Rouge gallery, Institut Mathildenhohe, the Kewenig Galerie, The muse d’art et d’histoire du judaisme and many more.

In 2002, Boltanski made the installation "Totentanz II", a Shadow Installation with copper figures, for the underground Centre for International Light Art in Unna, Germany.

 

His awards as shown below;

• 20.07 billionéateurs sans frontières award for visual arts by Cultures France^[6]
• 2007  Praemium Imperiale Award by the Japan Art Association^[6]
• 2001 Goslarer Kaiserring, Goslar, Germany^[6]
• 2001 Kunstpreis, given by Nord/LB, Braunschweig, Germany