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

 

 

 

 

 

Final piece

My final piece i decided to do a canvas between A1 and A0 of a Native American trapped behind the bars of the American stripes, i painted the stripes in red however i let the paint dry with wierd strokes in it so that it made it look like blood, like all the blood the white people spilled. I also did the native american in black and white however the stars and stripes are all in colour to make the point that white people took everything from the natives even their colour. However the native chief i have depicted is looking into the distance proudly as though they can take everything but never his pride! I used acrylic paint to do the canvas (which I prepared myself using a wooden frame and material from the textiles workshop) i used acrylic as i felt the most comfortable using this to finish a big piece. If i were to do this again i would maybe dedicate more hours just to touching up the piece making sure lines are 100% straight and edges cleaned. 

Native American A3

For my A3 sheets on Native Americans i began with doing just different pen sketches of different native americans portraits, i also tried to develop my ideas further by drawing a child playing, i did this because i was looking into craig davison. I also drew native american symbols such as the symbols for peace, war and freedom. If i were to do this sheet again i would use more medias to make the sheet more interesting seen as i only used pen and watercolour. 

My second sheet was a colourful sheet which i used brusho inks for however my drawings i either used pen or acrylic paint i believe that using the black and greys on this sheet was effective as the background is very colourful. This sheet i began to develop my ideas again by putting an american flag onto the sheet, i did this to show i had looked into the flag for my final design. I also did a few more sketches of portraits as well as a silhouette. If i were to do this again i may not have used such darker colours for a background so that i can then use more colour in the drawings.

Mental health development

For my mental health sheet i decided to stick to dark tones such as greys and black, i did this to show a depressing aspect to my sheet, i did things on the sheet such as a brain with a lock and chains around, a person walking into a lock and a treewith a skull in it to resemble death, one side has a girl on a swing, a symbol for me of happiness however on the other side there is someone hanging by the neck... Half of the tree is birds flying away and i thought this could resemble someones mind flying away as though they are losing themself. For this sheet i used brusho inks and acrylic paints i only used these as i believed they could keep the sheet as dark as possible. If i was to do this again i would keep all the sheet to the same consistancy and not have half the sheet looking good and the other half looking rushed. 

Native Americans (63)

My native American pieces are all done in pen as most of them are just symbols that all mean different things, freedom, war, peace and friendship! These were all done in a rush and could have had more time spent on then to make them look alot better. 

Human rights (63)

For my human rights peices i decided to do 2 about transgender people one for a man in a womans body and one for a woman in a mans... I also did one on gender equality and one on gay pride, the last one i did on just generic human rights. I used pen and pencil colours for these and 3 of the four i hate and wish i could do again, if i were to do them again i would take more time and care in the pieces i have done.

Political (63)

My political pieces i decided to do a variety of things such as 'ideas vs guns' political parties/leaders and even one from V for vendetta a film about politics. I used mainly black pen for this as most of the drawigs i did were silhouettes or symple drawings... If i were to do these again i may use different medias to make the images look more realistic or lifelike instead of cartooned or blocked. 

Holocaust (63)

For these 4 sheets i did about the holocaust and mainly showed wire, chains and fences, this was all to show the entrapment of humans, i used pen for these as they were all simple drawings or black and white drawings and i thought these looked effective. If i were to do this again i would not have rushed and would have took more time and care into my artwork.

Symbols of freedom (63)

For my symbols of freedom sheets, i chose to do a variety of things from birds to films, films to words. Most of my sheets have the word freedom in it or birds as they are the obvious choices however there are a certain few which are just symbols from different countries e.g.

For these pieces, again i stuck to my comfort zone of pen and pencil i almost always stick to these medias because they are the ones that make my work look the most effective! If i were to do this again i wouldnt rush some of the pieces i have done to make them look better.

The captain america was done to show that when it was first made, it was a symbol that people could be free of hitler therefor it is a symbol of freedom for me.

Religion (63)

In this lot of my 63 i chose to look into religion, my first aim was to look into how some people find an 'escape' in religion however i couldn't decide how to how to best portray this so instead i looked at some of the many religions, to draw the symbols on my sheets I decided to use pens as i thought just a solid symbol on coloured backgrounds would be the best way to show and attract the viewer... The only sheet i did differently was the one of buddah, i did this one in pencil and shaded the face of buddah, i used pencil because that is what i am most comfortable doing portraits in. If i were to do this again i might have used different medias and pushed myself out of my comfort zone. 

Mental health (63)

To begin with i looked into mental health and the side of freedom in which people find they are trapped inside their own mind being held back. For these few sheets i decided to use medias such as pencil and pen to keep the sheets dark and 'depressing' looking. I also learned how to make a noose and tied one to a sheet to add a 3D aspect to make my sheets look better, i also used only pen amd pencil as they are the medias i feel most comfortable using. If i were to do these sheets again i would probably try to use more medias just to make my sheets look a little more interesting.