Contemporary Art
Painter/2-D Artists/ video
Readings:
Quotes/meanings
Sculptural Artists
Color Key:
Teal/orange- readings
Purple- 2d artists
Blue- sculpture artists
Yellow- black artist descriptions
Green- White artist descriptions
Pink- Female Artist descriptions
Red- photos
GREY: talking to self/reader/personal thoughts or reasons for doing things
Amber Cowan
Her sculptural glasswork is based around the use of recycled, or upcycled, and second-life American pressed glass. She uses the process of flameworking, hot-sculpting and glassblowing to create large-scale sculptures that will hopefully overwhelm the viewer with her abstraction and visual prowess.
Richard Serra
Roberto Lugo
Mary Miss
Her work creates situations emphasizing a site’s history, its ecology, or aspects of the environment that have gone unnoticed.
Art and Objecthood
Antiblackness
Expanded Sculpture
Performance
Form and Material
Expanded Media
Short History of Minimalism
Dan Flavin
American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
Lorna Simpson
large- scale photograph-and-text works that confront and challenge narrow, conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history and memory.
Glen Ligon
Walter Ruttman
American artist, ceramicist, social activist, spoken word poet, and educator. He uses porcelain, as his medium of choice, the surface is painted with imagery of poverty, inequality, and social and racial injustice.
American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity.
Mickalene Thomas
Anish Kapoor
British-Indian sculptor specializing in installation art and conceptual art. Known for making Vanta Black
German cinematographer and film director, Handmade Cinema, Lichtspiel: Opus 1
Robert Morris
Melvin Edwards
Senga nengudi
Ulysses Jenkins
Stan Brakhage
non-narrative filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. He worked with various kinds of celluloid: 16mm, 8mm, 35mm, and IMAX, and was a practitioner of what he referred to as 'pure cinema'.
African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel.
American artist known for his large-scale sculptures made for site-specific landscape, urban, and architectural settings.
video/performance artist. uses storytelling as a tool to examine questions of race, history and power.
Arthur Jafa
American contemporary artist, teacher, and abstract steel metal sculptor. Additionally he has worked in drawing and printmaking. His artwork has political content often referencing African-American history, as well as the exploration of themes within slavery.
African-American visual artist and curator. She is best known for her abstract sculptures that combine found objects and choreographed performance.
American video artist and cinematographer. favorite work is: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death
American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd, but also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art.
"The label “minimalist” took hold only in the 1960s. Over that decade a group of artists emerged who made objects using a similar vocabulary to modernist architecture—industrial materials that were geometric and cold"
"A starting point for the dominant strain of minimalism might be Judd’s first solo show in 1963 at the Green Gallery, when he was 35 years old. Green Gallery was opened on 57th Street in 1960 by Richard Bellamy, an iconoclastic, improvisational dealer who supported many of the artists who would later be called minimalist, like Robert Morris and Dan Flavin."
“A work needs only to be interesting.”
Meanings of Rosalind Krauss
Sculpture in the expanded Field, Krauss defines the structural parameters of sculpture, architecture, and landscape art with a diagram she created.
-Defines what sculpture is and shows that “sculpture is rather only one term on the periphery of a field in which there are other, differently structured possibilities” (Krauss 38).
-explains that the definition of art and sculpture has become much broader in the last century. (post-modern)
-rather than making sculptures that are “logical,” or narrative based, artists are creating with their expression of self in mind.
Sculptors should challenge, or destroy the boundaries that divide our conception of sculpture. Essentially anything can be called sculpture- and this idea should be applied across mediums!
meaning and materials
The essay Form and Material aims to clear away the warped concept of the 'immaterial'. While being scientific overall, Vilém pulls together the idea of what Material and forms actually are and how we view the objects being made in the world with a vast variety of mediums.
“In short: Forms are neither discoveries nor inventions, neither Platonic Ideas nor fictions, but containers cobbled together for phenomena ('models'). And theoretical science is neither 'true' nor 'fictitious' but 'formal' (model-designing)”
“What is at issue is the concept of in-formation. In other words, imposing forms on materials. This has been apparent since the Industrial Revolution. A steel tool in a press is a form, and it in-forms the flood of glass or plastic flowing past it into bottles or ashtrays. In the past, it was a question of distinguishing between true and false information.”
“It is therefore not a question of whether images are the surfaces of materials or the contents of electromagnetic fields. But a question of the extent to which they arise from material, as opposed to formal, thinking and seeing. Whatever 'material' may mean, it cannot mean the opposite of 'immaterial'. For the 'immaterial' or, to be more precise, the form is that which makes material appear in the first place. The appearance of the material is form. And this is of course a post-material claim.”
Micheal Fried
Fried argued that Minimalism's focus on the viewer's experience, rather than the relational properties of the work of art exemplified by modernism, made the work of art indistinguishable from one's general experience of the world.
opened the door to establishing a theoretical basis for Minimalism as a movement
In the chapter 'The Fact of Blackness', Fanon describes how the identity of black people is not something that can be self-created but rather something, which is imposed upon them by the society in which they live in, purely based on the color of their skin.
“The black man among his own in the twentieth century does not know at what moment his inferiority comes into being through the other. Of course, I have talked about the black problem with friends, or, more rarely, with American Negroes. Together we protested, we asserted the quality of all men in the world. In the Antilles, there was also that Little gulf that exists among the almost-white, the mulatto, and the [N-word]”
Since the 1960s, artists have used their bodies to challenge regimes of power and social norms, placing the body front and center in artistic practice—no longer the object depicted in paintings, or sculpture, or film, or photography but the living flesh and breath of the act itself. For some, performance refers to performance art or body art or live art or action art, terms that accentuate both the centrality of the living artist in the act of doing and the aesthetic dimension, “art.”
Performance, however, is not limited to mimetic repetition. It also includes the possibility of change, critique, and creativity within frameworks of repetition. Diverse forms such as performance art, dance, and theatre, as well as sociopolitical and cultural practices such as sports, rituals, political protest, military parades, and funerals, all, have reiterative elements that are reactualized in every new instantiation. These practices usually have their structures, conventions, and styles that bracket and separate them from other social practices of daily life.
Performance is a practice and an epistemology, a creative doing, a methodological lens, a way of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding the world.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, the projected image played a critical role in creating a new language of representation, as artists used film, slides, video, and holographic and photographic projection to measure, document, abstract, reflect, and transform the parameters of physical space.
Building on Minimalism's phenomenological approach, the darkened gallery's space Invites participation, movement, the sharing of multiple viewpoints, the dismantling of the single frontal screen, and an analytical, distanced form of viewing.
The pictorial space created· by Renaissance linear perspective, where a fixed vanishing point dictated a singular position for the viewer, had endured for more than four hundred years. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the viability of this unmoving station was challenged, and by the 1960s, it was physically dismantled by Minimalism.
Why I chose to separate artists based on color or sex?
helps show the majority or if there was a specific showing of certain types or was it fairly diverse.
I tried my best to get an even amount of each. getting sculptural artists was harder since we did more on 2d artists
I however did not differentiate people that were black and female b because I ran out of colors
the colors can help the eyes move easier instead of getting blobbed into one color.
I made sure each artist had one image of their work. specifically I chose my favorite pieces based on personal preferences.
I did want to make the pictures bigger, couldn't figure that out.
Mainly focused on being blunt with things.
The longer/more links meant I understood the subject better. I am not the best reader, many things confused me, but I tried my best to get down some important things/ quotes
I agree, could've done better with this, But I would've done better if I didn't have other
Dont know what else to add. wanted to make one of those murder mystery boards with all the pins