On The Rights of Molotov Man

On the rights of Molotov Man

This article was about Joy Garnett and how she found a picture that Susan Meiselas took in the human rights documentary she took in Latin America. Joy just found the picture and wanted recreate it because of the emotion it shows. She uses the photo on her website but Susan wasn't fond of it, so she wanted to sue her for stealing her picture so Joy took it off her website. But by that time, lots of fans got a hold of it already and started to recreate it on their own. Then someone asks the question who owns the right to this man’s struggle? Susan might of taken the picture, but does not own the man's emotion. This goes back to where it was, "who owns the right?

Journal Research: Video: Age of Anxiety

Journal Research : Video: Age of Anxiety
-Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons utilizes his materials to represent his works the way he wants the viewers to see.I chose Puppy as one of his works. He used flowers and built up a huge puppy shaped sculpture.I guess I can say flowers and puppy have some things in common. Warm, cute, beautiful, and friendly.Koons was commissioned in 1992 to create a piece for an art exhibition in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The result was Puppy, a forty-three feet (12.4 m) tall topiary sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier puppy, executed in a variety of flowers on a steel substructure.I don't think it has a lot to do with what country it is in, but i guess more of the environment of the place. Which is in between tall buildings. I guess it sort of creates the opposite sight by having a flowered puppy in between cold and tall buildings.

Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu (b. 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian-American artist best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. Raised in East Lansing, Michigan, and a graduate of East Lansing High School, Mehretu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan and did a junior year abroad at University Cheik Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, then attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1997. She now lives and works in New York City. Mehretu shares her New York studio with her partner, also a celebrated artist, Jessica Rankin. Mehretu is represented by The Project gallery in New York City whose director is Christian Haye and shows work with Jay Jopling at the White Cube art gallery in London as well as carlier gebauer in Berlin.

Mary Heilmann

Mary Heilmann was born in 1940 in San Francisco, California. She earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1962), and an MA from the University of California, Berkeley (1967). For every piece of Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her expert and sometimes surprising treatment of paint (alternately diaphanous and goopy) complements a keen sense of color that glories in the hues and light that emanate from her laptop, and finds inspiration in the saturated colors of TV cartoons such as The Simpsons.

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and film director of Office Killer, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Award. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in Europe and Metro Pictures gallery in New York.

Allan McCollum

Allan McCollum is a contemporary American artist who was born in Los Angeles, California in 1944, and now lives and works in New York City. He has spent over thirty years exploring how objects achieve public and personal meaning in a world constituted in mass production, focusing most recently on collaborations with small community historical society museums in different parts of the world.^[1] His first solo exhibition was in 1970, and his first New York showing was in an exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1972.^[2] In 1975 his work was included in the Whitney Biennial, and he moved to New York City that same year. In the late seventies he became especially well known for his series, Surrogate Paintings.

Kara Walker

Kara Walker (born November 26, 1969) is a contemporary African American artist who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.

Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy misleadingly is often considered to be influenced by the Viennese Actionism. Although by his own statement the happenings of the group were known to him in the 1970s, he sees a clear difference between the self-injurious actions of the Viennese and his own performances: "Vienna is not Los Angeles. My work came out of kids' television in Los Angeles. I didn' t go through Catholicism and World War II as a teenager, I didn' t live in a European environment. People make references to Viennese art without really questioning the fact that there is a big difference between ketchup and blood. I never thought of my work as shamanistic. My work is more about being a clown than a shaman."

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his giant reproductions of banal objects such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces, often brightly colored. Koons' work has sold for substantial sums including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons himself has stated that there are no hidden meanings in his works.

James Turrel

He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater. Located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Turrell is turning this natural cinder volcanic crater into a massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing of celestial phenomena. His other works usually enclose the viewer in order to control their perception of light; a James Turrell skyspace is an enclosed room large enough for roughly 15 people. Inside, the viewers sit on benches along the edge to view the sky through an opening in the roof. He is also known for his light tunnels and light projections that create shapes that seem to have mass and weight, though they are created with only light.

Conceptual Art

Questions for Conceptual Art by Tony Godfrey

1) Why is the "viewer" an important element in conceptual art?
-Because of viewer's mental participation. Conceptual art relies on the effect of thought and question from the viewers.

2) Why was it so difficult for people to accept the "fountain" by Duchamp, as art?
-Because it was not accept as a sculpture before the fountain. Everyone thinks that art has to be something beautiful and pleasing to look at. It was also ready-made.

3) What question did Duchamp pose with his "ready-mades"? Explain with examples.
-"Can this be art?" was his question. For instance, the Fountain by Duchamp presents the statement, "this is urinal" as a question Can this urinal be artwork?

4) Why is it difficult to categorize Conceptual art in the context of traditional art?
-It's difficult because it's not art that is based off of tradition or culture. Conceptual art is viewed the same way Duchamp's fountain was viewed.

5) Choose a quote fro mthe article that you find interesting and explain.
-(page 7) if work of conceptual art begins with the question "what is art?", rather than a particular style or medium, one could argue that it is completed by the proposition 'this could be art': 'this' being presented as object, image, performance or idea revealed in some other way.

I chose this one because this tells you how conceptual art is represented.

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary Americanartist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance.

Much of his work is characterized by an interest in language, often manifesting itself in a playful, mischievous manner. For example, the neon Run From Fear- Fun From Rear, or the photograph Bound To Fail, which literalizes the title phrase and shows the artist's arms tied behind his back. There are however, very serious concerns at the heart of Nauman's practice. He seems to be fascinated by the nature of communication and language's inherent problems, as well as the role of the artist as supposed communicator and manipulator of visual symbols.

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois is an artist and sculptor. Her most famous works are possibly the spider structures, titled Maman, from the last dozen years.
She is best known for her Cells, Spiders, and various drawings, books and sculptures. Her works are sometimes abstract and she speaks of them in symbolic terms with the main focus being "relationships" - considering an entity in relation to its surroundings. Louise Bourgeois finds inspiration for her works from her childhood: her adulterous father, who had an affair with her governess (who resided in the home), and her mother, who refused to acknowledge it. She claims that she has been the "striking-image" of her father since birth. Bourgeois conveys feelings of anger, betrayal and jealousy, but with playfulness. In her sculpture, she has worked in many different mediums, including rubber, wood, stone, metal, and appropriately for someone who came from a family of tapestry makers, fabric. Her pieces consist of erotic and sexual images and also forms found in nature, such as her sculpture, Cumuls (referring to clouds in the sky) and Nature Study.

Richard Serra

Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.
Serra's earliest work was abstract and process-based made from molten lead hurled in large splashes against the wall of a studio or exhibition space. Still, he is better known for his minimalist constructions from large rolls and sheets of metal (COR-TEN-Steel). Many of these pieces are self-supporting and emphasize the weight and nature of the materials. Rolls of lead are designed to sag over time. His exterior steel sculptures go through an initial oxidation process, but after 8–10 years, the patina of the steel settles to one color that will remain relatively stable over the piece's life. Serra often constructs site-specific installations, frequently on a scale that dwarfs the observer.

Donald Judd

Donald Clarence Judd (June 3, 1928 - February 12, 1994) was a minimalist artist (a term he stridently disavowed).^[1] In his work, Judd sought autonomy and clarity for the constructed object and the space created by it, ultimately achieving a rigorously democratic presentation without compositional hierarchy. It created an outpouring of seemingly effervescent structure without the rigor associated with minimalism proper.

Ed Kienholz

Edward Kienholz (October 23, 1927 – June 10, 1994) was an American installation artist whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. He often collaborated with his wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz, from 1972 until his death. Collectively, they are referred to as "Kienholz".

Despite his lack of formal artistic training, Kienholz began to employ his mechanical and carpentry skills in making collage paintings and reliefs assembled from materials salvaged from the alleys and sidewalks of the city. In 1960 he withdrew from the Ferus Gallery to concentrate on his art, creating free-standing, large-scale environmental tableaux. Kienholz's assemblages of found objects—the detritus of modern existence, often including figures cast from life—are at times vulgar, brutal, and gruesome, confronting the viewer with questions about human existence and the inhumanity of twentieth-century society.

Richard Prince

Richard Prince, (born 1949 in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, now part of Republic of Panama) is an American painter and photographer. His works have often been the subject of debates within the art world. Trained as a figure painter, Prince began creating collages containing photographs in 1975. His image, ‘Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotograph constructed from cigarette advertisements, was the first ‘photograph’ to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005, despite violating numerous copyright laws.