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10/23/10
An Interactive Journey - Exhibition Monet, Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, Paris
10/16/10
Social Art - Exquisite Corpse
"Exquisite corpse (also known as exquisite cadaver or rotating corpse) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. "The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun") or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.
The technique was invented by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least before 1918.[1][2]
In a variant now known as picture consequences, instead of sentences, portions of a person were drawn.[3]
Later the game was adapted to drawing and collage, producing a result similar to children's books in which the pages were cut into thirds, the top third pages showing the head of a person or animal, the middle third the torso, and the bottom third the legs, with children having the ability to "mix and match" by turning pages. (However, the game has been played with the usual orientation of foldings and four or more people, and there have been examples with the game played with only two people and the paper being folded lengthwise and widthwise, resulting in quarters.)[4] It has also been played by mailing a drawing or collage — in progressive stages of completion — to the players, and this variation is known as "exquisite corpse by airmail", apparently regardless of whether the game travels by airmail or not.
The name is derived from a phrase that resulted when Surrealists first played the game, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ("The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.")[5][6]..." - Wikipedia
The technique was invented by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. Breton said the diversion started about 1925, but Pierre Reverdy wrote that it started much earlier, at least before 1918.[1][2]
In a variant now known as picture consequences, instead of sentences, portions of a person were drawn.[3]
Later the game was adapted to drawing and collage, producing a result similar to children's books in which the pages were cut into thirds, the top third pages showing the head of a person or animal, the middle third the torso, and the bottom third the legs, with children having the ability to "mix and match" by turning pages. (However, the game has been played with the usual orientation of foldings and four or more people, and there have been examples with the game played with only two people and the paper being folded lengthwise and widthwise, resulting in quarters.)[4] It has also been played by mailing a drawing or collage — in progressive stages of completion — to the players, and this variation is known as "exquisite corpse by airmail", apparently regardless of whether the game travels by airmail or not.
The name is derived from a phrase that resulted when Surrealists first played the game, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ("The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.")[5][6]..." - Wikipedia
10/10/10
Kirk Varnedoe and Charlie Rose, 2002
John Kirk Train Varnedoe (Jan. 18, 1946 – Aug. 15, 2003) was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia and was an American art historian and writer, a Professor of the History of Art at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a noted curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He studied at St. Andrew's School and Williams College, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society.
After his years at Williams, he went to Paris, where he became expert on Auguste Rodin's drawings, and fell in love with French culture and civilization. He returned to America and particularly to New York, where he married the artist Elyn Zimmerman and taught art history, first at Columbia University, and then at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
He co-curated, with William Rubin, the exhibition "Primitivism: Affinity Between The Tribal and The Modern" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984, the same year that he won a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1988, he became the Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, where his exhibitions included "High And Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture" (co-directed with the writerAdam Gopnik) as well as retrospectives of the work of Cy Twombly, Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock.
He was famous as one of the most eloquent public speakers of his time, and he gave many lectures and lecture series, including the Slade Lectures at Oxford and the Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. These last, his final lecture series, were published in 2006 by Princeton University Press under the title of Pictures of Nothing.
Varnedoe died of cancer in 2003. Adam Gopnik, one of his graduate school proteges in the mid-1980's, wrote a tribute in the New Yorker in 2004. - Wikipedia
9/18/10
William Kentridge - MOMA, 5 Themes, An Interactive Site
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| William Kentridge |
"I believe that in the indeterminacy of drawing - the contingent way that images arrive in the work - lies some kind of model of how we live our lives. The activity of drawing is a way of trying to understand who we are and how we operate in the world." - William Kentridge
Over the last three decades William Kentridge (South African, b. 1955) has developed a vast multidisciplinary practice that includes drawing, film animation, artist's books, printmaking, collage, and theatrical performance. He first achieved international recognition in the 1990s, with a series of what he called "drawings for projection," short animated films made from charcoal drawings that address life in Johannesburg during and after apartheid...
- source, MOMA web site
Link William Kentridge - MOMA, 5 Themes
9/10/10
Mark Oxman - Sculptor, The Decimation of Professor Richard Fink, Kirby Theatre, Amherst College
Saturday, September 18th, 2010 at 5pm
The Decimation of Professor Richard Fink will provide a bridge between traditional sculpture and some of the ideas surrounding postmodernism. While taking as its starting point a series of conventional sculpture heads, the Decimation of Professor Richard Fink transforms those static pieces into an interactive performance work.
The work will begin as a series of 20 life-size portrait heads modeled from life and cast in plaster. These will be unique works, mot multiple copies or editions. The majority of those 20 portraits will be ceremoniously smashed in a ritual of decimation. Only two will be saved. The entire process from selecting the survivors through the ritual of decimation will be captured on video.
Unlike conventional sculpture, which yields only a concrete work, and unlike conventional performance art, which is transitory, the Decimation of Professor Richard Fink will comprise both performance and enduring sculpture. While the resulting portrait heads will stand on their own as works of art, they will also be the outcome of an interactive performance work that is central to their creation and survival.
Much of the contemporary art is involved with the "idea." Objects per se are often given less importance than in the past. However, by giving paramount importance to the concept, much contemporary work lacks traditional esthetic qualities. The Decimation of Professor Richard Fink highlights the conceptual elements of art, while nevertheless yielding concrete works.
Mark Oxman
Director of the Sculpture Program Emeritus
American University
Washington, DC
Link Kirby Theatre, Amherst College, The Decimation of Professor Richard Fink
8/20/10
Lucian Freud Portraits (Pt.2) - Documentary
Unprecedented, intimate and revealing, this film weaves interviews with a large selection of work by one of the great artists of our century.
Lucian Freud 'Portraits' is an analysis of the artist as seen through the eyes of those who have been best placed to study him - his sitters. Over a period of two years, film-maker Jake Auerbach and Freud's biographer William Feaver filmed many of Freud's subjects, ranging from the late Duke of Devonshire and the now Dowager Duchess of Devonshire to fellow painters David Hockney and Celia Paul; from friends such as Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles to ex-lovers, daughters and grand-daughters. - artcaltal, YouTube
8/14/10
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
•WHAT IS DR. SKETCHY'S ANTI-ART SCHOOL?
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art school is the world's premier alt.drawing movement. Artists draw glamorous underground performers in an atmosphere of boozy conviviality. Found in 2005 in a dive bar in Brooklyn, Dr. Sketchy's has now spread to over 100 cities around the world.
•WHO STARTED DR. SKETCHY'S?
Dr. Sketchy's was founded in 2005 by artists Molly Crabapple and A.V. Phibes. It's been run solely by Molly Crabapple (and her cadre of awesome helpers) since early '06. You can see more of Molly's art at www.mollycrabapple.com
•WHERE DID YOU COME UP WITH THE DR. SKETCHY'S ANTI-ART SCHOOL NAME? WHAT ARE ART MONKEYS?
Dr. Sketchy's is a corrupt Viennese doctor of our invention. Anti-Art School we chose because we were bad art students. "Art Monkey" was nicked from a late night we spent building steel weasels with New York's legendary Madagascar institute.
•WHO GOES TO DR. SKETCHY'S?
Lots of people. Fancy pants gallery artists, art students, dog walkers, jewelry designers, tattoo artists, illustrators and cubicle slaves. We have about 40% non-professional artists. Slightly more girls attend than boys. - Dr. Sketchy's web site
Find a Dr. Sketchy's near you!
Link
8/4/10
Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas
Digital Image by Miltos Manetas
A popular, interesting and entertaining interactive web site and app that lets you, through mouse or finger movements, create spontaneous digital images in the style of Jackson Pollock. What makes one more interesting than another? Look at an original Pollock. How do they compare?
Link jacksonpollock.org by Miltos Manetas
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