lesson 11 Flashcards
Neo-Expressionism 1970’s
-Georg Baselitz (German)
-return to the sensuousness of painting
-> ways form Minimalism / Conceptualism
US - work that affirmed the redemptive power of art in general / paintign
themes : mythological / cultural / historical
accepted / rejuvenated historical / mythological imagery
-raw / brutish manner -> large-scale works
-textural expressive brushwork / intense colours
closely linked to buying / selling / commercial system - system of art with its galleries / critics / media hype -> question its authenticity as art that was purely motivated
Georg Baselitz (German) 1938
influential showing German artist who they can come to terms with issues of art / national identity (WWII)
-revived German expressionism - returned the human figure to a central position in painting (romantic traditions)
-warriors seem awkward giants clad in tattered rags -> depiction figures upside down
-who have been traditionally seen as outcasts form society
Georg Baselitz “Elke” 1965
Julian Schnabel 1951
-restore painting to its re-abstraction status
-expressivity / exuberance / balanced technical concerns with Emotional resonance
reintroduced human sentiment t painting / heaping material onto unconventional supports
->emotion / brutal expressivity
Anselm Kiefer 1945
Konfrontation canvases -> know for the subject matter dealign with German history / myth => Holocaust
-heavy impact / uncommon materials
-history painter (traditional sense)
->symbolic motifs - provoke an émotion / psychosocial effect on the viewer
-incorporates text into his painted - excerpts form poems / novels / nationalist slogans
Anselm Kiefer “ Deutschland Geisteshelden” 1973
Anselm Kiefer “The seven Heavenly Palaces” 2004
Transavanguardia 1979
(beyond the avant-garde)
-referring to internation Neo-Expressionism
-> describe the work of Italian artist working in the style during the 1980’s-1990’s
Chia / Clemente / Cucchi / Paladino
free figural style of painting - nostalgic references to the Renaissance and its iconography
-large scale works - realistic imaginary portraits / religious / allegorical history paints
-inspired by symbolists / Fauvists
Chia: narrative religious works
Paladino: geometric / figurative motifs
Cucchi: romantic Surrealism inspired scenes
Clemente: self-portraiture / intimate figurative works
Graffiti Art 1970’s-1980’s
-cultural movement
-> New York subway trains
B-boys voiced frustration of urban minorities in their attempt to create their own form of art => non-commercial (not to please the general public)
canvas = subway trains / walls in urban areas / industrial wastelands
-1971 signature calligraphic styles to distinguish their work / apply tags
Trains became gallery
1972 - Top-to-bottom works - entire height of the subway
Jean-Michel Basquiat 1960-1988
-emerged form the Punk scene
-street.smart graffiti artist
(widely celebrated Neo-Expressionism art movement)
Unstudied appearance - purposefully brought together in his art as host of disparate traditions / practices / style
=> visual collage
reintue human figure in their word after the wide success of Minimalism / Conceptualism
Jean-Michel Basquiat “Notary” 1983
Keith Haring 1958-1990
-fame thought his work in the city subways / streets / sidewalk
- personal vocabulary of bold/ graphic icons (radiant baby) - combined with abstract marks / patterns in densely pack allover composition s
-social activism (AIDS)
-a bridge that gap between the art world and the real world
-work in the subway is available to everyone - everyone was equal in ownership of it
Keith Haring “Retrospect” 1989
Banksy
(Identity remains yet unknown)
-famous for his graffiti art
perfect example for post modernist art - satirical stencilled images are a mixture of pure vandalism / narcissistic posturing / Irreverent Humor/ Vivid imager
-variety of stunt / happenings - filmmaking / writing ( anti-establishment messages of slogans)
Banksy
Young British Artist (YBA) 1997
-officially recognised in the “Sensation” exhibition
-called “Britart” (UK)
shocking artworks
would not have succeeded only through the patronage / promotion by millionaire / contemporary art collector Charles Saatchi
maintreat when 1997 the London Royal Academy in conjunction with Saatchi hosted “Sensatio2
Damien Hirst 1965
leading figure of Young British Artists
-concerned with the fundamental dilemmas of human existence
themes: fragility of life / society’s reluctance to confront death / nature of love / desire
-Dead animal care frequently used in Hirsts installations - forcing viewers to consider their own / society’s attitudes to death
-Aquariums / vitrine are uns as devices to impasse controle of the fragile subject matter
“spot” paints are named after pharmaceutical stimulant / narcotics
collaborative pop music project
Damien Hist “ The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mid of Some Living” 1991
Damien Hirst “Love of God” 2007
tracy Emin “My Bed” 1998
louise Bourgeois 1911-2010
-never became an abstract artist
-she created symbolic objects / drawings expressing themes of loneliness / conflict / frustration / Vulnerability
-highly person thematic content - unconscious / sexual desire/ body
symbolise the feminine psych / beauty /Psychological pain (spirals, spiders, cages medical tools)
-use of abstract form / wide variety of media -> balance playful juxtaposition material conventionally considered mal or female
rough hard material = masculine
soft biomorphic sofern = femininity
Louise Bourgeois “Maman” 1999
symbol = protective
Jeff Koons 1955
-appropriation / parody
-following example of Pop artist - used his work to reflect the commercial system of the modern world
-referred back to the Duchamp tradition / appropriating an art statu to selected products
-replicated domestic products advertisement / kitchen toys / models -> enthusiastic / endorsement of unlined consumption
Westen civiliationas a driven society flatters by narcissistic images and with a voracious appetite for glamorous commodities
-breached the borderlines of test - expliticy sexual photographs / models of himself with his wife (porno star)
Jeff Koons “ Pink Panther” 1988
Takashi Mrakami (Japanese) 1962
-recognition as a sculptor
-work explored the clash between contemporary Japanese / American culture with aggressive / sardonic character of his work (influence of commercial display)
-more recognition as a painter
-> blend abstraction with cartoon imagery
highly coloured images painted in flash spaces
Takashi Murakami “ Tan tan bo” 2001
William Kentride 1955
heavily involved in theatre / designing / acting
-> inform the dramatic / narrative character of his art as well as his interests in link drawing / film
-dominated by past / charcoal -> drawing are conceived as basis of animated films
-had an ambivalent relationship to the influence of European art / culture
-influenced of starts ofter used European classical themes as framework for contemporary African subject
Fusion of Expressionism and the theatre -> interest of South Africa’s resistance art movement
Willian Kentridge “Johannesburg 2nd Greatest City after Paris” 1989
Olafur Eliasson 1967
-universal conscience tha catapults art outside of it’s norma confines - challenges the way we inhabit the world
-he collaborate with experts in various field - create diverse pieces intended to propose critical intervention within exiting social systems
-progressive Leadern in the kind of create thinking
->provokes the way people perceive culture / community / natural environment around them
creating work that compels uncertainty -> powerful tool for battalion complacency
-juxtapostion of manmade / ephemeral elements
-interaction with natural phenomena = Light / water / air
Olafur Eliasson “Weather Project” 2003
sun was shine the whole day, everybody could enter an stay as long as they want
Maurizio Catalan 1960
-not fram training but considers himself an “art worker” (not an artist)
-his taste for irreverence / the absurd but his profound interrogation of socially ingrain norm / hierarchies
-his facetious art productions -> pocking holes in art / art hits / nationalism
He seems to mock the forced optimism of the art world / the authoritative structs of the museum
Design furniture -> sculpture / conceptual art
-reputation for a sense of humour / penchant of blurring the distinction between art / reality
Maurizio Catalan “ The Wrong Gallery” 2002
mockery of the states of museums, was not reals but peel apples and want to be part
Petter Fischli 1952 and Davis Weiss 1946-2012
collaborated on a body of work - casual meditation on how we perceive everyday life
they transformed the ordinary tin something decisively not
pondered question great / small -> challenged the ideas of dualism
what they produced playfully unravels what they understood to be “popular opposites”
aim to confuse hierarchies and values by creating systems doomed to fail and found beauty in states of imminent collapse
Fischl and Wiese “The Way Things go” 1987
