Lesson 12 Flashcards
Installation Art 1960’s
(Environments)
-occupy an entre room or gallery space (walk thought in order to engage fully)
differen form sculpture - it is a compete unified experience rather than a display of separate / individual artworks
-> focus on how the viewer experiences the work / desire to proceed an intense experiment form them
made in situ ( created / installed with the specific space where it is meant to be viewed
-> large-scale variety of different media / mediums
it can be temporary or permanent
Video Art
video is the medium of expression (Warhol / June Paik)
-advances in digital computer / vide technology enabling artist to edit and manipulate film sequences
Twen basic varieties
single channel / installation
->dingle-change: video is projected or shown as a single series of images
->Installation comprise with an environment made up of server distance pieces of videos screened simultaneously = combination of video with assemblage / performance art
part of the multi-media fashion - combining architected / design /sculpture / electronic / digital art
Video differs form film (avant garde cinema)
->film producers juggle with storylines / screenplay y/ actors / dialogue
video artist is concerned with exploring the medium itself space/ time / form
Bill Viola 1951-2024
contemporary video artist
expression depends upon electronic / sound/ image technology
video installations - total environs that envelop the viewer in image / sound
explore the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge
universal human experiences (birth /death)
using inner language of subjective thoughts
Blue Nauman 1941
-most prominent living artist
-pioneer research across a variety of media
-> installations / Video / sculpture / performance / photography
distinguished by an interest in understanding the human experiment / its conventions / inner workings of the psyche
frequent use of workplay
History of photography
1839
Discovery
technological improvements: speed / resolution / permanence
first attempt Nicéphore Niépce => camera obscure
= unsuccessful
Louis Daguerre -> daguerreotype => first to public announce success of photographic process
1839 photographic process in commercially intruded
Nadar 1820-1910
-photographer for the portraits
woodburytype = print in which the image is forme by ink that has been transferred from a lead intaglio plate
(did not use halftone screen -> grey values)
1855 patented the idea of use aerial photographs
1858 began photographs by electric light
1868 first photo interview (series of 21 photographs
Photo Secession 1902
founded by Alfred Stieglitz
-affiliating the photographers with the modernist secession movement in Europe
broke ways form the Camera Club -> Pictorialism
-> technique / manipulation negatives / prints so as to approximate the effects fo drawing / etching / oil paintings
1910 member divided
some still manipulated their negatives to achieve a non photographic effects
others came to feel that it destroyed tone / texture = inappropriate
Alfred Stieglitz 1864-1946
photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting / sculpture
photography is based on several modernist ideas: fragmented sense of self / personality
expression of the photographers feelings
Eugène Atget 1857-1927
-photographs made in the north of France - rural scenes / plants / farming
working in Paris
changed focus to concentrate on the city of Paris
August Sander 1876-1964
-portraits - people of the 20th century
Show the cross section of society during the Weimar Republic
photographed straight on in natural light
Brassaï 1899-1984
photographing the night of Paris
Paris de Nuit - dark bistro’s /darker streets -> difficult technical problem
people of the night
André Kerstész 1894-1985
most influential photographers of the 20th century
-change the way photographers looked at the world
->befind the use of the hand-held camera - opens museum doors for the collection photography as fine art
American magazines : Vogues / Harpers Bazaar
unexpected detail - sweetness of life / free and childlike pleasure in the beauty of the world
American Social Realist Photography
1930’s Gerat depression + rats of Fascism in Europe promote many American artists to turn away form abstract art
idealised vision of America’s agrarian past
document rural paver / exploitation of sharecropper / migrant labourer in attempt to garner supra for President
distributed free of charge across the county
Dorothea Lange / Walker Evans
->black and white stills of starving fruit-pickers in California become icons symbols of the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange 1895-1965
unemployed men who wander streets
migrant worker
Walker Evans 1903-1975
forthright approach of portraiture and documentary redefined these genres for generations to come
Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004
-photography can capture the meaning beneath outward appearance
lent itself spontaneity / anonymity (hid the camera)
Robert Capa 1913-1954
gretes phtojournalist
mature stay fully emerged in grim close-up view of death
fight in Africa / Sicily
Joel Meyerowitz 1938
-most accomplished advocate of colour fine art photography
-most prominent respected documentarians
-saw himself as a street photographer -> transformed the mode with his pioneering us of colour
Düsseldorfdorf School of Photography 1970’s
influential photographers Bernd / Hilla Becher
regorous devotion the 1929’s German tradition of Neue Sachlichkeit
clear black and white pictures of industrial archetypes
Candida Höfer / Thomas Ruff /Thomas Struth -> modified the approach
=> new technical possibilities / persona / contemporary vision
Cadnida Höfer: Empty Interior / Rooms -> representation spaces devoid of all human presence
Thomas Ruff: somber portrias
Thomas Struth: Museum Photogrpahs - people how are looking at art - makes them wear of their active participation in the completion of the works meaning
Evolution of the Art World
until the 17th century:
Artist -> Commissioner
17th-19th century:
artist -> academy -> collector
19th century:
artist -> dealer -> collector
20th century:
middle: Critic curator
->Artist
->collector
->gallery dealer
gallery dealer -> collector
today:
Museums
Art faires
Action Houses
Galleries
