Caitlin Phillips Professor Mulvaney Art 222 21 June 2024 Recontextualizing Icons and Mixed Media Thesis #1: Please discuss how their use of this chosen imagery is typical of a particular style. What new meaning does the artist create for the imagery? la, Marcel Duchamp, LHOOQ, 1919 and Pop Art, Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958. Marcel Duchamp L.H.O.O.Q.(ca. 1919) and Jasper Johns' Three Flags (ca.1958) illustrate how artists can recontextualize well-known images to convey new meanings. Duchamp, a significant figure in the Dadaism movement, utilized "readymades"—ordinary objects designated as art by the artist's choice. L.H.O.O.Q., a postcard of the Mona Lisa with a mustache and goatee, critiques the sanctity of iconic masterpieces and questions the Mona Lisa's identity and gender. In contrast, Jasper Johns' Three Flags exemplifies Pop Art principles by focusing on commonplace objects, using encaustic painting to layer three American flags of varying …show more content…
Ernst's piece uses Surrealist techniques like frottage and grattage, creating a dreamlike alternate reality that challenges traditional notions of painting. The detailed rendering and use of linear perspective mix with the surreal narrative, suggesting multiple layers of reality. In contrast, Rauschenberg's Canyon employs combined painting, incorporating diverse materials and found objects, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture. The diverse mix and lack of fixed meaning invite viewers to explore various associations, reflecting modern life's complexity. Both artists transcend traditional artistic boundaries, challenging perceptions of reality and expanding the possibilities of visual expression, demonstrating the transformative power of mixed media in contemporary
During the 1960’s, a new branch emerged from this style to further challenge the boundaries that artists constantly fought to expand. Minimalism sought to emphasize attention to the physical properties of space and materials as being the artwork itself, without any connotative meaning attached to it. One of Tuttle’s earliest works, Light Pink Octagon, exhibits characteristics from this movement and encourages the viewer to value this piece for what it is by itself and nothing else. With this artwork, Tuttle forced critics and viewers to eradicate the presupposed boundaries and humbly demanded an open mind for the acceptance of art in its simplest and purest
At first glance the painting contains images of American television and movie icons on the left and various Muslims on the right. The left imagery includes Fonzie, Robocop, Mr. T and Waldo, many of whom were idolized during their TV and movie
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.
Florian Maier-Aichen is a landscape photographer and drawer.With the computer he is able to alter photographs and make them a piece of artwork that not only pleases his thoughts, but also makes a statement.Since he takes real life images of a landscape and then constructs them in different modes that satisfy him , those images aren’t reality anymore.In Blum & Poe you can observe the strange colors he added to enrich myth-making.He fantasizes landscapes, making them open ended
Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1997. Print.
In Rauschenberg’s art piece, the visual elements include, it’s a painting, the two thin lines within the fabrics and the whole painting right down the middle, small vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines between the fabrics the colors used just as much as the fabrics. The painting I think is abit light from the yellow, white and red colors that blend with fabrics that are the same color. There’s no design in the piece, it’s a chaotic and random composition work since the artist has all the materials blended together including the wooden frame. The elements like the colors pink, blue, orange and yellow plus the random choice and random visuals also have the viewer’s attention, maybe forcing the viewer to look deeper into the art piece.
Cockcroft, E., Cockcroft J., Pitman J. W. 1977. Toward a People.s Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
The Art Bulletin, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 176-185. (College Art Association), accessed November 17, 2010. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3049368.
My friends, after traveling through the Asian continent and Japan, I continued on to the Americas. The art in the Americas has three regions, North America, Central America, and South America. Each region has a very distinct aspect to their forms of art. All cultures have some kind of art. Being curious about art, I have collected samples from five different areas. The following works of art are very different from European art, but there are still some similarities. The similarities of the human spirit are evident in the following images.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York: Prentice Hall Inc. and Harry N. Abrams Inc. 1995.
From the creation of art to its modern understanding, artists have strived to perform and perfect a photo realistic painting with the use of complex lines, blend of colors, and captivating subjects. This is not the case anymore due to the invention of the camera in 1827, since it will always be the ultimate form of realism. Due to this, artists had the opportunities to branch away from the classical formation of realism, and venture into new forms such as what is known today as modern art. In the examination of two well known artists, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, we can see that the artist doesn’t only intend for the painting to be just a painting, but more of a form of telling a scene through challenging thoughts, and expressing of the artists emotion in their creation.
The use of materials to complement a design’s emotional reaction has stuck with the modernist movement. His implementation of these materials created a language that spoke poetically as you move through the structure. “Mies van der Rohe’s originality in the use of materials lay not so much in novelty as in the ideal of modernity they expressed through the rigour of their geometry, the precision of the pieces and the clarity of their assembly” (Lomholt). But one material has been one of the most important and most difficult to master: light. Mies was able to sculpt light and use it to his advantage.
I feel my work is a resemblance of Robert Rauschenberg in a sense of innovation and expanding the use of material and mediums. Rauschenberg was well known for his ability to combined nontraditional material and objects creating a single - unified piece. Much of Rauschenberg 's work consisted of employing innovative combinations. Though, Rauschenberg was both a painter and a sculptor and implemented a combination of both, he also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, and performance -allowing him to expand his ideas and innovations. Like Rauschenberg, much of my work is based on combining different elements and media to create singular bold works. With my recent work, it manifests into a composite of sculpting and painting leading
The Spiritual in Art : Abstract Painting 1895 – 1985 (New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Abbeville Press, 1985)
Surrealism and the surrealist movement is a ‘cultural’ movement that began around 1920’s, and is best known for its visual art works and writings. According to André Berton, the aim was “to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality” (Breton 1969:14). Surrealists incorporated “elements of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and ‘non sequitur”. Hence, creating unnerving, illogical paintings with photographic precision, which created strange creatures or settings from everyday real objects and developed advanced painting techniques, which allowed the unconscious to be expressed by the self (Martin 1987:26; Pass 2011:30).