Conceptual art

Marina Abramović was born in 1946 in Yugoslavia to two military parents with close ties to the communist regime. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, initially wanting to be a painter, but, wanting to explore the creation of art without material objects, she eventually decided to focus on performance art. She has often used her body as her subject and medium throughout her career, testing the limits of the human body’s endurance and putting herself in extreme pain, exhaustion, and…

Arts curriculum in early childhood education overall is the opportunity to let children use their imaginations, and to let them succeed to the best of their abilities. As schools become more advanced, many children are seeing the potential of some form of art education, and what it can do for them in the future. For many kids today, the arts establish a foundation beyond everyday learning. The two most common types of arts curriculum is visual arts and performing arts, with a focus in music,…

Brenda Ways and KT Nelson choreographed/curated Boulder and Bones with Lucy Lippard Escape Attempts by allowing themselves to create a conceptual performative art that was “free to let the[ir] imagination run rampant.” (p.7 ). In order to move away from the traditional conventions of ballet and obtain inspiration and organization for Boulder and Bones, the choreographers collaborated with artists of different mediums was put together which included: Andy Goldsworthy, Zoe Keating, and Rj Muna.…

sketches of what a game will look like. This professional takes a story or theme and invents how the characters, objects, actions, and background sceneries which bring the story to life. The concept art that this person creates is a very important part of the pre-production and production process. Concept art is not just creating an idea out of nothing, it is making many, even hundreds of variations of one character, object,…

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre joins parts of the dialect and iconography of Pop Art with deft Reasonable execution. With a practice that traverses drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and distributing, Ruscha's experience as a visual creator is obvious in his excellent eye for typography and design. He is maybe best known for his craftsman's books, for example, Twentysix Gas Stations (1963)— a pictorial investigation of the fuel stations he experienced on an…

birth, death, and the way the mind works. A lot of his work is very blunt and simplistic – given his focus; that is really the only way he can describe what he is trying to describe. The interesting part of Viola is not just his art, but also the way he sees the world; his art serves simply as a catalyst for this. Despite his simple way of viewing, Viola has lived a colorful life; he worked some interesting jobs such as a video technician, a technical director in Florence, and even worked odds…

were interesting to me on a conceptual level, in practice I did not enjoy them. And I did not want to spend my whole life doing something I would not enjoy. Throughout high school I held the notion that being an artist was not a career possibility, and I was going to have to force myself to be some sort of scientist. The main reason I decided to go to community college was to bide my time and hope that I found a career path I was passionate about. Once I realized that art could be a profession,…

Upon visiting the Jack Shainman Gallery, I was captivated by a light installation piece of art made from a famous photograph. The name of the photograph is called “The Soiling of Old Glory” by Stanley Forman. This picture is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken in Boston during a riot in front of a courthouse in 1976 (Highbrow). The exhibition I chose to study belongs to Hank Willis Thomas and is called What We Ask Is Simple. Just with reading the name alone I was intrigued. To view this…

feminist art movement emerged around the late 1960s. Feminist artists sought after a different world and wanted to change it with their art. The feminist art movement changed woman stereotypes and influenced cultural outlooks. They combined multiple aspects and various medias such as: video art, conceptual art and body art. Feminist artists also opened doors and created opportunities that did not previously exist to minorities and woman artists. It paved a path for identity art and activist art.…

The world of artistry is wrought with misinformation and misdirection. Some would have you believe that art is hard and takes years of practice to master. However, those people are wrong, and you should feel bad for believing them. While the actual skills involved in painting might require some expertise, you don’t really need to be good at it to be an artist. One of the finest pieces of “abstract expressionism” is literally just four, dark lines on a red background (seriously, it’s called Four…