Conceptual metaphor

Pablo Helguera Definition of Socially Engaged Art Pablo Helguera is a highly viewed in the field of practitioner, educator and socially engaged art. Helguera integrates his artistic abilities to the problem of social engaged art. He served as director of adult and academic programs in the department of education at the Museum of Modern art in New York since 2007. His visual art includes social engagement, historical research, pedagogy and language. He is also a author of many books, including…

The subject matter of Paul Strand’s Porch Shadows is abstracted by limitations of the artist’s preconceived techniques. Strand isolated the subject’s basic formal elements to make it an aesthetically pleasing photograph and nothing more. Anyone can photograph an object, yet it takes a trained eye and a defined strategy to reduce the object into an abstract form. Porch Shadows exemplifies the Modernist shift in photography by rejecting previous conventions of artistic expression and adopting a…

Cuban-born, gay visual artist, known for his installation art and sculpture, Felix-Gonzales Torres is one of my favorite conceptual artist that I’ve learned about in class. He was known for his minimal installations, sculptures in which he used materials like lightbulbs strings, different clocks, stacked paper, and packaged hard candies. Torres graduated from Colegio San Jorge in 1976 after that he then began his art studies at University of Puerto Rico where he effectively participated in the…

Radical Notions Conceptual Art and the Importance of Language Conceptual art as defined by Lucy Lippard in Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972 is “work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialised’” (1997 vii). Unlike their traditional predecessors, the Conceptualists of the late 1960’s believed that arts true purpose lied solely in the work’s conceptual connotations; in a…

In the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wide writes: “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors”. Discuss this statement with close reference to the text. Introduction The quote, “It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,” is a case in point of Dorian Gray’s portrait. Dorian’s image reflects his inner self, and mirrors his soul. The Picture of Dorian Gray highlights the idea of aestheticism and challenges influence of art over an individual instead…

Iteration on Stanley Street 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 2010 A relatively small gallery in the middle of Stanley Street brings together three artist displaying their artworks that vary in scale, medium, and character. The gallery standings in the heart of Sydney’s Darlinghurst art precinct, the exciting energetic gallery displays works of mostly Australian Artists. Showcases the works of established and emerging artists. The space is a multi-disciplinary…

Performance art is one of the contemporary art form, which origin in Europe. It determines as the process that artist using real world element as medium to express their concept, the elements including time, environment and even artist’s own body. However, currently, performance art usually involve with sex, blood and violence. It leads to the criticism from audiences. In terms of the series of threatening bodywork, performance art is always been considered as a controversial art form.…

Damien Hirst Damien is an artist that uses different kinds of mediums and has different areas of interest as far as art goes much like that of Leonardo Da Vinci. He is famous for his work based on dead creatures of all sorts and his questioning of existence. Yet again another artist breaking through barriers in the world of art, while still maintaining a somewhat traditional style of art at the same time. Some of Damien’s most famous pieces of artwork are that which portray death in some manner…

Merging the Traditional and the Modern Introduction Throughout the history of art, a variety of artists made contributions in expanding the definition of art. Some dedicated their energy in a restrained way as a personal practice, some devoted their energy into fiercely challenging the society’s current aesthetic conventions. The two artists I am going to discuss in this essay are Marcel Duchamp and Gerhard Richter. Even though they lived in different time periods, they are both influential to…

Modern and Contemporary Conceptual Art “I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.” Marcel Duchamp. As I personally have never been one to make conceptual art work with ease; I have decided to explore the conceptual. My exploration starts with Marcel Duchamp. It is said that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades changed the way we think about art. Duchamp argued that aesthetics and skill were not what made art, it was the artists idea that mattered. This idea is where the ready-mades…