Installation art

Julian Opie is an English sculptor, painter, printmaker and installation artist that was born in London in the year 1958 and was raised in Oxford and he belongs to the New British Sculpture movement, he is one of the UK's best-known contemporary artists. He graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in 1983 The new British sculpture movement started in the United Kingdom and is a term that is applied to a group of young sculptors that first started emerging at exhibitions at the start of…

Postmodern dance is a 20th century dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition. The postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson Dance Theatre, the home of postmodern dance. (Wikipedia, 2017) Postmodern dance…

James Turrell has won many awards because of his unique way of displaying his works of art. His pieces include the movements of Contemporary, Minimalism, and Optical Art. When you first see his work, you might not even consider it art. However, once you learn about his intentions, you hopefully will see the beauty and determination hidden behind the plain displays. James Turrell was born on May 6, 1943. He lived in Los Angeles for most of his life and went to Pasadena High School and…

Clever TITLE here The Octavia Art Gallery currently exhibits two artists: Regina Scully and Iva Gueorguieva. Regina Scully’s works consisted of acrylics of an abstract nature. The use of various vibrant colours in her works, as well as their abstract and subjective essence, made them fascinating to behold. Her work reminded me of Kandinsky’s. I could have spent close to an hour fully examining and exploring her many works in the Gallery. Conversely, I would and did spend minimal time observing…

use durational performance to show how the body goes through time? Marilyn Arsem is an American contemporary artist who has been creating live art since 1975. “Her work bridges the boundaries between performance in everyday life (or cultural performance) and performance art.” (Anderson and Arsem, 1995). Arsem’s work ranges from installation and interaction art to site-specific work. The majority of her most recent work has been site-specific, focusing on the site’s history or politics, and…

that the universe is identical with divinity. Schneemann says her earliest connection with art and sexuality was with her drawings between the ages of four and five. She had drawn her father's prescription tablets. “Schneemann's family was generally supportive of her naturalness and freeness with her body.” Carolee Schneemann attended many schools, Bard College where she received her Bachelor of Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana, Columbia University and the New School for Social…

of New York City. She attended the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1987-88, but it wasn 't until 1991 when she received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC. Eight years later, Donavan went back and earned her Masters of fine arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first show at Hemphill Fine Arts, in Washington, DC was a huge success and inspired her to quit her bartending job and solely focus on art. Donavan has been represented…

contemporary art practices increasingly become more ephemeral and context specific, the question of photography’s status as a proper art medium seems to be challenged more than ever. Not so unlike what french poet Charles Baudelaire famously declared in 1859 about photography being a “handmaiden to the arts and sciences,” in a world of performance and installation art, photography has been employed as a record-keeper and documentor. Its role is to make the marketable the “unsellable” art being…

site-specific, permanent land art, as well as a piece of Pop Art, utilising an iconic brand to encapsulate the period in which it was created. To gain critical understanding of Prada Marfa, one must analyse the social context in which it was created. Using Janet Wolff’s theory…

Imagine a ceiling covered in Styrofoam cups assembled together so intricately and catching the light so meticulously that the material used looks far more advanced than an everyday manufactured item. Imagine a giant cube of toothpicks being held together by just the weight of the other surrounding toothpicks, causing it to be so fragile and vulnerable yet so sturdy at the same time. Imagine a plethora of metal Slinky’s intertwined and entangled in such a way it looks as though they are wrestling…