Installation art

Korean-American artist Nam June Paik is recognized throughout the world as being “The Father of Video Art” for his radical artistic perspectives and ability to use technology as a creative medium in his work. Paik’s artwork and ideals primarily encompass culture and identity. Paik is able to convey these messages through his technological views, which are intertwined with his realistic vision of society, and conceptualized in some of his most famous pieces: Electronic Super Highway, TV Garden,…

graffiti artists that are allowed to spray paint walls or subways, for work and volunteer serves, can be seen as legal graffiti. The attitudes towards graffiti have changed because people think graffiti is an artwork, people are connecting with this art, and people think that graffiti artists need to be out there more in the world. One way the attitudes towards graffiti changed, is that people think that graffiti is artwork. One example that the attitude towards graffiti changed…

Dada was an anti-art movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland in the early 20th century in 1916 (Young). The term anti-art refers to a rebellion against the war and destruction that had happened years before. It started as a response to World War I and the nationalism that it is believed led to the war (Elza Adamowicz). It was influenced by other avant-garde movements such as Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism (Craft). The name Dada is known to have been selected at random from a dictionary,…

hypochondria as a child. He illuminated the world by changing the way people thought about pop art. Warhol created a styles of art where abstract color is added to popular figures. “ Warhol was one of the founders of pop art, a stylistic movement that representationally portrays the collective subconscious psyche of society through the common images of…

openings and a crowd of visitors that temporarily takes over sites and public spaces that host these biennials. These iconic events which recur at every predetermined number of years render a feeling of happening — a redefinition of the contemporary art scene. But do these images conjured correspond to the reality of biennial events? What differentiates a biennial from other exhibitions that are equally impactful in the history of exhibitions such as “When Attitudes Become Form, Bern 1969”,…

Bruce Nauman’s One Hundred Live and Die, 1984, is an intricate piece combining the world of high art and the low art of advertisement using word play. It is a work containing one hundred words, fifty with “live” following them and fifty with “die,” in neon lights that light up individually, in rows, and then all together, creating visual patterns. The word combinations include actions, emotions, and colors. One Hundred Live and Die uses the game of language to leave the meaning of the work open…

something art. For many it used to only express and ideology and was made for churches and commissioned for royalty or religious leaders. That notion has changed and for the better. Art is a fundamental human aspect that takes expression in many forms. The creativity shapes cultures and highlights the expertness. For this paper I am going to focus in only visual art such as sculpture, paintings and installations. Art reaches many mediums but my focus will be on the natural progression of art…

Water Light Graffiti. This is an interactive art instillation that has a moisture-sensitive surface. The instillation is equipped with thousands of LEDs in order to created illuminated art. The LEDs light up when touched by water. Water Light Graffiti is a very interesting and beautiful art instillation. Water plays a crucial part in this instillation. When water touches the “canvass”, it creates an electrical bridge and gives the power for the installation to light up. The wetter canvass gets,…

Jeff became famous from his everyday installations, he went to the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. In 1974, Jeff saw an exhibition of Jim Nutt. From seeing Jim Nutt’s artworks he exchanged to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago then moved back to Maryland Institute. After graduating with a BFA in 1976, Jeff sold memberships in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Koons later worked on Wall Street as a commodities broker and had a hobby of art as a pass time. Jeff found…

will offer an in depth discussion of her life, her art, and its reception. My analysis will focus on two series of work that include sculptures she has made in recent years. Warashina was born in Spokane, WA in 1940. She attended the University of Washington where she received her BFA in 1962, and later received her MFA in 1964. Her career as an artist spans over fifty years and coincides with…