Installation art

Dale Chihuly’s installations do not only appear in Museum’s. Two Chandeliers were set up at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. Dr. Jonas Salk, the founder of the Institute, commissioned Chihuly, because he believed that art and science coincide. These chandeliers were specifically designed to hang between the towers, bordering the courtyard. Each chandelier contained a different color-scheme, but both were vivid colors that could serve as an inspiration to the…

Every form of art contains an aspect of representation, but the exploration of representation as a theme is dependent on each individual piece. Representation is often found as a theme in public art pieces and two public art pieces that masterfully capture this are Gisele Amantea’s Memento (Poodle) and Douglas Coupland’s Golden Tree. Both use the theme of representation in contrasting and harmonious forms while incorporating iconization. Gisele Amantea’s public art installation Memento…

In many ways the 60s of the 20th century have given art a new face. The artistic reactions to formative events and sentiments of their time designed a portrait of an era, which revealed complex social changes, turbulent political developments and rapid technological progress. Since the end of the second World War artists conceptualized new artistic ideas like autonomy, authorship, form, originality and transformed them into their own language in order to find a new artistic technique. One of…

Feminist Art Movement Women have always been present in male’s most famous art works, but the question was why there were no famous women artists? In male’s art pieces women have always been either sexualized and desirable creatures (such as Monet’s Olympia or GUSTAVE MOREAU’s Dance of Salome)) or traditional role of mothers and housewives (such as Blessed Art thou Among Women by GERTRUDE KÄSEBIER). The feminist art movement began in 19060’s and reflects art made by women about their…

filled the huge Turbine Hall of London’s Tate Modern. The installation of 100,000 million sunflower seeds also included booths on each side of the exhibit housing video interactive video equipment allowing the viewers to ask questions to Ai that he answered via Tate website. The other installation is in “Evidence” series 2014, named “Stools”. The “Evidence” exhibit was unveiled first in Berlin’s Martin-Gropius Bau museum. These two art installations convey similar meaning, however using…

The talents of Maya Lin in the field of visual arts and the built environment know no boundaries. Early on in her career, she was already able to break down the stereotypes of how architectural public spaces should be. To date, Maya Lin continues to explore different aspects of visual representation through design, architecture, sculpture, crafts and design philosophy. Maya Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio to Chinese migrant parents. Artistry, creative and deep thinking runs in…

The Rice Gallery museum will display 'Intersections', a sculptural installation designed by Anila Quayyum Agha until Dec. 6. It effectively manipulates the gallery space, engages the visitors and provides a window into the mind of the artist. Yet it lacks context, appropriates the best of Moorish art, and ultimately turns a social critique into a mere illustration of exclusion. The design and detail of the piece is incredible, the effect visceral, and despite its contextual shortcomings it…

and delicate plants are living in a world all of their own, indifferent towards humankind and its world. There does not seem to be one clear narrative within the installation, since the flowers and plants endlessly float within the piece in an endless loop. This a common theme with Steinkamp’s pieces (Exhibit-e.com). Throughout the art world, critics and admirers of her, claim she is “a sort of Creator with a capital ‘C.’ She Creates the flowers, plants, and environments in which they operate,…

Art is continually evolving and expanding to better reflect what an artist is trying to express through their work. An artist’s inspiration for their artwork is generally derived from the emotions they feel throughout their lifetime. These emotions stem from the world and events that surround an artist which determines their theme, or content, within a piece of work. The subject matter is then chosen as a means to express to the sentiments the artist is trying to convey. Given an artist’s…

members of an audience to see that each of them can participate in the life of the work while recognizing that the same possibility holds for others” (Ananta, 2000 p.244) . Does an artwork have to authentically represent reality to be classified as ‘good art’? This essay will firstly explain what is meant by the concept of representation then will continue with using two supporting case studies including Yinke Shonibare intallation of The Swing in 2011 and . According to Harvard style…