Installation art

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…

deterioration of the coral reef. The artwork I plan takes further inspiration from artists including Margaret and Christine Wertheim, Bansky and Jenny Pollack. The Wertheims’ The Bleached Reef and Jenny Pollak’s One Degree of Separation, both of which are installations, reference the fragility of coral reef ecosystems (Pollak, 2012; Wertheim and Wertheim, n.d). The focus and subject matter - particularly in The Bleached Reef, which is a “…testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine…

Traditional art has continued in Asia to this day, but rapid change has been taking place. In many countries across Asia, the problem artists are finding is getting rid of tradition and breaking out of that shell. While many are holding on strong to traditions like calligraphy, and Chinese porcelain ceramic making, others are finding a way to fuse the two together. Now artists are finding ways to use symbols and hints of traditional-based art forms to send political, economic, and…

professor who believes being an artist is not just about being able to make or create art. She believes being an artist is also about being a problem solver as well as making something that means something or that is a part of you. She believes that everyone is an artist in their own way whether it is writing a paper to painting a picture in some ways we are all alike. Amanda Kline is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art here at Otterbein, who also is a Professional Visual Artist on her own…

using his imagination about who lived at an address. Another project is about soccer ball made up of all paper, where it was his first time putting sculptures and paintings near each other. He likes modernization and abstraction. He also makes installations. Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles,…

Running Fence is a piece of Land Art made by two New York artists, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The temporary Earthwork was installed along the coastlines of California in September of 1976, where is stayed up for fourteen days, as documented by Albert and David Maysles in 1978 the film, Running Fence. This film took viewers through the process of installing and fighting for the legal permits needed to install the piece, which was very controversial. Many locals in the town did not believe that…

ART Comparative Essay: Aristotle wrote, “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” Behind every physical piece of artwork comes a deeper significance. Whether it may be an unearthed, individual perspective or a political discussion, art has no boundaries in which expression is limited. Artists often manipulate media and technology to express their own relationships with their environments as a result of their individual context, where in…

Micro theme 3. For micro theme 3, I will compare and contrast two works of art. The painting, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, painted by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer in the 17th century and the photograph of an underwater installation of a concrete statue/bust of a human form called Viccisitudes by Jason de Caires Taylor’s 21st century work. I will describe the works of art and the time periods of their inception. I will discuss how different each setting is that the artists chose for…

from June 28th to September 24th) focuses on these moving images within the intimate outdoor setting as the primary visual stimulation of the installation. Though two dimensional by nature, the specificity and attention to details within the installation creates the illusion that the audience is beneath the surface of the water, viewing the installation from the river bed. Contradicting the traditional cinema, the overhead projection also establishes a sense of parallelism between the salmon…

Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin was received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. Born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin is the…