Marina Abramovic is known for completely excluding using paint and canvas for her art. She is a performance artist, Marina uses her body as the medium between her and the audience. In her piece “The Artist is Present”, she sits with hundreds of people for several months without showing any emotion. Marina is simply present at the moment she is sitting with different people, while the person sitting shows tremendous feelings towards Marina. Marina has a gift of making people think she is in love with them. Her fans that were able to sit with her explain their time with Marina as life changing. She is the greatest living performance artist and that is why she is why she will be remembered as the grandmother of performance
Artists use their artworks to communicate different meanings and transfer specific messages to the audience. Their artworks can be presented in different forms like architecture, drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery and many other forms. Each artwork contains a specific meaning which is usually based on the artist 's beliefs, culture, identity and the nature surrounding us. Rona Rubuntja from the Hermannsburg Potters, Bronwyn Oliver, Christo and Jeanne Claude each presented their art in different forms but they all communicate meanings and ideas to the audience. Rona Rubuntja who is a senior member of the Hermannsburg Potters and her famous pottery work ‘I 'm Black’ for the exhibition ‘Our Land is Alive’ at the National Gallery of
Art is one of the most fascinating attractions that the world has to offer us. From its smallest art pieces to its enormous architectural designs. Art doesn’t have an age, whether it was made during the time of our ancestors the Homo erectus or as new as our present day. Art is a way of expression, to tell someone a story about a person event or thing. In this research essay I will be describing the Art work which I have researched that are most fascinating to me.
The Effect pop culture has on having companionship (having friends vs being lonely) As teenagers currently, we are in the center of pop culture, sometimes caring more about what is popular versus what is right and what is comfortable. Pop culture is an evolving spectrum that can be moved from someone getting a pat on the back for dabbing after winning a wrestling match in march to now the next January and we say, “dude, did you really just dab, are you a middle schooler?” Pop Culture has shown that having friends is better than being alone in the long run. This is best illustrated by the movie Home Alone, the Legend trilogy by Marie Lu and the TV series Scorpion.
Within the case study “Is the Rookie Ready?” by Sarah Green, both a unit head and project manager face the challenge of performing rushed risk analysis. The context of this case study will be used throughout the remainder of this paper and the details are described in the sections that follow.
The innovative and passionate presence in both Jackson Pollock’s and Wassily Kandinsky avant-garde paintings exemplifies the redefinition of boundaries throughout their art making practices. Both artists challenged traditions both materially and conceptually using innovative and diverse approaches to materials and techniques when painting. Wassily Kandinsky goes against traditions and academies to create vivid, sensual and symbolic large-scale semi abstract expressionist oil paintings in a heightened state of mind. Many artworks of his convey bright and cheerful spontaneous colours that make the audience fully consumed within his works due to hypnotic and distorted semi realist shapes. Consequently, Jackson Pollock also goes against
The analysis of art and visual culture has many analysts divided into different camps. From formalists to Marxists, there are as many different forms of art analysis as there are art movements. Different forms of analysis can divide theorists, driving them further apart. But different analyses can actually collaborate to create a stronger analysis. In Marina Abramovic’s piece Dragon Heads, different forms of analysis open the work up to deeper meaning. New meanings and interpretations are formed through the process of various different forms of analysis.
At first sight, the painting viewers would realize a young girl floating in the water while she is crying. Viewers may see the painting has been created my hands after spending little more time looking at the painting. This painting is nice because it’s detailed, designed, colored in a nice manner. One does not understands painting much, may has a good understanding of this unique design. Her face is floating on the water as tears streams down on her cheeks while her eyes are closed simply shows the young women heart is
The majority of her artworks consisted of her painting her reality and the film laid out her life in order starting from her earliest painting to her last painting. By starting the film with one of her earliest painting and describing her life from there and on, allowed us the audience to understand her thinking and reality from an older age compared to if it was started from her childhood. By utilizing the her painting as a source of explaining her life, we gain primary and unbiased interpretation from her
James Franco, Kim Stanley Robinson and Lady Gaga are one the biggest fans of the artist Marina Abramovic. At first, I didn’t understand why anybody can really enjoy her art until I learned more about her biography. I watched the first minutes of the film and the only thought I had was that this lady was insane.
Some people think her work is non-emotional and chilly. They are all about the Pop culture itself, and the vanity, fantasy of the modern products and commodities. However, in her paintings, it indeed has her critical position and attitude of the social issues. The rigid faceless, even headless people, they are artfully showing the de-individualize in the overwhelming consumer culture,
Emin has her first solo show called “My Major Retrospective”. The autobiographical exhibit consisted of photographs, pictures of earlier paintings and other person objects, such as a pack of cigarettes her uncle was holding when he was killed in a car crash. The public display of the work and intimate life details became the trademark of her work and so many people were interested in it.
We often find ourselves met with the difficulty of expressing our true emotions. An experience of pure emotion or impact is something to be shared, but as we share these ideas this difficulty of expression results in an incomplete story. We want our stories and our feelings to be effectively translated between us and our audience, however words often fail this effective translation of expression and emotion. Frida Kahlo and Marcel Duchamp offer different mediums of expression through their art. In Kahlo’s work, the raw emotion of pain and the presentation of political issues are prominent, while Duchamp presents the fluidity and range of art that captures the freedom of personal expression. To elaborate, art can be interpreted in a variety of ways as ‘pictures are worth a thousand words.’ Because of this, the
When I first walked into the Art Gallery, I did not walk in with an open mind. I came in thinking it would be boring and unappealing. I always thought of art as nothing but a cluster of pictures, drawings and sculptures. To my surprise, after walking around and taking everything in, I became enthralled with what I saw. The Art Gallery was very spacious, sterilized, and everything had its own area. Out of two of the main artists that was showcased, Nadine Saitlin’s displays is what fascinated me the most.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth and George Orwell’s Animal Farm are two different stories with one common element: the main characters become leaders of their land. Animal farm is a literary creation which draws parallels with Communism and the USSR's Communist leader Joseph Stalin. Stalin is represented by a pig character by the name of Napoleon. In Macbeth, the main character is portrayed as a mighty warrior and then becomes the King of Scotland. It is unmistakable that Shakespeare’s Macbeth has a similar character to George Orwell’s Napoleon from Animal Farm, as evident through both characters’ hunger for power, ruthless characteristic, and secretive nature.
Artworks are put together in every Levels of the building. As soon as I walked into the exhibit I noticed An Artwork which was made by a lot of leaf-like cuts colorful pieces of Paper which reminded me the color of the spring season. The lights were dim and there was a deep silence that gives the opportunity to focus on the Artworks. And the videos that were playing on the side wall helped me to understand the artwork and also to connect with the artist. The deep silence gave the room a very influential grace. I walked into American Indian Artist in a residential studio and one thing caught my eye. The “Muds women roll on” sculpture which is the mother holding the first huge child, who’s holding the next child and who’s holding the next child and so on. Besides the attraction, it has a great meaning about how we all are connected by one mother which is earth.