Several of Fridriks' series of paintings are constantly reworked through elaborate perspective studies, while their epic proportions show her exceptional skills in playing with the size, thickness, and format of the canvases. Claude Rutault is one of the most significant French conceptual artists, best known for his extraordinary artworks that merge together different mediums like painting, sculpture and architecture. Since his early ' 70s art , Rutault has been creating his artworks that employ his so-called de-finition method , a step-by-step procedure which allows anyone to re-create his paintings.
For example, the de-finition method 1 of reads: a canvas braced on a stretcher, painted the same color as the wall on which it is hung. These time consuming and labor demanding installations represent artist's visual commentary of consumerist culture and mass production, and show his careful artistic observation of the sunlight in nature.
Preschoux creates them spontaneously, with no previous graphic guides or drawings, starting with nothing more than single center point from which he disperses strings to various different endpoints. Preschoux's string installations are made permanent by photographer Ludovic Le Couster, who captures their photographs with strategic lighting carefully placed in such a way that the stretched pieces of thread turn to mesmerizing vibrant stills. Jenny Holzer is one of the most famous and most awarded American conceptual artist from New York, widely praised for her provocative language based public works that deal with powerful subjects of consumerism, torture, disease and death.
Holzer began her highly prolific career in s and she quickly got noticed for her Truism series of confrontational one-line aphorisms she used to wheat-paste to buildings, walls and fences in and around Manhattan. Holzer's unsettling words of wisdom, often written by others, have since appeared everywhere, from posters, billboards, T-shirts and condoms to illuminated electronic displays and xenon light projections on buildings and other architectural structures.
More recently Jenny Holzer created and acclaimed series of captivating screen printing paintings featuring declassified government documents pertaining to prisoner abuse. Conceptual artist Zhang Huan is highly influential and internationally renowned among Chinese artists , widely praised for his extraordinary and highly provocative artworks in performance art, sculpture, painting and photography. Huan began his career as a member of a small avant-garde artistic community, known as Beijing East Village, during the early s.
He started off as a painter and slowly turned his focus on socially engaged performance art, which gained him huge attention of an art audience but also of the police that closed down the community soon enough. In more recent years Zhang Huan returned to creating paintings, sculptures, and large scale installations, most famous being his astonishing series of ash paintings of endangered Chinese tigers, and extraordinary sculptures of Buddha faces made of cow skin.
Adam McEwen is an English conceptual artist, living and working in New York City, best known for his artworks that appropriate vernacular forms of everyday consumer products and objects and repurpose them in new, unexpected contexts. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph, McEwen went further and began producing his now famous obituaries of living people, such as Jeff Koons and Bill Clinton, cleverly crossing the line between fiction and history.
But what gained him international acclaim are McEwen's paintings created using wads of chewing gum on canvas that reference the carpet bombing of German cities and towns in the WWII, as well as his graphite sculptures of banal, everyday objects such as ATM machines, water coolers and air conditioners which recall the funeral solemnity of memorials.
Ai Weiwei is a multifaceted visual artist, political activist, and curator and one of China's most famous and highly influential artists, widely recognized for his brave conceptual art pieces which are often openly critical of the Chinese government and the state of human rights in his homeland.
Merz was a nonsense word that the artist used to describe himself, his life, and his work, meaning that his Merzbau was essentially his merz -building. Over the years his studio took on the form of a walk-in collage, ever-shifting and ever-growing, composed of columns and stalagmites of found objects.
Schwitters grew his Merzbau over time, eventually consuming eight rooms in his home in Hannover from roughly until , when he was forced to flee to Norway to escape Nazi Germany. By utilising mirrors as walls Kusama was able to translate the repetition of her earlier artworks into an art installation, a seemingly endless room carpeted with polka-dotted fabric phallic structures.
Since she has created over twenty more distinct Infinity Mirror Rooms from peep-show-reminiscent boxes that audiences view from the outside-in, to larger multimedia installations full of internally-mirrored inflated polka dots. This museum, or rather, art installation, took place in his own home in Brussels and was comprised of several different elements; among which were postcards, a ladder, and numerous empty crates.
Thus bringing the power of the student protests during which the installation was conceived throughout Europe. From March to June of Matta-Clark used a chainsaw to effectively bisect a New Jersey home acquired by his dealer Holly Solomon and slated for demolition due to land speculation.
After the abrupt eviction of the previous owners, Matta-Clark was struck by the hastiness by which they left their belongings, inspiring him to chronical his Splitting from the inside of the home outwards through film. This film shows the fragmentation of the domestic space, with light and air seeping into the rooms through massive architectural gashes in the building, evoking both his own and the universal disintegration of the family.
Each deeply personalised and characteristic setting honours a historical or mythical female figure: including artists, goddesses, academics, and activists and containing an intricately embroidered runner, chalice, utensils, and china-painted porcelain plates.
The floor on which the table sits honours an additional women, whose names are inscribed in gold on the white tile. Discipline All Installation art Robotics. No matches for this selection. Try changing the filters.
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