How do we make sense of his Kehinde's work?Identify intertextuality in Kehinde's work?

I sense the Postmodern from Kehinde's painting. His work is very rich colors, has a strong appeal. Background pattern to pattern-based,Together with clothing and skin color gives people a very active feel.Full of modern atmosphere. He mixes hip-hop with Renaissance poses and gets the young men to pose. Kehinde decribes his work as "interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit." Identify intertextuality,I can see in his work is the verticle catagory of intertextuality result from the text in his works are always involved with culture both african-american .

Week 6 last blog for semester 2-Barbara Kruger

American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger is internationally renowned for her signature black, white and red poster-style works of art that convey in-your-face messages on women's rights and issues of power. Coming out of the magazine publishing industry, Kruger knows precisely how to capture the viewer's attention with her bold and witty photomurals displayed on billboards, bus stops and public transportation as well as in major museums and galleries wordwide. She has edited books on cultural theory, including Remaking History for the Dia Foundation, and has published articles in the New York Times, Artforum, and other periodicals. Monographs on her work include Love for Sale, We Won't Play Nature to Your Culture and others. She is represented in New York by Mary Boone Gallery. A major exhibition of her work will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in fall 1999, and at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2000.

Research Kruger's work to find an example from the 1970s or 1980s to compare with a more recent work. How has Kruger's work changed with the developments in contemporary visual arts? Describe a recent work that moves away from the 'poster' type work of her early career.

Find 2-3 works by Kruger to add to your blog.



In my point of view, posters desing is different other ar tworks . It is more like transfer information to everyone.She use the language art to create a strong impact.

Week 5 - Kehinde Wiley

Last weeks ALVC class focused on the Post Modern them "INTERTEXTUALITY", re-read Extract 1 The death of the author on page 44 of your ALVC books and respond to the oil paintings of Kehinde Wiley. How do we make sense of his Kehinde's work? Identify intertextuality in Kehinde's work?

Wiley’s paintings often blur the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation. Rendered in a realistic mode –– while making references to specific old master paintings –– Wiley creates a fusion of period styles, ranging from French rococo, Islamic architecture and West African textile design to urban hip–hop and the "Sea Foam Green" of a Martha Stewart Interiors color swatch. Wiley’s slightly larger than life size figures are depicted in a heroic manner, as their poses connote power and spiritual awakening. Wiley’s portrayal of masculinity is filtered through these poses of power and spirituality.

His portraits are based on photographs of young men who Wiley sees on the street, begun last year with men mostly from Harlem’s 125th Street, the series now includes models from the South Central neighborhood where he was born. Dressed in street clothes, they are asked to assume poses from the paintings of Renaissance masters, such as Titian and Tiepolo. Wiley also embraces French rococo ornamentation; his references to this style complement his embrace of hip–hop culture. Similarly, the poses of his figures appear to derive as much from contemporary hip–hop culture as from Renaissance paintings.


Kehinde's work relates to this weeks Post Modern theme "PLURALISM" re-read page 50 and discuss how the work relates to this theme?

Kehinde Wiley’s works reference specific paintings by Titian and Tiepolo, but he incorporates a range of art historical and vernacular styles in his paintings, from the French Rococo to the contemporary urban street. Wiley collapses history and style into a uniquely contemporary vision. He describes his approach as “interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit.” He makes figurative paintings that “quote historical sources and position young black men within that field of ‘power.’” His “slightly heroic” figures, slightly larger than life size, are depicted in poses of power and spiritual awakening. He deliberately mixes images of power and spirituality, using them as a filter in the portrayal of masculinity.

http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=11

Week 4- Anish Kapoor

elebrated for his gigantic, stainless steel 'Cloud Gate' sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor is changing the cultural environment with his public works.

1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss the ideas behind 3 quite different works from countries outside New Zealand.

His works have a more metropolitan atmosphere, more avant-garde.

2.Discuss the large scale site specific work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.

In addition to their love for art and appreciation, they can also improve the outside of the self-values.




3. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?

Anish Kapoor Site-specific Work at The Farm, Kaipara Bay, New Zealand.
“The Farm,” a 400ha (1,000 acre) private estate outdoor art gallery in Kaipara Bay, north of Auckland, New Zealand. Kapoor’s first outdoor sculpture in fabric, “The Farm” (the sculpture is named after its site), is designed to withstand the high winds that blow inland from the Tasman Sea off the northwest coast of New Zealand’s North Island. The sculpture is fabricated in a custom deep red PVC-coated polyester fabric by Ferrari Textiles supported by two identical matching red structural steel ellipses that weigh 42,750kg each. The fabric alone weighs 7,200kg.

The ellipses are orientated one horizontal, the other vertical. Thirty-two longitudinal mono-filament cables provide displacement and deflection resistance to the wind loads while assisting with the fabric transition from horizontal ellipse, to a perfect circle at midspan, through to the vertical ellipse at the other end. The sculpture, which passes through a carefully cut hillside, provides a kaleidoscopic view of the beautiful Kaipara Harbor at the vertical ellipse end and the hand contoured rolling valleys and hills of “The Farm” from the horizontal ellipse. Fabrication and installation of the art piece is by Structurflex Ltd., of Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand, overall engineering is by Structure Design Ltd., membrane engineering by Compusoft Engineering Ltd.


http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0110_sk_sculpture.html

4. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and why.

I realy like the first picture(A new sculpture by Anish Kapoor 'Tall Tree and the Eye' is displayed in the courtyard of The Royal Academy on September 22, 2009 in London. The Anish Kapoor exhibition runs from September 26 to December 11, 2009 at The Royal Academy. (September 21, 2009 - Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images Europe) )
It gives my personal feeling is like looking for us in this complex world position, in every corner of our shadow, but in the end there in the true position of their own.

Youtube has some excellent footage on Kapoor-take a look at Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy!!

Week 3 - The Walters Prize 2010

1. What is the background to the Walters Prize?

The Walters Prize is a biennial award for New Zealand artists who have made an outstanding contribution to the visual arts in the previous two years. Honouring the life and artistic legacy of Gordon Walters (1919 – 1995), the award was founded by the Auckland Art Gallery in 2002. The prize includes NZ$50,000 and an all expense paid trip to New York to exhibit at Saatchi & Saatchi’s world headquarters


2. List the 4 selected artists for 2010 and briefly describe their work.

Saskia Leek
New Zealand, born 22 Oct 1970
Yellow is the putty of the world. Oil on board.


Dan Arps
New Zealand, born 1976
Explaining Things 2008 mixed media


Fiona Connor
New Zealand, born 1981
Something Transparent


Alex Monteith
New Zealand, United Kingdom, born 1977
Passing Manoeuvre with 2 motorcycles and 584 vehicles for two channel video. Dual channel video installation.

3. Who are the jury members for 2010?
Jon Bywater - Programme Leader, Critical Studies at Elam School of Fine Art, The University of Auckland.
Rhana Devenport - Director, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Leonhard Emmerling - Visual Arts Adviser, Goethe Institute, Munich, Germany, former Director, ST PAUL St, AUT University
Kate Montgomery - Director, Physics Room, Christchurch

4. Who is the judge for 2010 and what is his position in the art world?
Vicente was director of London's Tate Modern from 2003-2010. He was a prime mover in the Tate's global success - now the most visited modern art museum in the world. From 1989-96 Todolí was artistic director for The Valencia Institute for Modern Art (IVAM), Spain, and before it opened he was their Chief curator. Throughout his distinguished career he organised and curated internationally renowned exhibitions of work by contemporary artists, making him the perfect choice to be this years judge.

5. Who would you nominate for this years Walter's Prize, and why? Substantiate
you answer by outlining the strengths of the artists work. How does this relate
to your interests in art? What aspect of their work is successful in your opinion,
in terms of ideas, materials and/or installation of the work?
6. Comment on other blogs from your ALVC group to agree or disagree with other people,always backing up your answer with clearly stated reasons.


I think Dan Arps will nominated for this years Walter`s Prize.Because I think his work is more of real life. I appreciate his work when the time will give me a kind of brings me to the feeling of his work. I think this gives a more profound thought, but his work is to express meaning, and better understand his inner world.He also used the material goods of life, people can be easily accepted.

Week 2 - Hussein Chalayan

Hussein Chalayan is an artist and designer, working in film, dress and installation art. Research Chalayan’s work, and then consider these questions in some thoughtful reflective writing.

1. Chalayan’s works in clothing, like Afterwords (2000) and Burka (1996) , are often challenging to both the viewer and the wearer. What are your personal responses to these works? Are Afterwords and Burka fashion, or are they art? What is the difference?

There are inconceivable works.And I think Chalayan`s works is art.because it is want to express a social situation.

Not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?

Art is more idear,but fiashion is not .Fashion is more social phenomenon.





2. Chalayan has strong links to industry. Pieces like The Level Tunnel (2006) and Repose (2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by, commercial business; in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal manufacturer. How does this impact on the nature of Chalayan’s work? Does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? Is it still art?

It is still art ,only allow more people to understand and access to the arts.


3. Chalayan’s film Absent Presence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale. It features the process of caring for worn clothes, and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements; can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired Chalayan’s approach?

Modern art, we can continue to see the new technology the use of technology, we can see a lot of the technology in the technology embodied in the artistic act.


4. Many of Chalayan’s pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else; for example, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson made some works from Chalayan’s Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in art it remains unexpected. Work by artists such as Jackson Pollock hold their value in the fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol’s pop art was largely produced in a New York collective called The Factory, and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarily, Damien Hirst doesn’t personally build his vitrines or preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?

I think every work of art is a response to an artist's inner world, artistic, background, outlook on life, world view, it is because the artists themselves to complete, but now many large works of art can also be accomplished by a team work, but the core of this team should be only one center.

Semester 2- Week One

Nathalie Djurberg's 'Claymations'.


Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg's intricately constructed claymation films are both terrifyingly
disturbing and artlessly sweet.


The new works created for the Venice Biennale explore a surrealistic Garden of Eden in which all that is natural goes awry.


She exposes the innate fear of what is not understood and confronts viewers with the complexity of emotions.

Nathalie Djurberg was awarded the silver lion for a promising young artist at the Venice
Art Biennale 09.
(http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/6886/nathalie-djurberg)

Research Djurberg's work in order to answer the following questions;


1. What do you understand by the word 'claymation'?

Claymation is the generalized term for clay animation, a form of stop animation using clay. The term claymation was coined by its creator, Will Vinton, owner of an animation studio that worked with clay artists to create clay animation. Claymation involves using objects or characters sculpted from clay or other moldable material, and then taking a series of still pictures that are replayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement. Some of the more famous claymation characters in history include Gumby and Pokey, Wallace and Gromit, and the California Raisins. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-claymation.htm



2. What is meant by the term 'surrealistic Garden of Eden'? and 'all that is natural goes awry'?

I think she used her own artistic expression to present a Garden of Eden in people's eyes. But the Garden of Eden compared to the book, her work is full of strange feeling.


3. What are the 'complexity of emotions' that Djurberg confronts us with?

The color of her works from complex characters and exaggerated facial expressions, so I understand her complex feelings.

4. How does Djurberg play with the ideas of children's stories, and innocence in some of her work?

Complex and bright colors, people, animals face exaggerated facial expressions, the location of placing the characters in the scene, there are people and animals`s body movements are used,there are all in her children`s stories, and innocence in some of work.

5. There is a current fascination by some designers with turning the innocent and sweet into something disturbing. Why do you think this has come about?

I personally think that in order to have greater visual impact, and contrast to attract people's attention.


6. In your opinion, why do you think Djurberg's work is so interesting that it was chosen for the Venice Biennale?

Through Djurberg's work,I can see her performance with the fairy tale way to show dark said of society,and thus play fable of warning.


7. Add some of your own personal comments on her work

Her work is so amazing and incredible .Let us once again to think about our role in this society,use the perspective of children.