Art 318 Conceptual Design: Time Memory Place Presentation.ppt
- 1. Art 318
- 2. Bethan Huws, The Lake Writing, 1991 "the grass is very very dark green and reflecting a kind of rich brown color in between. And there is some kind of brown color in the grasses as well”
- 3. By limiting the factors of landscape painting, by writing a landscape instead of painting it, the artist reduces landscape painting to description, acknowledging the impossibility of any attempt to definitively capture the natural world. The Lake Writing is refreshingly simple. Reading it is a kind of meditation. Its economy of production serves as a reminder that art doesn't need to consume a lot of resources or take a lot of space. -Marcus Civin
- 4. Time
- 5. Watch Andy Warhol’s “Empire” Film Look it up on you tube. Watch it for 10 min
- 6. Time Art that considers how time is counted and calculated—using clocks, calendars, metronomes, and other devices—is at the heart of many significant works of contemporary art. Human awareness of time also is deeply tied to our consciousness of our own bodies.
- 7. On Kawara: Date Painting 1966–1968, 1989
- 8. Theme: Time Transience, permanence, change, moment, now, then, duration, pause, minute, hour, year, past, present, future, eternity. These words identify some of the concepts we use as we think about time. Markers of tense, which distinguish the past, present, and future, are features of languages across the globe.
- 9. Theme: Time • In contemporary society, a powerful change in our sense of time is being shaped by the relentless, rapid, never- ending, never-stopping flow of information and capital.
- 10. Cynthia Daignault’s installation, I Love You More Than One More Day (2013)
- 11. Time as a Medium Time becomes a medium whenever an artwork can actually move and change. Sometimes movement is an optical illusion, as in a film, which is a sequence of still photographs shown in rapid succession.
- 12. Watch “The Way Things Go” by Fischili and Weis
- 13. Peter Fischli and David Weiss | Still from Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), 1985–1987
- 14. Performance Art Time as a medium: When time functions as a medium, the artist makes the variability or plasticity of time itself an integral component of the artwork. For example, since ancient times, many cultures have had live art activities that encompass elements of theater and visual art (with similarities to what today we refer to as performance art).
- 15. Kinetic Art Another ancient form that requires the artist to consider time as a medium is kinetic art, art that contains moving parts. Contemporary artists continue to create projects involving kinetic components.
- 16. Tim Hawkinson | Spin Sink (1 Rev./100 Years), 1995
- 17. Theme: Time Visual artists who utilize film and video as mediums explore temporal dimensions (such as duration, pacing, and the unfolding of a narrative) in ways that differ profoundly from how a visual artist works in a static medium. According to artist Tacita Dean, “Film is time made manifest.”
- 18. Live Art Live art take place in real space and time. In 2010, at the Museum of Modern Art, an artist performed an intense version of interhuman exchange every day the museum was open for two and a half months. She sat in silence for hours at a table and visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from her, one at a time, staring into her eyes.
- 20. Process Art Artists interested in showing the passage of time might build observable physical change into their works. The term process art refers to art made from mutable materials, such as asphalt, wax, plants, felt, latex, ice, and water, whose form is a result of natural processes or forces.
- 21. Andy Goldsworthy | Early Morning Calm (1988)
- 22. Jennifer Bartlett Rhapsody “Most paintings, perhaps, attempt to isolate for their purposes the narrowest possible increment of an event; a consensual approximation of time tends to be assumed. But in these paintings, time is the stated subject.” -Deborah Eisenberg on Jennifer Bartlett
- 23. On Midnight: “this is a light fixture above my bed, seen form lying flat underneath It. It’s the moment when you absolutely can’t go to sleep.” -Jennifer Bartlett
- 25. “The paintings have a directness because they’re about terror and safety, and everyone experiences that in some way” -Bartlett
- 27. Ai Wei Wei
- 32. Heide Fasnacht
- 34. “Confronted with such an intense created space, the viewer is left to meditate on the shape and meaning of the illusion.” -Megan McMillan
- 35. Tehching Hsieh
- 36. Tehching Hsieh
- 37. Memory
- 38. Theme: Memory Memory is a focus of research in a broad range of fields. Memory also is an important topic in contemporary art. What do we know about how our memories operate? Memory is not a simple recording device that preserves everything our senses take in. Memory filters and selects, reorders and distorts. Our memories are fragmented, scattered, and often unreliable.
- 39. Doris Salcedo | Atrabiliarios, 1992- 2004
- 40. Theme: Memory In art, memory relates closely to the themes of time and place. For example, artists might explore how a landscape and cityscape are marked by the passage of time as physical changes are wrought on places by human and natural forces.
- 41. Theme: Memory History refers to a recording and analysis of the past, performed from a perspective that aims for factuality, even neutrality. But as professional historians recognize, history can never be impartial. Memory recognizes that our views of the past are never impersonal.
- 42. Anselm Kiefer
- 43. “Kiefer worked with the conviction that art could heal a traumatized nation and a vexed, divided world.” -Simmons
- 46. Kerry James Marshall | Many Mansions 1994
- 48. Walter Martin & Paloma Munoz
- 51. “We feel our way around things we don't understand. To imagine a world after the worst has happened somehow relieves some of the anxiety of anticipation and unknowing” -Martin/Munoz
- 53. Relic An artist who wants to suggest that he or she is being more or less truthful and accurate about the past can use found materials that have a history. They can use a relic, an actual piece of a thing made and used for some purpose in the past. Lovell’s GRACE is a tableau using antique church pews, intended to transport viewers back in time to an African-American church from over one hundred years ago.
- 54. Whitfield Lovell | GRACE, 2003 The worn qualities we observe today more accurately signify the distance separating our time from the bygone era rather than representing that era in its original state. The materials carry the evidence of their own history in the wear they show.
- 56. Place
- 57. Virginia Katz
- 60. Liza Lou
- 64. Student Work