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Friday, February 22, 2008
The Artist's Shit, Breath & Blood.
Piero Manzoni
Merda d'artisa
The ninety cans of "Merda d'artisa" ("Artist's Shit, content 30 gr., freshly preserved, produced and tinned in May 1961"), were first exhibited in the Galleria Pescetto (Albisola Marina) on 12 August 1961.
Manzoni calculated the value of the ninety cans - all numbered, each with a net weight of thirty grams - in accordance with the daily exchange rates for gold.
Manzoni calculated the value of the ninety cans - all numbered, each with a net weight of thirty grams - in accordance with the daily exchange rates for gold.
The series of Artist's Shit (sold at the then-current price of gold), the Artist's Breath ("Fiato d'artista", balloons filled with Manzoni's breath) and the only planned containers of Artist's Blood ("Sangue d'artista") are the results of a process of expropriation and regeneration of the artist's corporeality.
Manzoni's main innovation to this topic is a reflection on the role of the artist's body in contemporary art. The artist find a place of discharge for the projection of his person, replacing, with his own body, the painting and the sculpture. Manzoni offers his own body as an artwork, and the vestiges of the transfigured body become precious relics.
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn is a gaint in the history of art. His paintings are characterized by luxuriant brushwork, rich colour, and a mastery of chiaroscuro. Numerous portraits and self-portraits exhibit a profound penetration of character. His drawings constitute a vivid record of contemporary Amsterdam life. He was a master of light and shadow. His early work was devoted to showing the lines, light and shade, and color of the people he saw about him. He was influenced by the work of Caravaggio and was fascinated by the work of many other Italian artists. When Rembrandt became established as a painter, he began to teach and continued teaching art throughout his life.
He lived the life of a wealthy, respected citizen and met the beautiful Saskia van Uylenburgh, whom he married in 1634. She was the model for many of his paintings and drawings. Rembrandt's works from this period are characterized by strong lighting effects. When he had no other model, he painted or sketched his own image. It is estimated that he painted between 50 and 60 self-portraits. In the 1630s and 1640s he made many landscape drawings and etchings. His landscape paintings are imaginative, rich portrayals of the land around him.
information cropped and taken from: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/
Browsing through his masterworks, i feel that Rembrandt really had what it takes to be the greatest artist and printmaker in the European art history as he is known as. The lighting contrast of his paintings is strong yet smooth. It brought about the dramatic element to the painting and is also the most significant features of Rembrandt 's works. His subject matters are usually people. The techniques he used make them seem so realistic that almost become alive.
He lived the life of a wealthy, respected citizen and met the beautiful Saskia van Uylenburgh, whom he married in 1634. She was the model for many of his paintings and drawings. Rembrandt's works from this period are characterized by strong lighting effects. When he had no other model, he painted or sketched his own image. It is estimated that he painted between 50 and 60 self-portraits. In the 1630s and 1640s he made many landscape drawings and etchings. His landscape paintings are imaginative, rich portrayals of the land around him.
information cropped and taken from: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rembrandt/
Browsing through his masterworks, i feel that Rembrandt really had what it takes to be the greatest artist and printmaker in the European art history as he is known as. The lighting contrast of his paintings is strong yet smooth. It brought about the dramatic element to the painting and is also the most significant features of Rembrandt 's works. His subject matters are usually people. The techniques he used make them seem so realistic that almost become alive.
Andy Warhol - The Father of Pop Art
"Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes."
Perhaps, this is the most famous and classic quote by Andy Warhol. And yes, this comes true. With the emerges of internet, especially Youtube and blogs, everyone and anyone can create a video about themselves and become famous, even worldwide.
"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
This is how Andy Warhol responded.
Andy Warhol is one of the most influential people in American modern art. He was best known for his bright, contrasting colored images of famous people and food cans. Through both his art and lifestyle he explored the nature of fame, popular culture, and the media, and redefined the modern art world.
In 1940s, Warhol worked in New York City as a commercial artist. He drew pictures for advertisements and magazines such as Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Warhol used his experience in commercial art as an entry into fine art and began his painting career as part of the Pop Art movement. As a pop artist, he painted things that were never considered art during that period and brought low art such as pop culture, mass produced objects and comic strips into high art.
Andy Warhol use stencils and silk-screen techniques to produce his artworks so that they dont look hand made. Instead, they look like as if they are produced from the factory by printing machines. In fact, the place where he created his art was called The Factory. He had many assistants who helped him produce his art. He usually repeated the same picture in one artwork, for example the Campbell's soup cans in which he painted a total of 32 of them, the protraits of Marilyn Monroe which are repeated 9 times in the painting etc.
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Andy Warhol's is one of my favorite artist. His vibrant lifestyle and philosophy of life make me wonder what would life be if i were him. He was superficial, vain and he admited them all. "I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."
Perhaps, this is the most famous and classic quote by Andy Warhol. And yes, this comes true. With the emerges of internet, especially Youtube and blogs, everyone and anyone can create a video about themselves and become famous, even worldwide.
"I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
This is how Andy Warhol responded.
Andy Warhol is one of the most influential people in American modern art. He was best known for his bright, contrasting colored images of famous people and food cans. Through both his art and lifestyle he explored the nature of fame, popular culture, and the media, and redefined the modern art world.
In 1940s, Warhol worked in New York City as a commercial artist. He drew pictures for advertisements and magazines such as Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. Warhol used his experience in commercial art as an entry into fine art and began his painting career as part of the Pop Art movement. As a pop artist, he painted things that were never considered art during that period and brought low art such as pop culture, mass produced objects and comic strips into high art.
Andy Warhol use stencils and silk-screen techniques to produce his artworks so that they dont look hand made. Instead, they look like as if they are produced from the factory by printing machines. In fact, the place where he created his art was called The Factory. He had many assistants who helped him produce his art. He usually repeated the same picture in one artwork, for example the Campbell's soup cans in which he painted a total of 32 of them, the protraits of Marilyn Monroe which are repeated 9 times in the painting etc.
"I never think that people die. They just go to department stores."
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"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.' "
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"I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with."
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--quoted by Andy Warhol.
--quoted by Andy Warhol.
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Besides celebrities and commercial products, Andy Warhol also explored the subject, death. He made a series of paintings on death and disaster which showed images of car accidents and executions. Similar to his usual style, he used printing technique to produce them and repeated the same picture many times.
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Andy Warhol's is one of my favorite artist. His vibrant lifestyle and philosophy of life make me wonder what would life be if i were him. He was superficial, vain and he admited them all. "I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money."
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Whatever he said or whatever he painted made the headlines of magazines in the past and he said: "Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. " This has gotten you an idea the huge amount of reports about him and how famous he is. Of cource, Warhol wouldn't be troubled by all these, he definately enjoyed the attention het got as that's the whole point being famous.
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He worshipped celebrities and celebrities worshipped him. He was a true-blue party person and went out almost everyday. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." said Warhol.
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Here's the last quote of him (on this post, of course):
"If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. "
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i doubt about this.
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