February 15, 2016
Show February 23 undergraduate show at Rueff gallery and we
have to leave a feedback for it.
Leave a post about your artist choices by next Monday.
12 minutes is the timeframe for the artist presentation.
Limit to one-minute total time for all videos, if you choose 2 then they are 30
seconds apiece.
Given 25 artists to study, you are given 5 people to write
about, 1 for extra for extra credit. 250 to 300 words on each artist, she will
cover the format of the essays and exam at a later date. Written on the computer, she will collage a
bunch of images by the artist and you will write about the artists and their
work. We should discuss the movements
and trends they are apart of. We must understand how she is approaching the
artists and how she discusses them, we must include our thoughts, and we have
to have a theory about them as well. Not
completely about how we feel it must have a background, research, and lecture
aspects. She wants to hear that our
voice.
Had a discussion about Dick Blau’s work. A lot of people
agreed that his Polish Easter was not as strong, that his audio was necessary
for his work, and that we enjoyed the works where he got to know his subject
matter better than the others.
Fabricated/ Staged Photography Continued
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Gregory Crewson- teaches at Yale
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90s staged fabricated tableau, hidden narrative
and everyday life.
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He likes images that he only needs that one
image to portray the much larger narrative, you must investigate the scene and
become the writer, like when reading a book, and you must immerse and create
the whole picture.
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Psychologically rich, fears, desire, happiness,
depression, dualism of ideas of suburban lifestyle. Amazing hope associated
with America. He hires people who are in the images from the town where he is
photographing. Looks documentary narrative by using a democratic approach by
using actors that are not performers.
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Transforms real spaces into surreal images that
create a fictional, nonfictional narrative image with perfectly lighting he is
proud of.
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Models are physically present but not with each
other, blue or green tint is usually present, artificial light that give the
idea of the 90s media.
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Somewhat of movie stills like Cindy Sherman
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He does 2 things
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1. Creating possibility of impossibilities
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2. Creating impossibility of possibility
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He wants the idea of reality but the idea of
also a movie still on screen.
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All photographs are based on an encounter with
his psychologist father’s patient’s conversations he heard in his house where his
fathers practice was and the possibility of seeing them leave.
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Jeff Wall
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1980s and early 1990s
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Staged photography, focuses on making work look
documentary rather than staged.
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Trained as a painter first, he is Canadian and
is the most influential photography for his practices of staged “documentary”
photography
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Urban photography, poverty, racism, gender, etc.
social and political issue he is interested in.
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Anything now can be fabricated, he has clear
content of where he wants to shoot his images, he studies the areas and get
intrigued by an idea, he takes these ideas and makes them real to go into a
photograph.
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Creating images you would see in newspapers and
magazines
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What kind of truth is this? Mind truth, actual
truth, photographic truth?
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He shifts from “Mocumentary” and goes towards
ascetic over content.
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Delacroix’s Death of Sardanapalous vs Jeff
Wall’s Destroyed Room
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He appropriates emotional and psychological
responses from paintings. Depiction of
aggression and how they are applied to each object, as well as the colors that
goes along with the idea of aggression
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“Sudden Gust of Wind”
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“I felt very strongly at that time that…
painting as an art form did not encounter directly enough the problem of the
technological product which had so extensively… she skipped over this fast”
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Starts doing digital manipulation, this is tons
of images put together to appropriate the top painting. He wanted the weather
and all. First time we are seeing huge photographic images. There was no
machine to accommodate this size, it was stitched together with multiple
pieces, he wants to show how photographic images are sewed with digital
manipulation.
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Creates after reading the “invisible man.” Ralph
Ellison 1952
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Thomas Demand
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German famous for images with collective
experiences of Germany and post world. 1 to 1 scale models painted cardboard
boxes based on photographs you see in everyday life. Need to understand history
and follow the news to 100% understand his work. Represents shared experiences
of natural occurrences in life. Our
willingness to accept images without experiencing them. Replicas of very famous
historical scenes.
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No identifying details or human activity.
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He creates images, which are visual
representation of a nation being defined by images that are collectively
remembered.
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Whitney Houston’s last meal
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Artificiality of your memory, your willingness
to believe these moments without actually being present. Perceptions of memory
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Viewed Thomas Demand’s Film “Pacific Sun” at
Matthew Mark’s gallery based off of CCT videos of a cruise ship hit by a storm,
these are replicas of the event.
Watched Jeff Wall posted video on blog
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Watch the remainder and leave a feedback by next
Wednesday. And the other one
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Dick Blau Response by this Wednesday
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