TIM HAWKINSON

Early Life:

• Born in San Francisco California 1960

• Graduated from San Jose University

• Earned MFA from university of California1989

Style:•Fantasy ArtSculptural •Fascinated with his own body•Very detailed work•Preferred medium:Anything easily obtainable at the time. (Ex. Finger and toe nails, Hair,cardboard, etc..) •Obsession with life, death and passage of time

Inspiration:

• Comes from his own body

• Wants to make more than just a self portrait

• Very detailed

Title: BirdMedium: Artist’s Fingernails2X2 1/4X2

Title: Emoter

Emoter is A large Color photograph of a face with movable eye, lips and other part of the faces where the users can change their emotion by changing the different part of face.

Drip, 2002 \

Polyethylene,

Mechanical

Components &

Water

Dimensions

Variable

Egg

Ground

fingernails

Artist’s hair

Chart of World History

Ink on chrome coated paper on wooden pannels

SherpaFeathers132.08x196.85x80.01 cm

BatherEggshell17.78 X 10.16 cm

OH HEYYYY

Uberorgan Nylon, net, cardboard tubing

PENTECOST An installation piece that used cardboard

tubes It was assembled in the shape of a tree Twelve life sized replicas of Tim were

placed on various spots of the treeThey were all mechanical and would beat

out religious hymns using a different part of the body

Analysis:

The artist simplified the tree into basic tube

Shapes. Instead of looking like an actual

Tree it gives off the feeling of being a tree.

A tree can be interpreted as a connection

Between the heavens and the earth.

He placed all of the bodies in different

Ways all over the tree to show that not one

Of them are alike.

Interpretation:

The title is an allusion back to a jewish holiday where the 12 apostles of Jesus Christ were given the ability to speak in different languages by the Holy Spirit. Tim Hawkinson portrays this by having each of the twelve bodies beat out a rhythm at a different time as if they are each speaking their own language of music.

Judgment:

The artwork is very different but cleverly

gets the artist’s point and ideas across by

using metaphors and allusions to old

religious stories. Overall I feel like the

Artist did a great job with this piece.

1. WHAT YEAR WAS TIM HAWKINSON BORN?

A.1960B.1970C.1962D.1972E.1980

2. WHAT STYLE IS TIM HAWKINSON’S ARTWORK UNDER?

A. ABSTRACT

B. FANTASY

C. CLASSICAL

D. DADA

3. WHAT WAS “PENTECOST” BASED ON

A.A CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY B. A JEWISH HOLIDAYC.A CHRISTIAN CEREMONYD.A BIBLICAL STORY

4. WHAT WAS TIM HAWKINSON’S INSPIRATION

A. THE BODY

B. HIS OWN BODY

C. HIS WIFE’S BODY

D. HIS UNCLE’S BODY

5. WHICH WORKS OF ART WERE MADE FROM HIS OWN BODY

A. BATHER & BIRD

B. EMOTER & EGG

C. EGG & BATHER

D. EGG &BIRD