Art Exchange: Surabaya Cairo

ChicagoSIS Advanced ArtArt Exchange Unit

Ms. BrodySemester II 2013

PPT 2/2

Artists as Examples

Marcel Duchamp(1887-1968)

• Famous for creating “Readymades”– ordinary manufactured objects that the artist

selected and modified, as an antidote to the eye rather than the mind

• Visual and Material Culture are combined to ask the viewer to look deeper into what defines art.

• “The Fountain” (1917) famous artwork

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

• Leading figure in the Pop Art movement in 1950’s

• Challenged traditional fine art with using mass produced objects and images in pop culture

• Visual culture becomes the subject of the artwork

Jeff Koons (1955-present)

• Post-Pop Artist (similar to Warhol) • Sculptures are balloon animal like• Creates large sculptures taken from everyday

objects in visual culture

Shepard Fairey (1970-present)

• Street Artist• Famous for “Obey” and “Hope” images• Work based off Soviet propaganda• Fuses visual culture and politics together

Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

• American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and sculptures

• Use found objects (mostly wood) and assembled them into one piece

Kurt Schwitter (1887-1948)

• German painter• worked in several genres and media, including: Dada,

Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography and what came to be known as installation art.

• Most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures.

Candy Jernigan (1962-1991)

• “Collection artist”• Documented any and all physical “proof” of being in

a place= evidence• Took everyday objects people see over and over and

created a statement with making them into art

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)

• American artist: sculptor & film maker• Pioneer in assemblage art• Work is composed of found objects collected

and display in wood boxes• No formal art training

Art Project Assignment

• You will be creating a personal narrative using the visual culture images and small material culture objects from the homework assignment

• Inside your box, you will carefully arrange and glue the visual culture images and small material culture objects into the box keeping in mind a successful composition.

• We will discuss how you will arrange and/or compartmentalize the box and your documentation.