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Question 1.
Choose one work by each two different modern artists. Describe each work and explain how and why they are modern. Discuss the content of the images and how they are made..
Thought-out this essay I am going to Look at two pieces of modern artists work. Describe the work and explain how they are modern. The two artist that I am going to discuss is Louise Lawler and Imants Tillers.
I see modern art as a work from a period of time between the 1860’s to the 1970’s. work is normally associated with art in which the traditions of the past has been overturned. Morden work experiments with new ideas and looking behind the bigger picture, it has a tendency towards abstraction, which is considers and of modern art. Artists of the 20th century is more often called contemporary art or post modern art.
Louise Lawler is a conceptual photographer, who’s work has been seen as very witty and explores the consequences of what might be called the private life of art. She looks at how the objects should be placed to give us more of a reality of the work. She frames the work, which may have infect or no infect but it transforms the art work and its content.
I think she also take away some of the seriousness of the art work. Showing it how the eye would see it and further more extending beyond the visual bedrail. Her work is seen as modern because she is being more abstract and not contemporary. She use’s work which is from the early 1900’s . she looks at its importance and she either recreate it.. Like she did with “fountain” by Marcel Duchamp. She recreated in and used pure gold, I think she did this to make people realise the pure value of Duchamp’s work. She is mostly know for her photography, it which she explores what is behind the piece of work and the bigger picture. She works with pieces of insulation art and looks at how they are placed. The piece of work I concentrated on was an insulation piece called “All those eyes” which is a photograph of the large piece statue of Michael Jackson and his pet monkey bubble by Jeff Koons from1988.
Lawler has taken a photo of this precious piece of work which happens to be gold, in what looks like storage it is partly cover my two other pieces of work. The photo is in black and white and I think it was a gelatin silver print. To me this piece of work shows a more humorist side of the art work, that its meant to be this beautiful shocking piece and she has shown it in a pretty dull way as it is worthless.. Imants Tillers “one world many visions” is the first major survey of Tillers paintings. He is a contemporary artist that works on large scaled piece of work. His work is in response to issues of identity, place, displacement and chance encounters. Tillers work engages with aboriginal art, he reflects a movement in Australia towards reconciliation and mutual understanding.
In some ways Tillers has been identified as a typical postmodern artist in his use of appropriation and quotation.
In his work he uses grids a lot, as if the picture is made up of tiles. To me it brakes the picture up, especially because in on large scale. It makes it more easy to focus of each part of his work. His work is very powerful and deep but is also very dark. It express the darkness of a life for an aborigine person.
In his work he also use a range of quotes and letters. On one piece’s of his work it say’s in the middle “ there is no horizon” , which I feel mean that there is no light of day, that the sun will never rise for these people and no light shine open then. Tillers use very dingy colours on his work, a lot of browns and greys. Very earthly colours.
The piece of work that I looked at specifically is “Bonegilla” from 1999. It is 54 canvas boards big. It is half brown and half white, with what looks like a stencilled of tree. Further more in the back round is faces of children, but he has made if look as if the faces of the children was the breeze, it is a very effect piece. Along with printed writing at the bottom stating “ We have decided not to die” Which is a very powerful thing to say, as if the children had a choice in this matter. Also again down the middle of this piece of work it says “ horizon”.
I think Tillers work is modern but he use’s abstraction, however also for the way he has over turned old ways of expressing the aboriginal life, as his work speaks out for the people in a almighty way. He is able to express himself but not just by painting a picture but thought type to.
In conclusion both piece of work that I have disgust are modern piece, and the artist them self s work in very modernistic ways. They both work in different ways, Tiller works on very large scale piece of work that use paint and type , where Lawler recreates a different meaning to art works by displaying them differently and in different lights. Both artist have been influenced on what is happing around the world, and close to them. Lawler with more the celebrity world and the world of Andy Warhol. Where Tillers work is more to do with the aboriginal people and the suffering they had been thought. They both have stepped away from the more traditional approach of more contemporary art and into modern. Each artist has stated clear facts, one in a more comical and less serious approach showing the less formidable approach. Then on the other hand Tillers did the opposite his work was very specific and to the point show much more importance and deathly power to his work.
Louise Lawler
"All those eyes" 1989
Imants Tillers
"Bonegilla"
1999
Bibliography:
http://www.shermangalleries.com.au/artists_exhib/artists/tillers/gallery.htmlhttp://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/TILLERS/Default.cfmhttp://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=85521&tabview=texthttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_38/ai_61907744/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_8_38/ai_61907744/http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/louise_lawler/
