Chris Jordan: Picturing excess

Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond (40 migrant workers to displace the water in a lake)

Marina Abramović Made Me Cry...photographs

A pioneer of performance art, Marina Abramović (born Yugoslavia, 1946) began using her own body as the subject, object, and medium of her work in the early 1970s. For the exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, The Museum of Modern Art’s first performance retrospective, Abramović performed in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. This comprehensive photo gallery contains a record of each participant. The Artist Is Present is Abramovic’s longest performance to date.

Zhu Ming performs inside a bubble. Zhu Ming´s performance work deals with the passage of time, physical extremes, isolation and attempts at communication or the futility and ephemeral nature of these attempts. John Clark describes the work as a kind of conceptualism verging on Zen absorption into the object or into the trance of the performance.

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Ryo Shimizu Creates Immense Stories that Crumble from Gallery Walls...artist website

CNJPUS TEXT is the latest work from Tokyo-based artist Ryo Shimizu. The text is formed by using strokes borrowed from Chinese characters and then restructuring them into letters of the Roman alphabet. Via artist a day:

Shimizu is influenced by Japanese traditions and practices–the relationship between history and modern society and between the self and other people. His work ranges from photography to three-dimensional objects and installations.

This appears to be his third and largest in a series of text-based installations dating back to 2009. (via artist a day, sweet station)

Gillian Wearing

The short video projection 2 into 1 (1997) features a mother and her two sons, one generation lip-synching the dubbed words of the other.

Photography

When most people are stopped in the street they expect to be asked questions usually concerned with either a product, money, a survey, a personality test or directions.To be asked only to write something, anything, presents a challenge and creates a totally different relationship to the person posing the question. The bizarre request to be 'captured' on film by a complete stranger is compounded by a non-specific space; the blank piece of paper, which almost replicates an unexposed film.

Autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire Finishes His Panorama Drawing of New York City, in "A Beautiful Memory" Series

 

This astonishing 18ft drawing of the world’s most famous skyline was created by autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire after he spent just 20 minutes in a helicopter gazing at the panorama.

The unbelievably intricate picture was drawn at Brooklyn’s prestigious Pratt Institute from Stephen’s memory, with details of every building sketched in to scale.

Landmarks including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building can be seen towering above smaller buildings after just three days in his spellbinding creation.

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300 Most Visited Artists

1) Investigate time based art

• Include investigation for a minimum of 3 different time based artists. Select 2 from different cultures and write a comparison.
• Develop a proposal for a time based project that can either be completed during summer vacation or during the 1st q.

2) Create a minimum of 2 solid proposals that include full investigation

3) Gallery Visit (critique show or selected piece)

Recommended Artists:


British:
Gillian Wearing

Architectural/ Installation:
Marjetica Potrc

Photography:
Jeff Wall

Video:
Christian Marclay

Performance:
Francis Alÿs


Installation:
Damien Hirst

Chinese Artists:
Yue Minjun
Ai Weiwei
Zhang Xiaogang
Gu Wenda
Zhang Dali
Zhang Huan

Indian Artists:
Anish Kapoor- Sculptor
Jitish Kallat
N.S. Harsha
Anupam Poddar
Sudarshan Shetty 


Links:
My Modern Met

Sanyukta and Pinar Featured in the Hindu:

http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/nxg/article3352531.ece

Sayukta Srinivasan

Pinar Dumlu

For the very first time more than 325 paintings from over 275 artists have come together from varied walks and distinct schools of thought, with just one common wish- to undo the incalculable damage wreaked by Cyclone Thane.
For more information, please visit, The Art of Rebuilding Lives

Presented by, Vasan Charitable Trust.

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On Tuesday, February 21^st the combined Ceramics II and IB Art class had the opportunity to visit the Indo-Korean Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi. The show consisted of works by 6 Korean and 6 Indian ceramic artists who worked together in a residency program at Kalekshetra last month. The work was very diverse and provided the students with the opportunity to compare the aesthetics and process of contemporary artists from two different cultures. Students spent the afternoon critiquing, sketching and discussing the works on display. The trip concluded with a tour of the Ceramics and Sculpture studio at Lalit Kala Akademi. .....more photos

1)Choose the piece that inspires you the most and sketch it in your IWB. Annotate all Credit line info next to your drawing.

- Describe the piece using the elements and principles of design
- Based on your description, what do you think the work is about?
- How might this piece inspire you in the future? (Sketches)

2)Describe the differences or similarities in style between the Korean and Indian Artists

Don't forget to bring permission slips on Tuesday.

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EarthMatters: An Indo-Korean


InKo Centre in association with Arts Council Korea, Kalakshetra Foundation and Lalit Kala Akademi, is delighted to present a unique Indo-Korean Ceramic residency project that will bring together 12 ceramic artists - 6 each from India and Korea - in a 4 week residency in Chennai. (12 January to 12 February 2012)


It will be followed by an Indo-Korean Ceramic Exhibition at Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai from 14-23 February 2012.


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IWB Assignment:
Due: Jan 25

1)   Create an observational drawing of an interesting still life or cropped area in your house. (Medium: Pen, graphite,….) Draw it from multiple vantage points. Annotate all drawings.

2)   Research an artist whose style you will emulate in your next piece. Using the elements and principles, annotate what makes it visually appealing to you (use of texture, complimentary/ contrasting color scheme, rhythm created through repetition of elements,….)

3)  Proposal Development: Show 10 different variations/ possibilities for your next proposal. Strip out non-essentials and simplify your idea.  5 variations must be non-objective and 5 – representational.