Dieter Roth. Dieter Roth (April 21, 1930 – June 5, 1998) was a Swiss artist best known for his artist's books, editioned prints, sculptures, and works made of found materials, including rotting food stuffs.[1] He was also known as Dieter Rot and Diter Rot. The dark undertone and furious, obsessive energy of his work ultimately separated him from many of the more lighthearted Fluxus artists. Perhaps despite himself, he was a fluent draftsman and expert printmaker, and his drawings and prints contained his wild energy within peculiarly virtuosic forms.
Compared to the innumerable self-described artists of the last several decades who faked their way through his sort of work, Mr. Roth was the genuine item.[1] Biography[edit] Bok, (Book) 1958; Section of an Artist's Book; Coloured cards die-cut to reveal pages underneath. Early life[edit] He was born Karl-Dietrich Roth in Hannover, the first of three sons.
The family moved to Bern in 1947, where Roth began an apprenticeship in commercial art. 1960s[edit] Modern Masters: Andy Warhol - Documentary - Artist. Mariko Mori. Mariko Mori (森 万里子, Mori Mariko, born 1967 in Tokyo, Japan) is a contemporary Japanese video and photographic artist. Biography[edit] Mariko Mori was born in Tokyo in 1967. Mori's father is an inventor and real estate tycoon, and her mother is a Historian of European Art. While studying at Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo in the late 1980s, Mori worked as a fashion model. It was at that time that she had her first exhibitions. In 1989, she moved to London to study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and studied there until 1992.[1] After graduating, she moved to New York City and she participated in the Independent Study program at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Mariko Mori now resides in New York and Tokyo. Exhibitions and works[edit] Mori's early works, such as her photograph Play with Me, use her own body as the subject, and she costumes herself as sexualized, technological alien woman in everyday scenes. External links[edit] References[edit] Homer. In the Western classical tradition, Homer (/ˈhoʊmər/; Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros], Hómēros) is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.
When he lived is unknown. Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before his own time, which would place him at around 850 BC,[1] while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC.[2] Most modern researchers place Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC. The formative influence of the Homeric epics in shaping Greek culture was widely recognized, and Homer was described as the teacher of Greece.[3] Homer's works, which are about fifty percent speeches, provided models in persuasive speaking and writing that were emulated throughout the ancient and medieval Greek worlds. Art and Craft Movement. THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT (ACM) aimed to promote a return to hand-craftsmanship and to assert the creative independence of individual craftspeople.
It was a reaction against the industrialised society that had boomed in Britain in the Victorian period, and aimed for social as well as artistic reform. Its example was followed in other countries, particularly the U.S.A. After the 1914-18 war, other artistic trends overtook the ACM, and it declined. Industrial production of consumer goods developed in Britain in the eighteenth century, increased massively in the nineteenth, and inevitably aroused some opposition.
The Gothic Revival, the principle artistic trend in nineteenth-century architecture and art, can itself be seen as a reaction against industrialisation. Its early exponent, A.W.N. William Morris (1834-96) provided yet greater inspiration. Morris had set out to train as an architect, in the office of the eminent Gothic Revivalist, G. After the First World War the ACM declined. Voltri XV. Voltri XV It is part of the Voltri series created in May through June 1962 in Italy.[1] He worked at an abandoned steel factory, where he welded scrap steel. With assistants, he produced Twenty Six sculptures in thirty days.[2] It showed at Spoleto, Italy,[3] the White House,[4] and the Guggenheim Museum,[5] and is at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[6] References[edit] External links[edit] Where is frank auerbach's studio. Art Basel Miami Beach - in pictures | Art and design. Jeff Koons. Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces.
He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums of money, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising.
Early life and education[edit] Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania to Henry and Gloria Koons. Work[edit] The Pre-New, The New, and Equilibrium series[edit] Statuary series[edit] Koons started creating sculptures using inflatable toys in the 1970s. The Rabbit has since returned to its original soft form, and, many times larger at more than 50 feet high, taken to the air. Puppy[edit] International Exhibition of the New Realists. Destruction in Art Symposium. The Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) was a gathering of a diverse group of international artists, poets, and scientists to London, from 9–11 September 1966.
Included in this number were representatives of the counter-cultural underground who were there to speak on the theme of destruction in art. The Honorary Committee, led by Gustav Metzger, attracted the attention of both the international media and international art community to the symposium.[1] Event[edit] The symposium was held at the Africa Centre in Covent Garden, London. Objectives[edit] A DIAS press release claimed: Happenings[edit] Throughout September, Happenings took place in venues all over London.[1] The laws of England[edit] John Latham constructed three large "Skoob Towers" out of books, which they called "The laws of England", and set fire to them outside of the British Museum. Honorary Committee[edit] Participants[edit] The following artists were involved in DIAS: Photographers: See also[edit] References[edit]
Neo-pop. Neo-pop is a postmodern art[1] movement of the 1980s. The term refers to artists influenced by pop art, such as Jeff Koons[2] and Sam Havadtoy in the USA. In the 2000s the work of Takashi Murakami in Japan and in 2009 the Arts project Nicolas Lepaulmier in French has also been described as neo-pop. Ken Done in Australia became world famous for his businesslike approach to art related merchandise including tea towels, key rings, t-shirts, sarongs. See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Fred S. Kleiner, Helen Gardner, Christin J. Jeff Koons. Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces.
He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums of money, including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising.
Early life and education[edit] Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania to Henry and Gloria Koons. Work[edit] The Pre-New, The New, and Equilibrium series[edit] Statuary series[edit] Koons started creating sculptures using inflatable toys in the 1970s. The Rabbit has since returned to its original soft form, and, many times larger at more than 50 feet high, taken to the air. Puppy[edit] Kurt Kren. Kurt Kren (September 20, 1929 - died in Vienna on June 23, 1998) was an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker. He is best known for his involvement with the Vienna Aktionists and the group of films that resulted, although this accounts for only a part of his career, and he later returned to the Structural roots of his third film 3/60: Bäume Im Herbst.
Although not a seminal Structural film, 31/75: Asyl is arguably one of the more satisfying films of the movement. Biography[edit] Kurt Kren was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria to a family of a Jewish father (a bank employee) and German mother. From 1939 until the end of World War II Kren lived in Rotterdam, where he was sent with one of the Children's Transports. In 1947 Kren returned to Vienna, and his father provided him a job at the National Bank. He began a film career in the early 1950s creating experimental short 8mm films. In 1966, Kren participated in the Destruction in Art Symposium in London. Kren returned to his native Vienna in 1989. Viennese Actionism. Viennese Actionism was a short and violent movement in 20th-century art. It can be regarded as part of the many independent efforts of the 1960s to develop "action art" (Fluxus, happening, performance art, body art, etc.). Its main participants were Günter Brus, Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
As "actionists", they were active between 1960 and 1971. Most have continued their artistic work independently from the early 1970s onwards. Documentation of the work of these four artists suggests that there was no consciously developed sense of a movement or any cultivation of membership status in an "actionist" group. Art and the politics of transgression[edit] The work of the Actionists developed concurrently with—but largely independently from—other avant garde movements of the era that shared an interest in rejecting object-based or otherwise commodifiable art practices. ...material action is painting that has spread beyond the picture surface.
Notes[edit] New British Sculpture. Tim Woods has characterized the movement by identifying four major themes, "(a) a synthesis of pop and kitsch, (b) a bricolage (assemblage) of the decaying UK urban environment and the waste of consumer society, (c) an exploration of the way in which objects are assigned meanings, and (d) a play of colour, wit and humour. "[2] An early champion was art dealer Nicholas Logsdail who exhibited many of the artists at his Lisson Gallery. Artists[edit] References[edit] Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz lotʁɛk]; 24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, a group which includes Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin.
In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house, a new record was set when La blanchisseuse, an early painting of a young laundress, sold for US$22.4 million.[1] Early life[edit] After the death of his brother his parents separated and a nanny took care of Henri.[3] At the age of eight, Henri went to live with his mother in Paris where he drew sketches and caricatures in his exercise workbooks.
Disability and health problems[edit] Mr. New York School. The New York School (synonymous with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s, 1960s in New York City. The poets, painters, composers, dancers, and musicians often drew inspiration from Surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, Jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle.
The poets[edit] Concerning the New York School poets, critics argued that their work was a reaction to the Confessionalist movement in Contemporary Poetry. Their poetic subject matter was often light, violent, or observational, while their writing style was often described as cosmopolitan and world-traveled. The poets often wrote in an immediate and spontaneous manner reminiscent of stream of consciousness writing, often using vivid imagery.
The Beats[edit] The composers[edit] UbuWeb. Germany-DADA: An Alphabet of German DADAism. ImagePlanet's channel. Smithsonian Resident Associates Program - From R. Mutt to Monty Python: The Meaning and Legacy of Dada. Expect the unexpected in this roller-coaster ride of a program full of “ah-ha!” Moments. Find your own meanings in the seemingly incomprehensible forms of expression known as Dada. What was going on when Marcel Duchamp submitted , a “readymade” sculpture, to a prestigious art show in 1917? The instantly infamous inverted urinal signed by a comic strip character caused an uproar; two years later, Duchamp displayed a defaced poster of Mona Lisa with a goatee. The horrors of World War I drove many artists and writers to Zurich.
What emerged was outlandish and incomprehensible— but it wakened people deadened by war. Presenter is a professor of philosophy and humanities at East Tennessee State University. How Do You Say Dada? We won’t spoil the surprise, but be prepared for a taste of Dada in action, courtesy of Richard Kortum who comes bearing a few Dadaist-inspired morsels. We’ll say no more. Situationists. The Rite of Spring. Art manifesto. Paul Cézanne. Dada. 391 (magazine) Fluxus. Nam June Paik. Joseph Beuys. Yoko Ono. The Beatles. Monty Python. Cabaret Voltaire (Zurich) Pop art. Dada Manifesto (1916, Hugo Ball) The ABC's of DADA (2 of 3) Jean Arp.
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