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contemporary art
art produced today
exact starting point of this genre is still debated
considered to start in the late 1960s or early 1970s (end of modern art)
joseph beuys
social sculpture
created the concept of the world being an artwork itself
all of us contributing to building the world become artists towards that idea that everyone can be an artist
he was a performance artist
one of his most famous pieces was how to explain pictures to a dead hare
social sculpture
comes from Joseph Beuys
a social organism as a work of art - every human being is an artist
creating of the world being an artwork itself
everyone is an artist
7000 oaks
City Forestation Instead of City Administration
Joseph Beuys - 1982
notable work when we look at social sculpture
as part of a public art program and project, he planted 7000 trees, each with its own stone marker
him as an artist is working to make the world a better place by planting these trees
Joseph Beuys (1982)
Artist?
relational aesthetics
a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space
aesthetics that comes about through relations between people, rather than art that comes about by an individual looking at a work of art created by another individual without there being any relation between those two
becomes an experiential event
the artist is present
Marina Abramovic - 2010
most influential work of relational aesthetics lately
performance by the artist where she would sit in the gallery wordlessly across from a participant and they would just look at it
Marina Abramovic
Artist?
Tomorrow is the Question
Rirkrit Tiravanija - 2019
after Julius Koller
relational aesthetic
installation of tennis tables
encouraged people to play table tennis with each other
continued the artistic idea (since he wasn’t the first to do it)
Rirkrit Tiravanija
artist?
socially engaged practice
social practice or socially engaged art
include any artform, which involves people and communities in debate, collaboration or social interaction
organized as the result of an outreach or education program, but many independent artists also use it within their work
going back to the concept of social sculpture
idea of bettering the communities we belong in
Artist-run centres
enabled people who felt outside of the art world (either in Canada or outside one of the major centres in Canada) to form these collectives of artists
Aka
Artist-run centre
bring together artists and the community practice
Saskatoon
paved arts
media arts run centre
created by the amalgamation of Saskatoon’s first video art centre and Saskatoon’s photography collective
Cindy Sherman
best known for her photographic practice
became famous for a series of photos called Untitled film stills
art where you don’t quite know what it means or what it’s getting at
Untitled Film Still
Cindy Sherman - 1977-80
self-portraits
creates characters - dresses up as if she’s in a movie and these are taken during the shooting of the movie
captures in film the way women in society are generally treated
this is all make-believe and it’s quite ambiguous what she’s getting at
Cindy Sherman (1977-80)
Artist?
Untitled (1987)
Barbara Kruger - 1987
american artist
came out of a commercial art background
embedded throughout her works is text-based artwork and commercial style photography
both shown in galleries but often just shown in the streets of New York where she lived
part of the commercial landscape of the city
Untitled (coleman skate park)
Barbara Kruger - 2017
more recent work
embedded in the fabric of New York City is her text-based questioning that make up the beliefs of New York and America in general
kind of looks like a supreme logo
Barbara Kruger (1987)
Artist?
Barbara Kruger (2017)
Artist?
Ways of Seeing
John Berger
art historian who wrote a book called Ways of Seeing
to be naked is to be oneself
to be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized by oneself
a nude has to be seen as an object in order to be a nude
John Berger
Artist?
Untitled (Basquiat)
Jean-Michael Basquiat - 1982
american painter
did not live a long life
emerged as one of the first prominent African American painters in the US
emerged out of the graffiti scene of the late 1970s 1980s in New York
becomes one of the best-known American artists of the late 20th century
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982)
Artist?
Red Kings
Jean-Michel Basquiat - 1981
another one of his works
seen in season 2 Luke Cage
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1981)
Artist?
A pole of crowns for Kean-Michel Basquiat
Keith Haring - 1988
friend and artist collaborator to Basquiat
created this artwork as a tribute to Basquiat referencing his painting Red Kings with the cowns
came out of that same graffiti era in New York and rose to prominence with an art style that played off popular culture
Keith Haring (1988)
Artist?
Unfinished Painting
Keith Haring - 1989
he died during the AIDS crisis during the late 80s and 90s
knew he was going to die and he intentionally set out to create an unfinished painting speaking about how his life itself was being cut short
Keith Haring (1989)
Artist?
Ai Weiwei
most influential international artist practicing right now
often called an iconoclast
a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
more of a creator than a destroyer
dynamically synthesizing the clash between reverence for the past and the irrepressible drive toward the future
Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan American artsit
one concept that underlies her work is Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism
an aesthetic that uses the imaginative strategies of science fiction to envision alternate realities for Africa and people of African descent
i.e., Black Panther
Forbidden Fruit Picker
Wangechi Mutu - 2015
practice emerged in collage
would cut apart magazines and other printed materials
often pornographic materials capturing African women’s bodies
Wangechi Mutu (fruit)
Artist?
You are my sunshine
Wangechi Mutu - 2015
works on paper - collage
Wangechi Mutu (sunshine)
Artist?
Wafaa Bilal
Iraqi artist
lived in the gallery for thirty days
paintball gun that could be remotely controlled by the internet
lived in constant threat of being shot by the gun
comment on Iraq war and the emergence of drone warfare
what actually emerged was a group of people coordinated through the message board to protect him
Lonely Surfer Squaw
Lori Blondeau - 1997
from Saskatchewan, she’s a Soto Cree Metis woman who studied at the U of S
building upon Cindy Sherman’s practice
done a lot of work as a performance artist and photography and video capturing that performance
examining the way that Indigenous women and Indigenous women’s bodies are thought of and captured in the media
reclaiming and some ways questioning a term often used as a pejorative in the past to describe Indigenous women
Lori Blondeau (1997)
Artist?
Asiny Iskwew (rock woman)
Lori Blondeau - 2016
bringing attention to Indigenous sacred sites that were destroyed during the flooding of the Qu’Appelle river to create Lake Diefenbaker
Lori Blondeau (2016)
Artist?
early plotter drawing
Vera Molnar - 1968
one of the pioneers of using computers to create artwork
plotter
think of a CNC or laser cuter now
would design algorithms to create artworks
Vera Molnar
Artist?
Artificial Realities: Coral
Refik Anadol - 2023
contemporary computer artist
superstar of AI algorithmic generated art right now
generates coral structures based on millions of pictures of actual coral structures
Refik Anadol (2023)
Artist?
Faig Ahmed
Artwork that has come out post the digital era that’s influenced by the digital
Azerbaijani artist
looking at the traditions of carpet making from his part of the world, he works with craftspeople to create carpets that look like they’ve glitched digitally
questions the divide between the real and the virtual
African Figurative Painting
genre of art that has been emerging as one of the most prominent in art markets
general move in figurative painters from African and of African descent capturing their stories and their bodies
Black Allegiance to the Cunning
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - 2012
UK artist
African figurative painting
portraits of imaginary black people
doesn’t paint portraits of real people
imagines these people in these scenes
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Artist?
The Death of Hyacinth
Kehinde Wiley - 2022
practice is highly realistic and does capture and paint real people
painting in a fashion akin to Renaissance painting
known for painting the official portrait of Obama
Kehinde Wiley
Artist?
Michelle Jacques
art curator from Saskatoon
tries to make the gallery a welcoming space for people who may not feel welcome
won the Governor Generals in the Arts Award
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