Issues in Art Making

Joseph Beuys

“7000 Oaks”

1982

No rocks could be removed

Art and Society aren’t separate

Kent Monk Man

“Welcoming the New Comers”

Half of the entire piece called “Resurgence of the People”

Donald Judd

Wanted to get rid of illusion and allusions in art

Wants his work to be shown in natural light

Doesn’t want to be known as a Minimalist, but his work is minimalistic

Judy Chicago

“The Dinner Party”

Made in the 1970s by 400 volunteers

Refraiming women anatomy

Guerrilla Girls

Completely Anonymous

Female artists who take names from dead artists and work together to point out problems with our society and the art world, using provocative posters and public actions.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster

Aesthetic comes from the punk rock movement

Their work often features installations that incorporate light and shadow to create striking visual effects.

Sculptural and Light/Shadow works

Subject, form, content

Allan McCollum

Wants to make one unique item for everyone.

He doesn’t know who his collaborators are

Vik Muniz

Decided to go to the world's largest garbage dump. Took photos of the trash he was going to use, and would recreate them on the floor of a large warehouse. Would then give them money to work somewhere that wasn’t a dump. All the money from sales would go to those workers. They posed with pieces that were trash that would be recreated at the warehouse.

Amy Sillman

Proces based art

Portrays abstract and figuration

Chooses unconventional ways to make marks through painting, drawing, and animation.

Hugh Hayden

“America”

Talks about discomfort in America

Talking about the American Dream

Was trained as an architect

Massaomi Yasunaga

He was inspired by taking notions of vessels from ceramics

How he creates his work by using rocks and glazes, but doesn't fire them in a kiln

Submerging and leaving it to the land, intuitive

He lets the Earth handle his work

Tauba Auerbach

“RGB Atlus”

Digital Offset Print

Boarders and edges were airbrushed

It folds into an 8 inch cube

Carvaggio

Uses light as a structure

“The Calling of St Matthew”

Movement is about guiding the viewer’s eye across the artwork, often using lines, shapes, or repeated patterns

James Castle

Deaf artist with no education

Used anything he could find to show his view of the world, like paper, newspaper, etc.

He never left home

Laura Poitras

“O Say Can You See”

Made after 9/11

Captures the expressions of people faces seeing the aftermath

Captures raw emotions

She wants to find ways to convey information in a way that you can experience it.

William Pope L

“Trinket”

He wanted to get the American Flag made with an extra star on it

Had someone else add the star since the company who he asked the flag from wouldn’t do it

He was fascinated by flags and their scale and wanted to talk about how the borders are two restrictive

Tom of Finland

One of the first artists to talk about homosexuality to support gay men

He trained in advertisement

Started drawing in high school

Kazimir Malevich

“Black Square”

They started to move away from representation

Part of the suprematism movement

Says that art should go beyond representation of the phyical world and fofocus on xpressing pure feelings

Chris Ofili

“The Holy Virgin Mary”

She is depicted wearing blue, gold background, halo is still represented

She is depicted as black and the painting was defaced

Mariko Mori

“Empty Dream”

She is interested in how tech can relate to spirituality

Work explores the relationship between technology and human consciousness, often blending elements of Japanese culture with digital art.

Kiki Smith

Her work is about enchantment

spiritual learning predates religion

There is mystery and magic everywhere in nature

Bonding between humans and animals could lead to enchantment

Rapture: A specific term that means a time when the spirit is exalted to the knowledge of divine things

Andy Warhol

Our society praises celebrities and it could be destructive

He created commentaries on celebrities and how they become commodities

Duane Michals

Untrained photographer

He makes sequences of photo’s that have two different stories being told

One story is in the photgraph’s themselves and the other is in the writing he puts

Lubaina Himid

Work often represents underrepresented groups, and that celebrates black creativity

William Kentridge

“The Refusal of Time”

It had sounds, moving images, some drawings and in the middle, there was a structure that acted liked the lungs of the piece

Wayne White

He bought “fake paintings” and took words to paint over and within the fake ones

Robert Montgomery

Writes poetry and makes dimensional type

His work is very short lived

Cindy Sherman

She was originally a painter

She is always in her own work

She does all the composition, makeup, outfit designs, and takes on these personas in her photography

Ewa Juszkiewicz

Surrealist painter

She takes paintings and covers the faces of the women to talk about how their identities have been hidden for years

Nick Cave

Makes sound suits

He was interested in taking found objects and using them to hide whoever wears them

Toyin Ojih Odutola

“The Treatment”

The artist took famous white artists, musicians, celebrities, etc., and replaced their skin with the ballpoint pen.

Talking about black identity

Zanele Muholi

Mainly a photographer and sculptor

Visual activist

She is dedicated to transgender people and would work to create photos with these people in them.

Awol Erizku

Does photography and sculpture

Interested in intersections in contemporary culture

Barbara Kruger

What she is doing is deconstructing the image for what it says

Pablo Picasso

1907

He was using other art, and the woman who made the original art he took inspiration from called him out for not knowing what the deeper meaning was

Jeff Koons

He was sued by the photographer who he took the work of and made it into his own sculpture piece

He didn’t make enough changes to make it seem different

Richard Prince

Made the “Cowboy” Series

He rephotographed images of cowboys from cigarette ads

He then rephotographed the existing images and represented them under his name

Ana Mendieta

Left her home at the age of 12

Wanted to replace the emptiness and feel belonging

Carolee Schneemann

“Interior Scroll”

is a performance art piece where Schneemann inserted a scroll into her vagina and then read it aloud to challenge the objectification of women's bodies.

Dorien Garner

Also known as “King Cobra”

She makes tattoos

A lot of her work is about the brutalization and tests performed on black slaves.

She wasn’t interested in creating a gruesome work, but rather a work that you don’t know how to feel.

Lucien Freud

Interested in combining anatomy and psychology

Came to think about the body and flesh, how it can be beautiful in its rawest form

Maud Madsen

Her compositions show people in their most vulnerable moments

About feeling vulnerable in our own bodies

Hito Steyeri

“How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013”

is a video installation that explores themes of visibility and representation in the digital age.

Jeffrey Gibson

Interested in culture and identity

Is queer himself

Keith Haring

Painting on the wall was illegal

It represents a lot of tension and difficulty

Faith Ringgold

“Violence in America”

Used art as a vehicle for social justice

Sable Elyse Smith

“Clock-work”

Conceptual artists

All her work talks about issues with society

The idea of more and more prisoners means more and more money for those who own the prisons