Introduction to Inspirational artists
The following pages highlight contemporary artists introduced to us in the unit. These artists use a variety of ready-made ordinary objects and objective thinking to create incredible art pieces. I have chosen these artists as I enjoyed their work and related to the work in some way. Tara Donovan, Vik Muniz, Ann Weber, brian Jungen and Samuel Yates. There is a full reference list on the menu tab.
Tara Donovan. The way her simple everyday objects are transformed into such luminous stunning works is truly inspiring. To me, the white almost ethereal looking works are dazzling and after I initially took them in I realised that they are just buttons all piled up but ending up in an astonishing beautiful artwork - Bluffs
Tara uses all sorts of every day things such as toothpicks, buttons, drinking straws that are piled up, layered, clustered that end up looking like natural coral or microscopic pictures of cells. Her use of repetition is entrancing and they appear to be taking over they are so prolific in nature. The works really made me think about the everyday things around us they we can use to express creativity and how different objects react woth light transforming them into new objects.
Vik Muniz also was inspiring and I love his use of sugar, chocolate and garbage that create his diverse style. On researching his work I found that he was called by several different titles. In some articles a photographer others he was described as an artist, painter and sculptor. I later discovered his most recent and now exclusive work is as a photographer making multi dimensional layered works of unusual materials such as dirt, diamonds, sugar, string, chocolate syrup and garbage to create his unique, bold style. I thoroughly enjoyed the Ted Talk on Vik Muniz where his quiet humor and charm captivated the audience as he described his start in the art world. he is an artist that I will look up for inspiration many times I'm sure.
Ann Weber is another chosen contemporary artist that motivates and inspires me. Her artworks look far more like beautiful polished cane baskets than recycled cardboard as the pieces have layers of shellac applied to develop a lustrous patina. Her works are organic is shape and gigantic and she is said to think whislt working - How far can I build this before it collapses?
I was also inspired by her descriptions of artworks calling them Infinite possibilities and further saying that her work is to help audiences realise the ‘Miracles and Wonders’ of life. Ann Weber
She has a unique approach to her work she described as Incorporating the ways of living into the ways of making art. " Ann Weber
Ann uses ordinary materials like cardboard and shows that everything is not always as it appears. Part of the charm of her work she says is to show the origins of the humble beginnings of the cardboard boxes and staples in the finished work.
Tobias Putrih is another artist introduced to me in the unit his work being complex and truly stimulating.
He works on distortion of perception are described here in his words
" Interested in the relations between the interiority and exteriority of the social and cultural space, his production of protospaces (those of cinemas or art galleries for example), refers to earlier Utopias and to figures marked by an idealist conception of art, to other experiments and revolutionary projects (the Bauhaus, Chris Marker, Robert Smithson. Thomas Putrih
Lastly Samuel Yates who again uses simply boxes and everyday items in unusual ways. His sculptures are more statements on modern life that is represented by huge scale constructions - The 7 story filing cabinet
He is from California and his work is described as "simple ideas taken to an extreme, formal limit
I particularly like his Me sculptor as represnting today me generations.
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Tara Donovan. The way her simple everyday objects are transformed into such luminous stunning works is truly inspiring. To me, the white almost ethereal looking works are dazzling and after I initially took them in I realised that they are just buttons all piled up but ending up in an astonishing beautiful artwork - Bluffs
Tara uses all sorts of every day things such as toothpicks, buttons, drinking straws that are piled up, layered, clustered that end up looking like natural coral or microscopic pictures of cells. Her use of repetition is entrancing and they appear to be taking over they are so prolific in nature. The works really made me think about the everyday things around us they we can use to express creativity and how different objects react woth light transforming them into new objects.
Vik Muniz also was inspiring and I love his use of sugar, chocolate and garbage that create his diverse style. On researching his work I found that he was called by several different titles. In some articles a photographer others he was described as an artist, painter and sculptor. I later discovered his most recent and now exclusive work is as a photographer making multi dimensional layered works of unusual materials such as dirt, diamonds, sugar, string, chocolate syrup and garbage to create his unique, bold style. I thoroughly enjoyed the Ted Talk on Vik Muniz where his quiet humor and charm captivated the audience as he described his start in the art world. he is an artist that I will look up for inspiration many times I'm sure.
Ann Weber is another chosen contemporary artist that motivates and inspires me. Her artworks look far more like beautiful polished cane baskets than recycled cardboard as the pieces have layers of shellac applied to develop a lustrous patina. Her works are organic is shape and gigantic and she is said to think whislt working - How far can I build this before it collapses?
I was also inspired by her descriptions of artworks calling them Infinite possibilities and further saying that her work is to help audiences realise the ‘Miracles and Wonders’ of life. Ann Weber
She has a unique approach to her work she described as Incorporating the ways of living into the ways of making art. " Ann Weber
Ann uses ordinary materials like cardboard and shows that everything is not always as it appears. Part of the charm of her work she says is to show the origins of the humble beginnings of the cardboard boxes and staples in the finished work.
Tobias Putrih is another artist introduced to me in the unit his work being complex and truly stimulating.
He works on distortion of perception are described here in his words
" Interested in the relations between the interiority and exteriority of the social and cultural space, his production of protospaces (those of cinemas or art galleries for example), refers to earlier Utopias and to figures marked by an idealist conception of art, to other experiments and revolutionary projects (the Bauhaus, Chris Marker, Robert Smithson. Thomas Putrih
Lastly Samuel Yates who again uses simply boxes and everyday items in unusual ways. His sculptures are more statements on modern life that is represented by huge scale constructions - The 7 story filing cabinet
He is from California and his work is described as "simple ideas taken to an extreme, formal limit
I particularly like his Me sculptor as represnting today me generations.
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