Week 5- Science and reason- Video art by Pipilotti Rist

 Pipilotti Rist's video art- how can we link this to science and reason?

 

Still from 'Ever is Over All' (1997)

 

1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view.

In the 17^th century was known by ‘scientific Revolution’. This was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed starting in ancient Greece and continuing through the middle ages, and laid the foundation of modern science. The scientific discoveries of the 16^th – 17^th centuries brought upon a fundamental change in the ways Europeans viewed the natural world.

 

2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today.

Research Pipilotti Rist's video installations to answer the following;

I think ‘Scientific revolution’ it has affected the world today by encouraging the removal of God in day to day lives. In public schools student have taught evolutionary theory from accepting God’s sovereignty over the universe, this have removed all meaning from human about themselves existence. This shows the idea of ‘scientific evolution’ how it started by God from the bible.

 3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work

that uses new media/technology over traditional media?

I think the new media/technology and traditional media have an own different values. I think films and music is easy to see and hear in now lives. As the human society improves we have better digital work. As we saw on the Rist’s video artist showed two same images looked as one. I think the technology gives artist to get more improve their works by using new technology.

4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work.

 

Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience’s by using sounds, lighting, time and interesting environment. And I think her was showing more about human body to show her art work. She was using technology to show different environment of the work and catch people tension.

Example .  

Pipilotti Rist’s “Pour Your Body Out”

I'm not the girl who misses much

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsC8FKNE8fg

 

 

Pipilotti Rist
Layers Mama Layers
Installation view
Luhring Augustine, 2010

 

 

5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work.

I think the music has a sound of nature but it also have a feeling of this situation is not real because of music sound is unreality maybe more like dreaming in some situation. When the woman was smashing the window it had a strong impact and how she was outfit really nice but her action was strange. The scale of this work is life sized and it would feel that the audience was actually in that situation.

 

6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable?

I’m not sure whether the woman’s behavior was reasonable or unreasonable because if it was in real life I would say it’s unreasonable but since she’s in the film which is more like dramatic and she walks along the footpath smashing the windows which probably not even belong to her and some point the police officer was greeting her when she was smashing the window. While she was smashing the window her expression on the face was smiling and the way I looked at her the woman was lightly walking. Overall it’s hard to tell whether she is in good or bad mood.

 

7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work.

The woman on the film, the flowers and field relate to each other maybe it’s showing the woman that human normally think is weak, pretty, soft and girly but in this film her action was brave by looking at her smashing the windows while she walk along the footpath. The two views of field and the woman maybe was showing the audience how woman can change their personality. Human can’t judge others just by looking at their outside view in reality they might have different personality inside their body.

 

 

 

 

 

http://classweb.gmu.edu/rcherubi/ancient/srfr.htm

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/SCIREV.HTM

http://ap_history_online.tripod.com/apeh6.htm/

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081112215643AA3xesZ
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/exhibitions/pipilotti-rist_2/

week4- The social status of the artist

Self Portrait in Fur Coat (1500)

Albrecht Durer

Knob (1997) Gavin Turk

Damien Hirst and Maia Norman (1995)

Albrecht Durer's 'Self-Portrait in Fur Coat' (1500) shows a significant change in the way that the artist views and portrays himself.Research the paintings by Albrecht Durer, Gavin Turk and Damien Hirst in order to answer

the following questions;

1. Identify aspects of Durer's self portrait that show a changing view of the artist's view of himself as

an individual.

The first, drawn when he was just 13, depicts the soft features of a young boy, sketched with great confidence and skill. His drawings and watercolours are impressive for their diversity of subject matter and the varied media in which they were produced. 'Thus I, Albrecht Duerer from Nuremburg, painted myself with indelible colours at the age of 28 years.' Although the artist has depicted himself in a Christ-like pose, this was no gesture of blasphemy. It was an acknowledgement that God had made Christ and Man in his own image.

2. Explain how the artist's social status increased during the Renaissance period. Briefly explain why this happened.

During the Renaissance period the social increased all the way though the Europe and Italy.  Europe was wealth at this time trade grew between cities/states and other countries. As trade in goods increased, trade in ideas grew also. This is why the artist is famous in Ressiance.

 

3. Comment on Gavin Turk's work in relation to individualism, status of the artist and egotism.

Gavin Turk was born in Guildford. He attended the Royal College of Art, in London. Turk's installations and sculptures deal with issues of authorship, authenticity and identity. Turk explored issues of authorship and identity by making a number of works based on his own signature that comment on the value that the artist's name confers onto a work.

Concerned with the 'myth' of the artist and the 'authorship' of a work, Turk's engagement with this modernist, avant-garde debate stretches back to the ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp.

 In more recent works such as Pile (2004), a painted bronze sculpture of a pile of garbage bags, Turk explores the way in which a work of art is conferred with iconic status and value.

4. Comment on Damien Hirst's use of his work and the media for self promotion.

Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol, UK. During the 1990s, became Britain’s most famous, young, living sculptor and painter, in part because of his own flair for self-promotion and the publicity skills of his primary patron Charles Saatchi. I think Hirst is well known for the self-portait he use the public as his artwork for promotion.

5. Find 2 images of work by artists or designers that reflects some of the ideas of individualism,

self promotion or egotism that have been discussed on this blog. Upload images to your blog, title and date the work, identify the artist/designer and comment on the work in relation to the question.

 

Christian Dior was born in Granville, a seaside town on the coast of France. He Dior was a wealthy fertilizer manufacturer. In 1941 when Christian Dior was out of the military he moved back to Paris -- and he joined another designer by the name of Lucien Lelong. Dior stayed with him until 1946 when he moved out on his own, and got his own salon and designed for himself.

6. How do you think artists and designers are viewed in Western society today?

I think the artist and designers are getting more curious about the what is going around the world and how they can use the old fashion works in redesigned so then they will get high profit and more incomes. I think people buy the items by brands and price of the items.

 

http://www.all-about-renaissance-faires.com/renaissance_info/economic_social_and_religious_change_in_the_renaissance.htm

http://www.skny.com/artists/gavin-turk/

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/hirst/

http://www.artdesigncafe.com/damien-hirst-media-celebrity-2001

http://www.designer-fashion-trends.com/christian-dior.htm

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/D/durer.html  

Ron mueck's sculpture and Humanism

Mask II (2002) Ron Mueck

A girl (2006) Ron Mueck

 

Ron Mueck has become internationally recognised for his unique sculptures, which replicate the human figure with unrivalled technical skill. His work has a powerful psychological range, focusing not only on universal experiences like birth, life and death but on emotional states such as isolation, fear and tenderness. His startling manipulations of scale are key to our experience of each work.

Mueck's work showed at the Christchurch Art Gallery from the end of 2010 through to January 2011. Research Mueck's sculpture in order to answer the following questions;

1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and apply it to his work.

the another word for 'hyper-real' is  hyperreality which means  to characterize the way consciousness  defines what is actually "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event or experience. This applies to Mueck's work because even though his scale of human figures is oversized or undersized but the figure is highly detailed.

 

2. Mueck is not interested in making life size sculpture. Find out why he is more interested

In working with the scale of the figure which is not life size, and mention 2 works which use 

Scale that is either larger or smaller than life.

Mueck is more interested in making not life size because we meet life size people every day and it seem to be more interesting in different scale so than he can show us more detailed work. "I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day.'" Says Mueck. He also said "It makes you take notice in a way that you wouldn’t do with something that’s just normal". I think he wanted to do something different to other artist to get attention of audience.

example 1.

                           In Bed, 2005-6, Mixed media, 63 34 x 255 7/8 x 155 12 inches

 

example 2.

                                                                           Dead Dad

3. Define Renaissance Humanism , and analyze the term in order to apply it to an example of Mueck's work. Note that the contemporary definition of Humanism is much broader than the Renaissance definition.

Humanism is a system of thought that considers human beings, rather than the church, as able to decide their own morals, truths and behaviours. As a result, scholars in the Renaissance began to study the books, poetry, grammar and histories of classical (Greek and Roman) authors, rather than being forced to study those of the church. Similarly people began collecting and studying the art of classical Greek and Rome. In Mueck's sculptures have life cycle from birth, middle age and death. In this work I think it’s showing humanity the natural human body.

                                                                   Untitled ( Big Man), 2000

i

4. Research and discuss one of Mueck's sculptures that you might find challenging or exciting to experience in an art gallery. Describe the work, upload an image of the work, and explain your personal response to the work.

 Boy, 1999

 

 

The work began as a 48-centimetre plaster maquette. Mueck gradually increased the scale, working with large polystyrene blocks sliced into horizontal sections. The eyes were cast in a football, and hair made with fishing line. Mueck brings the boy to life by evoking bones, muscles and limbs. A resin used to paint inside each section gave it flesh tone. The boy scale is five meters high tall. It is in huge scale and the boy is steering at something in strange face. The position that the boy is seating have a kind of connection between his face emotions. The detailed of his feet is clear and I to think how the person did made that huge human.

 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hyperreal

http://hubpages.com/hub/Awesome_Sculptures_Of_Ron_Mueck

http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag03/jul_aug03/mueck/mueck.shtml

http://www.gautierdeblonde.com/portfolio.lasso?categoryID=11

Academic Literacies in Visual Communication 1 Resource Book