Thursday, May 15, 2014

Lecture Notes - She/he's lost control again

-be brave! Embrace smudges, accidents, etc.

Generative art - process of encoding artistic idea into some sort of system
-there has to be a logic through which the artwork is generated
-system must be autonomous

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Surrealism - pure, psychic automatism
-artlessness - method over product
automatic paintings and drawings
Unica Zurn

Antoni Tapies - voids
Palla i fusta, 1969, straw and wood, assemblage on canvas

Cy Twombly
-mass of mars, erasures and words
are smudges intentional or accidental?
-respond to the specific needs of each work?

Les Moutons de Panurge - Frederic Rzewski

Basquiat - informed his work by trying things outside the realm of painting, e.g. dj-ing
-paintings are experimental jazz rhythms?
Brother's Sausage - 6 hinge panel - everything is revealed
small drawings controlled, paint splatters loose and free
-appropriation from all sorts of sources

Ghada Amer - embroidered paintings
thread ends adhered to canvas using gel, technique akin to paint dripping
control of embroidery + loss of control of thread ends
La Ligne
The Black Bang - reference to male artists

Tracey Emin
I Can't Believe How Much I Loved You
-don't give everything away in your painting - there has to be something for the viewer to imagine
Keep Your Darkness Away - embroidered calico

Susan Hefuna
-ink and pencil drawings, multiple layers of tracing paper
-networks and systems
NOTATIONOTATIONS - choreography and drawing - mapping of people

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