WEEK FOUR

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

an individual.

Answer:Duerer was very much an innovator. He is, for example, the first artist who is known to have painted a self-portrait and to have done a landscape painting of a specific scene.

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

Answer: Up until the Renaissance, painters and sculptors had been considered merely as skilled workers, not unlike talented interior decorators. However, in keeping with its aim of producing thoughful, classical art, the Europe Renaissance raised the professions of painting and sculpture so the artist's social status increased during that time.

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

Answer:He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people. Turk pieces often involves his own image disguised as that of a more famous person. He has cast himself in a series of detailed life sized sculptures as different romantic heroes, including Sid Vicious, Jean-Paul Marat and the leftist revolutionary Che Guevara.

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

Answer:Damien Hirst became a media icon and household name. He has since been imitated, parodied, reproached and exalted by the media and public alike.
"Hirst's work is an examination of the processes of life and death: the ironies, falsehoods and desires that we mobilise to negotiate our own alienation and mortality. His production can be roughly grouped into three areas: paintings, cabinet sculptures and the glass tank pieces. The paintings divide into spot and spin paintings. The former are randomly organised, colour-spotted canvases with titles that refer to pharmaceutical chemicals. The spin paintings are 'painted' on a spinning table, so that each individual work is created through centrifugal force. For the cabinet series Hirst displayed collections of surgical tools or hundreds of pill bottles on highly ordered shelves. The tank pieces incorporate dead and sometimes dissected animals - cows, sheep or the shark - preserved in formaldehyde, suspended in death."
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"Damien Hirst shaped shared ideas and interests quickly and easily, his work developing during the decade [1987-1997] to reflect changes in contemporary life.

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.

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

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7. Comment on the blogs of other students.

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8. Reference the websites and/or books you have used, at the end of your blog.

Answer:     http://www.albrecht-durer.org/

              http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/durr/hd_durr.htm

               http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Turk

               http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hirst.html

           http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/durer/self/

            http://radicalart.info/ego/statements/index.html

      http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG7733481/Maia-Norman-Damien-Hirsts-Californian-girl.html

Week 3

1. Mueck's sculpture is described as 'hyper-real'. Define the meaning of this term and apply it to his work.Answer:
Mueck's sculptures faithfully reproduce the minute detail of the human body, but play with scale to produce disconcertingly jarring visual images.

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.Answer:
"I never made life-size figures because it never seemed to be interesting. We meet life-size people every day.'" Says Mueck
'There's no denying that I have more information readily at hand when I have a live model. Even when I have had a model, however, what I have to do in the end is to consciously abandon the model and go for what feels right.'
-Ron Mueck

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.Answer:?

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. Comment on other student blogs to develop the discussion around the variety of our own personal and individual responses to art and design.Answer:

Dead dad was a hyper-realistic sculpture of Mueck’s dead father, naked, lying on the floor, so that you could easily trip over him, especially because he was only three feet long. This extraordinary work had huge emotional power, and many visitors remembered it well. Mueck makes work very slowly, taking on average four weeks for each work, although Pregnant woman took much longer, being his most ambitious work to date. By 2002, when Pregnant woman was made, he had created only 30 sculptures in total.


Reference:               http://hubpages.com/hub/Awesome_Sculptures_Of_Ron_Mueck

                                               http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Mueck

          http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2005/12/29/GA2005122900888.html

                                  http://paintalicious.org/2007/09/14/ron-mueck-hyper-realist-sculptor/

week2

1. Describe the 'style' that Kruger has used in the two presented
works.Answer:
Kruger's art has a very signature style,the first work had same
font, the same monochrome colours and the bold red and red text in the
white text background. The second work had same technique of expression
 so that her work always makes the viwers visual.

2.What are some of the concepts and messages that Kruger is
communicating in them?Answer:
The background in design is evident in the work for which she is
now internationally renowned. She layers found photographs from
existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the
viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak
to.

3. Do these images communicate these ideas effectively? Explain your
answer.Answer:
I think these images communicate ideas effectively because of
her works Realizable straightforward her opinion. simple but make
impression a lot.

4. Define the concept of Mercantillism and explain how these two
examples can connect with the concept.Answer:
Kruger's works are direct and evoke an immediate response.
Usually her style involves the cropping of a magazine or newspaper
image enlarged in black and white. Much of her text questions the
viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy
and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the
mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing.

5. Upload a more recent example of Kruger's work where she has used a

new medium, that is not graphic design. Title your image of the chosen

work and comment on your response to the work. How do you think the

audience would experience this work?Answer:

                              Title:  I am not a fan.

Reference:          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger

                        http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kruger.html

                              http://www.wdog.com/rider/writings/real_kruger.htm

     http://syntheticpubes.com/post/198625266/barbara-krugers-more-recent-work-revolves-around

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