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,
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/
I agree with how you commented on about how the artist's social status increased during the Renaissance period; it was a turning point in history where artists were recognised for who they were, what they did. Just like you stated how artists were considered merely as a skilled workers/craftsmans, Renaissance was a period where artists position was boosted up; and I really think that this is reasonable because right up untill then, artists were mainly just commisioned by the church to paint or to produce works that their client ordered: no matter how they personally liked it or not. But from Renaissance onwards, it was more about the artist's intention and deeper/ further study was undertaken to back this up. Basically I want to comment on the fact that, increasing social position of a artist was a reasonable one ; worth it!
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