Richard Haas’ murals in the post modern era.
This paper will examine Richard Haas’ mural art between 1970s to 1990s in the context of postmodernism. He is well known for visually adding “make over” layer to the existing site and engage the viewers with the story in a large cityscape scale. His mural art will be compared with other art form such as Quadratura, Trompe-l'œil and paintings from L.A. Fine Arts Squad. The paper will argue that Hass’ work deliberated the political and religious objective of the traditional mural and reconstructed the lost ... |
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Similar as Sherman and other artist in Metro Pictures, Olaf focus on the identity of individual in the social contex. This picture shows a group of human dressed in a normalized box (lost identity). However, when a large quantity of elements are assembled as an sequence, the social consiouness emerged in as a linguistic pattern. ... |
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| Paine’s SCUMAK (Auto Sculpture Maker. 1998) used computer controlled machine to create polyethylene sculptures. Each sculpture was formed by rigidly scripted machine and identical parameters, however, due to the forces of chaos, the produced form are all different. The artist created the contrast between his personalized mass production and the depersonalized industry manufacture pipeline. Paine’s machine made sculptures with various forms driven by the mutation, similar as the identical embryos can be developed into different cells. This genetic-transformation philosophy can be traced back to his earlier projects like New Fungus Crop, ... |
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1) Identification
Artist: Rachel Whiteread
Title: embankment
Date: 2005 October
Location: Tate Museum, London. UK
Revel: "what is hidden within, what lies beneath the surface of everyday objects, and prompts us to see the extraordinary in the ordinary."
(2) The category
Medium: Architecture
(3) How it can be understood in relation to the tenets of 'Postmodernism' discussed thus far on the course (emphasis on the subject [viewer's experience] rather than [art] object, etc.)
It consists of some 14,000 transluscent, white polyethylene boxes (themselves casts of the inside of cardboard boxes) stacked in various ways; some in very tall mountain-like peaks and ... |
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A.R. Penck
German Painter and Printmaker Ralf Winkler, alias A.R. Penck, was born in 1939. He grew up in the German society, which experienced the Cold War after World War II, the split and reunion of East and West Berlin. As one of the neo-Expressionism artists coming from East Berlin, he had similar internal struggles with leftist ideology as Kimmendorff had. In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms. Different from the modernist abstract expressionist, he consciously developed the independence of ... |
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