Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Portraits
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Sonya Rapoport
Sonya Rapoport is an American
digital artist born on October 6, 1923. She studied at the Massachusetts
College of Art, Arts Student League of New York and Corcoran School of Art in
Washington D.C. Rapoport has had a variety of artistic styles. She has worked
using the human figure in abstract form, then expressionist style, interactive
installations and digital art. Some of the topics she uses in her work include
gender, politics and technology. Digital Mudra (1988-1989) is a collection of
pictures that were taken from Rapoport’s interactive piece called Biorhythm
that took place in 1983. The process of the piece was that a participant would
be asked express how they feel using words and gestures. Photographs were taken
as the participants expressed their feelings and later used for Digital Mudra.
The participants would be seated in a dentist’s chair, had bibs that served as
a background to view the gestures when photographed.
It was interesting to find out the
purpose behind Digital Mudra. Rapoport was connecting the gestures people and
their verbal expressions with the gestures used in the Mudra style of storytelling.
Mudra movements are from India and are gestures used when telling a story. Rapoport
has a unique style of creating art. She uses more than one topic to create her
artwork. There is always some sort of scientific research involved in her work.
Digital Mudra analyzed the relationship between gestures and verbal expression.
There is always some form of text that has
been digitally added to the images which help identify the piece or give some
background information. I think that she is trying to use art and mix it with scientific
research. The labels, graphs and diagrams used in her work can be connected to
charts used by doctors.
Adam Kadmon
Rapoport’s style of digital art is
unique and interesting but difficult to understand at times. It takes a while
to figure out what is happening in the image. In some of her work, it is hard
to know the message behind the work unless you have background information on
the subject. For example, in Digital Mudra, I did not know the purpose of it
until I read the process of its creation. The labels she uses in her art can
sometimes be misleading and at times be helpful in reading the meaning. The
work is aesthetically pleasing because of the symmetry that is sometimes used. Overall, her artwork is sometimes hard to
understand but I think that spending time figuring out the meaning is part of
her intention. She uses the labels to aid the viewer in finding the meaning of
her work.
Garden of Brutal Myths
Works Cited:
- http://uploads3.wikipaintings.org/images/sonya-rapoport/digital-mudra-1989.jpg
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:12.Garden-Brutal_Myths.jpghttp://www.kala.org/exhibitions/past/2011/sonya.html
- http://users.lmi.net/sonyarap/digitalmudra/index.html
- http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/spaces-of-life-the-art-of-sonya-rapoport/
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Chuck Close
Chuck Close is an American painter, printmaker and
photographer born on July 5, 1940. He is known for his larger than scale
portraits. One of his first paintings/drawings was a self-portrait. Other works
include “Mark” (1978) which was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York and “Fanny” (1987) that is on display at the National Gallery of Art. The portraits were usually of people that were
close to him. In 1988, Close suffered a seizure which left him paralyzed from
the neck down. The accident did not stop him from working. He continued to work
on his portraits with some help and using a more abstract style.
"Fanny" (1987)
"Self Portrait" (1978)
Chuck Close begins his artistic process by taking a close up
shot of his subject and drawing a grid on top of the photograph. Close draws a
grid on a large scale canvas that was approximately nine feet by seven feet.
Close would work on each individual grid and it would take him about a year and
a half to finish the portrait. Close has also made portraits using layers of
color. He would make layers of the portrait using blue, yellow and red. The portraits show Close’s dedication to his artwork.
He spent a lot of time focusing on detail and size. Close also used a variety of techniques to
create his portraits. He used traditional brush strokes and a unique technique
using his fingers. The results of the mark making using fingertips were
successful. His dedication is visible
because the portraits seem almost perfect and look a lot like the photograph that
he started with.
The portraits are really interesting to look at from
different distances. It is better if one has the opportunity to see one of his
portraits in person. “Fanny” (1987) is displayed at the National Gallery of Art
in Washington D.C and I was able to see it. From far away, the portrait of the
elderly woman looks clear and the brush stroke/marks are not visible. When up
close. The marks Chuck Close made with his fingerprints were visible. It was
easy to distinguish the light and dark marks he made on the canvas. Close’s portraits have been aesthetically
pleasing from any distance. They are realistic and look like a larger
photograph. I think that he was successful with his portraits in both color and
black and white.
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