December 2010
48 posts
The Beatles - Dig a Pony
Art Forum - best of 2010 →
As an artist coming from a male dominated conflict zone, I was forced to seek...
– Rona Yefman
Kai-Lan Chau
As creator of the wildly popular animated children’s show ‘Ni Hao, Kai-Lan,” Karen Chau has been delighting viewers (and their parents) with her enchanting artwork and childhood memories for three years. What many people dont know is that Karen has been creating personal artwork, under her Chinese name ‘Kai-Lan Chau’, for much longer. - Sloan Fine Art...
Denis Dutton on TED
Edith Dekyndt
Makino Momoko →
Edith Dekyndt - notes, quotes, and themes
- b.1960, Belgium
- video, photography, sculpture, installation, performance
- seeing the artist involved with the work - “it is rare that visitors see the artist physically engaged in the act of experimenting within the exhibition space.” - Kitty Scott, ‘Edith’s Library’
- Pieces in MoMA’s ‘On Line’ show - XY02, Slow Object, A is hotter than B
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Nasreen Mohamedi - notes, quotes, and themes
- b. 1937, d. 1990, Pakistan - drawings in show, but also takes photographs - extremely layered drawings - “In her geometric drawings and photographs she doesn’t show the slightest inclination to make art that can be racially or culturally identified.” - Brooklyn Rail - she became friends with the reclusive V. S. Gaitonde (1924 – 2001), the pioneer of non-objective painting in...
George Vantonerloo - notes, quotes, and themes
-b. 1886, Belgium, Died 1965 Paris - sculptor and painter, studied at Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp, and Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels - Founding member of the De Stijl group, “The Style”, neoplasticism (new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order). *a reduction to the essentials of form and color. ’De Stijl’ was also a book written by Theo Van...
Ranjani Shettar - notes, quotes, and themes
-Born 1977, Bangalor India - ‘Just a bit more’ 2005-6, cotton threads dyed in teas, beeswax with pigment - Wanted to use wax for it’s immediacy. “it has a very gentile, transluscent quality to it. And it’s incredibly light and can last very long” - Made this piece in her studio, 1 section at a time. To have them travel, she had to keep them recorded and...
a starting point →
MoMA - the collection - info on Loie Fuller
MoMA - The collection - Georges Vantongerloo
Interview with Ranjani Shettar →
Art turns out to be particularly suitable when it comes to expressing this...
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From Relational Aesthetics, Relational Form, Nicholas Bourriaud (1998)
Linked artistic practices: an art form where the substrate is formed by...
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From Relational Aesthetics, Relational Form, Nicholas Bourriaud (1998)
What is collapsing before our very eyes is nothing other than this falsely...
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From Relational Aesthetics, Relational Form, Nicholas Bourriaud (1998)
Nowadays, modernity extends into the practices of cultural do-it-yourself and...
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From Relational Aesthetics, Relational Form, Nicholas Bourriaud (1998)
Art was intended to prepare and announce a future world: today it is modeling...
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From Relational Aesthetics, Relational Form, Nicholas Bourriaud (1998)
In order to invent more effective tools and more valid viewpoints, it behoves us...
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From Relational Aesthetics, Relational Form, Nicholas Bourriaud (1998)
Artistic activity is a game, whose form, patterns and functions develop and...
– From Relational Aesthetics, Relational Form, Nicholas Bourriaud (1998)
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