art project

Alexander McQueen

Lee Alexander McQueen, March 17, 1969 – February 11, 2010 was a British fashion designer and courtier best known for his in-depth knowledge of British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose female strength and sensuality with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows.

McQueen has been credited with bringing drama and extravagance to the catwalk. He used new technology and innovation to add a different twist to his shows and often shocked and surprised audiences. The silhouettes that he created have been credited for adding a sense of fantasy and rebellion to fashion. McQueen became one of the first designers to use Indian models in London.

Burning Man

Burning Man is much more than just a temporary community. It's a city in the desert, dedicated to radical self reliance, radical self-expression and art. Innovative sculpture, installations, performance, theme camps, art cars and costumes all stem from The Playa and spread to the communities.

Art is an unavoidable part of this experience, and in fact, is such a part of the experience that Larry Harvey, founder of the Burning Man project, gives a theme to each year. The reason that he does this is to encourage a common bond to help tie each individual's contribution together in a meaningful way. Participants are encouraged to find a way to help make the theme come alive.

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy was born in 1956 in Cheshire, England. He is a land artists. Goldsworthy always knew he was going to be and artist. He had lived on a farm since the age of 13. Living on the farm is what opened him up to land art. He produces site-specific land art which is art work created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.

The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly-colored flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, clay, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. (basically anything he can find).  He is also considered to be the founder of modern rock balancing.

"I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature." 

Roof

This is one of his permanent pieces, its called "Roof." A team of workers including four dry-stone wallers, installed the sculpture entitled Roof on the ground level of the East Building over the course of nine weeks in the winter of 2004/2005. The concept for the sculpture came from the artist's interest in the origin of Washington building stones, and evokes the natural sources of this urban center. The sculpture is comprised of nine, stacked-slate, hollow domes, each measuring approximately five and a half feet high and twenty-seven feet in diameter 

Stone River

"Stone River" is a 320 ft long sandstone sculpture located at Stanford University. He worked with  eight professional English and Scottish dry-stone wallers, who worked for 11 hours a day, six days a week for three-and-a-half weeks on the project. Though Goldsworthy's palms and fingers are callused and his fingernails are discolored from years of working outside, he didn't lay any stones himself!  The Sculpture is called stone river but Goldsworthy says its not a river but more of a flow and movement. A flow of energy from the rocks.

  

 

  Photography plays a huge role in Andy Goldworthy's art because most of his art isn't something that can be put into a gallery. Most of the art he creates out in nature is not seen by very many people. That's because his art is transient or very temporary. Some of his works my only last up to 20 seconds. It all depends on the environment its in. With his camera he is able to capture these moments and bring them to us so we can have a little taste of how he views the earth and nature. 

Video Art

Beall Center

So the Beall Center was pretty easy to find. We just followed the directions and sure enough we ran into the red building. When I walked in my first reaction was "why is it so dark?" Yeah I'm scared of the dark! Then the tall bubble human came to life! and i thought "yeah that was cool, but I want to see something else." So I walked all the way inside and realized how tiny the gallery was. And there was no one there. okay then i saw the birds moving and i thought it was so beautiful! I have mentioned it before I really like birds. When I was looking at the performance I could just imagine real birds following each other. The Inner Space performance was cool too. I really did enjoy that sounds that it made along with the movements. I wish I could have taken video!

Artist 10 - Bruce Nauman

 

Bruce Nauman is a contemporary artist from Indiana. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, and video. His art is characterized by his play on words.  Many of his pieces are neon and bright.

In the picture above it says: The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. Well he hasn't helped me by revealing any mystic truths personally, but i still consider him a "true artist." I think his works are very beautiful and bright. I will do some further researching on Nauman because i think his works are interesting. I'm really interested to find out how he got into playing with words!