otart: January 2011

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Abstract Photography

Frozen Foods, Irving Penn, 1977

This work was controversial when it was first exhibited and remains controversial today. Why? (or why not?) evaluate it, discuss it.

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, The Guardian, 2003, photogravure, 24" x 20", lent courtesy of the artist.

My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use…. [I] strive to metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.

--Robert ParkeHarrison

Shana and Robert ParkeHarrison are a husband and wife team that comment on the environment, it's fragility, and humanities pompous destruction of it. They try to make their work look like a modern mythology.

Evaluate their success rate giving details to justify your opinion. Feel free to rebut the opinions of your classmates -kindly.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

As the winter light gets brighter

Building Blocks, 1997, Kumi Yamashita

As winter lies upon us it is easy to notice that the trip to school is often in the dark. As we move further into the new year the light will begin to grow longer. If there is one thing that light is great for - its shadows!

Kumi Yamashita is an artist that plays with how light can bend around objects creating A from B.

As the day light hours grow and we spend more time in the dawn and dusk it is interesting to keep an eye on how the winter shadows play all around us.