Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

•Contemporary American Artist


•Works with a broad range of media.


•Confronted with “What to do?” in his studio soon after graduating, Nauman had the simple but profound realization that “If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product.”

"Dream Passage"

"Violins/Violence"

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

Lecture at VCU on Monday, October 10, 2011.

• Brooklyn, New York-based married couple who make art together.
• They work with interactive media, film, performance and installation to explore personal experience in relation with new technology, the mass media, and global comm
• • They were awarded a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.
• • Jennifer- Was always interested in what went on behind the scenes- ie the background in order to give respect to the work that went into the things that went on behind the scenes.
    • You want to take things that you've seen and make new things from them.
    
    
    
    

"Horror Chase"

• Evil Dead- inspired sequence

-Didn't like the way the shots ended up in the original film.

   So they rebuilt the set.

  -Shot sequences of chases in the set, and entered it into the software.

-the software creates essentially a giant flip book that changes the effects of the video.

The piece stays inside the tight space, but plays more or less endlessly.

-As a viewer you stay inside a fairly claustrophobic environment, but the changes in lenses and acts. So the variations become clearer everytime you watch it.

They wanted the set to be on view with the video.

Yann Tiersen

-Musician from France.
-Received classical training in several music academies.

Comptine d'un Autre Été

-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-1u8xvk54

Yann Tiersen's style of music has a very modern feel to it.

James Rosenquist

-His specialty is taking fragmented, oddly disproportionate images and combining, overlapping, and putting them on canvases to create visual stories.
-From 1957-60 he earned his living as a billboard painter.

Tin Roof

Star Ladder (Second State)

Yves Tanguy

-Yves Tanguy was born in 1900 in Brittany, France.
-He began his career in the merchant marines and was drafted into the army during the World War I.
-After the war he settled in Paris, earning his living by different jobs.
-He never got any formal training in painting.
-Decided to become a painter when he saw De Chirico in 1923.
-His friend, the poet Jacques Prévert, introduced him into the circle of the Surrealists.

Mama, Papa is Wounded!
1927, Oil on canvas

"The Sensitive Layer"
1933

Anish Kapoor, Sculptor

-British sculptor of Indian birth
-sculptures are frequently simple, curved forms, usually monochromatic and brightly colored.
-His early works use powder powder to define and permeate the form.
-Kapoor first became known in the 1980s for his geometric or biomorphic sculptures made using simple—often elemental—materials such as granite, limestone, marble, pigment and plaster.

Sky Mirror
It took six years from the initial idea for a major new piece of public art to the unveiling of Sky Mirror on 27 April 2001, and cost £900,000.

Hole, 1988

Arnulf Rainer, Abstract Painter

• Austrian painter and is internationally renowned for his abstract informal art.
• Began to collect paintings by the insane
• Experimented with hallucinative drugs.

Totenmaske (Deathmask)

Waage