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*Sherman, Untitled Film Still, #35, 1979, photograph
Set up a narrative that you complete or you expand on
-feminist movement
-perhaps a housewife
Or similar to migrant mother
-smudge marks –as if it had been kicked in my someone
-suggestion of violence
-or place that is run down –to convey particular social class |
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*Barbara Kuger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981, photograph
-not even a human being –sculptural object
-multiple meanings
L: internal conflict
-wearing cosmetics
-2 sides to her personality w/ neg. image
-women can be put in vulnerable position –someone may by trying to pocess it |
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Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy), 1991-91, photograph
-photo MIA
-had a job , clipping stories for newspapers
-notion of value in American Culture
-photograph of a photograph
-Marbello cigarettes
-male stereotypes
-authority |
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Sigmar Polke Bunnies, 1966 Acrylic/linen
-referencing Roy Lichenstein w/ the benday dots
-increased size of dots
-paying homage to Lichenstein
-distortion of their faces
Right eye distorted and mouth off
-standardization of dots
-full possession of women |
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*Gerhard Richter Vase, 1984, o/c
-photo MiA
-disciplined and controlled
-abstract arrangement of colors and brushstrokes
-more compositionally based than emotionally based
-certain areas very deliberately shaded
2 are showing similar outcome, but way of getting there is very different |
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*****Anselm Kiefer, Departure from Egypt, 1984, oil, straw, lacquer, lead/c
-references to Israelites being allowed to leave Egypt
-surface 3D
-get sense of world being destroyed
-sense of hope –Israelites repressed , but leaving Egypt, Exodus
-dealing w/ mythology |
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**Eric Fischl, The Old Man’s Boat and the Old Man’s Dog, 1982, o/c
American family being stripped literally and figuratively
-hint at incest maybe
-not Disneyland anymore
-throws average viewer off
-don’t notice impending doom
-people really adrift to morality
-we have had very impressive standards
-allowed to look but not allowed to share that in family
Compare to Robert longo’s work –both go back to human figure
Old man’s boat =have leisure, affluence
What do you think fischl is trying to impart?
That unsettling feeling of all these good things going on in America
-what do you think he might be trying to uncover?
-feeling of anxiety of environment
-not even aware of waves and sky behind them –very complacent about vunlerabilty on boat
-back to realism
-dalmation snarling might be warning owners |
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Robert Longo, Men in the Cities installation view
-charcoal, pencil drawings
-back of frame intertwined into work
-in very business attire
-figures about to expire, dancing
-lots of interpretation |
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Elizabeth Murray, Art Part. 1981, 22 canvases
reshape and restructure as something being objective element
-used cups and saucers
-fuse parts all together
-hand holding a paintbrush |
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Peter Halley, Two Cells with Circulating Conduit, 1985, acrylic
Day-Glo acrylic, and Rolla Tex/c
-cell = battery or place of confinement
-we can be imprisoned by technology
-prison cell
-since the end of WWII – boxes represent social space –impact way we live and way we act
-metaphorical meaning
-looks like minimalist concepts |
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Haring, One-Man Show, 1982
references to Jesus on the left |
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Grillo, 1984, o/wood with nails
-attracted to graffiti art
-created a persona w/ SAMO Co.
SAM =Same Old Shit
-poetic inscriptions
-this work got a lot of recognition really fast
-questioned, wandered if any room for him? Being a black artist |
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