Five Artists that I've Chosen:
Cindy Sherman in "Transformation" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
Laurie Simmons in "Romance" - Season 4 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
Christian Marclay in "London" - Season 10 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
John Baldessari in "Systems" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
Avery Singer's Next Painting | Art21 "New York Close Up"
Five themes the artists addressed about making work:
A lot of Cindy Sherman's work centers on characters that she creates and the exploration of said characters. She has several series of said explorations of characters with themes of gender, stereotypes, identity, societal norms, vulnerability, and transformation
Laurie Simmons’ uses dolls and toys in order to address themes such as gender roles, femininity, domesticity, pristine alternate realities, underlying difficulties in domestic bliss by conformity.
Christian Marclay’s works explore themes of music, sound, media, expression of sounds through words, as well as sounds connection between sound and images
Most of John Baldessari has themes of humor, the connection between images and text, challenging norms of art as well as its limits, and highlights what is often overlooked.
Avery Singer’s themes in her work would be digital landscape, traumatic events, life as an artist, critiques of the art world and new virtual realities
Five challenges the artists faced in making their work:
One of the first challenges Sherman faced was in her early college work where she took her pictures and cut them out but eventually after a year of cutting out pictures, she decided that that was too much and realized that she needed to take her pictures all in one shot. Funnily enough Sherman failed her photography class in college because of “lack of technical skills”. Cindy Sherman has stated before that when she started up photography it was not a medium that was condoned by the art world, so she felt not accepted by the art or photography world.
One of the biggest challenges that Simmons faced was being embarrassed by her work since she thought it was “embarrassing to do something that felt like child’s play and women’s work”. Especially since until not that long ago most conceptual works were done by men. Since her work’s main subjects were dolls people thought, it was only appealing to women, so Simmons had to find a way to appeal to men as well
In one of Marclay’s works “Door” was very different since it consisted of making an illusion of continuity and Marclay explains that that was already very difficult, but he also did not have extra frames and could only cut frames and not add. This in itself is difficult but so was finding enough related clips, in his work “The Clock” it took him and his assistants 3 years to complete. His assistants would spend whole days watching movies in order to find relevant clips.
To be very honest I could not find any challenges that John Baldessari has mentioned besides having started his art career later in life
Again, I really couldn’t find any source that mentions any challenges that Avery Singer has faced when making her work
Five inspirations you drew from the artists:
I had learned about Cindy Sherman a few semesters ago and she's been one of the few artists that have stuck with me, and that I know by name. Out of all her works the one that most inspires me are her "Untitled Film Stills", they are just theatrical and dramatic yet so quiet. Just the overall vibe and feel of this specific collection is what inspires me. I previously recreated one of her photos from this collection and it just left me with the need to recreate more.
Laurie Simmons’ earlier work, where she would take black and white pictures of what looks like rooms in a doll house and the small doll items is what captured me initially to her work because of its dramatic feel. Kind of the same feeling of Cindy Sherman just with dolls instead. I was also very inspired by how she described those pictures, as creating another reality that was still, quiet, pristine and devoid of people. One of the other works that caught my attention was the series of objects on legs, because it reminds of collages, and I love making collages. The objects with legs also just look funny.
It was interesting to see Christian Marclay’s since his art is music/sound, so it’s a little different getting inspired from different mediums, but what inspired me was just his approach towards music. It’s not a traditional approach, for example one of his installations was a piano which when different keys are played in front of it videos would start playing corresponding to the key played, which reminded me of that giant piano from the movie “BIG” from 1988. What also inspired me was that Marclay isn’t limited to things that you can hear, he has paintings which include onomatopoeias.
John Baldessari’s work was super fun just because of the usage of color blocking in the images he uses. When speaking about his work he said that we should look at the blank spaces because that is also part of the artwork. He also said that we always go back to the same idea but in a different direction, which is just so simple but genius. His work at Haus Lange was so funny and he just wanted to poke fun at Mies Van Der Rohe, on the outside Baldessari covered the windows with fake brick so it looked like the whole building had no windows and on the inside images of Pacific Ocean and Southern California landscapes were placed where the windows are.
The last artist I picked was Avery Singer, her process was very interesting since she first sketched on 3D computer programs which she then transfers onto the canvas and uses airbrush to paint.
Five things you would like to incorporate into your own work after watching these videos?:
From Cindy, specifically from her "Untitled Film Stills", I would love to incorporate those dramatic feels in my designs (or even my photography). Since her "Untitled Film Stills" are in black and white, I would love to experiment with monochrome designs since most of my designs are full of color.
Simmons’ objects on legs reminds me of collages which is something I would love to incorporate into my designs since it I used to do constantly a few years ago.
Something that I would love to incorporate from Christian Marclay’s work is the usage of onomatopoeias. Since I already love and would love to add more vintage feels to my works, I think onomatopoeias would be a good addition to that vibe.
What I would love to incorporate is just the simplicity and boldness, I would say that I am experimenting more with simple designs but something I haven’t played around with is bright bold colors, especially primary colors.
Some that I would love to incorporate is the usage of airbrushing in my works, it’s a material I’ve never used so that would definitely be fun. Also, the usage of 3D programs is something that has always intimidated me because it looks super difficult to pick up
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