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Showing posts with label Chalk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chalk. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Ana Ventura, Artist


Marks were made to surfaces that already exist.  
For instance, a sidewalk with splattered paint, a concrete wall with paint chipped away.








Source link here.

Joseph Beuys, Artist


Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963

Joseph Beuys (German, 1921–1986)

1966. Panel with chalk drawing, felt, fat, taxidermied hare, and painted poles, 6' x 7' 6 3/4" x 20" (183 x 230 x 50 cm). Gift of Frederic Clay Bartlett (by exchange). © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Eurasia Siberian Symphony 1963 is composed from materials used during a 1966 performance, or “action,” by the artist at a Berlin gallery. Eurasia, the continental block that links Europe and Asia, evokes the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures, particularly resonant for Beuys in divided, Cold War Germany. The hare, with its quick jumps, suggests the ability to span long distances. The blackboard notes the degrees of the angles of fat and felt affixed to the poles during the performance and the temperature (42 degrees Celsius) of a high human fever. Fat and felt are essential components of Beuys’s “warmth theory” of art; he was deeply interested in the calorie’s role in the preservation of life and the insulating properties of felt.

Source is Museum of Modern Art

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Luisa Rabbia, Artist, Italy

https://luisarabbia.com/work/



"Though Luisa Rabbia works in various media, the core of her practice resides in drawing." - source is The Brooklyn Rail, article by Stephanie Buhmann. Link here to read.

Monday, October 17, 2011