Favorite Artists Part 2

Cornelia Parker (1956-) is a British artist that utilizes the idea of comic violence in her work. Some of her work is the result of explosions. She had the British army blow up her garden shed. She then recreated the explosion in the gallery (see image at left.)






She also ran over a number of silver place settings with a steam roller and suspended them as flat disks.












Andy Goldsworthy (1956-) creates art from nature. His goes outdoors and painstakingly arranges what he finds into sculptural, temporary pieces. He's not out to create new objects, but new ways of seeing what is already there.


In this piece, he has taken icicles and broken them up. They are dipped in water and allowed to freeze together one piece at a time.
Here, Andy has created a woven pattern of sticks in water. The water mirrors the image and it appears to float.

Favorite Artists Part 1

There are a few artists that just blow me away. I have been inspired by these folks in many different ways.

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) created a circus in the late '20's early 30's. It worked in such a way that he would perform it for crowds of people in his apartment. There's a great video about it called Calder's Circus. He also developed the mobile.

Calder was a very prolific artists and a slob.












Tim Hawkinson (1960-) has about as much fun as Calder did. His pieces involve machines, noise, and moving parts. On the left is the "Uberorgan" that he created with a number of bus-sized balloons that operated a light-sensor player piano of sorts. It emits an immense noise, like a fog horn.
On the right is the "Emotor." The self-portrait image has motors attached to each facial expression. The motors are operated by light sensors suction-cupped to a television. So whatever is on TV affects the facial expression.