More stinky art

Once again I am going to talk about the last art form I wrote, art with trash. I think this has always been an innovative and conscious form of art because these artists are like no others because no one else had thought about creating beautiful structures with nothing else but garbage, so that they reuse trash and create art.

There’s actually an appreciation of the people to this art and it is shown in an exhibition called “Art from Trash”. Art from Trash is an annual community event that encourages the reuse of discarded materials in the production of visual art. This exhibition is open to all public and even better every new artist has an opportunity to show his work. This exhibition has been functioning since 1995. Art from Trash is both, an open door for artists to express themselves and a new way to reuse materials that the world considers to be not long useful.

There’s another exhibition called “Urban Trash Art” and it is a project that began in January 2009 in Sao Pablo, Brazil. Urban Trash Art is a project that was created by the artists Cleber Padovani and Rodrigo Machado, both artists believe that art materials should be accessible to all, and centers on issues of sustainability; transforming trash as a means and end. They take what is considered to be trash and they return it as art works that affect the urban landscape and offer a critical look at the issue of over-consumption and waste.

Both exhibitions are great ideas because they prove to the world that where we can only see a bunch of trash, other persons can create a piece of art. We should open our minds to new ideas like these and we should support the work of these new artists because they are not only trying to express themselves but also they are trying to help our planet.

Bibliography

art from trash. s.f. 2 de November de 2011 <http://www.artfromtrash.org/>.

Machado, Rodrigo y Clever Padovani. Whipper Snapper. 16 de July de 2007. 2 de November de 2011 <http://www.whippersnapper.ca/page5/page6/page19/page19.html>.

  

The stinkiest art form!

Guess what this week’s blog is about? Art with TRASH! I discovered this form of art existed just by doing some research in Google. I would never imagine people could create artistic forms with something disgusting and stinky, but the most interesting part is that these artists transform these ugly wastes into beautiful and good-looking pieces. I found some important artists of this art form.

The first one is Schult who creates human silhouettes in many important countries and cities like New York and the Great Wall of China. These sculptures are made mostly of cans, computer parts and generally everything that could fit in them.

Then we have an artistic duo, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, they also work with trash, in England, the interesting thing about them is that their sculptures are made so that they look like a mess when you first take a look at them, but at the time you set up a projector in front of the sculpture, an animated shadow is created. I really would like to see one of their sculptures because I think it’s awesome the fact that they can reflect the real work in just a shadow.

There are a lot of more artists who work with garbage, I think they may have another reason for doing this: recycling, which is a very good way to make people aware that recycling could be dome in many forms, like art.

Bibliography

Urbanist. weburbanist. October 2007. October 2011 <http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/04/recycled-art-from-trash/>.

Another origami master

Peter Callesen has been called a master in the art done with paper “origami” but himself doesn’t call his work specifically neither origami nor even art. He has been exhibiting his works since 1997 in many collaborative exhibitions, but also in solo exhibitions sponsored by some other important artists.

He was born in Denmark in 1967 but then he moved to London to study his latest years at Goldsmiths College. About his work he says he almost only works with white paper, it his favorite because it is the most common and consumed media by companies to carry information through. He also thinks the withe and simple paper is better to create art because we can be related and maybe identified to it, so that we could better understand the final work.

Let’s analyze a little bit this kind of work. Not only Callesen’s, but any work related with origami. I think this is an amazing technique; it’s awesome how these artists can give feeling and liveliness to something they create with a flat and simple piece of paper.

Callesen particularly works the most with white paper, but there are many others that give some more of realism to their work, like Bert Simons, who mostly creates busts with paper! It’s really impressive how these people can give all that liveliness to flat paper.

The short distance between time and shadow. By Peter Callesen

Bibliography

Callesen, Peter. About Callesen . 2009. October 2011 <http://www.petercallesen.com/about/>.

Hongkiat. 2007. October 2011 <http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/masters-of-paper-art-and-paper-sculptures/>.

Sculptures... with paper!

I did know about origami, but I had never heard about this form of art. There isn’t defined a name, the artists just describe this kind of art as a unique art form. This time I will talk about an international recognized paper artist, her name is Sher Christopher and she has a very unique style for her “paper sculptures”.

Sher Christoper was born in Dorset and studied at Bournemouth and Pole College of Art and Design, before he graduated she started exhibiting in Oxford as an art club member and working with other people to make huge puppets for community festival events.

In an interview she said that she started making paper sculptures because of an accident. Everything started when she took off a year from school to study furniture design, to do that she had few resources, just paper, scissors and glue; so she started making puppets every time more complex and every time with more emotion in their expressions. She has also said what she wants to get from her job, she wants mostly people to be fascinated from what a piece of paper is capable to create.

Sher has won awards in the category of sculpture on paper, now she is well recognized nationally and internationally. Her work is really shocking; it’s amazing how she can capture all the emotion in a piece of paper and how every sculpture she does is better and better.

          

Bibliography

Alice. my moodern met. 13 May 2011. 29 September 2011 <http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/dramatic-3d-paper-sculptures>.

Christopher, Paul. sherchristopher. 2010. 2011 <http://www.sherchristopher.com/index.php?Page_id=7>.

Life-sized

People have always showed interest in life-sized forms of art. One of the most common and amazing is sculpture that seems real people. Duane Hanson is one of the artists that fascinate American people with his sculptures that seem real born because of their scale and the careful way they are done.

According to James Findlay, Duane Hanson’s primary interest was recreating the human form, that’s how he started thinking about life-sized sculptures. At first he started sculpting three-dimensional forms in wood; his very first was a recreation of The Blue Boy when he was only thirteen years old. As he was improving his art, people started noticing and recognizing his work.

In the 1960s pop culture became very popular, which encouraged Hanson to put his determination in his beliefs of naturalistic inclinations. The most important sculpture in this decade was Abortion, this made Hanson to be an art celebrity in all Florida, even though he never liked his own work and he destroyed after he showed it.  (Findlay, 1998)

After this first big work, Hanson’s popularity started increasing from New York to all America; and to the end of 1970s he was well-recognized around the world.

Hanson received many awards before his death in 1996; he will be always remembered as a good Florida artist.

Bibliography

Findlay, James. Broward. 11 January 1998. 20 September 2011 <http://articles.philly.com/2011-09-18/news/30172169_1_prints-recording-barometer-images>.

Everything you want to know about graffiti

Many of us have heard about the term “graffiti” but the first that comes to our mind, as the most people in America, is that this technique is just a form of vandalism and that the “artists” never have an objective or purpose to post this draws and slogans in public walls. So this is why this time I decide to write about the main terms to leave all clear.

An often used term in this social circle is “crew” which means “in its most literal sense, it is a group of people who like to go writing together. Crews are often composed of people who have a great deal of mutual respect and trust in one another and work towards some common goal.” (Kairos, 1994)

Another controversial question about this topic is if graffiti is really illegal. According to what Mr. Kairos said, in the United States graffiti is an illegal action, although some way it is also allowed in the called “legal walls” which are special for these artists, because there they can write without fear about being arrested.

In other countries graffiti is also illegal, with the exception of some; like Australia, where graffiti is considerate like a sport, but also illegal without the permission of the wall owner.

So about all this I just have to say that we always have to respect the different forms of art, everywhere.

Bibliography

Farrel, Susan. Graffiti Q&A. 1994. <http://www.graffiti.org/faq/graffiti_questions.html>.

Graffiti is art

We should considerate that there are more forms of unusual art that may have never crossed our mind as what they are: art. 

The graffiti is considerate as an art form for some people in the United States, but focusing on the aesthetic out-looking, many other people thinks this technique is just a form of vandalism. Maybe we could relate this to the age of Picasso or Da Vinci, when their art was not well accepted until they became famous and recognized.

It has been practiced since the late 1960’s, but up to now it hasn’t been accepted by the society. Most of people still think it is just vandalism because it may appear in walls right on the street and it could have not the correct words or pictures to be showed anywhere (Stowers, 1997).

We should know that there are different forms of graffiti, according to Stowers. He states these different types, since the most simple which is to write slogans or informal phrases by handwriting; this form was not produced with artistic purposes at first. From this former style, graffiti started evolving, after the most simple it went to 3D letters, and each time they used more colorful items.

Later, in the middle 1970’s, another form of graffiti showed up. It was called subway art, because writers started painting subway trains. This new form was important because in that age every writer was wanting to be known in the town, and the trains were an easy way to get that desire (Stowers, 1997).

Even though nowadays graffiti is not well accepted by society, it is considerate as an art form, and it already has a role on American culture.

Bibliography

Stowers, George. graffiti.org. October 1997. August 2011 <http://www.graffiti.org/faq/stowers.html>.