When thinking about what pieces of art one would construct for this blog revolving around a piece that sparks interest and evokes conversation and possibly a level of discomfort, I was drawn to pieces from the Americas, France and Italy.

Finally narrowing it down, two works in particular combined in an interesting and controversial frame. John Baldessari's "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art"(1931) and Arthur B. Charles "Torso"(1971).

Charles' "Torso" is contrived of many bold brush strokes and a basic recognizable form of a womans torso. The shape and form of the torso are defined by the colors and thickness of the brush strokes defining the negative space and helping to push the from out from the picture plane. Now imagine this colorfull and vibrant torso overlayed with artfull text, by Baldessari, stating "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art".
"I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art" is repeated in sucession about 17 times, the sentences structure is not aligned, there fore is seeminly unbalanced but in baldessari's statement becomes clear, "I will not many any more boring art" place and worded to make the viewer feel as though it is a contradiction in that the asetetic is not with in any strict and formal form, but in a expressionist manner, in that is is freely stated and filling of the space in a unstructured mannner.

Baldessari's piece overlayd on Charles' piece would being a sence of major crontadictoin. the long lasting and colorful vibrant and intresting torso allows the black and white letters stating that there will be no more boring art crumbel, or in another view excentuate the fact that post modern art is not defined and is calling the "Torso" boring becasue of its modernist quality and originality.

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Baldessari's painting is featured in the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA)exhibition of "Text as Image in Contemporary Art."

Postmoderism in the community

I recently went to visit the Quick and the Dead exhibition at the Walker Art Center, there I found an amazing variety of pieces surrounding the topics of quick and dead.

Postmodernism is best described as an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath. Artists use classical style in a diverse media borrowing from the past and from that, making something new.

Using the definition and explanation of postmodernism, from the book Criticizing Art by Terry Barrett, i was able to study the pieces at the Walker Art Center and relate them to this movement in time.
Michael Sailstorfer's Zeit ist keine Autobahn- Berlin, (Time is no Highway, Berlin) 2006, explores in installation the movement of a car tire the while spinning is gently running against the gallery wall, while this is happening rubber residue from the tire falls to the floor and collects below on the floor as the tire treads begin to wear more and more.
The work plays against all of the senses, sight, sound, smell and the implied taste of burning rubber.

Sailstorfer is using postmodern views of the world alluding to time and things that have already occurred in the past, as well as the future. a recollection of things that already exhisted in time and space and presenting them in a new manner correlate well to the postmodern throw back of traditional individuality and sole creation of creating art for arts sake as most would allude to a closer definition of modernism.





Michael Sailstorfer, Zeit ist keine Autobahn - Berlin, (Time Is No Highway, Berlin), 2006tire, iron, motor, electricity, wall 56 11/16 x 51 15/16 x 26 9/16 in. Courtesy the artist and Johann König, Berlin
http://calendar.walkerart.org/canopy.wac?id=4486


Flo

Tellin it like it is...for the very first time.

Hey this is Rachel Farrell

Just here at CVA starting a new adventure in blogging.... yes as a verb...i am going to go blog.
OK...maybe later...

peace,
Flo