JENNY HOLZER - Electronic Art and Design

THE
SIXTY
TWENTY-FOURTWELVETEN
SPEED TYPE ARTISTS PROJECT
1950 - Present
JENNY HOLZER
Brianna Adams:::Kurt Schwitters
Kim Chua:::Alexander Rodchenko
Tiffany Chung:::Charles Demuth
Stephanie Collins:::Rene Magritte
Jansen Cudal:::Hannah Hoch
Kristin Eliazo:::John Heartfield
Richell Jimenez:::Robert Indiana
Jennie Lee:::Ed Rushcha
Brian Pelayo:::Roy Lichtenstein
Karina Rabara:::Raymond Pettibon
Rohmel Reynoso:::John Baldessari
Man Hay Martha Siu:::Cy Twombly
Stephen Takahashi:::Joseph Kosuth
Heng Ung:::Bruce Nauman
Michelle Urenda:::Tim Rollins and KOS
Vladimir Villanueva:::The Guerrilla Girls
Andrew Wong:::Jenny Holzer
Jenny
THE
RULES
1 artist who works with type (60 pt)
1 set of dates (24 pt)
1 blurb about the artist (12 pt)
2 images of the work with captions (10 pt)
1 font family (Helvetica or Arial)
1 format (5.5 x 8.5 inches, landscape)
1.4 hours working time
Holzer,
originally
trained in the art of painting
and printmaking from Ohio
University in 1972, is most
recently known for her large
scale text pieces.
These text pieces are formally called “Truisms,” which
are
often
times
common
‘blu lt’, 2004
“Time battering the surface of the Earth?”
myths or phrases on certain
subjects in the form of slogans. Her use of large scale
text takes the form of many
mediums;
t-shirts,
projec-
tions, LED displays, etc.
The
use
of
these
large
scale, simple and clear texts
adds
impact
to
her
often
times crpytic phrases.
[x]
xenon on berlin’s matthäikirche, 2001
“I need to lie back to front with someone
who adores me.”
BLAM, 1962
Lichtenstein evidently relishes
the element of certainty, the
knowing ‘exactly what it’s
going to look like’. And the
pictures themselves, hard
and precise and cool, look as
if they were about certainty.
But they aren’t about
certainty - rather the opposite
- and it’s largely the interplay
in them between certainty
and uncertainty that makes
them go on as they do being
surprising though they have
the look of an art that is not
going to sustain its impact.
ART, 1962
(1923 - 1997)
ROY
LICHTENSTEIN
Joseph Kosuth
(1945- )
Titled (Art as Idea as Idea)
born in Toledo, Ohio. pioneer
in the field of conceptual art.
exhibited, published, commissioned throughout Europe, United
States, and Asia. production and
role of language and meaning.
language possesses meaning
only in relationship to itself. situationist. conceptual meaning is
based on past definitions. art is
linguistic in character.
One and Eight - A Description
Bruce Nauman
[1941- ]
“If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing must be art. At
this point art became more about an activity and less of a product.”
Bruce Nauman demonstrates
the alternatively political, prosaic, spiritual, and crass methods
by which life is examined in all
its gory details, mapping the human arc between life and death.
“The true artist helps the world by
revealing mystic truths”, 1967
The text in this piece is handwritten in uppercase letters. The title
“Sonic Youth LP” is especially indicative of a handwritten style
because it squeezes
uncomfortably into
the small space
designated for the
album’s title. The
caption of the visual
image, also handwritten, in capital
letters, provides
additional context
for the visual image,
as a cartoon caption
would function.
“One hundred live and die”, 1984
The text in this piece, as with all Pettibon’s pieces
with text, adds meaning to the visual image, providing additional context in which to view the image.
The text itself is
handwritten and
entirely uppercase.
The text is reminescent of cartoon
captions, without a
text-bubble outline.
The caption is necessary to create the
intended meaning
of the image.
Born in 1957 in Tucson Arizona, lives and works outside of Los Angeles.
He was an unofficial in-house artist for the punk music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
While his style initially relied on the conventions of cartoon illustration, over the years, Pettibon has
developed an entirely personal approach marked by a uniquely sophisticated relationship between
image and text.
B.A. UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 1977
2004 Recipient of Bucksbaum Award
(1957 - )
Raymond Pettibon
GUERILLA
GIRLS
Tim Rollins was born in Maine and graduated from the University of Maine,
continuing on to the New York City School of Visual Arts and the New York
University School of Art Education. He is a conceptual artist turned teacher
who began working with “learning disabled” students in the South Bronx (New
York) in the early 80s. The students that originally attended the after school
and weekend “Art and Knowledge” workshop that he offered eventually named
themselves KOS, or Kids of Survival. Rollins and KOS use art as a way of
interpreting and understanding literature of all types, from comics to philosophy,
through a context not generally used: that of underprivileged inner-city children.
Tim Rollins
&
Kids of Survival
“The Scarlet Letter­Revelation”, 1994
Watercolor/graphite on book page on linen
“America IX”
watercolor/acrylic/graphite on book pages on linen
The students work collaboratively, deciding as a group how
the work should be done and what imagery they should use.
Much of their work is done by transposing their imagery onto
the text itself by mounting pages torn from the books onto
canvas and working over them. This physically shows how
their experiences and methods of interpretation affect the
written works. This image-over-text relationship is prevalent
in the majority of KOS’ work.
CONSCIENCE OF THE ART WORLD
Do Women have to be Naked to get into the Met. Museum?
-1985
1985 - NOW
Group of anonymous female activists.
Their purpose: to show that there are
a lot of women artists that remain
unrecognized in the art world, fighting
for both gender and racial equality.
Started as a group of 4, now consisting of nearly 100 women all around
Where are the women artists of Venice?
the world.
-2005
1982 - current
Charles Demuth
November 9, 1883
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.
Inspired by William Carlos Williams
Avante Garde Artist.
poem
A discreet gay.
“The Great Figure”
Used his sexual orientation to make art.
Could not place his sexuality in the open.
October 23, 1935
“Hurrah! The Butter is All Gone!”
Heartfield was a German
photomontage artist. He
was born Helmut Herzfeld,
but chose to call himself
Heartfield to criticize the
nationalism & anti-British
sentiment in Germany
during World War I. He
began in the Berlin Dada
scene and produced many
“Millions Stand Behind Me”
His works utilize famous
quotes of leading Nazi’s,
subtly undermining the
intended message by
using ingenious visual
puns.
of the early designs for Dada
posters and manifestos.
He is best known and
revered for his devotion to
anti-Nazi political activism.
1891-1968
1891-1956
A Russian sculptor, photographer, painter, and
designer, Rodchenko was
a part of the constructiv-
1926. Poster for Sergei
Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin
late 1950s - mid 1960s
ist movement. Constructivist artists
held that art should have a social
purpose. In the 1920s, he joined
the Productivist group, which was
founded by Constructivist artists
who believed that art should be
practical and socially useful.
The lettering he used was bold,
geometric, and low contrast. His
graphic design images draw attention with dynamic, diagonal composition and bold colors and text.
Robert Indiana was born in 1928 in New Castle, Indiana
as Robert Clark.
He became known for silkscreen prints, posters &
Robert Indiana
LOVE
sculptures, which took the word
LOVE as their theme.
He did sculpture assemblages
1923. Poster for
Dziga Vertov’s OneSixth Part of the
World
color surfaces involving letters, words & numbers.
His earlier works were inspired by traffic signs, automatic
amusement machines, commercial stencials & old trade
names.
ED
RUSCHA
This is not a pipe.
Rene Magritte
Magritte’s style has been described as playful and contradictory, in its habit of
taking realistically rendered objects and questioning their “realness” by the use of
lines of text on the canvas. Examples of this include This Is Not A Pipe, This Is Not
An Apple, and The Empty Mask. The text, which is written in French, is cursive in
each of these paintings, though there is a varying amount of thickness between
styles.
ROBERT INDIANA
Numbers
& developed his style of vivid
Rodchenko
This is not an apple.
ROBERT
He was part of the POP ART movement
Not a Bad World, Is It? 1984
INDIANA
Alexander
(1937-Present)
He was born in Nebraska.
During the early 1960’s, he became well known for
printmaking, collages, and paintings.
He, influenced by pop art, later achieved recognition
for his paintings incorporating words and phrases.
He published photographic books including
Twenty-six Gasoline Stations and Every Building
The Mountain, 1998
Kurt
Schwitters
1928-
1887-1948
Untitled
Untitled (Hommage a Picasso)
MZ 30, 21
Kurt Schwitter was born in Prussia; he moved to
Norway when hs art was labeled “degenerate” by the
Nazis. He later fled to England and stayed there for
the rest of his life. Schwitter was indirectly a part of
the Dada movement--his work was largely based on
Dada ideals. He called his work “Merz” and created a
magazine by that title. Schwitter worked with collage,
photomontage, and typography. He created objects
out of found materials which would today be considered installations. He created ten rules for typography
and utilized these rules in much of his work.
John Baldessari
No. VIII (Natural History Part I Portfolio)
Cut with a
Kitchen Knife
1919
1960’s - 2005
Baldessari’s early major works were canvas paintings
that were empty but for painted statements derived from
contemporary art theory. An early attempt of Baldessari’s
included the hand-painted phrase “Suppose it is true after
all? WHAT THEN?” on a heavily worked painted surface.
Baldessari decided the solution was to remove his own
hand from the construction of the image and to employ a
commercial, lifeless style so that the text would impact the
viewer without distractions. The words were then physically
lettered by sign painters, in an unornamented black font.
The seemingly legitimate art concerns was intended by
Baldessari to become hollow and ridiculous when presented in such a purely self-referential manner.
“Magnetic” is from the series Prima
Facie (2005), in which Baldessari
uses a didactic format to illustrate
his subjects. He uses an image
of a character from the media,
crops the image, and places a
word in a frame of equal size to
the right of the image. The word is
his “first impression” of the image,
but may not be at all related to the
character’s actual expression. In
doing so, he creates a piece of
association/dissociation between
word-captions and images.
Höch’s impact on Berlin Dada
was profound. She was a master practitioner of photomontage -- a technique that all the
dadaists adopted. With its roots
in the kitsch tradition of splicing
heads from family photos onto
magazine pictures of ideal soldiers or angelic women, photomontage took images and
type from the popular press
and combined them in ways to reveal the fissures that
ran through middle-class ideology. Höch’s most famous
work, “Cut with the
Kitchen Knife: Dada
Through the Last
Weimar Beer-belly
Cultural Epoch of
Germany” (1919),
is a 3’ x 4’ collage bursting with images of German industry, military figures, and recreational gaieties. Amid these
pictures, the word “dada” cuts
like a knife, exposing the ludicrous contradictions that were
Weimar. Höch was a social archaeologist working in reverse.
Her montages break down
what we see and know, and put
the fragments back together in
a way that makes us question
the concepts of identity, culture,
and subjectivity.
Hannah Hoch
In this piece (1960’s),
Baldessari uses a
format that is familiar
to many people during
their childhood as a
punishment for bad
behavior. However,
here it is more of a
gesture as he merely
simulates the act of
punishing himself for
having created boring
art. It allows him to
express his desire to
create interesting or
provocative artwork.
November 1, 1889 - May 31, 1978
Cleopatra
1970
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Cy Twombly
1947 -1949 studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.....................
1951 -1952 studied at Black Mountain College........................................................
1951 -The Kootz Gallery, New York, organized his first solo exhibition.....................
1952- Traveled N. Africa, Spain... with Virginia Museum of Fine Arts grant...............
1953- Served in the army as a cryptologist..............................................................
1955 -1959 Worked in New York..............................................................................
1959- Went to Italy and settled permanently in Rome..............................................
1968- Milwaukee Art Center mounted the first retrospective of his art......................
1995- The Cy Twombly Gallery of the Menil Collection, Houston opened.................
2001- Winner of the Leone d’Oro for Contemporary Art...........................................