So I’ve been working on another more complex draing for the past week and a bit continuing on from my serialist approach to extension cables. It has concluded into a sort of proposal drawing for an installation where every possible combination of four different extension cables is expressed. The overall number of extension cables needed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sol lewitt’
Plugs Xtreme
Posted in 2D, Electron, tagged black, blue, extension cables, green, minimalism, plugs, red, serialism, sol lewitt on October 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Leaflet and Artists Books
Posted in Artsy, Blackford, Conceptual, sitespecific, tagged 164 mounds, 26 gasoline stations, agassiz rock, artists books, blackford hill project, blog, CD, clean zone, dragging rock, DVD, hermitage, internet, kozlowski, Laurie Anderson, leaflet, reality, shadows on a brick wall, sol lewitt, twentysix, weather station, william blake on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Artists books are works of art realised as books usually created in small editions or even one-of-a-kinds called uniques. It is seen as a late 20th Century movement but the origins date back to William Blake, who produced his own books along with his wife. After world war 2 artists books were seen as a [...]
Formalism
Posted in Les notes sur la belle artistes, tagged abstract, bloomsbury group, cezanne, clement greenberg, Clive Bell, context, dan flavin, donald judd, eva hesse, formalism, forms, impressionism, manet, matt saunders, minimalism, painting, plato, post-impressionists, sol lewitt on October 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The empahasis on the form, with context, background and meaning taking secondary importance. Was important in putting abstract art where it is; Clement Greenberg, art critic, was said to have said that form was the purest art of all, it gave huge oppurtunities to the American painters but unfortunately made sculpture a bit of a [...]
Conceptual Art Essay
Posted in Conceptual, Les notes sur la belle artistes, tagged 1960s, 1967, argument, art, artforum, artist's breath, artist's shit, clement greenberg, conceptual art, dada, duchamp, fountain, Gilbert and George, history, large glass, lewitt, manzoni, marcel duchamp, michael craig-martin, naked eye, nude descending a staircase, oak tree, paragraphs on conceptual art, piero manzoni, portrait of the artists as young men, sol lewitt, world war two on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Duchamp, Manzoni, Lewitt, Craig-Martin, Gilbert and George Conceptual art, an art form which established itself in the 1960s but saw its roots back in the early twentieth century with the dada movement and Marcel Duchamp. But why did it take so long for the movement to come to complete fruition? Easy answer, the [...]
