Tag: Mixed Media

NBC Rage by Arman

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NBC Rage by Arman

NBC Rage
1961
Readymade
Broken bass fiddle mounted on wood panel
Estate of the artist

“NBC Rage” was created at a television studio during the making of a documentary about French avant-garde art. Arman used destruction as another perspective through which to view an object seeing the different tactics of multiplication and destruction as closely related approaches to an object.

Arman 1928-2005

Arman
Nouveau Réalisme, Assemblage, Readymade and Found Object
Born: 17 November 1928, Nice, France
Nationality: French-American
Died: 22 October 2005, New York, USA

Arman was an artist. He is renowned for moving from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave to using the objects as artworks, Arman is best known for his Accumulations and destruction/recomposition of objects

God by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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God by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

God
1917
Dada
Plumbing trap mounted on mitre box
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA

“God,” a readymade sculpture exemplifies the spirit and avant-garde strategies of New York Dada. Made in the same year as Duchamp’s “Fountain” it consists of a cast iron drain trap set on its end and mounted on a mitre box. The Baroness elevates everyday and industrial art and questions the view on the use value and aesthetic value of art. The piece shows a Dadaist irreverence towards the authority of higher powers, substituting the holy with lowly plumbing materials. The sculpture, a pipe no longer fit for purpose is also suggestive of a twisted phallus and perhaps the Baroness is making a critique of a male-dominated, phallocentric society.

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1874-1927

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Dada, Performance Art, Readymade and The Found Object, Modern Photography, Proto-Feminist Artists
Born: 12 July 1874, Swinemunde, Germany
Nationality: German-American
Died: 14 December 1927, Paris, France

The Baroness, as Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was known, was a living legend in the bohemian enclave of Greenwich Village, New York in the years before and after the First World War. She was a catalyst and provocateur of the burgeoning Dada movement in New York, and the Baroness obliterated the conventional boundaries and norms of womanhood and femininity whilst upending the notions of what was considered to be art

Door, Mirror, Table, Basket, Rug, Window D by Richard Artschwager

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Door, Mirror, Table, Basket, Rug, Window D by Richard Artschwager

Door, Mirror, Table, Basket, Rug, Window D
1975
Drawings
Pen and black ink and graphite pencil on board, sheet (irregular)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

It was through a series of drawings that Artschwager established the six principal subjects that would be his creative obsession until 1980. As the title suggests they were “Door, Mirror, Table, Basket, Rug, Window.”

Richard Artschwager
Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Installation Art
Born: 26 December 1923, Washington, DC, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 9 February 2013, New York, USA

Richard Artschwager 1923-2013

Artschwager was a painter, illustrator, and sculptor, often associated with Pop Art, Conceptual, Art, and Minimalism. Along with his wife, Ann, he lived and worked in New York City

Gabbeh by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmain

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Gabbeh by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmain

Gabbeh
2009
Minimalism
Mirrors, plaster, and ceramic
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

Towards the end of her life, in Iran, Farmanfarmain returned to mirror work whilst continuing to experiment with geometric form and introducing more colour in her work. “Gabbeh” features mirrors in a complex pattern and coloured, iridescent pieces of porcelain made by Abbas Akbari, a Persian ceramist. The piece blends vertical and diagonal lines, circles, triangles, and hexagons. the title “Gabbeh” refers to a centuries-old tradition of rug-weaving practiced by nomadic tribes in Persia,

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian 1922-2019

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmain
Minimalism, Feminist Art
Born: 16 December 1922, Qazvin, Persia
Nationality: Iranian
Died: 20 April 2019, Tehran, Iran

Farmanfarmaian was an artist and collector of traditional folk art. She is one of the most prominent Iranian artists of her time and the first to achieve an artistic practice that unites the Iranian geometric patterns and cur-glass mosaic techniques with the rhythms of Western modern geometric abstraction. In 2017 the Monir Museum in Tehran, Iran was opened in her honour.

Door by Richard Artschwager

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Door by Richard Artschwager

Door
1983-84
Installation
Acrylic on Wood, Glass, 2 parts, installation view at Mart Rovereto
Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

“Door” is a surreal installation creating a playful balance between illusionism and artifice. A replica door is installed in the space suggesting possibilities of escape but the texture of the wood grain is a tad too exaggerated to be real and a cheap plastic handle adds to the artificial quality. The flat motif-like quality of the door is heightened even further with the placing of an enlarged closed bracket next to it.

Richard Artschwager 1923-2013

Richard Artschwager
Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Installation Art
Born: 26 December 1923, Washington, DC, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 9 February 2013, New York, USA

Artschwager was a painter, illustrator, and sculptor, often associated with Pop Art, Conceptual, Art, and Minimalism. Along with his wife, Ann, he lived and worked in New York City

Black Girl’s Window by Betye Saar

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Black Girl’s Window by Betye Saar

Black Girl’s Window
1969
Identity Politics
Mixed media assemblage (Wooden window frame with paint, cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers, daguerreotype, lenticular print, and plastic figurine)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

“Black Girl’s Window” is composed of a repurposed, weathered wooden window frame. Saar painted a silhouette black girl with her hands and face against the window looking out. Her eyes are two lens-like shapes cut from material that creates the illusion of blinking as the viewer changes position. This piece marked Saar’s shift in artistic focus from printmaking to collage and assemblage. It is also a response to David Hammons “Black Boy’s Window” (1968)

Betye Saar

Betye Saar
Feminist Art, Identity Art and Identity Politics, Assemblage, Collage
Born: 30 July 1926, California, USA
Nationality: African-American

Saar is an artist best known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She is also a visual storyteller and printmaker. In the 1970s Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement which engaged with myths and stereotypes about race and gender. Her work is highly political and challenges the negative ideas about African Americans

Dada Portrait of Berenice Abbott by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Dada Portrait of Berenice Abbott
1923-1926
Dada
Gouache, metallic paint, and tinted lacquer with varnish, metal foil, celluloid, fiberglass, glass beads, metal objects, cut-and-pasted painted paper, gesso, and cloth on paperboard
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Bernice Abbot was a lifelong friend of the Baroness. They met in New York in 1919 and Abbott was taken with the Baroness’s performance transgressions. The portrait is rich with references to Abbott’s appearance and life and captures the close relationship they shared. The Baroness’s dog is pictured at the bottom of the canvas, symbolic of the animal’s fondness for Abbott.

Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 1874-1927

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Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Dada, Performance Art, Readymade and The Found Object, Modern Photography, Proto-Feminist Artists
Born: 12 July 1874, Swinemunde, Germany
Nationality: German-American
Died: 14 December 1927, Paris, France

The Baroness, as Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was known, was a living legend in the bohemian enclave of Greenwich Village, New York in the years before and after the First World War. She was a catalyst and provocateur of the burgeoning Dada movement in New York, and the Baroness obliterated the conventional boundaries and norms of woman hood and femininity whilst upending the notions of what was considered to be art

We Was Mostly ‘Bout Survival by Betye Saar

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We Was Mostly ‘Bout Survival by Betye Saar

We Was Mostly ‘Bout Survival
2017
Identity Art and Identity Politics
Mixed media assemblage on vintage ironing board
The Eileen Harris Norton Collection

Saar repurposed a vintage ironing board on which she painted a bird’s eye view of the slave ship, Brookes. The ship is crowded with bodies and other items have been attached to the board such as an old bar of soap, and a washboard printed with a photograph of a black woman doing laundry. Symbolic of black female domestic labour combined with the symbols of diasporic trauma portrays a powerful story about African American history

Betye Saar

Betye Saar
Feminist Art, Identity Art and Identity Politics, Assemblage, Collage
Born: 30 July 1926, California, USA
Nationality: African-American

Saar is an artist best known for her work in the medium of assemblage. She is also a visual storyteller and printmaker. In the 1970s Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement which engaged with myths and stereotypes about race and gender. Her work is highly political and challenges the negative ideas about African Americans

Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse by Eileen Agar

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Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse by Eileen Agar

Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse
1936
Surrealism
Mixed media including cork, paint, lobster shell, fish bones, coral, and artificial flowers
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

“Ceremonial Hat for Eating Bouillabaisse” is formed from a painted blue cork basket, topped with a variety of found objects including natural debris with a maritime theme. One of a number of works by Agar, created throughout her life, in which Surrealist principles of composition are taken beyond the canvas to applied design. Created in 1936 the hat came into the public awareness when Agar wore it for an interview with James Laver on the tv show “The Eye of the Artist” in 1948. The piece applies the principles of Surrealist bricolage to fashion design overrunning the conceptual and formal limits of fashion in the process; the hat becomes something other than just a hat. It stands as one of the iconic pieces of Surrealist fashion design.

Eileen Agar 1899-1991

Eileen Agar
Surrealism, Modern Photography, Performance Art
Born: 1 December 1899, Buenos Aries, Argentina
Nationality: British-Argentinian
Died: 7 November 1991, London, UK

Agar was a painter and photographer most often associated with the Surrealist movement. As with many female artists of the time, Aga has often been defined by the male company she associated with rather than her creative output. In reality, she was one of the most adventurous and influential Surrealist artists in Britain, with a prolific working energy that she sustained well into her eighties. Agar’s free-flowing practice through painting, photography, sculpture, and collage was diverse yet bound together by her emphasis on the germinal power of the imagination.

Herrin Massacre by Paul Cadmus

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Herrin Massacre by Paul Cadmus

Herrin Massacre
1939
Social Realism
Oil and tempera on wood panel
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH. USA

“Life” commissioned sixteen artists to paint significant events, Cadmus chose the Herrin Massacre, an event in the mining town of Herrin, Illinois, USA from 1922. A contract dispute between mine owners and striking miners that turned into a violent riot resulting in the deaths of 23 men, most of the workers that had been hired by the mine owners to replace the striking union members.

Paul Cadmus

Paul Cadmus
American Realism, Social Realism, Magic Realism, Queer Art
Born: 17 December 1904, Manhattan, New York, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 12 December 1999, Weston, Connecticut, USA

Cadmus was an artist, best known for his egg tempera paintings of gritty social interactions in urban settings and many highly finished drawings of the nude male. His paintings combined the elements of eroticism and social critique in the style of magical realism.

Hommage à Chrysler Corp. by Richard Hamilton

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Hommage à Chrysler Corp. by Richard Hamilton

Hommage à Chrysler Corp.
1957
Pop Art
Oil paint, metal foil, and digital print on wood
Tate Modern, London

A multi-media artist, Hamilton employed elegant lines in the composition of ‘Hommage à Chrysler Corp’, reminding the viewer that his journey into art was through drawing. At first glance, the piece looks abstract, but closer viewing reveals a large breasted woman with red lipstick leaning on the bonnet of a car. The woman and the car are woven together into a single form. Highlighting the fetishization of cars and women in the post-War economy ‘Hommage à Chrysler Corp’ is one of a series of works examining the visual language of the auto industry.

Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton
Pop Art, British Pop Art, Photomontage
Born: 24 February 1922, London, England
Nationality: British
Died: 13 September 2011, London, England

Hamilton was a painter and collage artist. His 1955 exhibition Man, Machine and Motion are considered to be among the earliest works of Pop Art