Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Creative Musings Week 6

"Out Of Place” Photomontage by Robert Rickhoff 

Image manipulations by German artist, Robert Rickhoff, that question that logical relationships between ordinary and mundane objects. See more recent work on Robert Rickhoff's blog.





Segments from PBS ART 21

How do artists respond to a world in flux? In what ways do artists act as agents of change, and what kinds of aesthetic choices do they make to express it? This episode features artists who bear witness, through their work, to transformation—cultural, material, and aesthetic—and actively engage communities as collaborators and subjects

  El Anatsui in ART21: "Change"
Watch Change on PBS. See more from ART:21.

Catherine Opie in ART21:"Change"
Watch Change on PBS. See more from ART:21.

Cindy Sherman in ART21:"Transformation"
Watch Transformation on PBS. See more from ART:21. “I didn’t want to make what looked like art,” Cindy Sherman says about her earliest works, explaining that “film has always kind of been more influential to me than the art world.” The segment surveys thirty years of untitled works in which the artist photographs herself in various scenes and guises, grouped into informally-named series such as fairy tales, centerfolds, history portraits, Hollywood/Hampton types, and clowns. Sherman used a digital camera and green screen for her most recent series of society portraits, modifying each image’s “background with the same kind of license that a painter would take.” Sorting through test shots at the computer, Sherman leads the viewer through her iterative process. The segment later follows her to a thrift store where, upon finding several “wacky pants” she wonders if this shopping trip “might be inspiring a whole new series.”

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