Who is Maurizio Cattelan? Both everywhere, anywhere and nowhere, he is that kind of artist that everyone knows without knowing him, he’s that kind of artist that physically survives in the sphere of a very limited amount of people.
Born in 1960 in Italy, he multiplied odds jobs to join both ends before becoming an artists, jobs that are including being a cook, a postman, a janitor, donating sperm or working in a mortuary. Looking at these past working experiences in multiple fields, it seems hard as a viewer not to make links with his works, from All in 2008 to the numerous sexual references in Toilet Paper.
His decision to become an artist, came from his desire to survive without working, working being essential to survive, making art turning out to be much more work than expected. « Hunting for freedom, I’ve found the real prison. But at least it’s a prison I’ve chosen for myself. » said the artist in 2004 pining down the duality of being an artist, tormented between the freedom and the imprisonment.
More than being an artist, Maurizio Cattelan is both a very good actor and spokesman, carefully picking the rights words to fuel his enigmatic persona selling the image of a clumsy and awkward man. Described as hating journalists, rumors are saying that he often sends a friend to pretend to be him. Constantly keeping the mystery alive about him, he seems to be always hiding in the shadows of his fictional character, never fully revealing himself. His character cannot help but remind of a tragedy from Musset, lost or not in his character the artist said himself that he doesn’t know who he is. May it be fiction or reality, one is left wondering if such fame might have been encountered without the massive amount of advertising a...
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... a double spread. A regular print with irregular colors where every provocation is expected and anticipated, where the surprise the reader had when opening the first issues and the brand is slowly fading away. Where the repetition of theses codes gets tiring. It finally all seems flimsy and flat, but the reader still feels unusually drawn to it and wants to own it. Although the website of the magazine offers short videos made during the shoots that are proving themselves to be far more effective, the already stuffed reader of over-saturated images is asking for more. There is something odd in the decline of the print, giving to the surviving and thriving magazines a mystical aura. Ownership suddenly becomes mandatory, a need to buy a collection piece, a souvenir of a declining era, something that says « I was here, I have an issue too». Blaming it on self-respect.
... previous jobs to convey a welcoming and educational message in his work. He makes his art clear, educational, and unconventional to express his individuality and help children in their development. Had it not been for his first couple of jobs, the teacher that showed him the banned painting, and his love for children he probably would not be the memorable artist that he is today.
The female artist I would like to write my week one journal about is Properzia de' Rossi. De Rossi was born 1490 in Bologna to a notary named Giovanni Rossi. I could not find any information about her mother or her upbringing. De Rossi face addition obstacles pursuing art due to no previous training, unlike her female counterparts whose fathers were artists and guided their hands. Later, she did have the privilege of learning from the Bolognese master engraver and artist Marc Antonio Raimondi, as well as studied at the University of Bologna. Under, Raimondi, De Rossi studied music, painting, poetry, dance, drawing and classical literature. Undecided about how she wanted to express herself through her art, she tried her hand at sculpture
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York to parents Gérard Basquiat and Matilde Andradas. Little did they know at the time that Jean-Michel Basquiat would soon go down as one of the most important contemporary painters continuing to leave a legacy for decades to come after his passing. Basquiat would live a difficult life and experience many hardships until he later dies of a heroin overdose, but what he experiences during his lifetime is what shaped the way Basquiat expressed himself through his art. Basquiat’s exceedingly personal and relatable art is what guided him to being such an influential artist. “His work is likely to remain for a long time as the modern picture of
he had troubles with finances, he had familial issues, and he had issues in his romantic pursuits. But, instead of letting himself be crushed under the weight of his troubles, he took a stand and created beautiful paintings out of it.
...ce in society. And the effects of the ideals behind these magazines are all the more powerful because of their subtlety." Women walk away from these magazines with an empty feeling and feelings of many inadequacies and they really don't know exactly why. The subtle undermining of women's intelligence and cause strips away their sense of worth ever so slowly and leaves them feeling depressed and in search of something that really can't exist together. Growing old while staying young takes many years of complete and internal happiness not many years of collagen injections and the added stress of having to stay unattainably perfect. While some consider these journalists for women's magazines talented writers, I consider them horrendous displays of talent in which they sell out the naturally beautiful women of the world for a quick buck and a popular magazine.
.... He uses his work as a form of therapy and puts his heart and soul into anything he touches. The pain from being unaccepted by his peers and family is put into his work. His nightmares from the past come out on paper. Without the judgment and pain thrown at him, he could have never been as great as he is today. Every aspect of his work has been affected by his life, whether it be relationships, being pushed down, or feeling alone. He has rose from the ashes of his past, taken all of the pain and turned it into something truly beautiful.
Art is a severe Goddess, who in return for her smiles demands many sacrifices. No one did more to please her, and no one was so insufficiently rewarded as Van Gogh. Several times the blows that she dealt him were painful enough to make any reasonable man resign. Only fanaticism and faith in her would permit one to leap the abyss between reality and desire. With cruel, merciless method, art asked from Van Gogh everything. It was a loan that multiplied with time and was never paid back. It haunted him within the recesses of his soul, it flirted with him and raises his hopes, it took away from him everything that was dear, and when it could finally take no more, it decided to take his life.
To be artistic or a creative is a dangerous role to play in society. Edwidge Danticat writes a collective of stories about Haitian artists in her novel “Create Dangerously”. The novel includes Danticats perspective and excerpts of other artists to appeal to both ethos and pathos to help explain the importance of the artist, especially the immigrant artist.
Artists are people who express their feelings and emotions on something they have created. They work there lives on these imaginative pieces, some for a living some just out of the pure enjoyment. Those who make a living on selling their art have to work very hard at making their selves known, for some there art never becomes know they work immensely but to no avail. These artists, some of which could keep up with those who are very famous, have their art fall into an abyss where there art is never heard of or even seen. In today’s world artist have many of ways of putting their selves out there and becoming known in the art industry. Social media and just the internet alone have helped “starving artist” become very well known in the art world.
His artworks are unique in a sense that he mixes art and actions he uses the public to do his art which he communicates identity, freedom, and commitment.
...p from the world they live in, a world of separation and indicate themselves with their own realities. Art is handed over into society’s hands, as in one movement it is suggested - to fixate what is real, live like you create and create like you live; in other – abandon media’s proposed ideas and take the leadership of life in our own hands.
Considered the greatest Florentine painter of the early 1400s, Masaccio is one of the most important figures of Western Art. Tommaso di ser Giovanni Cassai di Simon Guidi was born in 1401 and nicknamed Masaccio Careless Tom because of his attitude. He was apathetic to things like personal appearance and worldly materials, and was thus careless with his possessions. As a child, he concentrated more on his art instead of himself and what others thought about him.
...in Great Britain. The exhibition was a compilation of personal interests of Paolozzi ranging from all kinds of photographs. The show’s principle was similar to the unity assumed in a person’s life. ‘Parallel of Life and Art’ was Autobiographical as Paolozzi put it. The exhibition depended on the parallels which might be drawn from one photograph to another.
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream” said Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh was a famous Dutch post-impressionist painter whose thick brush strokes, color, emotion, and a way to escape from life was what he was best known for in his paintings. He was not a wealthy man because he was only able to sell one painting in his whole lifetime. Later in his adult life, he suffered from anxiety and had bursts of mental illness, which would cause him to be in and out of psychiatric wards and resulted in lengthy pauses in his ability to create beautiful paintings. The last two years of his life, he created the most amazing artwork in his career, even though he was interned. A great man whose mental illness got the best of him and eventually caused
Vincent Van Gogh’s well known artwork had a profound impact on the world. After being rejected countless times by other jobs, Van Gogh realized that art was his calling and he begun to research other artists and various artwork. He visited several museums in London and got inspiration from many of the impressionists living in Europe at the time.