Trends. There are certainly trends in the world of art and just by looking at something influences people. Those trends are like background music for Chiharu Shiota and it will not change her style. She is not making things to show to people, she makes them because she feels that is necessary for her to create them and that’s what marks her work so special.
There are some artists and episodes that trace the artist inspirations, but Shiota always tried to keep her style, giving each work the idea of memory and ritual.
As an installation and performance artist, born in Japan, Chiharu Shiota shows in her works influences of the philosophy of Butoh as a body language and a body-related art that outcome in improvisation and lack of rules. Using aspects such as nakedness, sexuality, ephemerality and connection to the nature, Shiota brought to the world of art her views and memories about the origin of life and the return to the place where we belong. The fact that the artist is now based in Berlin and had the opportunity to be Marina Abramovic’s student helped Shiota’s emerging influences such as minimalism, conceptual art, body art, performance and earth art.
Yarn is the main element in Shiota’s works since it allows her to explore breath and space, as a line in paint. When it is impossible to trace a line of yarn or an object with the eyes, then it starts to feel complete, creating an indescribably deep black. Each Chiharu Shiota’s work is made with the heart, and as a goal effects the viewer emotionally. The yarn expresses the relationship between people, more as a knotty relationship (Shiota, 2013).
One day, Chiharu Shiota had a phone call from her mother, where she had the information that her father had passed away. She knew it ...
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...ormance with German expressionism dance. Butoh it s a way of bringing the inside out, bridging the mind and body split, and so it happens there are no restricted rules or definitions of what to wear or how to move. In this way, the artists are allowed to express feelings that weren’t possible to show previously. There is no vocal expression in Butoh performances, however it relies heavily on language and emotions (Waychoff, 2009).
After 1974, many artists started using their own bodies as a medium for art and they became the story and main the characters. Marina Abramovic as Chiharu Shiota’s teacher was a huge influence for her. As a body artist, Abramovic reached the extreme limit in her performances, giving the observer a certain kind of shock. And that’s what performance art is also for, so that the artists take their art directly to the public (Vergine, 2001).
...ssionism and the work they display are different. The texture, balance, and the use of color are unique to their own personality and experiences.
Inspiration comes from many forms; it comes from friends, family, music, television, and even strangers. Inspiration can come at one subtlety or it can hit you like a bus. Professional, amateur, or even a novice can be inspired to make something. No matter what, an artist needs inspiration in order to create something out of nothing or in order to help finish an already existing art work. Here the inspiration from Mariko Mori will be conveyed, to know what helps give her inspiration that motivates her to do the art work that she does. Whether she herself is doing the performance or it is just a sculpture in a gallery, her works are unique, just like a finger print. What gave her the inspiration on two of her works;
People usually expect to see paintings and sculptures in Art Galleries. Imagine the surprise one finds when they are presented with a man stitching his face into a bizarre caricature, or connected to a machine which controls the artist’s body. These shocking pieces of performance art come under the broad umbrella that is Postmodernism. Emphasis on meaning and shock value has replaced traditional skills and aesthetic values evident in the earlier Modernist movements.
Though the start of artistic expression cannot be pinpointed to a specific date, the growth of art and its complexity cannot be denied. Two complex pieces of art which will be compared and contrasted within this essay are Mary Cassatt’s Portrait of the Artist and Frida Kahlo’s Self Portrait with Monkey. Though Cassatt belonged the Impressionist movement (Streissguth 48) and Kahlo who was labeled as a member of the Surrealist movement, which she later denied (Stremmel, Kerstin, & Grosenick 1940), both paintings have an equal number of similarities as contrasting elements.
When I first read about Marina Abramovic, I found her performance art can be both shocking and hold the attention of one. Her work ranges in physical intensity, emotional exposure, and sadness. Marina Abramovic work is about self abuse, self discipline, and unreasonable punishment and great courage. Through the conditions she puts herself and her audience in her performance. In my opinion, I feel Marina Abramovic and my main goal as an artist is not only to completely change the way art is seen by the public, but to push the performance the same line as fine art.
I look to other artists for inspiration and affirmation in regards to my work. I am certainly not the first artist to portray ideas of the body and its fragility. Hannah Wilke, whose work dealt with ideas of beauty and vulnerability, is perhaps one of more influential artists for me. While her work greatly differs from mine, I believe that fundamentally she was asking similar questions of society through her work as I am. When I first saw her work, I felt f...
Art is a very important part of humanity’s history, and it can be found anywhere from the walls of caves to the halls of museums. The artists that created these works of art were influenced by a multitude of factors including personal issues, politics, and other art movements. Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, two wildly popular artists, have left behind artwork, that to this day, influences and fascinates people around the world. Their painting styles and personal lives are vastly different, but both artists managed to capture the emotions that they were feeling and used them to create artwork.
...lical scene, but the use of different artistic techniques and the impact of separate influences can create unique creations. The catering to particular audiences and patrons further exacerbates the apparent variation among art during this artistic period.
This breaks all of our tradition in sculpture. On the one hand the simplification and distortion of body and limb seem extremely daring departures from the tradition which few do; on the other hand, this is reminiscent of the earliest sculpture ever produced, which is far from a perfect balance. Thus he has created a new form; that of pure laziness.
Through Frida Kahlo’s extensive self-portrait pieces, audiences are able to view her life in an almost biographical way. Each portrait conveys deep emotion and meaning, and carry a story which Kahlo has experienced. Her self-portraits are very personal, and overall show just how tragic her life had been.
The contrasts between depth and surface, figure and landscape, promiscuity and modesty, beauty and vulgarity all present themselves in de Kooning’s Woman and Bicycle. Although the figure is a seemingly normal woman out for an afternoon with her bike, she becomes so much more through the artist’s use of color, contrast, and composition. The exotic nature of woman presents itself in her direct stare and slick buxom breasts in spite of a nearly indiscernible figure. It is understood that, on the whole, de Kooning did not paint with a purpose in mind, but rather as an opportunity to create an experience, however, that does not go to say that there isn’t some meaning that can come of this work. Even Willem de Kooning once said that art is not everything that is in it, but what you can take out of it (Hess p.144).
When I saw Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring about five years ago at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., I felt something about the painting that I had never felt before when looking at artwork. I felt as if this girl, this young woman in the painting was real, hiding in the museum behind this canvas. She was in the flesh. Her skin was still dewy from three hundred-something years ago, the light across her face still glowing. She was in the round, her eyes followed mine, she was real. She was about to speak, she was in a moment of thought, she was in reflection. This girl was not crimson red or titanium white, she was flesh. Vermeer caught her, a butterfly in his hand. She was not just recorded on canvas, she was created on canvas. She was caught in a moment of stillness. Vermeer creates moments in his paintings. When viewing them, we step into a private, intimate setting, a story. Always, everything is quiet and calm. I realize now it is no wonder I had such a strong reaction to Vermeer the first time I saw him: he is a stillness seeker.
Modern art runs a very important role in man’s life throughout history, because it that does not only give us inspiration but also the freedom to express ourselves through the use of different mediums.
A conventional face represents an idealised self-portrait. In ‘Transfiguration’, Olivier de Sagazan builds an existential performance based on layers of clay that he paints onto his face and body to transform, disfigure and take apart his own figure from the physical world that constraints his emotions and passions. Jolting viewers out of ordinary patterns of thinking. Sagazan’s face test his viewers perceptions of the totemic face, the grotesque face, the face in performance, the violent face—all the while creating a dialogue between past, present, and what’s yet to come.
...by its detailed features and portrait-like views to make the beauty easier to identify. Through these time periods, the changes in philosophical and societal views have been the reasons to why these arts have changed. Through time, these styles have shown the creativity and beautiful sides to several pieces of work.