ARHI 43481 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Video Art, Andreas Gursky, Carsten Höller
Document Summary
Drawing typically smaller scale and something that can be held: private personal status contrasting with no intimacy of sculpture, drawing vs color, eventually united and cooperating to build an image. Graphime- expressive marks: associated with individual, subjectivity of the creator, record of mark making, giving expression to the individual, just a matter of self expression so not really that good, decorative element. Evacuated emotional content and more mechanical ex) sol lewitt wall drawings: not associated with the individual hand. Artists start to put their hand in the work. Can see the previous markings when movement occurs. Grew up in south africa, talks about apartheid. Translates visual/graphic language such as caricature: relates comics and history of caricature. 2 recurring characters: alter egos of him and each other. Trace of what was before, ghostly element. Similar to memory and gerhard richter/kiefer: negotiating national history with personal memory of aftermath, richter has more authoritative voice bc paints, kentridge keeps the blur.
