ENGL 40761 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Marisol Escobar, Herbert Bayer, Kurt Schwitters
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Profil (arp: oil painting, arp also made art with colored wood; abstract, but felt living. Pottery that was turned into art (peter voulkos: very important, same time as semina, friends with that group. Photograph created through a process of collage (herbert bayer: herbert bayer, bauhaus movement. Book/memoir with surrealist images (claude cahun: claude cahun french female artist, mirrors in the images create similar aesthetic to le mirage and frieda kahlo. Paracelsus (sommer: sommer photographed discarded objects, human form made from old cellophane zoomed in, makes you see the world differently, interplay of light creates astonishing illusion. When you relate to art in a personal way, you see that it is meant to penetrate your experience and help you to define your experience. Louise nevelson: she was one of the first women artists to do this monumental work, proved that women could do it. Movie theater collage (larry rivers: pop art and abstract expressionism.
