COLLECTIVE
Meaning: Done by people acting as a group
What is collective work?
Work that contains the works of several artists assembled under one platform
Collective: (Art term)
Loosely defined, an art collective is a group of artists working together to achieve a common objective.
They are united by shared ideologies, aesthetics or political beliefs.
FAMOUS ART COLLECTIVES
TeamLab-Investigation of Modern Human Behavior
TeamLab is an interdisciplinary group of ultra-technologists.
They investigate human behavior in the information era, effectively proposing innovative models of social and cultural development and change. With installations scaled up to larger-than-life proportions, their works are a labyrinth of virtual experiences. Having been subject of numerous exhibitions and programs across the globe, teamLab are possibly one of the most recognizable arts collectives in the international art circles today.
Source: https://www.widewalls.ch/artist-collective/teamlab/
Assemble-Merging Artistic Expression and Social activism
Assemble are a London-based collective whose work spans the fields of art, architecture and design.
Their projects involve and benefit the people who use and inhabit them, they merge artistic expression and social activism in a community-oriented way.
Source: https://www.widewalls.ch/artist-collective/assemble-art-collective/
0100101110101101.ORG - Groundbreaking Net Art
Eva and Franco Mattes collaborate under the pseudonym 0100101110101101.org
They produce pieces that involve ethical and political issues, they investigate the fabrication of situations, where fact and fiction merge into one.
Source: https://www.widewalls.ch/artist-collective/0100101110101101-org/
K-HOLE - Commercial Ventures with a Twist
Source: https://www.widewalls.ch/artist-collective/k-hole/
Paper Rad - Recreating Digital Aesthetic
Paper Rad synthesize popular material from television, video games, and advertising, making comics, zines, net art, video art, MIDI files, installations, paintings, and music. The rules of their style and practice are No Wacom tablet, no scanning, pure RGB colors only, only fake tweening, and as many alpha tricks as possible.
Source: https://www.widewalls.ch/artist-collective/paper-rad/
1968 - ART MOVEMENTS
"THE DOOR", David Hammons
David Hammons’s piece The Door (Admissions Office) references the struggles associated with desegregating schools during the civil rights movement. In this work, a wooden door is labeled “Admissions Office” on its acrylic, transparent center—and a black ink print of two hands, a face, and a body pressed forcibly against it imply the body of an excluded African American student.
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"Soldiers and Students" Jacob Lawrence.
Based on diligent research and inspired by Harlem Renaissance artists Augusta Savage and Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence illustrated African American history through colorful narrative paintings. His subjects included series on prominent figures in the struggle for black liberation.
Source: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jacob-lawrence-soldiers-and-students
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"Wives of Shango" Jeff Donaldson
This is a famous painting from the Black Arts Movement done by painter, Jeff Donaldson. This picture stuck out to me because it tries to convey black empowerment but for women especially. In many of the literary pieces we read the focus lies heavily on the struggles of the black man. This is interesting because this is a painting done by a man for the empowerment of women.
Source: https://english345blog.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/jeff-donaldsons-wives-of-shango/
ANNIE ATKINS
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
“Graphic design is at the bottom of the food chain in film making,” she says. “You always shoot according to the availability of the actors or the location.”
Source: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/annie-atkins-grand-budapest-hotel
JANE AUSTEN
"10 POUNDS NOTE"
Apart from the Queen, England never had a women on a note.
The Jane Austen campaign was made by a young journalist that received death threats.
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-14/jane-austen-is-now-on-the-10-pound-note/8947154
COLLABORATIVE
Meaning: Produced by or involving two or more parties working together.
What is collaborative work?
also known as joint or partnership working - covers a variety of ways that two or more organisations can work together. Options range from informal networks and alliances, through joint delivery of projects to full merger.
Collaborative: (Art term)
Artwork that includes working as a team to create art and each person contributes in some significant way to the artwork.
FAMOUS ART COLLABORATIONS
Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat:
A Crazy Art-World Marriage
Jean-Michel Basquiat, collaborated on a number of exciting pieces that actually led them to the position they now have in the art world.
Source: https://www.agora-gallery.com/advice/blog/2017/04/27/famous-art-collaborations/
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg:
When Abstract Expressionists Meet
Source: https://www.agora-gallery.com/advice/blog/2017/04/27/famous-art-collaborations/
Pablo Picasso and Gjon Mili:
Drawing with Pure Light
Source: https://www.agora-gallery.com/advice/blog/2017/04/27/famous-art-collaborations/
IDEAS OF THE FUTURE
How did artists and designers deal with ideas of the future in their work?
1- THE CITY RISES, umberto bocciono
The City Rises is a monumental painting that depicts the construction of an electric power plant. In this idealized scene, the structure being built is overshadowed by the workers whose activities fill most of the canvas. Boccioni’s celebration of the masculine proletariat is evident in his representation of these figures, whose powerful bodies lean at impossible angles as they exert themselves in service to the task at hand.
Source: https://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/work/173/index.html
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2- FRENCH POSTCARDS
These postcards from France in 1900 show an artistic vision of what they thought the year 2000 would look like
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3- A Visual History of the Future:
Source: workhttps://howwegettonext.com/the-future-we-were-promised-ee5358c04aer
“Each employee has a part in Utah’s future.”
Utah Radio Products Company, 1943.
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An image designed to upset to the delicate masculinity of the 19th-century gentleman
“In the Year 2001.” The Standard, April 27th, 1895.
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A couple have a conversation while setting their aircraft on hover mode above New York.
"Just imagine" Directed by David Butler, 1930.
JAMES JOYCE
"Dismaland brochure"
Concieved and curated by banksy, Dismaland was a contemporary art exhibition.
Source: https://jamesjoyce.co.uk/exhibitions/dismaland/
COOPERATIVE
Meaning: Involving mutual assistance in working towards a common goal.
What is cooperative work?
Cooperative describes working together agreeably for a common purpose or goal.
Cooperative: (Art term)
autonomous visual arts organization, jointly owned and controlled by its members
COOPERATIVE ART EXAMPLES
KIDS COOPERATIVE ART
Source: http://hsesartyparty.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-day-fun.html
COLLABORATIVE COLLAGE COLOR WHEEL
Source: http://frecklephoto.com/collaborative-collage-color-wheel/
TRACE MONOTYPE
Source: http://www.penland.org/blog/2012/06/photo-of-the-week-trace-monotype/#sthash.BljvtSLa.dpbs
1968 - ART MOVEMENTS
"The Confederacy: Alabama" (1965), Robert Indiana
Deeply troubled by rampant discrimination and acts of violence perpetrated against those engaged in the struggle for racial equality, Indiana links the present politics of Alabama with its secessionist past. Painted in the centennial anniversary of end of the Civil War and referring to the confederacy in the title, he draws a connection between the current, violent resistance to the Civil Rights movement and its history of violence, oppression, and slavery. In each painting of this series, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana are marked as continued sites of racial injustice.
Source: https://www.theartstory.org/artist-indiana-robert-artworks.htm
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"New kids in the neighborhood", Norman Rockwell
New Kids in the Neighborhood illustrates segregation in the 60s. Segregation is any practice that separates a population based on race, religion, or ethnicity.
Source: http://witnessvoices.blantonmuseum.org/juliechoi/
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"It takes two to integrate", Edward Kienholz
Though they are exactly the same, they have been seen differently their entire lives.
This goes on. Every single day. Always the same. One is never The Other. The Other is always The Other.
On the left: White killed by Black: It’s a tragedy. Criminal.
On the right: Black killed by White: It had to be done. Hero.
Source: http://dmouth.org/arts-witness-art-and-civil-rights-in-the-sixties-1/
IAN MACFARLANE
"Dezeen"
Designer Ian Macfarlane won Dezeen's brexit passport design competition with a design that blends burgundy EU passport with the old dark blue UK one.
Source: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/03/22/uk-post-brexit-passports-french-dutch-company-de-la-rue-gemalto/
OSLO DESIGN STUDIO NEUE
"Competition to redesign the Norwegian passport"
The winning entry, by Oslo design studio Neue, features beautifully simplified depictions of Norway’s natural landscapes drawn with fine lines in pastel shades. The cover features a modernized version of the national crest, stamped in gold on unusually bold colors: either white, turquoise or red for immigrant, diplomat and standard passports respectively.
When shone under UV light, the landscapes within the pages transform to show the northern lights in the night sky, a magical touch that adds a deeper sense of intrigue to the already striking document.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/nov/17/norway-new-passport-design
