The document provides basic biographical information on four artists: Frank Miller, a comic book artist known for Batman and Sin City; Robert Rauschenberg, an American painter who worked in assemblage and anticipated pop art; Banksy, a pseudonymous graffiti artist and political activist known for realistic street art; and Roy Lichtenstein, a prominent American pop artist who worked with comic book-inspired imagery.
PBRL 3022 Art & Performance Communication - Lecture 3 Art as societal power e...Lora Teed
Artistic symbolism is an effective power tool. The more art you possessed and the higher the status of the artist who created it was a direct symbol of wealth which equated to power throughout the medieval to modern times. Many monarchies, religions, politicians and political parties as well as average citizens have amassed power due to their commission of, acquisition and creation of many artistic pieces. We will discuss the important roles of portraiture as well as the emphasis on the requirement of a “professionally recognized” artist as well as the symbolism used within these portraits to expose the wealth and admirable qualities of its subjects/patrons. We will also discuss the ability of the artist to “rewrite” history through its interpretation of a subject. We will also discuss your blog posts which are due prior to lecture four.
This was a presentation I gave at the Smithsonian 2.0 meeting in January 2009, to the conference participants and the National Board of the Smithsonian. I was chuffed that I had the privilege of sitting next to Secretary Clough over dinner.
PBRL 3022 Art & Performance Communication - Lecture 3 Art as societal power e...Lora Teed
Artistic symbolism is an effective power tool. The more art you possessed and the higher the status of the artist who created it was a direct symbol of wealth which equated to power throughout the medieval to modern times. Many monarchies, religions, politicians and political parties as well as average citizens have amassed power due to their commission of, acquisition and creation of many artistic pieces. We will discuss the important roles of portraiture as well as the emphasis on the requirement of a “professionally recognized” artist as well as the symbolism used within these portraits to expose the wealth and admirable qualities of its subjects/patrons. We will also discuss the ability of the artist to “rewrite” history through its interpretation of a subject. We will also discuss your blog posts which are due prior to lecture four.
This was a presentation I gave at the Smithsonian 2.0 meeting in January 2009, to the conference participants and the National Board of the Smithsonian. I was chuffed that I had the privilege of sitting next to Secretary Clough over dinner.
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Andy Warhol, the Public Star and the Private Self
CECILE WHITING
A painting of a person's face may have nothing to do
with the sitter's personality: Andy Warhol portrayed
Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor in the early
1960s strictly in their role as public icons. In con-
trast, the popular press, from which Warhol pro-
cured the photographs for his silkscreens, never
relinquished its claim on these women's private
selves, even while it maintained their public iden-
tities as movie stars. Popular periodicals, movie
magazines and tabloids still publish photographs
and articles portraying the scandalous romances
and extravagant lifestyles of stars in the hope of
uncovering the private self that propels the public
star. Warhol denied the existence of a private self
lurking behind the facade of the public celebrity and
he took effacement of the private even further by
severing the connection between painted image and
private artist as that relationship exists in both high-
art portraiture and in Abstract Expressionism. The
negation of the private individual self in both
Warhol's portraits and his own public persona in the
early 1960s had far-reaching political implications
because it subverted the principles cherished in the
1950s by anti-communist liberal intellectuals and
the artists to which the critics among these intellec-
tuals lent their support.
Warho ...
1. Artists Research
Concept Art
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Basic Information:
• He was born January 27, 1957 in America. He is mainly known for his artwork in comics and in film for
example he has done artwork in Batman, Sin City and Wolverine.
• Living in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen gave Frank Miller Influence his material in the 1980s.
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om/2012/01/frank-miller_wolv1a.jpg
• Setting out to become an artist, Miller received his first published work at Western Publishing's Gold Key
Comics imprint, on the licensed TV-series comic book The Twilight Zone drawing the story "Royal Feast"
in issue No. 84 (June 1978), and "Endless Cloud" in No. 85 (July 1978).
• He was married to colourist Lynn Varley and his latest work was on the film The Spirit.
5. Robert http://www.lightmillennium.org/2006
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Rauschenberg
Basic Information
Robert Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose
early works anticipated the Pop art movement. He was born in Milton Ernest Rauschenberg. Died: May 12,
2008(2008-05-12) (aged 82) Captiva, Florida, United States.
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Banksy
Basic Information
•Nobody knows when Banksy was born what his real name is or anything about him except that
he does a lot of graffiti.
•Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and
painter.
9. •Banksys artwork is very good and looks like its real life instead of a painting for example the way
that he has drawn the boy on this drawing makes the boy look almost real.
•He is a very controversial figure because he draws whatever he feels like drawing but overall he
must love art to get paid nothing and get no recognition for all of the fantastic artwork that he
does.
11. Roy
Lichtenstein
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Basic Information
•He was born in 1923 and died in 1997 at the age of 73
•He was born in Manhattan and he died in Manhattan
•He was an American artist
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• As well as being a famous painter he also was very good at doing sculptures.
• His style of drawing was mainly pop art but he also did pictures like the one you can see
above.
• He went to the Ohio State University
• Roy Lichtenstein was Jewish born and breed.