2. The Role of the Artist
• Artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways
• Artists make a visual record of the people, places and
events of their time and place.
• Artists make functional objects and structures (buildings)
more pleasurable and elevate them or imbue them with
meaning.
• Artists give form to the immaterial – hidden or universal
truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings.
3. • Artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways.
4. • Artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways.
5. • Artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways.
Christo and Jean Claude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaBqZv3ZJ0
6. • Artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways.
Yayoi Kusama
Kusama work samples
7. • Artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways.
Yayoi Kusama
8. • Artists help us to see the world in new or innovative ways.
Yayoi Kusama
10. • Artists make a visual record of the people, places and
events of their time and place.
Rembrandt van Rijn Chuck Close
11. • Artists make a visual record of the people, places and
events of their time and place.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
12. • Artists make a visual record of the people, places and
events of their time and place.
Duane Hanson
13. • Artists make functional objects and structures (buildings)
more pleasurable and elevate them or imbue them with
meaning.
Kane Kwei
14. • Artists make functional objects and structures (buildings)
more pleasurable and elevate them or imbue them with
meaning.
Renzo Piano
15. • Artists make functional objects and structures (buildings)
more pleasurable and elevate them or imbue them with
meaning.
Renzo Piano
16. • Artists make functional objects and structures (buildings)
more pleasurable and elevate them or imbue them with
meaning.
PABLO PICASSO
17. • Artists give form to the immaterial – hidden or universal
truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings
nkisi nkonde – Magical Figure
18. • Artists give form to the immaterial – hidden or universal
truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings
19. • Artists give form to the immaterial – hidden or universal
truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings
20. • Artists give form to the immaterial – hidden or universal
truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings
Anna Mendieta
21. • Artists give form to the immaterial – hidden or universal
truths, spiritual forces, personal feelings
Felix Gonzales Torres
Editor's Notes
Imbue - Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality
Seated Bather -
Kongo – believed to pursue witches, thieves, adulterers, and wrongdoers by night.
posiedon
Seated Bather -
Seated Bather
Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) is an allegorical representation of the artist’s partner, Ross Laycock, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991. The installation is comprised of 175 pounds of candy, corresponding to Ross’s ideal body weight. Viewers are encouraged to take a piece of candy, and the diminishing amount parallels Ross’s weight loss and suffering prior to his death. Gonzalez-Torres stipulated that the pile should be continuously replenished, thus metaphorically granting perpetual life