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"immediate touch" class #3
I must confess that I wasn't especially looking forward to this past Friday night's class at the St. Louis Art Museum because we were going to be doing collages. I find the collages in "the Immediate Touch" exhibit to be not particularly interesting, and I've done work in very similar style in the past. One of the things that I find fascinating about the class are the number of students who will ignore the artwork in the exhibit and mere… Continue
Posted on August 4, 2008 at 11:00am —
great ass radio
you can listen to today's show at http://kwurmail.wustl.edu/shows/10042007-10:00.mp3
i'm done.
-- tony
Posted on October 5, 2007 at 2:24am —
does anyone read these?
the finished work is called "high ideals of truth and beauty"...
Posted on September 2, 2007 at 3:05am —
[photoshop] sketch
Posted on July 31, 2007 at 8:37am — 2 Comments
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For my first collage, I decided to do a very minimalist collage with only a few elements and very few marks. My first piece was done in like five minutes so I kept poking at it and adding marks. Fortuitously, I spilled my container of India ink on my work surface and, while cleaning in up, decided to use an ink-soaked paper towel to make marks on a blank piece of paper for the basis of another collage. I also soaked the edge of my first collage in the spilled ink.
T. Renner, "Long Nine GL," collage, ink on paper, 9.5" x 13", 2008.
I admit that I spent an inordinate amount of time working on the background for the next collage, adding marks with red watercolor. I just wasn't feeling anything until I went upstairs and looked at the collages in "the Immediate Touch" exhibition. Something then clicked and I rushed back to my collage-in-progress.
I had hoped to find a news-magazine to get some photos from but all that was at hand was a Sotheby's catalog of african folk art. It was cool but I couldn't see how I could use it until I came across the portrait of the guy who had collected it. I feel bad that I was more interested in doing the work than taking notes so I didn't make a note of the collector's name. In an instant, I decided to put a weapon in his hand and to cover the collectors face except for his eyes with a ritual mask. I found a nice object that I could tear up and use to cover the text that appeared on at the bottom of the collector's portrait. Finally, I found the "mug shots" of the Sotheby's staff. It felt wrong to have their names appear so I cross them out with India ink and then decided to further their anonymity by blacking out their eyes.
T. Renner, "Red Sotheby's Faction," collage, ink, and watercolor on paper, 15.25" x 11", 2008.
All of the elements -- the blood red splotches, the weapon, the defaced mug shots, the mask over the collector's face -- add up to one disturbing and threatening piece.
As I was finishing the piece, I realized that it could be read as a statement about the appropriation of African folk art by the western art establishment. The mug shots reminded me of the Baader-Meinhof group of the 1970's, who carried out a series of kidnappings and killings in Germany. As I told the instructor, if I were the members of the Sotheby's staff in my collage I would be very frightened.
Self-grade: A.
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"a white day" is sold but "white and black improvisation #1" is still available....
-- tony
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