Cloud
Gate (2004), Millennium
Park, Chicago
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Celebrated for his gigantic, stainless
steel Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park,
Anish Kapoor is changing the cultural environment with his public works.
1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss whether it is conceptual art or not. Explain your answer, using a definition of conceptual art.
1.Research Kapoor's work in order to discuss whether it is conceptual art or not. Explain your answer, using a definition of conceptual art.
Conceptual Art - a type of art in which the artist's idea, or concept, of a
work of art and of the means of executing that idea have primary importance
while the artwork itself, which may or may not be produced, is regarded as
secondary (yourdictionary.com, n.d.).
Kapoor's work is recognise as conceptual art in my point
view, this is due to most of his art work (specially his recent ones :
mirror-like, reflections) are base more on the idea more than the artwork
itself, this made the viewer which would think more on the idea behind his work
more than the art sculpture itself.
2. Research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outside New Zealand to discuss the ideas behind the work. Include images of each work on your blog.
2. Research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outside New Zealand to discuss the ideas behind the work. Include images of each work on your blog.
Grand Palais 2011
Monumenta
Leviathan
This huge sculpture 'Leviathan' designed by
Kapoor surprise me with its size
comparing to the building Grand Palais. The idea behind this artwork is to work
with and to show the incredible quantity of light within the Grand Palais building,
he wants to show and describe the size of the Levianthan, where it is a sea
monster which is so big that it cannot even control itself by its size.
Inside this huge sculpture, it is a dark space, filled with the colour of dry red blood, this is to make the viewer to feel that they are associating within a body.
Inside this huge sculpture, it is a dark space, filled with the colour of dry red blood, this is to make the viewer to feel that they are associating within a body.
Youtube Video Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Ni0c4D27Y&feature=player_embedded
NZ Herald Video Clip: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/arts/news/video.cfm?c_id=544&gal_cid=544&gallery_id=118592
NZ Herald Video Clip: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/arts/news/video.cfm?c_id=544&gal_cid=544&gallery_id=118592
Anish Kapoor,
Yellow, 1999,
installed at the Royal Academy of Arts,
Fiberglass and pigment, 6 x 6 x 3m,
Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London,
Yellow is a monument and arresting work.
this work takes up all our vision with a monochrome state. This work is like a
belly button into a wall to me, makes me struggle to understand what am I
looking at.
" Yellow, a sculptural monochromatic
work on the very wall, defying the rules of perception, Yellow is first and
foremost a jubilant artwork. The pure solar colour draws the eye, which basks
in it. What seems a flat, yet mysteriously rounded surface proves to be
concave: the eye dizzies and loses itself in this bottomless bath of colour.
Anish Kapoor has produced an artwork that is both thought-provoking and
sensational. Yellow is nevertheless nothing more than its title: pure colour."
(monumenta.com. may11th)
Anish Kapoor's 'Shooting into the Corner' at the Royal Academy
youtube video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVSGErfg8E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mrWJv6XdiM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mrWJv6XdiM
"Shooting into the corner"
consists of a cannon developed by Kapoor together with a team of engineers. The
way how this cannon work is, it shoots 11kg balls of wax into the corner across
the room; and 20 tones in total of wax were used throughout the exhibition. The
way how Kapoor makes his work is that he does not want to create it with a
purpose of his own, but to let art speak for itself.
3.Discuss the large scale 'site
specific' work that has been installed on a private site in New Zealand.
The Farm; this large scale sculpture,
really fascinate me, this ellipse shape is really unique, comparing to other
big scale artworks, specially the "tunnel" aspect in this work, I
always wonder when I was looking at this work, only if I could look through
this "tunnel", would there be a interest point of view towards
Kaipara.
4. Where
is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are
the ideas behind the work?
'The Farm' is sited
in Kaipara Bay, north of Auckland. The sculpture is fabricated in a custom deep
red PVC-coated polyester fabric by Ferrari Textiles supported by two identical matching red
structural steel ellipses that weigh 42,750kg each. The fabric alone weighs
7,200kg. The ellipses are orientated one horizontal, the other vertical.
Thirty-two longitudinal mono-filament cables provide displacement and
deflection resistance to the wind loads while assisting with the fabric
transition from horizontal ellipse, to a perfect circle at midspan, through to
the vertical ellipse at the other end.
(Fabricarchitecturemag.com. n.d.)
This artwork is very similar to
Kapoor's previous artwork "widow", but he describes his tubular
sculptures as "colostomy bags." unlike "The Widow", a
sculpture in black, "The Farm" is a vibrant, un-miss able red.
Kapoor wanted to make body into sky
with this large scale sculpture, and at the farm, he did it.
the idea behind this is to show a
form that both freestanding and capable of surviving a constant arm-wrestle
with the sky and the mercurial weather condition.
5. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and explain why. Are you personally attracted more by the ideas or the aesthetics of the work?
5. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and explain why. Are you personally attracted more by the ideas or the aesthetics of the work?
Personally, I love
his series of work 'Cloud Gate', it is a public scuplture in United State. one
of the Sculpture,
"Tall Tree and the Eye",
it consists of 5ft silver balls stacked on top of each other and reflects the
magnificent buildings which are surrounding it. Reflection artwork always
interests me, it is always a mystery to me, what I see in the world with my
eyes within the refection, is it really what I will see out in the real world.
( of course i know it will be the same, but I feel things are always moving, so
it will never be the same.)
Anish Kapoor's artwork, reminds
me one of the reflection idea I saw in the Central City Star Bucks Cafe (Metro),
the ceiling is filled with a large
round shape of mirror, whenever I look up the ceiling, it reflects what is
happening on the floor, specially the height between me and the tall ceiling is
really interesting.
Youtube has some excellent footage on Kapoor-take a look at Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy.
www.royalacademy.org.uk ›
http://www.robgarrettcfa.com/thefarm.htm
http://www.billslater.com/cloudgate/
Reference:
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I like the fact that you have describe all of his work very detail, so it give me more information on his work, it’s true that I’ve done the same theme but, you have given more fine detail. So you have give viewers more detail to know what the artist is like. I think it would be better you have some book for you to read about the artist, because there might have more and more detail info about the artist.
ReplyDeleteI also like what you said about “the farm” you said it look like a tunnel” I also think in this way. It’s not just a sculpture, it can represent as a visitor place since the view it’s very good.
I find the definition you found of what conceptual art is to be very interesting - how the fact that whether or not the work is produced isn't a top priority that the idea and the execution of it is the main concern.
ReplyDeleteI see you chose the cannon artwork like Joanne did, I find it interesting how he used wax, of all materials to use he chose wax, and how there's so much of it that he uses. However, I find that you could have picked much more interesting artworks rather than 'Yellow', but it is still very interesting.