Kazimir Malevich

Malevich is one of the first artists to push the idea of what is a painting and the significance of it to the limits. Malevich has influenced artists in ways that we can still see today ( artists such as Mel Ramsden and Jenny Watson) and continues to come up as one of the main topics in the discussion of conceptual and post modern art today. 

without this break through by Malevich i would most likely not be on the path of art today in questioning what makes art, well art. In Black Square Malevich started a conversation that artists can still engage in today, is it the content in the work that matters rather than the technique in which it is made or the other way around?

Refrences:
Drutt, M (2003) Kazimir Malevich; Suprematism. Guggenheim Museum: New York

Joseph Kosuth

I've started to look at conceptual artists that question what art is an what objects are. the top of this list starts with Joseph Kosuth. Kosuth is an American conceptual artist who in his work tackles issues of what is worth more, a photo of an object, the object or the definition of  the object?

he also address the importance of text in the world and how people respond to it. he has done this by using neon lights and simple text.

i think this is a very witty approach to the issue of what art is, if the concept is more important than the physical object, and if people should view these differently.


References:
Verzotti, Giorgio (28/02/2011). "Joseph Kosuth". Artforum international , 49 (6), p. 245.

new vid

this was first attempt at working with static text and sound. i like how it has come out and think it'll be affective on a screen or wall with full surround sound or something. the text is taken form a Imants Tillers quote i found
"Like a garden that is never finished, the work of an artist is forever in the process of becoming"
this made total sense to me in both an artistic sense and a personal one too, as i feel at the moment i am forever in the flux of change, of becoming something other than what i am at present or past. this is why i decided to use this text as my first text piece.

update

i have scrapped that idea for words on the wall.

after talking with my tutor, i realise that i have lost my direction this semester. i lack confidence in my work and myself and have let this stop me from what i love doing. so i've decided to not put the blame on things that i can't control or other people.
things can only affect you if you let them, unfortunately so far, i have let them.
but now I have a sense of where i can take myself and my practice, as i work conceptually and at the moment with text so no idea is to great or small, all it has to be is interesting.
i want to stop restricting myself and ask in my art why i feel i have to.
i think i can pull myself back up before the end of semester and be proud of my work.
i will submit more soon.
oh that's also another point, i will be here more often, i neglect this space where i should really be posting here when ever i question myself or have something i would like to explore/ have found in my practice.

Next Step

I have set myself these guidelines for my next peice:
it has to be
-text
-Playful
-not significant

based on Tuttle's small work i came up with the idea of making comments.
to do this i will write on pieces of tape and place them around the gallery, they will have witty comments on art, life or just silly jokes on them. this way i fulfill the guidelines i have set myself and also have a conceptually sound work that i am happy with.

Richard Tuttle

Tuttle is amazing in how he has taken the media of drawing to new and interesting heights. the fact that he makes and places small objects he has crafted in unexpected ways, to make the viewer actually look and think about what they're looking at. i like this questioning and challenging of 'normal' art conventions and how viewers look and respond to it.

reference:
Anonymous (31/03/2007). "Richard Tuttle". School arts , 106 (7), p. 14.

Richard Prince

Price is one of the highest selling artists in the world at the moment. His nurse paintings are hunting motifs of otherwise nice looking females and his large canvases of text, a mocking joke on society. i enjoy the way Prince has understood and utilized text to connect to everyday people, while making witty, critical comments on society. 

Reference:
Prince, Richard (01/08/2011). "RICHARD PRINCE". Artforum international , 49 (10), p. 331.

Maria Kozic

Kozic is a female Australian artist that works with popular culture images. She is apart of the postmodernist movement and her work is very witty. I enjoy the way Kozic make her work to outline the constructiveness of art and the thought out procedures and intentions artists put potential images through.

reference:

Duval, D (1987) Pages from Maria Kozic’s Book. ARTSPACE: Melbourne

Imants Tillers

Tillers uses others work in his own and changes them in various ways. in his most recent work he uses text, but i rather like how he puts his own personal spin on others work, it makes me confident in using saying etc in my work. he is an Australian artist that tackles the postmodern art scene of Australia and how art fits within the country in relation to locality and nationality.

Reference:

Hart,D et al. (2006) Imants Tillers; One World Many Visions. Thames and Hudson: melbourne

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly has opened my eyes to the notion of text, writing and gesture in art. it is from his work i learned that text can become something visual, as an image rather than just text, and can be used in different more personal ways.

without Twombly I don't think i would have noticed just how much contemporary artists rely on text and the understood conventions of speech and conversation in their works. i think i would like to strip this back and show my own understanding on what text can be in art.

References:
Dias, Elizabeth (18/07/2011). "Cy Twombly". Time (Chicago, Ill.) , 178 (3), p. 1.