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Technology
When we consider technology, we most likely think of the world
since the industrial revolution of the 19th Century and
more recent developments, such as transportation, manufacturing, communication,
scientific ad medical advancements in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Many artists, such as Vincent van Gogh,
Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco took notice of technology.
Futurists in Milan were enthralled with machinery and the movement in cities.
Minimalist artists of the 1960s imitated the qualities of a machine.
Vincent Van Gogh
The Huth Factories at Clichy
1887 Oil 21 ¼” x 28 ¾”
Van Gogh saw the growing industrial environment upon the agricultural space.
Diego Rivera
Man at the Crossroads
1934 Fresco 15’ x 37’
Rivera painted the changes from an agricultural world to industry, machinery and war.
José Clemente Orozco
Totem Poles & Machine Images
Panel 9-12 – An Epic of American Civilization
José Clemente Orozco / Social Realism
Modern Culture I - IV
Panels 22-25 – An Epic of American Civilization
Giacomo Balla
Speeding Automobile
1913 Oil 23 ½” x 38 ¼”
Futurism viewed the flux of cities in motion,
industry and machinery as well.
They painted simultaneous motion.
Umberto Boccioni
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
1913 Bronze 45” h
Minimalist, such as Donald Judd aimed to be
machine-like. To be anonymous, take away the artist’s
hand, unlike a brush stroke. Minimalist celebrated
materials, simplicity and repetition.
Untitled
1966 Aluminum, Plexiglas
40” x 190” x 40”
Untitled 1967
Aluminum
6 1/8” x 24” x 27” each
Dan Flavin
Minimal Art
Pink out of a Corner
1963-64
Untitled 1980s
Untitled
(in Honor of Harold Joachim)
1977
red, yellow, blue & green
8’ fluorescent tubing
Richard Serra
Minimal Art
Union of the Torus and the Sphere
2001 Steel 142” x 447” x 125”
Betwixt the Torus and the Sphere
2001 Steel 142” x 450” x 319”
Richard Serra
Minimal Art
Sylvester
2001 Steel 163” x 492” x 380”
Evaluating the Constructed World
We are bombarded with disjointed imagery everyday.
We see images flipping channels on the television, passing billboards, surfing the Internet.
Some artists question this act of perception.
How reality is presented and how viewers reintegrate these random images.
Images shape our lives and
we can become engaged in the diversity and variety
that our contemporary culture has to offer
or become hypnotized by infotainment and the electronic light.
Jean Tinguely
Homage to New York
1960
Assembled on the rooftop of the
Modern art Museum in New York,
Tinguely started his work of art,
which caught on fire and
collapsed due to a roll of paper
being threaded in the wrong
direction. It ended up being a
on-time event.
Neo-Dadaist, Robert Rauschenberg juxtaposed
images seen on television with imagery from art.
Ever-changing images seen everyday are
reproduced and start to lose their effect.
Estate
1963 oil/silkscreen 7’11” x 5’9”
Retroactive 1964
Nam June Paik explored the impact and means of television
and its impact on us as humans.
Paik warned against the television taking over our lives and
that we needed to fight back.
His early works were humorous in their intent.
TV Cello
1971
TV Bra
1969
Hamlet Robot
1996
Buddha Duchamp Beuys
1989
TV Buddha
1974
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik
Electronic
Superhighway
1995
Nam June Paik
Fin de Siècle II
(the end of the century)
1989
Video installation of
300 TV sets
continuously changing
Paik’s video installations
speak about the imposing
presence of mass media in
everyday life, a feature in
the home, in business,
in sports, in entertainment,
in commerce and so on,
where the viewer is a
mere spectator.
Nam June Paik
Video Fish 1975-1979
Are viewers like a fish in a bowl? Are we really seeing reality?
Banksy
“vandalized paintings”
Who’s watching who?
Who monitors are existence
and movements?
Alexandre Arrechea
Latin America - Cuban
Cornfield 2007
watercolor
Arena 2007
Ai Weiwei
Forever Bicycles 2010
1200 Forever brand bicycles without handlebars or seats
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
Ai Weiwei
Sunflower
Seeds
2010
Turbine Hall,
Tate Museum
London
Ai Weiwei
Sunflower Seeds
100 million
porcelain ceramic
seeds