Richard Misrach's photography

1. The enlightenement is a combination of ideas, values, facts and principles which work together to provide a better perspective of the natural and social world. The age os enlightenment in the western era of philosophy and intellectual, scientific and cultural life is centred upon the 18th century.

2. The sublime is where an author or artist expresses them selves through their work affecting the way one may percieve something by it overpowering beauty and its effect of awe it may have on them.

3. The enlightenment is a concept of a set of ideas used to progress mankind. The element of the sublime progresses mankind through its power to affect the way mankind may percieve things opening their minds to better ways of solving problems or changing there perspective on life.

4. Matter is anything with mass, the substance of all physuical objects. Misrach's photos are very beautiful and enchanting. His photos of our earth may make us think twice before littering or doing anythig harmful to our planet. His works shows off how beautiful and powerful the earth is and how abusing the earth is wrong.

5. Jim Dine, Dieter Appelt, Richard Anderson, David Byrne and Shilpa Gupta are a few artists that work around the idea of sublime.

6. Misrach's powerful photographs inspire me to be more conscious of our earth. All his works overwhelm me with a feeling of awe.

Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler is a well known American artist famous for his works with New Media. Oursler's work is very experimental and innovative working with Video mediums, Tony uses projections not only on uniform objects but he also projects images on to different things such as balls, dolls, and other surfaces like tree tops and steam. This unique style of art is a combination of different elements like spoken txt, moving images, and sculpture. Tony's works are based around the human head focusing on the head as the centre of the human conscious. These themes explore the connections and flow between elements such as light, smoke, thoughts, impulse, language, voice and many more.

The enlightenment is a set if different ideas, values, principles and facts that compliment each other to give a better perspective of both the natural, commercial and social worlds. This is also known as 'paradigma'. A couple of elements may seem different and inconsitent due to intellectual movements attracting many people with different questions that connect through similar ideas. Like the enlightenment, Ourseler works around a combination of different materials, media's and ideas to provide a perspective of the human head being the centre of consciousness.

The concepts of enlightenment apply to Ourselr's work in many ways. The concept of science is mankind evolving and progressing through scientific knowledge and exploring new frontiers with experimental methods, where science is the key element in revolution. Tony has been a pioneer in the art world with his very different and experimental methods of projecting New Media. He has changed the art world with his unique style of video projections. By using combinations of media with his inconsistent ideas of being the first known artist to use projections on non uniform elemtents like steam and tree tops. Tony has made progress in the art world with his experimental and innovative artistic evolution. Individualism also applies to Tony. Individualism is the idea where a single person is the first to confirm new ideas, actions or new ways of doing things. Tony was a pioneer and starting point for this new style of New Media projections. These works also underpin the concept of progress, where progress is the improvement of humans socially and naturally. By exploring the themes and awe, Oursler's works may change the way we perceive life in general and may use the video art as inspiration to better themselves. All concepts lead to the idea of progress and evolution in the art world.

2003)'Tender' (2003-05)Fiona Hall's contemporary work relates to the Renaissance concept of Mercantillism.Research the two examples; 'Tender'(2003-05) and 'Leaf Litter'(1999-2003) to explain how they relate to this concept. First define mercantillism and explain how it has developed since the Renaissance. For each work you will need to describe the shape, form and materials of the work, and explain the ideas behind each example.These works were part of an art show titled 'Force Field' which can be viewed in one of the exhibition spaces on Youtube - Part Three: Fiona Hall: Force Field.

Leaf Litter' (1999-2003)'Tender' (2003-05)

Week Two - Auckland Triennial 2010

Week Two - Auckland Triennial 2010
Mahmoud Bakhshi, Tulips Rise from the Blood of the Nation's Youth, 2008,
neon, tin, wood, plastic, electric engines, courtesy of the artist and
Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles


'Last Ride in a Hot Air Balloon' is the title for the 2010 4th Auckland triennial
which is on show from 12 March - 20 June. Watch the video of the curator,
Natasha Conland discussing the art show.
Youtube conland348. MP4
Use the information from the video and
on the Triennial website to answer the following questions;

1.What are the themes behind the title "Last ride...' for the Auckland triennial?
2. What does a curator of an exhibition do?
3. Which countries are represented in this year's triennial?
4. Is Auckland the only country to have a triennial? Are there other similar art shows?
5. Name 4 artists who will be showing work in the show.
6. Select an artist's work from the website, copy the work to your blog and write a short
comment on what the work is, and what it represents.(Reference your sources)
7. Comment on why you find this work interesting, how does it relate to your own interests?

Students doing the commentary should comment on their partners answers, and answer questions 6 and 7.

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