Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Art 21 Videos: Robert Adams and Jenny Holzer 10/19/09

Robert Adams
-Takes photos of deforestation/ urban settings and acts(smog, housing developments, smoking billowing out of factory)
-He thought he was taking images of things he hated but ended up being glorious to him
-He looks for the perfect frame where everything fits
-Started in Colorado then southern California and moved to North Midwest
-Also does wood sculpture influenced by his father
-You feel the sorrow for the trees and think how can you not want to touch it?

Jenny Holzer
-Uses text and visual poetics for art
-Uses other poets work and prints or projects the words at a gigantic scale.
-Artist personally loves horses to calm herself from her work because she uses government documents and is pissed from whats going on in the world
-She proves a point with a small punchline
-"Protect me from what I want"
I love this quote because usually what you want isn't actually what you need.

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