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Art Collectives

Art Collectives. Drawing and Painting 20, 30 Unit/Project. What is an art collective?. Group of artists working together towards shared aims. Groups can be in a variety of sizes. Small groups can be 2-10 people, while global groups can include thousands.

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Art Collectives

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  1. Art Collectives Drawing and Painting 20, 30 Unit/Project

  2. What is an art collective? • Group of artists working together towards shared aims. • Groups can be in a variety of sizes. Small groups can be 2-10 people, while global groups can include thousands. • Benefits include: shared intelligence, creative energy and social interaction

  3. Art collectives may be formed for • Economic reasons • Buying equipment • Space: living, working, showing • Ideological reasons • Political aims • Similar interest/focuses • The sound of many voices (lobbying) • Professional reasons • Gaining attention • Developing skills • Shared aesthetic goals/styles • Meeting space

  4. Ant Farm • Shared aesthetic views • Founded in San Francisco in 1968 by Chip Lord and Doug Michels • Architecture, graphic arts, and environmental design • The group was a self-described "art agency that promotes ideas that have no commercial potential, but which we think are important vehicles of cultural introspection."

  5. Ant Farm – Cadillac Ranch

  6. Ant Farm – Media Van

  7. Fluxus • Their name is taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow”. • It is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. • They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. • George Muciunas is largely recognized as the leader of the movement.

  8. Fluxus – Events or “scores” • HOMAGE TO LA MONTE YOUNG, by George Maciunas, Jan. 12, 1962(preferably to follow performance of any composition of 1961 by LMY.)Erase, scrape or wash away as well as possible the previously drawnline or lines of La Monte Young or any other lines encountered, likestreet dividing lines, rulled paper or score lines, lines on sports fields,lines on gaming tables, lines drawn by children on sidewalks etc.

  9. Fluxus – MOMA exhibition

  10. Guerrilla Girls • An anonymous group of radical feminist artists established in New York City in 1985. • Known for their posters, books, billboards, appearances and other creative forms of cultural/public art, the group aims to expose discrimination and corruption. • Present feminist viewpoints in a humorous manner. • They are famous for wearing gorilla masks in public and taking the names of deceased female artists as pseudonyms.

  11. Guerrilla Girls – MOMA campaign

  12. Guerrilla Girls vs. The Oscars

  13. Excusado Print System • Columbian street art collective • Made up of four graphic designers: Stinkfish, Ratson, Deadbird and Saintcat are our pseudonyms. • Create graffiti, stickers, and stencils • Created as a response to the type of graphic art the four studied at university • Work in co-operation with police and public • Often hold workshops and invite other street artists to join them in their work

  14. Excusado Print System – Mexico Mural

  15. Excusado Print System - Defase

  16. Space 1026 • A gallery and art collective located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The space serves as a gallery, venue, printing studio and art space shared by individuals, small businesses and non-profit organizations. • 30 plus artists in the collective, with a wide range of talents and backgrounds. • Started for economic reasons, and to provide a meeting space for artists.

  17. Space 1026 – If I could shoot laser beams...

  18. Space 1026 – If I could shoot laser beams...

  19. Space 1026

  20. Royal Art Lodge • The Royal Art Lodge was a Canadian art collective from 1996-2008.  • The Royal Art Lodge was founded in 1996 by Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  • Each member created a variety of pieces on a certain theme, before all of the group members chose which to include in the final piece.

  21. Royal Art Lodge

  22. Royal Art Lodge - Larger works • http://www.royalartlodge.com/children%20one • http://www.royalartlodge.com/paintinglong4.html

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