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Space in paintings. Theme: Place. Spaces Have Meanings Space reflects place, time, memory and history. Places Have Meanings. Meaning of place transpired by event: Beach. Places Have Meanings. Meaning of place transpired by event: Beach of Normandy, D-Day. Places Have Meanings.
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Theme: Place Spaces Have Meanings Space reflects place, time, memory and history.
Places Have Meanings Meaning of place transpired by event: Beach
Places Have Meanings Meaning of place transpired by event: Beach of Normandy, D-Day
Places Have Meanings Place overlaid with multiple histories: Jerusalem:
Places Have Meanings Place of historical significance: Tiananmen Square:
Places Have Meanings Place of historical significance: Tiananmen Square:
Places Have Meanings Anselm Kiefer: paintings of the reminders of Germany’s troubled past.
Places Have Meanings Anselm Kiefer: paintings of the reminders of Germany’s troubled past.
Places Have Meanings Anselm Kiefer: paintings of the reminders of Germany’s troubled past.
Places Have Meanings Space can be big
Places Have Meanings Space can be small
Places Have Meanings Space can be none existing
Places Have Meanings Space could be ideal: Chinese Feng shui
Places Have Value Places have material and symbolic values: the world trade center in New York City
Places Have Value Places have material and symbolic values: the world trade center in New York City
Geographic locations change through history: HongKong returned to China Places Have Value Spaces have social and psychological attributes
Nadja Daehnke, South African, Shop/Site/Shrine, looking through glass of formal thrived community to witness the current landscape of missing Places Have Value Artists dealt with the issue of the value of social landscape:
Western traditional landscape paintings Spaces Have Value History’s Influence:
Chinese landscapes, shanshui Places Have Value History’s Influence:
American west Places Have Value History’s Influence:
Places Exist in Space Western linear perspective
Places Exist in Space • The use of disjunctive representation of physical space in artworks. • Adopt and adapt techniques, concepts, and images from cartography (map making). Two strategies to deal with space in 2D contemporary art:
Kerry James Marshall, paintings Places Exist in Space The use of disjunctive representation of physical space in artwork.
Julie Mehretu, Ethiopian, drawings Places Exist in Space The use of disjunctive representation of physical space in artwork.
David Hockney, multiple snapshots, source from cubism and Chinese scroll Places Exist in Space The use of disjunctive representation of physical space in artwork.
David Hockney, multiple snapshots, source from cubism and Chinese scroll Places Exist in Space The use of disjunctive representation of physical space in artwork.
Art in Places Post-modernists, feminists and multiculturalists emphasize on the exhibition context, location and origin of art .
Looking at Places Contemporary artists looking at places through social concept: Liz Wells: “Land is a natural phenomenon…. Landscape is a cultural construct”.
Artists continued the tradition of directly observing places, and depicted natural places as gateway to metaphysical concerns and human feelings: Neil Welliver Looking at Places
Artists continued the tradition of directly observing places, and depicted natural places as gateway to metaphysical concerns and human feelings: Robert Berlind Looking at Places
Artists continued the tradition of directly observing places, and depicted natural places as gateway to metaphysical concerns and human feelings: Jane Freilicher Looking at Places
Artists continued the tradition of directly observing places, and depicted natural places as gateway to metaphysical concerns and human feelings: Mark Innerst Looking at Places
Artists create images of remembered places: Peter Doig, British painter Looking at Places
Artists create images of remembered places: Peter Doig, British painter Looking at Places