(1958) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Klein What makes this artwork contemporary? The Anthropometries of the Blue Period is a contemporary art because the artist uses a used naked woman as ‘human paintbrushes’ to make his Anthropometry paintings, which were produced as YVES KLEIN elaborate performances in front of an audience. Born: 28 April 1928, Nice, France How does this artwork reflect the Died: 6 June 1962, Paris, France people in today? Yves Klein was a French artist and an This artwork/ performance work reflects important figure in post-war European the people in today in giving them the art. He was a leading member of the idea that painting is no longer the French artistic movement of Nouveau function of the eye. We can also use réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic human body to create a beautiful artwork. Pierre Restany. Cut piece (1964)
Artworks: Yoko Ono https://www.theartstory.org/movement- performance-art-artworks.htm Born: 18 February 1933 (age 85 years), Tokyo, Japan https://heathermasonblog.wordpress.co m/2017/04/10/yves-klein-the- Genres:Avant-garde; downtown; anthropometries-of-the-blue-period- performance 1958/ art; experimental; fell away from her body. Challenging the rock; pop; electronic; new wave neutrality of the relationship between viewer and art object, the artist presented Yoko Ono is a Japanese-American artist, a situation in which the viewer was musician, author, and peace activist, implicated in the potentially aggressive known for her work in avant-garde art, act of unveiling the female body, which music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to the lendary John Lennon. served historically as one such ‘neutral’ Ono was highly successful in bringing and anonymous subject for art. feminism to the forefront of the art world How does this artwork reflect the through her performance and conceptual people in today? pieces. The people today are very aggressive especially the men. In todays generation men are aggressive as well as women, if we reflect it today lots of people who became parents at the early age. Shoot (1971)
Artworks: https://www.theartstory.org/movement- performance-art-artworks.htm https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_lear ning/yoko-ono-cut-piece-1964/ Artist: CHRIS BURDEN https://www.theartstory.org/artist-ono- yoko.htm Born: 11 April 1946, Boston, Massachusetts, United States What makes this artwork contemporary? Died: 10 May 2015, Topanga, California, United States Cut Piece is one of the best performances in contemporary art, Known for: Performance art, installation because the artist itself sat on a stage art, sculpture and invited the audience to approach her and cut away her clothing, so it gradually Books: Chris Burden, Positions In scapegoat. It might also speak to issues Art, Coyote Stories, Chris Burden: of gun control and, in the context of the February - Maj 1999 period, the Vietnam War. How does this artwork reflect the American performance artist Chris people in today? Burden is most known for his 1970s This performance work Shoot by Chris works that placed him in extreme danger, Burden reflect the people in today as it such as being shot in the arm by an required courage, vision and an excellent assistant or being crucified on the back of triggerman. a car. Seedbed (1972)
VITO ACCONCI Born: January 24, 1940 The Bronx, New York, U.S
Artworks: Died: April 27, 2017 (aged 77)
Manhattan, New York, U.S. https://www.theartstory.org/movement- performance-art-artworks.htm Vito Acconci is an American performing in the late 1960s. More recently, he has https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/47322 shifted his focus to architecture and 9873321561032/ landscape design, particularly works that Artist: merge indoor and outdoor space performance/installation artist who https://www.theartstory.org/artist- began. burden-chris.htm Artworks: What makes this artwork contemporary? https://www.theartstory.org/movement- performance-art-artworks.htm This artwork become contemporary because it touches on the idea of https://hybridutterance.wordpress.com/2 martyrdom, and the notion that the artist 010/02/19/seedbed-1972-vito-acconci/ may play a role in society as a kind of Artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Accon Marina Abramovic's is one of the key ci artists in the performance art movement. Her work often involves putting herself in What makes the artwork grave danger and performing lengthy, contemporary? harmful routines that result in her being This artwork become contemporary cut or burnt, or enduring some privation. because Seedbed was a seminal work that transformed the physical space of the gallery through minimal intervention Artworks: to create an intimate connection between https://www.theartstory.org/movement- artist and audience, even as they performance-art-artworks.htm remained invisible to one another. https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/339881721 How does this artwork reflect the 60402102/ people in today? Artist: It reflects the Religion, war and power, beliefs, outlook, emotion and passion of https://www.theartstory.org/artist- the people in todays. The artist gives the abramovic-marina.htm people way on how to achieve their desire specially those men. What makes this artwork contemporary? Rhythm (1973) This artwork become contemporary Marina Abramović because this piece exemplifies and demonstrates the synchronicity between Born: 30 November 1946 (age the mistakes of the past and those of the 72 years), present. Belgrade, Serbia How does this artwork reflect the Artworks: Seven Easy Pieces, The people in today? Cleaner, The artwork could even be inspirational to some various audiences could consider Marina’s mental, emotional, and physical numbness to be typical behavior in situations that she portrays. Society wants to believe in what they think is normal, but once again Marina Abramovic uses her compassion for pushing her body to the limit to show the simple comparison of present and past. It gives society no choice but to accept there are even artistic messages that can be taken from self-mutilation. Interior Scroll (1975) and deeply suppressed history of the vulva, the powerful source of orgasmic pleasure, of birth, of transformation, of menstruation, of maternity, to show that it is not a dead, invisible place.” The performance evolved from a dream in which “a small figure extracted a text from her vagina that simply said ‘the Carolee Schneemann knowledge.’” As such, “Interior Scroll” Born: 12 October 1939 (age 79 years), asserts the vagina not only as a site of Fox Chase, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, physical creation, but as a source of United States thought and creativity. By pulling a Carolee Schneemann is an American physical object from an otherwise hidden visual artist, known for her discourses on space, the interior becomes visible, and the body, sexuality and gender. Her work therefore, vocal. is primarily characterized by research How does this artwork reflect the into visual traditions, taboos, and the people in today? body of the individual in relationship to social bodies. Schneemann's works have It reflects the people today especially to been associated with a variety of art a woman in terms of being brave to face classifications including Fluxus, Neo- challenges in life. It reflects by recounts a Dada, the Beat Generation, and conversation with ‘a structuralist film- happenings. maker’ in which the artist sets intuition Artwork: and bodily processes, traditionally https://www.theartstory.org/movement- associated with ‘woman’, against performance-art-artworks.htm traditionally ‘male’ notions of order and https://fineartmultiple.com/blog/carolee- rationality. schneemann-interior-scroll-masterpiece/ Artist: https://www.theartstory.org/artist- schneemann-carolee.htm What makes the artwork contemporary? Interior scroll become contemporary because it globally influenced in the world of art. “Interior Scroll” was to “ physicalize the invisible, marginalized,
