Global Art

Infinite cell

Iron bars, painted wood, mirrors

A sequence of mirrors, infinitely reflecting an image of prison bars,

Jaar uses mirrors in this photograph as it is an everyday item which is used by the everyday person. The jail bars and the mirror show the idea that society is stuck in a “jail/ Claustrophobic” like situation.  This shows the emotion of fear whilst in captivity. Captivity is shown to be about the wealth and consumption for a more contemporary society.

Andeas Gursky

99 cent store

This image talks about how consumers are overpowered by commercialism. The intensely bright colors, orginisation and perfectly stacked shelves makes everything glamorized and shows us the idea of perfection.  The way this was photographed on a high angle is showing us that as consumers we don’t understand quite how perfect and artistic some things are. This image was shown on an extremly large scale, as it then has the detail. This very photograph I the most exxpensive piece of photography ever sold, it has been sold for $3.34 Million dollars (US).

Cildo Meireles

The Coca Cola Project

Glass Coke battles, coke and text

The artist has put “Yankees go home” on these reusable coca cola bottles and has put them out so they are in circuit of being re filled and put back out on the shelves. This image is about consumerism, when he wrote that on the bottles it seems to be impying that New York is target. Iswell as Coca Cola, it is the largest world wide brand and is worth more than any other company.New York is globally known for its consumerisim. This photograph is also about how we look at the gass being half full or half empty. It relates to consumerism as each bottle has one fifth less than the previous bottle.

Up in the sky

Tracey Moffat

1997

Tracey Moffat was born in Australia and was adopted out of her Aboriginal family into a wite working class family. So she has a personal relationship with these images. The various camera angels relates to each image as she was actually in the image, a point of view. To me it seems like it might be a brief storyline of her life, as the photos with the child could be her. In the photographs nuns taking her away and giver her to a different family and then once she has arrived at her new family the nuns leave.

Scooby Doo

 

Artist Name – Iwao Takamoto (just the artist)

Title of work – Scooby Doo

Size – Various

Materials, media – Computer animation. Brown dog, black nose, black spots, black eyebrows and a turquoise collar with a diamond shape with a ‘S’ in it.

Function of the work – A cartoon on ‘Cartoon Network’

Where the work is shown or displayed – Globally on TV, and on Scooby Doo Memorabilia.

This has to be my favorite TV show of all time. It sums up my childhood and this is why it is relative to my topic of childhood.

Marbels

Artist Name – Carl Fisher

Title of work – Marbels

Size – unknown

Materials, media – 25 contemporary clay marbles – There are 20 vintage replicas of the most collectible marbles ever made including a German Banded Lutz, Clambroth and Indian; Christensen Flames, Striped Opaques, a Guinea, Slags and Swirls; a Peltier NLR Superman, Christmas Tree, Rebel with Aventurine, Grey Coat, Golden Rebel, and Flaming Dragon; and five of Fisher’s own creations including a Liberty Stars and Stripes, Flame Twist, African Violet, Uma Zooma, and a Splat. All marbles are signed under the glaze with the Carl Fisher CF logo in gold.

Function of the work – a Collectors item.

Where the work is shown or displayed – In a marbel collection.

These marbels are hand made and look stunning. The reason that i have chosen these particular marbels is because in primary school we would compere marbels and deside who has the rare ones (we would measure this by how many people had each kind of marbel). These would of been a great adition to my childhood collection, although i dont think my parents would of paid $625 US dollars for them.

Captain Planet

Artist Name – Ted Turner

Title of work- Captian Planet

Size – Unknown

Materials, media – Computer animation, green hair, blue skin, red underwear, top and shoes. Black belt with a yellow belt buckle and a yellow symbol on his chest.

Function of the work – To create a TV show.

Where the work is shown or displayed – On TV and merchandise

This was another TV show that i use to watch as a child when i stayed at home sick from school.

Harvey Benge

Artist Name – Harvey Benge

Title of work – My Victory of the Trivial series

Size – Around 2.5 meters high, by 2 meters wide.

Materials, media – Yellow plastic flowers, a red and green hair clip, a white china horse, a green fuzzy bag, pinky red plastic string, a plastic pink and green hand slapper, four little pillows, sn orange plastic stationary holder with a plastic suction handel, a green plastisc iron with a grey surface on the surface, ttwo red and one green streemers, a pink vase, white string with a single stip of blue tape around it, a yellow mustard and a red tomato sauce bottles, a black cube with white so-du-ku numbers on it, metal jewlery box, a green plastic floder with a black conector, 20 photos, two light wellow and two orange plastic cup cakes, an plastic orange pig with a white hat and (green, red, purple, orange and yellow) curvey plastic sticks.

Function of the work – To create a grid of two dollar shop item. To later sell and create a profit.

Where the work is shown or displayed – I have seen this work in World Man in town on high street and the website that i got this image from says Paris.

This is related to to my work as it has similar reflections on the surface which the objects were photographed on.

Barney

Title of work – Barney costume

Size – Around 2 meters high and 1 meter width

Materials, media – Thick purple, green and yellow fabric, wire frame, plastic souls on the feet, white plastic teeth and glass eyes

Function of the work – To act as a costume for the character Barney in his TV show.

Where the work is shown or displayed – on a person in the studio of Barney which is fimed and then later diplayed on TV for its viewers to watch.

This was the TV show that I watched everyday untill the age of 6, I had the videos, toys and a blanket. Which is related to the theme of childhood.

Beegees – One Night Only (Album)

Artist Name

Title of work – Beegees – One Night Only (Album)

Size – 12cm by 12cm

Materials, media – The three guys in the band, sunglasses, jackets, pants and an microphone.

Function of the work – To be a cover for the album ” One Night Only”

Where the work is shown or displayed – Globally in Cd stores and households.

My parents have this cd and they would listen to it on repeat when ever we went on car trips. Now i know every song word for word (thanks mum and dad).

Rubix Cube

Artist Name – Erno Rubik
Title of work – Rubix Cube
Size – You can now get them in a variety of sizes, ranging from a few centermeters to meters.
Materials, media – Plastic, glue, elastic, wire and coloured stickers.
Function of the work – After it has been all mixed up so there are multiple colours on each side you are suppose to try and get each side of the cube a single colour.
Where the work is shown or displayed – Toy shops, online, $2 shops and in households.

The rubix cube was at my nanas house when i was little and her and i would try and complete it.

lion king

Artist Name – Many artist contributed to this image/ movie. Unable to narrow it down.

Title of work – The Lion King

Size – Various sizes, to fit tv screen, projector screen and this paticular image would be depending on the size that you printed it.

Materials, media – Computer animation

Function of the work – As a frame in the film “The Lion King”.

Where the work is shown or displayed – Globally in theaters, tv screen and projectors.

This is relevent to my work as it a childhood memory of many people.

Slinky

Artist Name – unknown

Title of work- Slinky

Size -approximately 10-15cm tall and around 5cm wide. Although you are able to stretch it up tp meters long.

Materials, media – This particular slinky is black wire which is a spiral shape.
Function of the work- To be pushed down a downwards slope so the sliky curls over continously untill it reaches a constant flat surface.

Where the work is shown or displayed – Globally as a toy for children.

This slinky is related to the topic of my work as it is one of the childhood toys i had in the 90s.