Meaning, Material & Poetics of Anselm Kiefer's "The Book"
(Art Theory term paper)
It's my feeling that Anselm Kiefer engaged in artmaking with a kind of visual semantics like poetic language, ekphrasis. I
started out writing this, but the professor was skeptical and I pulled back. Then I found a very recent (11/2012) dissertation from Kiefer's home country (Germany) that took this same view. Although the argument for a visual poetic sematic in Anselm Kiefer's work is not the main thrust of my student paper, I did take that view in it. (Happily, the professor approved.)
Stop Motion Video & the Art of the Quay Brothers (HD)(on YouTube)
(Includes 12/2013 teaser)
This is an incrediblely cool teaser in terms of stop motion video as art. I have linked the video, but am trying to dig up more information on these artists in English. Americans Stephen and Timothy Quay, better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers, are identical twin brothers who work out of London. They're influential in the fine art of stop motion video. Although dark, their visual and audio poetics are deft and elegant, as they use the stop motion and soundtrack to create rhythm, alliteration and flows between rhythm and alliteration that are graceful and emotional even when they are jarring. A German documentary clip introduces them as "Poets of Darkness" (Poeten der Dunkelheit).
Reaping for Dummies (12/2013) - 3D animation graduation project
This is a link to the graduation project for several students at Idèfagskolen in Tønsberg, Norway, that was produced from 2012 to 2013. It's a finely done example of 3D animation school student art.
Note on Degas' Modernism & Composition
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