Joan Jonas : A Pioneer Of Video Art And Performance

Many artists explore their personal journeys within their artworks, as a way of understanding their emotions and the world around them, as well as discovering their identity. Sarah Fordham’s art is inspired by her experiences including her travels around the world, and also as a way to make sense of her thoughts, ideas and emotions. These elements are displayed in bright colours, incorporating symbols and patterns in her work. Her two artworks being analysed are called “The Big Call” and “Pokeepskie”.

“This is where you can find your soul, if you dare.” (Anderson, pg 10) This belief comes from the mind of the Melinda, the progantists, art teacher, Mr. Freeman. Art is truly a door to the mind of an individual, showing things that people aren’t able to say. It shows through images and colors what many people aren’t able to express in words, events and thoughts speaking through the medium. Art is growing as a use of therapy to heal and tell. Psychologists analyze their patients art at a psychological level, interpreting the image into words. One of the theories in art therapy, which is seen throughout “Speak”, is the idea that unconscious thoughts are expressed in an image. (Irvings)These images then can be explained rationally. Melinda’s three major art images, the half dead trees, turkey bone, and cubism represent this theory.

Background Info: By writing in vignettes, she illustrates her emotions and the feelings she expresses towards the people that surround her.

Surrealism is a movement that built off of the burgeoning look into art, psychology, and the workings of the mind. Popularly associated with the works of Salvador Dali, Surrealist art takes imagery and ideology and creates correlation where there is none, creating new forms of art. In this essay I will look to explore the inception of the surrealist movement, including the Surrealist Manifesto, to stress the importance of these artists and their work in the 20th century and beyond. I also will look to films from our European Cinema course to express how films incorporate the influence of surrealism both intentionally and unintentionally.

Over the years, I have flirted with visual art. It started with pencil drawing, continued as an affair with marker illustration, then a dalliance with lettering, and I now have a relationship with photography. However, my favorite art will never be displayed in museums or galleries. It is not static and immutable. Rather, my chosen medium is fluid, living, volatile. No matter how well rehearsed, it will never be the same again. That’s the beauty of performance art.

Through the use of techniques and themes, a composer is able to create distinctively visual images when describing the setting and characters in detail which help us to understand and form meaning of what the composer is trying to convey in their texts. The use of techniques such as body language, symbolism, lighting, music and photographic background slides create distinctively visual images same with themes that are being used within the texts such as truth which is evident in the dramatic text ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ by John Misto, the song ‘Lose Yourself’ sang by Eminem, and the film ‘The Eye’ directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud featuring Jessica Alba. These three texts demonstrate how the responders are impacted and what is

We live in a society where visual images are becoming increasingly significant, as most information in the media is presented as a combination of pictures and words. Visual representations enable individuals to interpret and evaluate texts that communicate with images more effectively. Distinctively visual techniques are used to enhance and challenge the way an individual understands personal experiences and the world. The way that they perceive these experiences can be shaped through distinctively visual techniques, as the vivid images can allow them to make sense of the world and provide diverse perspectives on how they view it. John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe-horn Sonata’ (1996) utilises powerful visual and language techniques

In John Berger’s essay “Ways of Seeing,” he shares his view on how he feels art is seen. Mr. Berger explores how the views of people are original and how art is seen very differently. By comparing certain photographs, he goes on to let his Audience, which is represented as the academic, witness for themselves how art may come across as something specific and it can mean something completely different depending on who is studying the art. The author goes into details of why images were first used, how we used to analyze art vs how we do today, and the rarity of arts. He is able to effectively pass on his message by using the strategies of Rhetoric, which include Logos, Pathos, and Ethos.

Powell received her Bachelor of Applied Arts at Ryerson University, studying image arts in photography. She then went on to Queen’s University to receive her Bachelor of Education in Technological Education. Her artwork has mainly consisted of photography, although she has also dabbled in film. She works in the modern digital age as well as exploring historical processes of photography. These include, polaroids, hand colouring, using the dark rooms to develop film, and many other alternatives. Powell has a particular interest in the abandoned, places or things that may appear ugly on the outside but have their own weird hidden treasures. She explains that it’s neat to see how nature takes back these places. She also photographs small towns and the more rural lifestyle. “My art isn’t ‘deep’,” she says, “but it’s about finding beauty in everything, beauty in every form”. Powell spent her early years taking portraitures in the wedding industry. Now, she has her own business alongside teaching and having a family. With this busy lifestyle it is amazing that Powell’s perspective on beauty is unchanged. Her perspective is something unique and important— something that everyone should see more of.

Bill Viola is known as a leading figure within a time of artists that use art to express sound, image technology and new media. Most of his work is focused on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and consciousness. He grew up in Queens, New york and got most of his art inspirations after a holiday with his family where he nearly drowned in a lake. He attended and graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. His work is divided into three main parts, conceptual, visual and both of those combined. One of his most popular and memorable pieces are probably “The Crossing” and “The Veiling”. Viola’s work is there to express a very painterly quality, he uses incredibly slow motion videos to support

Eliasson’s use of lights panning over the audience cause its spectral image to appear on the stages reflective, coloured scrims, which in turn integrates the viewers with the happenings on stage. The artist’s use of several mirrors and reflective scrims make the audience question reality. Sometimes they will see the dancers in front of the mirror, but they soon realise that the ballet is in fact playing out in the mirror. In a sense, the dancers are simply helping the play – from the perspective of the mirror – to unfold. As with many of Eliasson’s past works, the idea of this set is to bring the audience to work. They’re not just looking, they’re also made to think and wonder, “Am I seeing the dancer, or the reflection of the dancer.” One would argue that this notion in itself is a very interesting exercise because the audience is not really invited to this ballet to consume, passively. They are put to work in way finding through, what is essentially an optical illusion. The advantage of this interactive engagement is that perhaps the audience will physically sit in a state of intrigue and curiosity. When one is emotionally engaged with a subject, the body is physically drawn slightly

Over the course of several months the meaning and understanding of aesthetics and its application to art have taken place as a means to expanding the mind of a budding aesthete. Multiple respected aesthetes have been discussed regarding their philosophical approach to art and the theories influencing their philosophical stance. Some theories have been refuted while others have been regarded yet the insight provided by these aesthetes has been profound. Several of these aesthetes studied have helped in shaping one particular individual’s viewpoint in the creation of her own philosophy of art. Art and its significance can be appreciated by critics willing to understand the artist is in control of creating and expressing herself through

In 1954 Jone Jonas went to Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts for a degree in art. She then studied sculpture and art at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Then she received an MFA in sculpture from Colombia University. She was best known for her Video art, Performance art, Sculpture. She had a big part in the movement Performance art. Though Jonas began her career as a sculptor, by 1968 she moved into what was then leading-edge territory: mixing performance with props and mediated images, situated outside in natural and/or industrial environments. Between 1968 to1971, Jonas performed Mirror Pieces, works which used mirrors to as a central motif or prop. In these early performances, the mirror became a symbol of portraiture, representation, the body, and real vs. imaginary, while also sometimes adding an element of danger and a connection to the audience that was integral to the

In this essay I will be looking into the work of Marina Abramovic in relation to the Feminist movement. By looking at her work, I aim to emphasise her influence on this movement. In this essay, I shall also briefly examine the works of Abramovic, particularly Art is Beautiful, Artist must be Beautiful (1975) and four of her performances from her Rhythm series (10 (1973), 0 (1974), 2 (1974), and 5 (1974)). I shall describe the history of the Feminist movement and its influence in order to develop an understanding of Abramovic’s influence.

A fascination with the human body, body were an experience that could somehow be held in common. The ways in which we might experience the body as connected or represent it as disconnected in a live performance. Shifting attention from traditional art object to the artist’s physical action further proposed that art existed in real space and real time. Marina Abramovic, a pioneer of performance art began using her own body as the subject, object, and medium in the early 1970s as she said, ‘In performance my body is object and subject.’ For the exhibition