"Art History"
The work of Serbian/French artist Vuk Vidor, centers around a doubled-faced fascination of the loss of historical context in the modern world. Vidor’s work puts its finger on many of the tensions in the European civilization - both here and in America.
In his work “Art History” Vidor’s singles out artists' legacies. On each line he links an artist to his/her cultural impact in three words. He is so efficient that he tackles over 30 in his piece such as: Klein owns blue, Ruscha owns words, Fontana owns holes, Sherman owns herself and Picasso owns the century.
“It’s a mash-up of artists and what they have been known for in their respective crafts.” -Cartina Dulay
I find that Vidor’s fascination is it not only a great reflection upon contemporary lessons in art history but also a hilarious critique on the respective crafts of some of the most well known artists in our history.
posted by Recloose @ 7:15 PM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
It is really interesting to find out that he was able to find something for each artist that related to history. The quote that you provided really helps to sum up his piece of art by becoming more specific.
That's interesting work. I couldn't really get what he was driving at by summing up an artist in one word. I felt like he was criticizing artists for trying to express large/vague concepts with vague and oversimplifying mechanisms. Is that the humorous criticism that you mention? That's what I got out of his over-generalization of what each artist "owned", but then I didn't read the whole list and I didn't understand any of the correlations so I could be way off here.
Spencer,
That is exactly the humorous criticism that I had mentioned. It is more humorous than anything else. For example he says, "Johns Owns The Flag," which is in reference to the artist Jasper Johns and his fundamental work in contemporary art (Johns used the American flag in many of his works; "Flag" 1954-55). I don't believe the work is any more than just a funny way of looking at art history.
The thing that I really liked about this post is that it somewhat resembles the aesthetic of The Vietnam Memorial from the Maya Lin video with the white names on a black wall. However, the content and mood is different, as you described Carlos, as hilarious.
I came across this on swissmiss a while back too. I think it's pretty genius.
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