NGfL CYMRUGCaD Destruction Year 10 www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD ARTISTS Here is a series of slides which represent the work of a number of artists which are relevant to the theme of the unit, DESTRUCTION.
You too can add to the list by researching others. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD DAMIEN HIRST Click here to see examples of the artists work Here we see millions of
cigarette remains and cigarette packets filling an enormous ashtray. The title,Party Time suggest something young and lively but the images contrast and suggest something which is destructive to health. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD http://www.flickr.com/photos/loop_oh/3055816315/sizes/z/in/photostream/
Damien Hirst is famous for putting animals which are already dead into a chemical called formaldehyde. This chemical preserves the animal for posterity. But why a shark? www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD Marcell Duchamps Here we see one of the art worlds most famous pictures, The
Mona Lisa, which has been destroyed by something as simple as a moustache and beard on her face. Graffiti perhaps? L.H.O.O.Q 1919 www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD NEALE HOWELLS Howellss works are neither
portraits or landscapes, rather they are pictures of the attitudes of our society graffiti, slogans, the marks which we see on the walls in the streets of our valleys and cities. His work is much more inventive that what it appears to be at first. Click here to see examples of the
artists work www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD Ray Johnston A famous star who destroyed his own life through drugs. During the Pop Art era, artists would often draw or adapt pictures of contemporary stars.
Elvis Presley 2 1955 www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD Ray Johnston Here is a picture of a famous actor from the era which has been destroyed by various symbols.
James Dean 1958 www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk Roy Lichtenstein Whaam! 1963 Oil on Canvas http://www.flickr.com/photos/oddsock/100825567/ NGfL CYMRUGCaD Litchenstein uses paintings of tragic events such as war, fighting and divorce in American comic style. He uses strong and clear colours without any real detail. They are simple and effective images.
www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD PICASSO http://www.flickr.com/photos/erprofe/4754078275/ Guernica 1937 www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD It is said that experts have analysed this picture in detail.
Picasso painted this picture to represent the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. It appears that the horse represents the people; the bull conveys the horrors of war, and the angular shape of the faces of the people and animals show the suffering. To add to this, the colours too are dreary. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD http://www.flickr.com/photos/centralasian/5978422149/sizes/o/in/photostream/ Rene Magritte
The Key to the Field 1933 Oil on Canvas Look carefully!! The glass perhaps has broken but has the scene on the glass disappeared? Surrealism Period www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD The Discovery of Fire
(Decouverte du feu) 1934-35 Rene Magritte destroying a tuba. Artists in the Surrealism Period would play tricks and create pictures with an element of magic or dream in them. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD Click here to see this example of the artists work
Rene Magritte The Labors of Alexander 1967; Bronze www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD Click here to see this example of the artists work An Exploded View 1991 mixed media Here is a piece of 3D work by Cornelia Parker. She took a shed, blew it up and then put it all back together again with wires and hung it from the ceiling and
www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk illuminated it. NGfL CYMRUGCaD Rebbeca Horn Concert for Anarchy 1990 Click here to see this example of the artists work Although the piano has not
been destroyed to all intents and purposes, as in the previous piece, the fact that it is upside down means that it cant be used and consequently it is worthless and therefore destroyed. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD Click here to see this example of the
artists work Arnulf Rainer We see that the photograph has been destroyed in order to cover (enshroud) the body of this artist. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD Robert Rauschemburg We see a variety of pictures of Marilyn Monroe; the colourful life
of the actress has been outlined and destroyed in one piece of finished work. Click here to see this example of the artists work Perhaps it is a symbol of her life. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk NGfL CYMRUGCaD
After seeing a variety o works by artists who use the theme of destruction in their work, it is now your turn to show and to develop this theme in your own style. Choose either one of the artists which are included in the presentation and his/her work or find an artist who communicates the same type of message. www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk
