Celebrated for his gigantic, stainless steel Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Anish Kapoor is changing the cultural environment with his public works.
- Conceptual art: Conceptual art is an art in concepts/ideas/themes includes in the work with traditional aesthetic.
Art that is intended to convey an idea or concept to the perceiver and need not involve the creation or appreciation of a traditional art object such as a painting or sculpture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art
I think it is conceptual art. Anish Kapoor is today's most influential sculptors in the Conceptual art.
He's mainly a deep understanding of the characteristics of materials and sharp lyrical intensity of the pigment is combined. In his work, the concept of the size of the material through a monumental project addresses the problem of scale.
As we see his works we thought it might be looking for embarrassement and the intent of the artist himself, while wondering who had their own memories od things will fall into when they sees the sculptures.
http://kiki5258.blog.me/70105590597
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/
2. Research 3 quite different works by Kapoor from countries outside New Zealand to discuss the ideas behind the work. Include images of each work on your blog.
-Sky Mirror
This sculpture is a public work by Kapoor. It has an idea of urban, contemporary architecture that gives the impression of a lowered sky.
This "Sky Mirror is located in Kensington Gaedens in London, Nottingham and New York.
Sky Mirror is a six-metre-wide concave dish of polished stainless steel and angled up towards the sky. When people see the sky or objects with this sculpture it is up side down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Mirror
-Cloud Gate
This sculpture is well known works by Anish Kapoor which is located in Chicago. Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. This work also like an work "Sky Mirror".
Similer metarial ans similler installation to reflect the city and people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate
-Greyman Cries
Anish Kapoor and Factum Arte have been working together for several years on the development of cement printing, investigating new ways of generating form.
Greyman Cries is in Paris in France. It is made up with cerment. When we look it closly, it reminds me a larva.
Sculptures made of cement, the detail, also just above the avalanche Lena delicious cream cake decorations are made of preconstructed. He sculpture is said that the creation of a computer simulation.
I think one of the two sculptures of a beautiful Renaissance paintings and the association should think.
http://www.thesqueeze.net/Slideshow/Anish-Kapoor-in-Bilbao-from-March-16-October-12-2010/Anish-Kapoor-Greyman-Cries-Shaman-Dies-Billowing-Smoke-Beauty-Evoked-2008-09
4. Where is the Kapoor's work in New Zealand? What are its form and materials? What are the ideas behind the work?
-Anish Kapoor sculpture blends fabric and steel in New Zealand is "The Farm". He used the metarial red PVC-coated polyester fabric with steel to structural the frame.
Kapoor’s work is architectural, and yet it also has a fleshy quality which the artist describes as being “rather like a flayed skin”.
“I want to make body into sky”by Anish Kapoor.
5. Comment on which work by Kapoor is your favourite, and explain why. Are you personally attracted more by the ideas or the aesthetics of the work?
- I really like the sculpture "Cloud Gate" by Anish Kapoor. The reason why it is my most favourite work is that the shape of the sculpture is very interesting to me. It feels me like a futurestic, and the way he used the shany,mirror metarial all over the sculpture
capture the intention. Personally it attraced me by the ideas of the work and aesthetic of the work. Some people might think one of them but in my case both makes me capture the work.
I would like to make one of the sculpture like this.
I agree with you that you said the reason why it is your most favourite work is that the shape of the sculpture is very interesting to me. It feels me like a futurestic, and the way he used the shany,mirror metarial all over the sculpture
ReplyDeletecapture the intention, it gave me the same feeling.And i agree that he's mainly a deep understanding of the characteristics of materials and sharp lyrical intensity of the pigment is combined.
I agree that conceptual art “is intended to convey an idea or concept” as oppose to worrying too much about the overall look of the artwork. Anish Kapoor’s work is definitely conceptual art like you said so yourself as he has an idea behind everything from the materials to the overall shape of the sculpture. He really makes the viewer think about what’s going on with his piece. This is a quality which I really admire in Kapoor’s work; just the ability to convey such strong and meaningful ideas is an admirable talent. Despite the effort to convey ideas, Kapoor still manages to make his works very appealing to the eye which I love!
ReplyDeleteI like the way how you describe about your favourite on Anish Kapoor. You said that it give you the feeling of futuristic. I also think that he does these artwork have relation to humans. The way how human sees his artwork it’s also important. In a way he is trying to show people the other world of future. Like the way he present his work on an angle and curved, so it gives the different shape of an object, so it might be a clue where he is telling people that the new invention is coming and more of reflection is going to refer back to you.
ReplyDeleteI think that he is the greatest sculptor I have seen before and he used variety of materials such as wax, bronze, fabric, and steel. I think, though those materials he really wants to create some of ideas and intention. The one of piece of his work that you chose “ cloud gate” that is amazing work that I felt because the scale and material and the idea of created this and also this has similar installation with “sky mirror” Personally, he is conceptual artist and influenced by post modernism and the minimalism.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said on your favourite piece , it would have to be my favourite aswell. I like how it is alot more modern and shows off the future and making things seem alot more realistic especially by having the sphere reflections and having them stretching into the sky. The material used is very interesting and how he uses scale to make things seem larger then life. Once he puts an idea into his head he will push it and make it a piece of art.
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