2-Cont Art London YBAs

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Good Morning Wednesday June 29th 2011

Assignment 1 Due (Tate Modern Object Analysis)

Extreme Visual Journal Check

Today: The British Art Scene: The Makers

Reading: Julian Stallabrass, “Famous for being Famous”

What have we learned so far?

1970s Pluralism

The Dematerialization of Art

Formalism

Formalism is associated with

Modern Art

Art for Art’s Sake

Mark Rothko, 1950s

Post Modernism

Expanded Art

The British Art Scene:The Makers

The YBAs (Young British Artists)

YBAs (Young British Artists)

Damien Hirst Gary Hume Tracey Emin Gavin Turk

Young British Artists or YBA (also referred to as Brit artists and Britart) is the name given to a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit

together in London, in 1988

The Saatchi Gallery

The Saatchi Gallery was opened to the public in February 1985, to exhibit the art Saatchi had collected

(Field Trip Tuesday July 5th )

Julian Stallabrass Senior Lecturer in Art

History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

"As the art market revived [in the early- to mid- 1990s] and success beckoned, the new art became more evidently two-faced, looking still to the mass media and a broad audience but also to the particular concerns of the narrow world of art-buyers and dealers. To please both was not an easy task. Could the artists face both ways at once, and take both sets of viewers seriously? That split in attention, I shall argue, led to a wide public being successfully courted but not seriously addressed. It has left a large audience for high art lite intrigued but unsatisfied, puzzled at the work's meaning and wanting explanations that are never vouchsafed: the aim of this book is to suggest the direction some of those answers might take and to do so in a style that is as accessible as the art it examines.”

Julian Stallabrass, High Art Lite

Damien Hirst b. 1965

born in Bristol (Southwest England)

studied at Goldsmiths College

Freeze, 1989

awarded the Turner Prize in 1995

In and Out of Love (detail)

1991installation

first solo show

Damien Hirst b. 1965In and Out of Love (detail)

1991installation

In and Out of Love (detail), 1991, installation

Mother and Child, Divided, 1995 Tur

Mother and Child,

Divided,1995

‘I am aware of mental contradictions in everything, like: I am going to die and I want to live for ever. I can’t escape the fact and I can’t let go of the desire’.

Mother and Child, Divided,1995

It is considered the iconic work of British art in the 1990s and has become a

symbol of Britart

worldwide

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1992, Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5%

formaldehyde solution, 213 cm × 518 cm (84 in × 204 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

"Mr. Hirst often aims to fry the mind (and misses more than he hits), but he does so by setting up direct, often visceral experiences, of which the shark remains the most outstanding. In keeping with the piece’s title, the shark is simultaneously life and death incarnate in a way you don’t quite grasp until you see it, suspended and silent, in its tank. It gives the innately demonic urge to live a demonic, deathlike form.

Damien Hirst: Away from the Flock, 1994

Damien Hirst, Some Comfort Gained from the Acceptance of the Inherent Lies in Everything , glass, steel, formaldehyde, 2 cows (78 x 35 x 12

in) x 12 tanks

"I want to make

people feel like

burgers,”

I Want You Because I Can’t Have You, 1992

His Pharmacy

auction sold 168

lots through

Sotheby's, raising

$20,063,528 in 2004 Pharmacy (1992)

Flumequine (2007)

Beautiful Helios Hysteria Intense Painting (with

Extra Inner Beauty), 2008Household gloss on

canvas. 45.7cm round

The Last Supper (1999)

A Thousand Years, 1990

A Thousand Years by Damien Hirst, 1990, at the Saatchi Gallery.

In 2006 he exhibited

alongside the work of Francis

Bacon (Triptychs) at the Gagosian

Gallery, Britannia

Street, London

Francis Bacon 1909-1992

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, 1944. Oil and pastel on Sundeala board. Tate Britain, London

Head VI, 1949. Oil on canvas, 932 x 765 mm. Arts Council Collection,

Southbank Centre, London

"Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef”,

Francis Bacon

1909-1992

Three Studies for a Portrait of George Dyer 1963oil on canvas

355 x 305 mm

The Tranquility of Solitude (For George Dyer), 2006

For the Love of God (2007)

encrusted with 8,601 diamonds, 1,106.18

carats

Worth $100 million

Vanitas also called Momento Mori =

a reminder of death

Vanitas = vanitydesigned to invoke a higher order of thought

Day of the Dead

Audrey Flack,

Invocation, 1982,

o/c, 24” x 36”

Gary Hume b.1962

Stop 1991 Oil on panel 218.4 x 536 cm

Gary Hume b.1962

Michael, 2001, Courtesy White Cube, London

Gary Hume b.1962

Love Loves Unlovable 1994 Oil on panel 216 x 366 cm

Gary Hume b.1962

Vicious 1994 Gloss paint on panel 218 x 181 cm

86 x 71"

Gary Hume b.1962

Tony Blackburn 1994 gloss paint on panel 194 x 137 cm

Gary Hume b.1962

Jealousy and Passion 1993 Gloss paint, pencil, cardboard on panel

201 x 133 cm 79 x 52"

Gary Hume b.1962

Tracey Emin b. 1963

Born in Croydon (South London)

studied fashion

In 1984 she studied printing

Won the Turner Prize in 1999

Tracey Emin b. 1963

My Major Retrospective, 1963-1993

Hotel International (1993)

Tracey Emin b. 1963

Everyone I Have Ever

Slept With 1963-1995

(1995) since

destroyed

Tracey Emin b. 1963

Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, (1995)

Tracey Emin b. 1963

My Bed , 1999

Tracey Emin b. 1963

Tracey Emin b.

Tracey Emin b. 1963

Love is What You Want

Retrospective

over 200 works represented

Field Trip Tuesday July 12th

Gavin Turk b. 1967

born in Guilford, Surrey (Southeast England)

Attended the Royal College of Art

God Save Che Guevara, 2005. Silkscreen on canvas

Orange Fright Wig

Sid Vicious, 2000C-print, mounted on aluminium.. (72 x 30 in.)

Gavin Turk b. 1967

Sid Vicious, 2000C-print, mounted on aluminium.

182.9 x 76.2 cm. (72 x 30 in.) Signed, dated and numbered on

reverse of the mount. This work is from an edition of 10.

Gavin Turk b. 1967

God Save Che Guevara,

2005. Silkscreen on

canvas

Gavin Turk b. 1967

Robert Indiana

Gavin Turk b. 1967

For Monday: The Movers and

Shakers

Friday July 1, Southbank CentreGilbert and George

• Visual Journal Check

• Reading: Richard Shone, “From Freeze to House”

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