Ricardo's Little Blog

One of the reoccurring things that I have seen in Nauman's work are how he shows the simplicity of our everyday lives. At the "100 lives and dies",  it shows that we could do anything we want, but we are still going to experience death eventually. It basically is just saying to live everything to the fullest because one of those days, death is going to come knocking.

Cornelia Parker       Intro: Cornelia Parker is a Artist that specializes in Conceptual and Installation art. Her source of inspiration is by an artist named Marcel Duchamp. Her artwork is very controversial because the way she creates them is quite destructive. Artworks: Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991) Mass (1997) Heart of Darkness (2004) Embryo Firearms (1995) Works Cited:     “Summer 1997 International Artist-in-Residence Program.”  Artpace Gerda Steiner Jrg Lenzlinger Comments , www.artpace.org/works/iair/iair_summer_1997/mass-colder-darker-matter. http://www.artpace.org/works/iair/iair_summer_1997/mass-colder-darker-matter Tate. “The Story of Cold Dark Matter – Look Closer.” Tate, Tate, www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/parker-cold-dark-matter-an-exploded-view-t06949/story-cold-dark-matter https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/parker-cold-dark-matter-an-exploded-view-t06949/story-cold-dark-matter “Embr...

The roots of surrealism were from Europe between the times of the end of World War I and the start of World War II. During this time, artists wanted to make art that was unrestricted to the normal styles, like Dadaism. This in turn caused a new art-form which is based off of multiple styles from the Romanticism period, as well as Dadaism. Surrealist artists worked to access their unconscious minds to make their art by using what they vividly remember from their dreams and recording trans states. Surrealism drew inspiration from previous cultures from different countries which had a huge contrast to their own culture.