Artist Lists
Fave-Five-style Artist List for Sculpture Courses
(Intended to be only a glimpse into researching related movements and genres, not at all comprehensive, rather, actually quite subjective and limited to my historical knowledge, and thus the “Fave-Five” moniker.)
Formalism/Abstract Modernism:
Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, David Smith, Isamu Noguchi
Conceptual Art:
Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Sol le Witt, Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke
Minimalism:
Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Robert Morris, Dan Flavin
Public Art:
Richard Serra, Maya Lin, Mary Miss, Anish Kapor, Claus Oldenburg
Land Art:
Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, Nancy Holt, Michael Heizer, James Turrell
Performance Art:
Marina Abramoic, Ana Mendieta, Vito Acconci, Allan Kaprow, Chris Burden
Installation Art:
Eva Hesse, Ann Hamilton, Andrea Zittel, Cai Guo-Qiang, Olafur Eliasson
Figurative Art:
Juan Munoz, Ron Mueck, Folkert De Jong, Kiki Smith, Patricia Piccinini
Additional Must-Knows:
Martin Puryear, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hurst, Gabriel Orozco, Bill Viola, Rachel Whiteread, Beth Cavener Stichter, Dinos and Jake Chapman, Los Carpinteros, Art Guys, Fred Wilson, Simparc, Alice Aycock, Wolfgang Laib, Agnes Denes, Adrian Piper, Bruce Nauman, Tom Otterness, Denis Openheim, Andrea Fraser, David Nash, Anthony Gormely, Pepon Osorio, Mathew Ritchie, Matthew Barney, Jan Fabre, Barbara Kruger, Tim Hawkinson, Do-Ho Suh, Kara Walker, Xu Bing, and many, many more.
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ReplyDeleteMike Flynn
Duchamp’s urinal was the original sin of modernism. By displaying his found object in the gallery in the same way as any other painting or sculpture he changed the idea of what art could be from that point on.
Gabriel Orozco
Manipulates or re-creates manufactured objects to create a completely new object that is an alteration of original. La DS 1998 Orozco removed the middle 1/3 from car and put it back together. Altering the vehicle’s function and appearance by only working with the original object.
Doris Salcedo
Constructs larges scale installations out of the use of multiple found objects. Her work always has and underlying political message. In 2003 she filled an abandoned space between two buildings with 1,550 chairs. The purpose was to bring attention to the many faceless immigrates that go unnoticed unless they are pointed out. The abandoned space between the buildings was never addressed or noticed until she filled it with chairs. Making the location of the found objects as important and the object itself.
Jeff Koons
Works with found or mass produced objects and adds on a new layer of information. For one of his projects he took small ceramic dollar-store tchotchkes, and employed master ceramicists from Italy to create much lager versions of them. Elevating the found object to a grand size. The finished objects were mass-produced in an industrial way commenting on societiy’s desire for consumption.
Tom Friedman
Friedman made subtle changes to his found objects that transformed them into a new object that references its past existence. Examples of this are a entire pencil sharpened leaving a long cork screw of its shavings hanging from the wall to a tiny portrait carved out of an aspirin tablet.