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Mathew Barney was born in 1967 He was first introduced to art when he was in high school as he would visit his mother in New York and was exposed to art via the museums there. After graduating from Yale in 1991, Barney entered the art world and became an instant success being best known as the producer and creator of the “Cremaster” films. His films generally feature himself in myriad roles along with other diverse characters. According to Barney’s father, “He just goes out and does things. I don’t know what it is; he doesn’t seem to have some of the fears that the rest of us do. He just seems to go straight at it and find a way to do it.” Barney’s work is very “21st century” as he mainly focuses on video art that uses new technology and tools. An example of this is in “Cremaster 3,” where he uses spandex costumes to display dead, decaying horses. Barney also makes use of prosthetic, torn-up lips and other types of physical alterations. //Matthew Barney is often the feature of his own works, and these creations above looks as thought they could be from the classical era as marble sculptures, but the 21st century art inspires him to use really people and flowers rather than sculpting them. His "sculptures" look very similar to those of Michelangelo. The white paint he utilized make the people appear to be of carrara// //marble, and the body stance is strong but not rigid. For Barney, this body stance came naturally because of his use of actual people, but Michelangelo's David has a similar body and muscular definition. The background however is not a scene but rather a string of flowers. These flowers look similar to the ones painted by Claude Monety, but they have structure and the vines create almost a pattern while Monet painted the random distribution of the flowers with no particular order.//
 * Matthew Barney**

I chose Matthew because I enjoy when artist use themselves in their own works, because that often means they are aware of their flaws and unique qualities or they simply love to paint themselves (Rembrandt!) also, the use of real people in art is something that is very intriguing, for many years people have been trying to reinterpret and recreate the human body, but why not just use the body itself! I like his idea of "human statues" and it's influence may spark a new piece of choreography involving dancers as human statues, perhaps from a famous painting from Degas.

[|http://www.cremaster.net/#]

Barney's "trailer" for Cremaster 1 @http://www.cremaster.net/cc_trailer/cc_trail4.htm

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Ellen Gallagher was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1965. She was exposed to art through museums at a young age. She attended Oberlin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She began by altering popular magazines like, “Ebony,” “Our World,” and “Sepia.” Gallagher was drawn to the wig advertisements because of how they were structured. This grid-like structure appealed to her along with the accompanying language, which she later used as “narratives.” Gallagher’s work appears abstract and minimal at first glance, but upon closer inspection, googly eyes, reconfigured wigs, tongues, and lips of minstrel caricatures multiply in detail. Her work is considered “21st century” art because it utilizes new techniques. In Gallagher’s “Water Ecstatic,” she used her own version of scrimshaw. She carved images into thick watercolor paper, from which sea creatures emerged from an underwater Black Atlantis (Drexciya), and then drew and painted over it. She uses films to display her grids of pictures with unique transitions where one frame erases the frame before it.
 * Ellen Gallagher**

//Ellen Gallagher's style almost emulates the idea of popart, she takes everyday ads or pages from a magazine and gives the audience a new view of what they normally see. Her art is based off of common day items (like a soup can by Andy Warhol, or in her case an add in a magazine) and she transforms them to something new. What makes her so "21st century" is because rather than re-painting or silk-screening the common item like in pop-art era, she ads to the common item itself, gives it dimension and texture. Gallagher changes an item rather than create a new version of one.//

Ellen's style is very "gradeschool" with and edgy twist, which really appeared to me. Her add-ons to common advertisements reminded me of when kids used to draw mustaches on peoples school pictures or write little though bubbles on movie posters. I also like how she creates such texture with her art, and she uses only one or two colors in her works so the true texture and original ad really stand out. Her artwork can be turned into a fun hobby with old magazines, taking what is old or common and adding texture and color to it can be applied to anything, a lampshade, an old jacket, a bathroom wall!

[|http://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/7/ellen-gallagher/biography/#top]

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Elizabeth Murray was born in 1940 and earned a BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. She also earned a MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. Her paintings are abstract compositions that make use of bold colors and multiple layers of paint. The details, however, display fascinations with dream states and the psychological underbelly of domestic life. Her paintings often include images of cups, drawers, utensils, chairs, and tables. Murray describes painting as, “Really physical; you’re squeezing the paint out of the tube, which is fun. You’re mixing up the paint. It’s making something happen with a very sort of fluid material that is constantly somewhat out of control; harnessing it, harnessing the energy of the paint.” Murray’s painting is “21st century” art because she uses distinctively shaped canvases, which breaks with the art-historical tradition of illusionistic space in two-dimensions. Her art juts out from the wall, almost sculptural in form.
 * Elizabeth Murray**

//Murray's abstract interpretation of common things really compare to Picasso's portrait style, in both of their works you can see what object they are portraying but it is skewed and altered. They both utilize many different shapes to make up one object rather than realistically drawing the object. Murray tends to use brighter colors and abstract shaped canvases while Picasso stuck to the original square canvas with more mute colors.//

At first glance, Murray's pieces appear fun and almost as if they should be on Nickelodeon or hanging up in a kids craft room, but when you hear her inspiration and look closer, you see the depth behind her paintings. I chose Elizabeth Murray because she broke the idea of using a traditional canvas and let her objects flow and come together into a masterpiece. The bright colors and interesting shapes catch your eye and the depth of the abstract images hold it. Her art is similar to my many notebook sketches and doodles, the idea of an odd shaped canvas really sparked my interest, I may even make a Murray-like painting for my own room with abstract objects and bright colors.

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