Patrick-Exam

__**Patrick Exam**__

=Judy Pfaff- 1946-Present = //"Most artwork comes out of someplace you can just tap into, and make that so obvious. And then other people can look at it and say, 'I know that place too, that craving.'" //-Judy Pfaff  ====Judy Pfaff was born in 1946 in London, England and later moved to the United States. She never knew her father and experienced a lot of loss in her life by losing her friends, her mother and the teacher that inspired her to create art in the beginning. Because of those losses, her artwork was driven by loss and desire. Although she started out painting, her work later evolved into installation pieces with unique media choices, such as tree roots, metal, wire and light. Her artwork fits in well with 21st century art because she uses uses unconventional media and modernizes it so it will be appealing to these times. I believe she is very similar to Claude Monet because like Monet, Pfaff continuously redoes the same subject to further demonstrate the ways that the media could be portrayed. I found her very interesting because she focuses on almost the same subject as it did for my concentration in AP Art. Also, her piece "Buckets of Rain" (seen below, left) was very inspiring to me because of how she connected loss and desire with nature and the way she used the roots to create a twisted and messed up piece without it being too obvious to the audience. ====



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=Beryl Korot- 1945-Present = //"The more intimate you are with the tools that you get, the more //// can tell your story." // -Beryl Korot ====Beryl Korot was born on September 17th, 1945 in New York. Korot is a early video art pioneer and creates video installation pieces to be viewed by the public. Her technology media choices include iMovie, television and video monitors; and digital video. She also includes some of her own paintings in her photos and uses typography in several of her video installations. Her artwork is very 21st century because she was one of the first artists to ever use video as their choice of media for most of their work. She relates a lot to Caravaggio because as Caravaggio was the "Father" of Chiaroscuro ("light and dark"), Korot is considered the "Mother" of video-art. I find her an interesting artist because she not only brought a new form of media for the art world alive, but uses her art to tell a story that has either a lot of meaning to her or to society in general. ====

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=Janine Antoni- 1964-Present = //"Performance wasn't something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities— bathing, eating, etc." //  -Janine Antoni ====Janine Antoni was born on January 19th, 1964 in Freeport, Bahamas. Antoni switches between performing arts and sculpture and often uses her own body in her artwork and to create it too. She also takes everyday activities, such as eating, sleeping and bathing and uses it in her artwork. Some of her media choices have include using her own hair as a paintbrush (seen below), a tub of lard, chocolate, rope, everyday objects such as spoons and random fabric. These media choices are a part of 21st century art because they are objects that are new and are used in ways that most would not think of using them, such as using Antoni's own hair as a paintbrush. Her artwork is very similar to the work that the cavemen created because they used very unconventional media, such as spit and blood to create their artwork. They also used parts of their bodies, like their hands and feet to help create the work they did, just like Janine Antoni. The reason I chose her as one of my artists is because she uses herself in her artwork and to create it, which makes it extremely personal. I have always made my artwork personal so to know there is another artist the same was is a great feeling. ==== 

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