What is art?
For me, art is a form of expressing oneself through
different mediums (digital, manual, through paintings etc.). Art is a very
relative term and each person has a different perspective when it comes to
defining the term "art" itself. To one person, art may be just random
splashes of paint or squiggles of lines made into a masterpiece, but to a lay
man, they will just remain random splashes and squiggles.
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger is an American conceptual artist. She is a
feminist and uses the techniques of mass communication and advertising to
explore gender and identity. Black and white pictures with a bold red caption
is her signature style. Although a lot of her pictures do not have much to do
with the caption, nor are they visually spectacular, they are inspirational.
This is one of Barbara's works which I particularly liked.
It quotes "This masterpiece is just a part we portray". What she
tries to put across is that pictures only capture a few seconds of your life
and there's always a flip-side to the story.
In the second picture, Barbara being a feminist believes
that gender is irrelevant. Living in today's society, we fight for the equality
of man and woman. Of course, men are assumed to be the ones physically
stronger, but anything and everything a man can do; a woman can do too.
Barbara's art is very bold and the contrast of colors
help her put across her point and hence is an important artist of today's day
and age.
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic is a Serbian performance artist based in
New York. The key of her performances are the involvement of the audience in
her act.
I honestly felt that her performances were rather drastic
and depressing. As she had a depressing childhood, the feelings and emotions
she repressed at that young age has turned her into the person that she is
today and is incorporated in her work.
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