Week Two

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Lens Based Artists:

1.)  Charles McClaghy Collection

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/01/exotic-dancers-1890s/

The following two posts correspond with each other. The Charles McClaghy Collection composited photographs of exotic dancers from the 1890’s:

2.)  Charles Brasher

http://www.charlesbrasherphotography.com/new/index.html

Charles Brasher is a contemporary photographer that has a series of work dealing with modern day exotic dancers. I decided to include a contrast between exotic dancers then and now in this blog posting because female body evolution really interests me. It is really interesting to see how our standards as a society have changed over the centuries. 

3.)  Laurie Toby Edison

http://laurietobyedison.com/index.asp

Laurie Toby Edison is a contemporary photographer. She has a body of work entitled “Women En Large”. This body of work is an attempt to empower and portray the beauty of supersized women. This work really interested me because it is such a contrast of what we normally see (nudes of “ideally” beautiful” women).

Non-Lens-Based Artists:

1.)  Robin Antar

http://www.rantar.com/

Robin Antar is a sculptor that likes the art of “creating visual records of contemporary culture”. Antar says: “it’s more than art imitating life, it’s art mirroring life” (http://www.popinternational.com/robin-antar-biography.html). Antar mostly sculpts with marble, travertine and alabaster. The goal of her work is to freeze the object in time as an artistic form of artifact. This relates to the work I plan to produce because Antar is putting food on a pedestal and glamorizing it; she makes the food physically bigger than it actually is.

2.)  Prudence Staite

http://www.foodisart.co.uk/FOOD_IS_ART/HOME.html

Prudence Staite sculpts with chocolate and food to make edible art. Staite says: “art should be interactive and stimulate all the senses, especially taste!” Staite started off uncertain about whether she wanted to be a chef or an artist. But she then decided to get an art degree and fuse the two together. Staite really wants her viewers to interact with her artwork. Her work relates to what I am interested in because she involves her audience in her art with multiple senses. This helps her viewers walk away with an unforgettable experience. 

3.)  Zim and Zou “ The Future of Food”.

http://www.zimandzou.fr/70282/466713/gallery/the-future-of-food

Zim and Zou focus on paper art. Their series of work called “The Future of Food” relates mostly to what I would like to do for this project because it involves making food out of paper. My favorite thing about this work is the irony involved; the colors that are used to make the hamburger are not the colors of a typical hamburger. This serves as an underlying ironic critique of the food industry.