Destruction

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Destruction Year 10
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ARTISTS

• Here is a series of slides which represent the
  work of a number of artists which are relevant to
  the theme of the unit, DESTRUCTION.
• You too can add to the list by researching others.

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DAMIEN HIRST
Here we see millions of cigarette remains and
cigarette packets filling an enormous
ashtray. The title,Party Time suggest something
young and lively but the images contrast and
suggest something which is destructive to health.
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Damien Hirst is famous for putting animals which
are already dead into a chemical called
formaldehyde. This chemical preserves the animal
for posterity. But why a shark?
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Marcell Duchamps
Here we see one of the art worlds most famous
pictures, The Mona Lisa, which has been destroyed
by something as simple as a moustache and beard
on her face. Graffiti perhaps?
L.H.O.O.Q 1919
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NEALE HOWELLS

• Howellss works are neither portraits or
  landscapes, rather they are pictures of the
  attitudes of our society graffiti, slogans, the
  marks which we see on the walls in the streets of
  our valleys and cities.
• His work is much more inventive that what it
  appears to be at first.

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Ray Johnston
A famous star who destroyed his own life through
drugs. During the Pop Art era, artists would
often draw or adapt pictures of contemporary
stars.
Elvis Presley 2 1955
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Ray Johnston
Here is a picture of a famous actor from the
era which has been destroyed by various symbols.
James Dean 1958
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Roy Lichtenstein Whaam! 1963 Oil on
Canvas Litchenstein uses paintings of tragic
events such as war, fighting and divorce in
American comic style. He uses strong and clear
colours without any real detail. They are simple
and effective images.
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PICASSO
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Guernica 1937
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It is said that experts have analysed this
picture in detail.Picasso painted this picture
to represent the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s.
It appears that the horse represents the
people the bull conveys the horrors of war, and
the angular shape of the faces of the people and
animals show the suffering. To add to this, the
colours too are dreary.
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Rene Magritte The Key to the Field 1933 Oil on
Canvas
Look carefully!! The glass perhaps has broken but
has the scene on the glass disappeared? Surrealism
Period
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The Discovery of Fire (Decouverte du feu)
1934-35
Rene Magritte destroying a tuba. Artists in the
Surrealism Period would play tricks and create
pictures with an element of magic or dream in
them.
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work
Rene Magritte The Labors of Alexander 1967
Bronze
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Click here to see this example of the artists
work
An Exploded View 1991 mixed media Here is a
piece of 3D work by Cornelia Parker. She took a
shed, blew it up and then put it all back
together again with wires and hung it from the
ceiling and illuminated it.
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Rebbeca Horn Concert for Anarchy
1990 Although the piano has not been destroyed
to all intents and purposes, as in the previous
piece, the fact that it is upside down means that
it cant be used and consequently it is worthless
and therefore destroyed.
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work
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work
Arnulf Rainer We see that the photograph has
been destroyed in order to cover (enshroud) the
body of this artist.
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Robert Rauschemburg
We see a variety of pictures of Marilyn Monroe
the colourful life of the actress has been
outlined and destroyed in one piece of finished
work. Perhaps it is a symbol of her life.
Click here to see this example of the artists
work
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After seeing a variety o works by artists who use
the theme of destruction in their work, it is
now your turn to show and to develop this theme
in your own style. Choose either one of the
artists which are included in the presentation
and his/her work or find an artist who
communicates the same type of message.