Challenging the Artist

Heyo world!

Today we emerged ourselves into the world of the unimaginable. First we started the day with learning about the electromagnetic fields (EMF) around us like through all different everyday objects. Listening to our surroundings gets a whole new meaning after listening to the invisible noises of an ATM, tree and human brain. The tree was the most shocking to me because of how the tree was used like an antenna for all the different radio stations in the area. This is because of the supposed moisture in the tree being a good absorbent for the noise to be absorbed and listened to. Then as we got back we learned more about the 3-D world. Physical sculpting is one thing but Digital is another whole big beast. Under me is what I created during this workshop which is supposed to represent what I use the internet for and what it means to me.

Limited by the lack of skills and some tech problems I try to go for more or an abstract idea. I thought that the internet is just another addictive problem people have, and I am very infected with this addiction as well. The internet could be beautiful like the trees on this bottle but the trash and corruption that lies under the beauty keeps this as an unhealthy addiction. The whole internet is just brainwash if you really boil it down, but there is still a kind of odd beauty to it.

Going back to the Idea of Raushenberg or the visionary Neo-Dadaist who combines paint and sculptures together to blur the lines of what is what. I wanted to look more at his works and to understand what he was doing to keep the art world questioning. A small trend of Raushenberg is that he does not title his works. This can be shown in his first art work the best where he lets the art tell itself. This trend starts the ball rolling for the rest of his works where he moves from black and white photographs into contemporary abstracts and then the really blurry sculptures that could barely be considered a sculpture or a painting. When the line becomes blurry in his 1953 work with only an arrangement of boxes.

This was another of his untitled works of just boxes in an interesting composition.This box and inverted box shows the sense of space and what is considered art is nothing but your own mind to determine.

Most of his other works are very abstract and things that most people would call “they could do with their eyes closed”, but it takes much more than just a bunch of brushstrokes to understand artists like Raushenburg. Composition, the meanings of colors, the understanding of blank spaces and what kind of object symbolism are some of the things that Raushenberg thinks of too as well as how this can challenge the minds of artists. That's why the push of Raushenberg was so important to the abstract boom of art to keep all work challenging the mind of humans.

See you all soon!