Thursday, February 10, 2011
Sam Durant
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose works engage a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores the varying relationships between culture and politics, engaging subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music, and modernism. His work has been widely exhibited internationally and in the United States. First two works of Sam Durant is an architecture of house or building, some kind of model. He uses simple materials to create this elaborate work. I am not sure what kind of messages of emotions he tries to express through this art work. When I was first looking at his work, I thought he would be an architect rather than an artist. The last work is "Indian female", which is made of some kind of simple material also. It looks like he duct-tapped the arms. For some reason, the indian female's one arm is amputated. His works are very different from the past three artists I explored. But, most of them used simple material to create an elaborate work. I thought every artist has a different ability to twist art into their own color by using simple art supply.
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