My understanding of Global Art is that the artwork becomes influenced with things that are happening around the world at that point in time. Artworks influenced by things like political issues or Global environmental issues.
I was looking at an article about Global Art on the internet and found this link which I thought was quite helpful.
“Global Art”
“Global Culture” is a phenomenon currently widely discussed, often meant to criticize global economy and global marketing strategies to threaten “local cultures” and change the large cultural diversity into some general superficial and uniform “McDonald” culture. On the other hand, still too often non-western
contemporary art is viewed as “ethnic” and not on equal terms as contemporary western art. We classify before we really look.
The term “Global Art” is a term I have opted to indicate artists who do not suffer from any loss of identity by globalization, but who create art which is highly idiosyncratic though simultaneously very accessible to viewers from very different places in the world. Such artists found a way to express their existence in the world as a synthesis between their individual specific cultural roots and their participation in global culture. Maybe less radical but still more exceptional in their substantial meaning.”
To do this Blog Assignment I decided to use technology as my form of communication. The sites I used were MySpace and FaceBook, which consisted of friends from overseas and also friends and family who are local. I asked them for their thoughts, views and understanding of what Global Art is. Not a lot of people replied back to my post but these are the responses I recieved from my posts.
Arun Carthelis: “There are a lot of artists around the world and their art is based related to their cultural right, basically global art brings these cultural influenced are together with Western Culture..”
Monish Nair: “I don’t really know what global art means or what it really is but i have seen a few works with peace signs, country flags and things like that on them which were kind of interesting. But as long as it’s interesting and eye catching I will like it.”
Olivia Lambarth: “I think Global art is work that is influenced by other countries or of issues going on around the world. I don’t really have an opinion on global artwork but i do find it different.”
Mehul Prakash: “Umm Global art? Art from around the world, other countries lol”
Those were the responses I got from my post.
This photograph is of the stairs I had to climb to get upto level 2 and level 3 of the Auckland Museum. I thought it was pretty cool because of the semi ‘spiral’ effect that the stairs made. I thought this was a good photograph because it was taken from a good height and I thought the view of lookin down the stairs was quite Vertigo-ish..because of the whole looking down and possible feeling a little dizzy.
I think these worked much better than the ones I first tried to make. I replaced the older ones with more recent photos I took.
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This is painting is called The Annunciation, c.1448 by “
The Last Supper is a beautiful painting by artist Leonardo da Vinci. It was made between 1495-98 and stands at a large size of 460 x 880cm. This painting is made from tempura and mixed media on plaster. I really like this painting because of the way da Vinci has used perspective in the painting. It seems that it is somehow made to draw the veiwers attetion to the center of the image where Christ is sitting. I like the way the use of persperctive has been used to really create the feeling of the room and its sort of like it brings everything in the painting together.
