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Unit 4 art

4.1. Reading

Ex.1. Answer questions 1-18 by referring to the magazine article in which modern-day artists talk about their work. Match the statements with the list of artists A-F. One mark is given for each correct answer.

Which artist says

he trained initially in an unrelated field. 1 …

he has been an influential figure within the world of art. 2 …

an artist’s life is more demanding than he had expected. 3 …

he does not want his works displayed in the conventional way. 4 …5 …

he wishes to appeal to a wide variety of people. 6 …

he feels that different art forms have become much less

distinct from each other. 7… 8 …

he combines artistic images which would normally seem

incompatible. 9 …

he learned his craft in a very flexible environment. 10 …

that practical experience is more important than formal training. 11 …

he has had problems in forging an identity for himself in

the art world. 12 … 13 …

he takes his inspiration from seeing new places. 14 …

new works of art are not always original as everyone imagines. 15 …

that he is very concerned with the message his works convey. 16 … 17 … 18 …

CONVERSATIONS WITH ARTISTS

A Tom Bedwyn

A lot of artists limit themselves to business as usual. I’m not sure I have a regular style. I’m often told that my work incorporates a lot of decorations – if so, that’s not conscious, as I always like to start from zero with my paintings, to create something completely different. But I do have to work within certain limits, and the most important of those is that we live in the age of reproduction. All sorts of people know my art from magazines, catalogues or TV. That’s all right with me because I don’t want them to go to a gallery. But one of the consequences is that I want to create works that have nearly as strong an impact in a photograph or a video as in real life. You see, I want my work to have street credibility, to speak directly to people, so that it doesn’t need the help of the white boxes – the museums or galleries – to be appreciated.

B Alan Frances

The greatest influence on my way of thinking as a painter came when I took part in a famous exhibition called ‘Freeze’ when I was a student at college. That college was a dream for creative people; it was the only place in the art world that didn’t stipulate which medium we had to work in. All the other schools divided you into categories, such as sculpture and painting. Art practice isn’t confined by these old barriers and techniques any more. I don’t think “Freeze’ was ground-breaking in terms of the actual work, but there was a massive energy around it. We weren’t trying to attract the attention of the galleries – it was more a case of ‘we don’t need them, we can do it anyway’.

C Marcus O’Connor

I didn’t actually study art at college: I qualified in electronics: I qualified at an evening class. I never enjoyed school, nor work, which I have always tried to avoid, without success. In fact, I found my path in art a bit late – only eight years ago. For me, art is just a joke like any other that can be learned while you do it. When I was small, I always thought I wouldn’t want to do any work, and that art should be like that. But now I’m really working. I don’t have a minute, what with galleries, gallery owners and interviews in different places. I consider the geography of towns as a kind of library which you use for your own needs; you go where you think you can feel good for a while. I go around different towns so as to meet new people, breathe new air and get new ideas.

D Jan Pillin

I’m very flexible – I paint, create logos, design furniture and products and write comics; but if pushed, I always say that I draw. Illustrators and cartoonists are the only ones who have accepted me: ‘What are you doing? You’re not a graphic designer, are you a painter?’ the painters say: “Why don’t you design furniture? Your furniture is really nice.” And the furniture designers say: “You should be doing comic books, that’s your business.” I think my drawings are awful, but I have to say other artists have used my work to develop their own. Mind you, they haven’t copied any more than I have. I’ll keep on copying, allowing myself to be influenced by thousands of authors and images. It’s very positive when you‘re creating things. You can never start from square one.

E Henric Bader

My work is all about building art into daily life. I would have a much more comfortable life if I was ‘fine art’ artist; sitting in a studio in the countryside. But I wanted to be involved in building in the city; I wanted to contribute to daily life, with all its idiosyncrasies and difficulties. You see, I had a more practical education than most, learning building construction at technical high school, and went on to study art and architecture in Vienna in an environment of artists, stage designers, painters and sculptors, I was constantly moving between the fine arts and architecture – today you call it ‘crossover’, and actually the demarcation is now less rigid. I’ve worked for the advertising industry, for example, superimposing advertising images onto photographs of buildings. Indeed, in whatever I do I introduce a foreign element into a given situation, and, by transformation of scale and meaning, it makes another, very clear statement. I need to make sure that it’s a statement which is getting through to people.

F Billy Matuka

I’m always told I favour writing in my art, rather than images. In any painting there is something which says: ‘Look at me, please’. So I said to myself: ‘Instead of painting the painting, I’m going to write ‘Look at me, please.’ The painting is only a pretext to say something, so I might as well say it simply, with words on the painting. Also, I wanted to establish my own territory, after an initial period of not really knowing where I was going. Writing went well with desire to tell the truth. It’s been said that art is a lie, but you have to find the truth somewhere.’

Ex. 2. Read the magazine article about Mara Amats then choose the best explanation (A, B or C) for these words or phrases (1-10) according to how they are used in the article. One mark for each correct answer.

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