From several weeks ago...

Here are some images of my progress in my journal from several weeks ago.

The picture on the left is the first page in my artist book and is a depiction of my childhood. It corresponds with the last page of my book which is me now and follows a similar layout to this page, with the same subject matter included. The colours in this piece are contrasting; the yellow highlighting happiness and joy (from a distance, thus distance from the dress) but darker more sinister colours, the blue, are apparent closer to the dress. The red is in the form of a heart, a common symbol throughout my artist book.

This picture is another page in its previous state (it now has been built up over the photograph). Unlike other people in my class I did not do each page to represent a different part of me (ie. fears, hopes, dreams, love, family, etc), instead I chose to have each page as a representation of how I believe I am viewed by other people (ie. the family page, friends page, myself page, etc). This page is a sort of 'outsiders' page. I come into contact with a lot of people that I see every now and then, that I am not close to. You wouldn't call them friends but you wouldn't call them strangers, and this is the page depicting the portrayal of me that they would see. It's a bit hidden, but fairly easy to get through to the first layer. I chose a photo of me that had brighter colours because people who don't know me very well only see a very bright, bouncy side of myself. The words on the door are the words I hide behind, because I often use language to talk myself up or down in front of people, and I conceal things behind text.

This was my dolls' house figure, (it has since been updated and changed slightly) but this was it in its half-completed form. It, like myself, looks very open and pretty and nice on the outside, Sonya said it looked "comfortable" and like it was "the kind of place you would feel at home". This was the idea. That's the mask that I hide behind generally, that it's all very pleasant and happy and comfortable on the outside. Underneath the stairs (which open out) it is darker and this is where my book "lives". In this context my book is like my heart, the essence of my being. Though the outside of the house is bright and nice-looking, there are some almost disturbing figures that are placed on it, for example the shadows on the walls. One of these is a woman, and she is the ghost, the shadow of, the reflection of the woman who lived in the house. Down below there is a wolf, a dark and misunderstood animal who is howling up to her. This can be interpreted as you wish.

My Cover

The cover of my book is using the two symbols of hand and time, with the hand passing out time like giving it away; like it's free.

But it is lost a little bit.


That's pretty much all I have planned.

MY ARTIST BOOK

My artist book incorporates four main symbols;

Hands; the hand can be a symbol of many things - power, strength, relationships. The way I have used it to is to symbolise all these things but also the act of reaching out.

Clocks; clocks can symbolise the passing of time, the loss of time and loss in general.

Books; books symbolise wisdom and intelligence, along with a thirst for knowledge and education.

Heart; the heart is a symbol of love and compassion.

the main colours I am using are reds, blues, pinks and yellows, but the colours alone are not what create the message. It is the contrast of the colours in different parts. On the outside of the house the colours are yellows and pinks and warmer colours; more inviting colours, but behind the stairs in the private areas the colours are darker and less inviting.

A lot of the pages in my book use repetition. Two of the pages have the images of a locket (something used to symbolise love and care) however the image in the locket goes from two people to one person and the colours change from happy warm colours to darker, cooler colours. the first page and the last page also mirror each other to help tell a story; the first page has a child's dress that is very similar to the last page which has a grown-up person's dress. It is used to say that despite all the things in the middle that have helped shape and change the artist there are still many similarities.

other symbols have been used to portray different meanings; keys have been used to show that something is locked away, a cat for feminimity and mystery. a chair means relaxation and rest but can also symbolise other things; the electric chair is a symbol of horror and misdeamenor and an elegant chair symbolises grace and social status. My chair is simply a chair that people can come by and lean on and it won't say anything against it.

I am using splashes of red amongst warmer, more pastel colours to show the splashes of emotion amongst the otherwise more hidden emotional side.

Shoes symbolise a path that somebody walks on; the changes in their path and the different ways a path can be portrayed. In the last page (that compliments the first page of my book) there is a pair of shoes to go with the dress to symbolise that the path has begun to be walked. there are other shoes scattered around the house to symbolise pathways.

there is a fence around the house which will incorporate sticks and leaves which symbolises what is left of enlightenment. But trees, and their counterparts, can be very strong and protective as well. The back of the house is going to incorporate symbols like glass and possibly bubble wrap but all that is under debate in my head right now.



Page 1 - Colours - yellow, blue and green
Symbols - clothing, heart

The outside colours radiating from the small dress are yellows which is meant to symbolise that the further other things are from the dress, the happier it is. The colours darken and become blues and blacks and greens closer to the dress to symbolise that the closer you are the darker and more intense it gets, the heart is to symbolise compassion and love and the small dress it so symbolise being a child.

Page 2 - colours - yellow red, black, white
Symbols - girl, heart

The silhouette stands out amongst everything else in the image (all the colour) to symbolise being a bit of an outcast. The body potiion of the person still appears giving and happy with her hands outstretched. There are hearts and love radiating from the girl but the heart on her chest is broken.

Page 3 - colours - white, red, pink, yellow
Symbols - locket, hands, photograph

The two people in the picture are in a locket, a bind of love and whatnot. THere are two hands holding symbolising closeness. The colours are bright and colourful and pretty. they are warm and lovely.

Page 4 - colours - blues, blacks,
Symbols- hands, locket, image

this page does not mean much by itself but it is to compliment the page before it with my parents in the photo. Instead the locket is torn in half and has an image of a child. The hands are no longer touching and they are stripped of flesh. THere are leaves to symbolise mother nature and a feminimity because I never really saw my dad, only my mum and the leaves are supposed to symbolise her.

Page 5 - colours - pink,
symbols - book pages, a door, photograph

The doors open up to a girl showing that sometimes it is harder than just looking straight at something to actually see it; you have to go out of the way to find out more. the door is covered in text to portray hiding behind words and text. The pink edging is the childlike colours and aesthetic that frames the girl.

Page 6 - INCOMPLETE, STILL UNDER DEBATE.

page 7 - colours, white, black, brown and blue
symbols - hand, pawprint

I am very close to my dog and this page is symbolising the closeness between us. Our prints are united in space and this symbolises that we see the same person; like others might see some smaller aspects of me but we still see the same one. the colours are starkly different, symbolising a huge difference (in species, etc) but they are still together.

Page 8 - colours - same as 1
symbols - same as 1, except with a pair of shoes.

This is just a more grown up version of the first page but with a pair of shoes added - to symbolise a journey.

Artist Books

What is an artist book?

An artist book is a work of art idealised in a book; usually representative of the artist in question. It used to "define" and "summarise" the one creating the blog.

A (brief) discussion of symbolism

Symbols are things associated with other things that are used to take the place of them.
Symbols are used in art and we are using them to create our book of jewels.

So I've been trying to think of symbols that kind of sum me up for my book.
I should also point out that I have recently been re-reading my book collection of favourite books which includes both Alice in Wonderland and The Catcher in the Rye.
P.S. Both mega symbolic books.

Alice uses symbol EVERYWHERE - in fact here is an excerpt from my English blog that demonstrates C.S. Lewis' use of symbol and metaphor.

Chapter Five: Advice from the Caterpillar
Summary: Alice asks the caterpillar how she can get bigger but it does not answer her and instead makes her recite a poem which she does incorrectly. She has difficulties explaining who she is. The caterpillar then tells her to take some mushroom to change size. She shrinks and then she grows. She shoots through the trees and sees a pigeon who accuses her of being a serpent. She then returns to her normal height.
Characters: Alice, the Blue Caterpillar, the Pigeon.
Figurative language: The caterpillar continually questions Alice on her identity which she cannot confirm, proving to an identity crisis, another typical characteristic of a teenager. She recites a poem for the caterpillar, though incorrectly, suggesting she is having trouble being herself, as we assume she could once recite this poem correctly. She is told to take some mushroom. A mushroom in the presence of man can symbolise carefully disguised identities or ones true identity. So we assume that this time, instead of taking a bite from her childhood, Alice is eating from who she really is. I don’t think she is eating away at who she really is, but immersing her palette in this new person. It comes as a surprise to me that this time Alice is not eating a childish or tasty food, like a cake, but a mushroom, showing her developed an acquired tastes. But upon eating the mushroom she continues to shrink and grow, so she is not grown up yet. She shoots through the trees and sees a pigeon which symbolises love and security of home and fertility. I think that this means that although she left the comfort and protection of the White Rabbit’s home she is still finding that security around her. The pigeon however mistakes her in a similar way to the White Rabbit and believes she is a serpent. Serpents and snakes can represent many different things, from repressed sexual energy to renewal and rebirth to anger and vengefulness. In this case I think that she is being mistaken as a source of repressed sexual energy or somebody who is in need of rebirth and renewal. It is funny that a creature that represents fertility is commenting on repressed sexual feeling or fertile springtime rebirth. It is at this point Alice finally returns to her normal height.

Symbolism is everywhere. In Catcher, instead of saying over and over "Holden Caufield is having trouble being a grown up and every time he is in the presence of somebody who is older and more powerful than him he begins to feel horrible and puts on a red hunting cap that makes him feel safe because it is the same colour as his dead brothers' hair" it uses symbolism. The red hunting cap - a symbol of security that comes with the relationship he had with his brother. The fact he constantly puts it on and takes it off - a symbol depicting WHEN he is comfortable/uncomfortable etc.

It's in songs.
QUEEN - BICYCLE

Instead of saying "wow, you guys are all totally desperate to go with the new technology and fit in with the television-loving crowd and be awesome I'm going to hang out over here and stick to the stuff I love" Freddy Mercury says "I want to ride my bike. Yeah, there's going to be a race. Whatever. Get ready. Nice. You say this, I'm gonna say something different just because I can, and while I do I'm going to ride my bike." (NOT ACTUAL LYRICS) But that's what he's getting at.

He's saying he wants to chill out and ride a bike because it's much easier to say that than saying he wants to do something a little bit different to everyone else.
It's the same in Catcher. Holden Caufield is telling a really sad story ON A SYMBOLIC LEVEL (all the kid wants to do is talk, I mean, come on) but instead of having to go through the pain and the confrontation of saying all these things, it will tell you symbolically.

It's the same thing in the LBJ.
It's hard work to sit yourself down and draw out every happy and painful moment in your life from start to finish, but by eluding to it using symbol and visual language, it's easier.

P.S. The brief was sarcasm; something very different to symbolism.

The Etching Exhibition (again)

Hi Ms Hampton,
I couldn't log on to the etching exhibition thing at arti, and I don't know if I'm the only one with that problem ... but I'd be happy to do the Media Publicity Team / Invitation / Catalogue design.

I changed my font colour.

I don't think I've ever written in colour before but today I feel like writing in pink.

It's more of a salmon colour,

The Super Dooper Etching Gallery

So the Super Dooper Etching Gallery Opening Thing is going to take place in about 2 months, minus 1 day because today is the eighth and it takes place in the seventh (or so I believe), minus another day because all the "good" months contain 31 days and June only contains 30 and there you have the opening of the Super Dooper Etching Gallery Opening thing.

Reading that over it probably would have made more sense to say that it was on August 7th initially, instead of delving into more complicated methods of finding out when exactly it was.

ANYWAY
I am excited about it.
Albiet my etching is slightly less fabulous than anticipated, I have a nice little crab taking over the city that will be on display.

I vote yes to Ms Hamptons plan to have a wiki about the day because that would be slightly (or an excess of slightlies) awesome. I think that the teachers should have to dress up a little bit, too. I'm sure Mr Newton seems like the kind of teacher who would get in on the surrealist scene.

Apart from that I think most of the plans are fairly well covered and I don't have very much contructive input in which to offer, however I think it would be TOTALLY awesome to be one of the people who sketches on the wall of the shadows. It would turn out so well. Except I lack the ability to draw effectively with charcoal, unlike pastels which I love and can usually work fairly well with.

My mum's good at charcoal.
I told her about the gallery opening thing and she thought it sounded fun. I would like to dress up.
Cathy, Nash and I made a list of all the awesome things you could dress up as but there was a lot and I'm sure you'll find it when you mark her Visual Diary, if you haven't already and seen the list of things you could dress up as.

I have several ideas about what I would like to dress up as and, at this point, I don't know which direction to go in so I'll just let it mull over the holidays until I think of something surreal and awesome and amazing and then I probably will postpone making said costume until the day before, meaning that the final result wil be much less awesome and amazing and surreal than afore anticipated.

Today is Sunday.

This Sunday is the equivalent of a Saturday though because there is no school tomorrow.
Yay, no school!
Not that I dislike school because I like school but it's nice to have a day off sometimes.

I think I might go to Infinity.

HEY!
Infinity is pretty surreal.
Especially that room where all the hands like touch you as you walk through (though admittedly, saying this implies that you have been to infinity, which you may not have but IT IS AWESOME AND YOU SHOULD GO!).

Well, that's all I have to say on the subject at the moment.

And I would be happy to be on the organising commitee for the Super Dooper Etching Gallery Opening Thing.

Goodnight Ms Hampton.

Hi Ms Hampton

Good evening Ms Hampton,
(well, it's evening when I'm writing this)
I'd just like to share with you that tomorrow is Thursday and on Friday guess what we have due?

You guessed it!


I think I've done most of the work.

But here are some examples of marks that we have made in our etchings...


Directional line
Scrippling (is that what it's called?)
Cross-hatching
Hatching
Controlled scribbling (I have to say that this is my favourite)

And even though these terms aren't artistic in any way I feel the need to mention the difference between short and long lines because I've realised they can make SUCH a difference in the detail of the piece.

Also, organic and geometric line.
In my piece I used mostly organic lines (because most of my piece is trees) and they were controlled scribbling but I also used a fair bit of geometric lines on the buildings.


I think I have this in my book or on my laptop somewhere to stick into my book but I'll evaluate my first etching test here also in case I can't find it (this happens a fair bit, can you imagine?)

I really like the foxes face and ears because I used lots of small fine strokes to create this and if you look closely you can see the detail. ALthough I like the darker print more, you can see this more clearly in the lighter print (the second on in the centre of the page).
I crosshatched at the bottom where the rock is and, to be frank, it just looks messy, so I made a point not to do that in my latest etching. Although in the background I didn't make all the lines (because there were about 23945345789 of them) I think I made good use of getting the texture and the form of the trees and the shubbery using directional line and controlled scribbling. The colour changes in the water are easily spotted because of the density of the lines and I think you can really easily differentiate between the colours in the water.

We looked at a Petrina Hicks artwork in class and studied it.

I found this interview with Petrina Hicks:

“I like photographic images that are beautiful to look at and ones that are genuine and truthful in their approach, and ones that evoke some kind of emotional response.”
INTERVIEW by Jason Lingard
1. Where are you from? Sydney.

2. How did you get into photography?I picked it up as an elective when I was doing a Communications degree at University, then got hooked.

3. What do you feel makes a good picture? I like photographic images that are beautiful to look at and ones that are genuine and truthful in their approach, and ones that evoke some kind of emotional response.

4. Your portraits are simple in subject matter, but you manage to draw something extra from the subject. What aspects do you consider when planning a portrait?I take portraits of children or teenagers whom I find inspiring in some way, it's usually something about their appearance that inspires me. I try to use the medium of 'portrait photography' to explore certain ideas and feelings, so the primary goal of my portraits is not the traditional sense of portrait photography where you are trying to reveal the persons essence or identity. Sometimes the persons identity is secondary to the ideas I'm trying to explore.

5. The old saying goes "Never work with children or animals" How do you find working with both?It's fine, I love working with children, however you do need to have patience, because it can take some time to get what you are after, and sometimes it just doesn't work. It usually works when I'm photographing a child who has an intuitive understanding of what I'm trying to achieve. As for animals... that is hard work!! They are tricky to direct.

6. A certain surreal value is added to your images through digital manipulation. Tell us about this process and how it influences and effects the way you work.Most of my portraits are digitally manipulated in some way. I shoot on film, then end up completing the images in Photoshop. I try to create a tension between perfect and imperfect imagery, so sometimes I will photograph teenagers whom have physical flaws or disabilities of some form, yet at the same time I will use Photoshop to make the image appear 'perfect' and airbrushed similiar to what we see in fashion mags today. So there is a tension in the image between what we perceive to be 'imperfect' and 'perfect'. I also use Photoshop sometimes to add a surreal, futuristic or spooky feel to some of the portraits.

7. If you could have anyone in the world sit for a portrait who would it be? An alien.

8. With unlimited funds, what would be your dream project?I would like to go to Russia and do a series of portraits of teenagers there.

9. What are you working on at the moment?I'm putting together ideas for a new series of images: futuristic portraits of teenagers.




Appraisal :)

Title: I had several titles for this piece because there were so many ways you could look at it and see different things. One was "Beauty and the Beast" and the rest all sound excessively lame so I might just write them in my journal or keep them to myself. :)

Why did the artist make the picture? After reading that interview with Petrina Hicks I reckon she'd be so reserved but just bursting with things that she would be thinking and questions that she would want to ask; I think she would have been the kind of child who asked a million questions a day. She wants to question, to push boundaries and to think outside that realm of social norm. I love it. I think she made the picture to question and to push boundaries; it's a beautiful image, the action is in the centre in a perfect circle, but it's so unnerving to look at that beauty and that perfection and it's weird. It's tense. It's outside the social norm that we all want to stick to. She made it to make her point, to say something in a way that she might have not been able to say in any other way.


What is your interpretation of the piece? Honestly, I got about a million different things out of this image. I first thought of Little Red Riding Hood and her betrayal by the wolf that thought she was helping her and the forced relationship that seems forged between them. I took another look and thought of the story of Mogli in The Jungle Book (which was the last Disney movie that Walt Disney personally worked on before he died) - and how Mogli was taken in by the animals as one of their own because the girl, at closer inspection, seemed relaxed. In the presence of a large dog a lot of children would feel threatened. She seems to know this animal very well, almost as if she was raised by it.

After thinking about this my thoughts led me to the grip the dog has on the girl and how it is much like the soft bite that mother lions and tigers have on their young to keep them safe and out of harms way. So it's protecting the girl, I thought to myself. Then he wouldn't try to betray her.

But betrayal can happen for all different reasons - just like lying - and I think it's fair to say that sometimes everyone lies to protect the people they care about. I don't think that this dog would betray this girl though unless he was betraying her trust or breaking a promise.

Like leaving her.

Something about the composition of the piece reminds me of a woman saying goodbye to her husband before he goes to war - the soft forced brush of the hand, the forced happiness, it's so fake, and you can almost see disappointment glowing out of that girl's blonde hair.

The scene is so pure, so white and gold, so innocent. But the message behind it does not seem innocent or simple at all. Much like the novel Alice in Wonderland (yep, here we go again Ms Hampton...) the overall simple happy meanings can seem so much more sinister upon closer inspection.

There is something about this piece that makes me want to stop looking at it but at the same time it is entrancing and it is beautiful.


Petrina Hicks ... she seems like a complicated kind of person. But there are a lot of her pieces that I have looked at and really like in particular the albino girl's pictures - they're so overly photoshopped, so overly perfected and beautiful - like the girl is perfect and then it occurs to you that there's something "wrong" with this girl. She's not as perfect, she's not the wax-figure you first thought, she's "different".

All her pictures have such strong understatements and I could probably write about them forever, but I won't because it'll bore you to tears Ms Hampton.
But have a great weekend/Thursday/Tuesday night/24th June/etc.

:)

Some examples of etching!

Rembrandt - The Hundred Guilders Print


Don Quixote by Salivor Dali (he etched?)



Janet Beihl (unknown title...)

James Guppy and some other stuff.

This James Guppy piece, Beacon, was created using acrylic on canvas. It is part of the surrealist art movement and plays on the surreal technique of scale with a vibrant rose dominating the image. The rose appears to be floating in the middle ground of the picture and is almost reaching the sky in height, part of it obscured by the storm clouds. Just touching top of the rose there is a split in the dark clouds, allowing sunlight to pour from the blue sky and pierce the lighthouse that is situated in the very background of the picture plane. In the foreground of the image there are two sailboats being tossed by the raging seas. The mood of the image is dark and gloomy.

The focal point of this picture is the rose, which controls the picture. Guppy used form and tone to create the roses’ three-dimensional appearance. This piece uses the rose for emphasis due to the bright colouring of the rose, its scale and juxtaposition which is what makes this piece surreal. The piece is balanced though asymmetrical with its placement of boats, the roses’ shape and the lighthouse in the background. The picture uses a variety of textures and subject matter in the piece; juxtaposition. The texture of the waves is created by directional line, making them appear choppy and short and giving a sense of movement, one of the principals of art. The lines used are primarily organic; the curves of the rose and clouds. This piece has value as it incorporates many shades of the same red and purple tones. The image uses a fairly analogous and harmonious colour scheme, incorporating reds, purples and blues but due to the contrast of the red and the blue it could be also be described as contrasting. The piece uses mainly a warm colour scheme, except for the blue skies and sea, but the dominance of the red and warm purple make the colour scheme on the warmer side of a contrasting colour scheme.

This image suggests emptiness but there is also an angry side to it, and even a constituent of hope. The large red rose represents love and this rose is not being affected by the ruggedness of the waves in the same way the boats are. Instead of being tossed about the ocean it floats serenely above the water as if it is above the anger, which is literally an “underlying” emotion of the lost love, and the emotion portrayed in the sea, which is created using directional line and movement. The rose, or the love, is physically the stopping the ships from reaching the lighthouse which appears to be the beacon of shore in the distance. The scene is fairly dark and it feels empty; the image is full of subject matter, but all the subjects in the picture are large, not plentiful, and it begins to make one feel small and empty compared to the scale in the picture. Due to the largeness of the rose which, in this picture, represents love or love lost, it makes the viewer feel smaller and insignificant, empty, in comparison to the rose. Although the scene is dark there is light shining down as possibly the beacon of hope in the title “Beacon” as it is shining on the lighthouse, which is also a beacon. The artist is trying to illustrate the emptiness of lost love how it can stop people reaching their destinations, with an expression of underlying anger but that there is a beacon of hope. It is a beautifully depicted and created artwork of emptiness, loss and regaining strength.


This is an etching - we've been doing a lot of etching in art recently of various surreal collages - when I finish mine I'll scan it up here but it's looking tragic and ... well, not finished yet so hopefully my use of directional line will improve and it'll just generally get a lot better.

So, anyway, happy art Ms Hampton.

My House/Sun... etc Picture.

This was my picture. (below)



The house represents me, I think but I forgot what the others things do.

My house is on fire. So is the snake. I don't like snakes.
Die, snake, die.

There is more information about this in my Visual Art Diary, Ms Hampton which you shall find if you search hard enough!
And I'm sure you'll search.

Surrealism and Andy Warhol

I searched for a long time for the most surreal advertisement I could find and this was it.

I really liked the use of human bodies to form the artworks and the ladder that he climbed.

Last week we went to Andy Warhol. These were the people he painted and the people he should if he was alive today.

Who Would Andy Warhol Paint Today?
Gorbachov – Easily recognized (bullet wound), brought down communism.
Donald Trump – Mannerisms, (influence + wealth), his hair.
Rupert Murdock – vortex of media industry, cultural icon.
Jeffree Star – fashionable transvestite.
Scarlett Johansen – elegance and beauty.
Princess Diana – most photographed woman in the world.
Oprah – African-American success story, richest woman in America.
Heidi Klum - Fashion icon.
Jack Nicholson – post Silence of the Lambs.
Pope John Paul II – internationally renowned, Nobel Peace Prize winner, peace icon.
Michael Jackson – Many faces saga, distinctive.
Ozzy Osbourne – distinctive, drug addict.

Who Did Andy Paint?
Billie Holiday – pseudonym, imprisoned, drug abuse,
Tenessee Williams – pseudonym, Pulitzer Prize winner, gay.
Ethel Scull – no information found.
Bobby Stewart – no information found.
Tuesday Weld – pseudonym, Golden Globe winner, model, actress.
Elizabeth Taylor – many spouses, Academy Award winner, elegant.
Jackie Kennedy – Fashion icon, first lady, elegant beauty.
Marlon Brando – greatest movie actor of all time, won many awards.
Mao, Zedong - Chairman of Communist Party of China.
Elvis Presley – The King, cultural icon.
Natalie Wood – pseudonym, many successful Hollywood films.
Mick Jagger – pseudonym, knighted.
“Transvestites” - Transvestism is the practice of cross-dressing.
Marilyn Monroe – pseudonym, cultural and fashion icon, sex symbol, easily recognized (mole).
Sylvester Stallone – machoism icon, Hollywood action heroism star.
Truman Capote – wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s, famous playwright.
Judy Garland – pseudonym, trouble with drugs, attempted suicide, many divorces.
Princess Julie of Monacco – no information found.
Victor Hugo – human rights activist, poet, wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame, died in 1800’s.
Dennis Hooper – many spouses, many films.
Joseph Beuys – influential German artist.
Grace Jones – masculine, “Amazonic”, easily recognized.
Dominique de Menil – American Heiress, rich.
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Academy Award-winner, Grammy Winner.
Ivan Karp – no information found.
Aretha Franklin – The Queen of Soul.
Robert Mapplethorpe – nude photographer.
Henry Geldzahler – Contemporary artist.
Debbie Harry – new wave punk icon.
Dolly Parton – Trailer trash.

The Exquisite Corpse and Other Work

Exquisite corpse (also known as "exquisite cadaver" or "rotating corpse") is a method by which a collection of words or images are collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French.

Both by Hannah Hoch

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