Lin Onus’ Arafura Swamp (1990) Lin Onus’ Arafura Swamp was painted in 1990‚ during the era of Post Modernism. Post Modernism is a widely used term for a progressive art of the 1980’s and 1990’s which involves the challenging of traditions; such as categories of media and the concept of originality. Postmodern artists often utilise art from a previous time to imply new meanings and question past values. There is often no single accepted meaning to art works. Mass media‚ print and digital media can
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Kanagawa. Lin Onus Michael and I are just slipping down to the pub for a minute 1992‚ Australia‚ Iris Giclee on Arches paper Lin Onus is an Australian artist born in 1948 and died in 1996. He had a Scottish mother and Aboriginal father. This work illustrates Onus’s sense of humour by appropriating the famous work The Great Wave off the coast of Kanagawa of Hokusai. In this work he has taken Hokusai artwork and provided it with a new meaning by changing it slightly. Onus has used traditional
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Maya Lin was born on October 5‚ 1959 in Athens‚ Ohio. Her parents‚ both taught at Ohio University‚ her mom‚ Julia Lin‚ was a poet and her dad‚ Henry Lin‚ was a ceramist. They had fled China in 1949 right before the Communist Revolution. She also had an older brother Tan‚ who was also a poet. Growing up Lin enjoyed reading and building miniature towns‚ she also excelled in mathematics. She didn ’t have many friends‚ and enjoyed staying at home and studying over going out with friends. In high school
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Lin Onus In this essay I shall be exploring the art of contemporary Australian artist‚ Lin Onus (1948-1996) and explaining the themes‚ meanings‚ and other features of his paintings. I shall also delve into the life of this legendary aboriginal artist and the different meanings of his works. Lin onus was an only child born to an aboriginal father and a Scottish mother in Melbourne‚ Victoria. His love of art began of a young age‚ as he helped his father Bill makes aboriginal artifacts like didgeridoos
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Maya Lin was born on October 5‚ 1959 in Athens‚ Ohio. Her parents fled from China in 1948 when the Communist took over. She is the daughter of Henry Huan Lin and Julia Chang Lin. Her father was a ceramicist and the Dean of the School of Fine Art. Her mother was a poet and a literature professor at Ohio University. Lin says that she was in her father’s studio “making art as long as she can remember.” (Falconer “Maya Lin Biography‚ Art‚ and Analysis of Works”). When Lin started Yale her major was zoology
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Professor Gessler March 28‚ 2014 Arth 300 Roles of the Artist: Maya Lin There are one out of four roles that every artist could play and the one that I believe Maya Lin plays is “Artists make a visual record of the people‚ places‚ and events of their time and place”. I believe that this is how i have see her portrayed in this film because all of the landmarks and monuments that she had made were all so great due to the personal factor of having the historicals names and times written on them
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Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision Film Response Brandi This documentary was very moving! I was amazed to learn that Maya Lin’s design was picked from so many! It is amazing that a board of representatives chose her design from all others. A twenty year old student had a vision that was so moving. I’ve been to the memorial many times‚ and it has always brought me to tears. After viewing this documentary‚ I had the opportunity to go see it again. This time‚ it meant so much more to me having
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Maya Lin Maya Lin‚ a graduate of Yale University‚ is a politically fueled artist who caused quite an uproar with her artwork. Maya Lin concentrates on reality as most of her artwork that gained nationwide attention consisted of memorial type structures that were interactive art. The Rosa Park’s memorial and the Vietnam memorial alike are both gigantic structures carved out of solid marble to remember those to impacted the development of the United States to what we are today. Maya combined
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Minimalism‚ Maya Lin and Vietnam Memorial Discussion “Minimal art is characterized by its simplicity in both form and content‚ where personal expression is removed in order to achieve this. The intention of minimalist artists is to allow the audience to view a composition more intensely because the distractions of theme etc. have been removed”. Minimalism can be detected as early as the 18th century where the artist Goethe constructed an Alatar of Good Fortune that consisted of a stone sphere and
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impact on many parts of the world. Some argue that governments should not play a part in improving the situation. However‚ my personal belief is that individuals and governments both have parts to play in dealing with this problem. I believe that the onus is on citizens to lessen the effect of climate change‚ and that they should reduce their carbon footprint in daily life in several ways. On an individual level‚ people should reduce the use of air-conditioning units‚ which release copious amounts
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