Text as Art
Twitter me this…
As we know Twitter is this ridiculously popular social networking thing. 140 characters per message to express yourself to your friends, to update them on every small thing you do, every little tiny thing you do.
Well, artists have been effectively using short pieces of text for years to express an idea, to explore concepts, and to generally challenge people. I showed you a few examples in class the other day, but below is a much longer list of artists who have worked with text.
Your assignment, as you may recall, is to stick within the confines of Twitter’s 140 character count (and that includes spaces), but to create a work of art within those confines. Yes, you can combine an image with the text to create the artwork, you can repeat the text, you can do many things… as long as you have a conceptual reason for doing so.
I talked quite a bit about how artists view language, that language is this seemingly invisible thing that is turned visible by their acts. We will continue to explore the ideas of text-based art over the next few weeks. To begin with do some research yourself, look up the artists I have listed, go online and do some independent research, maybe go to the library. For Monday’s class I would like you to bring with you some ideas for discussion after our crit. Good luck, and check back at the blog for further updates.
Andy Warhol
Alexander Rodchenko
Kurt Schwitters
F.W. Marinetti
Rene Magritte
John Heartfield
Hannah Hoch
Ed Ruscha
Barbara Kruger
Sabrina Ward Harrison
Dan Eldon
Tauba Auerbach
Jenny Holzer
Cy Twombly
Kay Rosen
Robert Indiana
Jasper Johns
Roy Lichtenstein
Guerilla Girls
William Wiley
Alexis Smith
Jeff Soto
Raymond Pettibon
Glenn Ligon
Bruce Nauman
Christopher Wool
Neil Jenney
Joseph Kosuth
Nancy Dwyer
John Baldessari
John Michel Basquiat
John Cage
Robert Rauschenberg
Tim Rollins and
Kids Of Survival
Trenton Doyle Hancock
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