Un-canny art

Modern Art can be a perfect way to express the un-canny. Artists such as, Ron Mueck who created larger than reality, perfectly precise models of children, women, men and babies. Rons sculptures link reality to the world of myth and magic. He also created tiny models of humans as well, his art has given him world wide recognition. I admire Ron's work of art and I think he extremely talented and has put a lot of hard work in to these. Some of the work is quite frightening just by the enormous scale, he also tries to perceive his masterpieces conveying various emotions such as, embarrassment (exposure), vulnerability, awkwardness, etc.

Photomontage
Another form of art that links with the uncanny in my opinion is Photomontage.
John Heartfield is a photomontage artist who during the Hitler era opposed of him and went about creating images satirising Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. He used his art work to protest about greed, violence and the government control Hitler had. He coined various images of machinery, animals and weapons with images of Hitler or the Nazi army.



 This may seem funny to some but John created something that had a subliminal message. He witnessed a country of hunger and desolation in the midst of chaos during the second world war, and through his art protested their suffering. These sorts of images capture peoples attention and they can tell straight away with whats being represented in them what they are about.

Homework 2

I was tasked to evaluate two artists and their work. The first artist is Chiharu Shiota. Shiota was born in Osaka in 1972 and now lives and works in Berlin. She is an internationally recognised artist, much of her work she uses old, worn out items that have an interesting existence and history. 

A piece of her work I will be evaluate is, 'Breath of the spirit', this art includes red yarn that is tied to 600 pairs of worn out shoes, and placed on a building as if they are walking down it. In each shoe is a little message about the person who wore them and where they came from.

"Through the use of these everyday, mundane items, Shiota is able to generate a certain connection between her viewers and the people who once wore the old shoes."- Katie Hosmer (1)

I think this work is very ambiguous and this makes it stand out and become enthralling. I respect her art and think it is very creative and un-usual. It is quite a simple idea but it captivating at the amount of creativity and work she has put in to this. The shoes also tell a story so its a simple visual piece that has a deep meaning for the viewer to delve in to. The use of red yarn is also provocative and eye catching. It gives off a warning, as red is insinuated as danger. I don't exactly know why she has chosen red, maybe it is for the simple fact to catch the audiences attention and reel them in.

Another artist I will look at is Tomoko Shioyasu. Shioyasu was born in Japan and had a fascination with nature. Shioyasu began experimenting with tiny leafs cutting them finely and this begun her idea of cut paper pieces.
She had three methods in creating her work and that was, cutting, burning and drawing. Each tiny cut on her work is built up in a complicated pattern, each piece is so fine and delicate. A projector hung to the ceiling projects light through the piece exploring each each of the fine cuts on a wall behind.

"The massive lace-like paper tapestries are created by using meticulous and repetitive cuts." - Blog post (2)

“The little cuts accumulate to create works on a very large scale, producing installations which take in the flow of air and light of their location, becoming one with it so that the exhibition space becomes an abstraction of nature itself, and the installation becomes a sign of nature with presence and depth….In the installation space, the spirit of nature flows through her work, giving the impression of a vivid dance by the air and the particles of light. In a sense, in cutting pieces out of two-dimensional paper, Shioyasu is using thin air as a material and chiseling a new form of sculpture out of the space itself, gaining insights into what things are really like.” — Scai The Bathhouse (3)

This is another piece of work that I respect and find very captivating. I can see that a lot of hard work and time would have been put in to this. It inspires me as to how this kind of work came to be, and shows that anything can be created with hard work and determination.I wouldn't be able to have he patience or attention span to create a master piece.

References
(1) HOSMER, K, 2012, 600 Pairs Of Old Shoes Walking Down A Building.,[online] Available at Accessed: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/chiharu-shiota-breath-of-the-spirit (Accessed: 25th April 2013)

(2) ZIMMER, L 2011,  Tomoko Shioyasu's Lace-Like Tapestries Made from Delicate Cut Paper, [Blog] 4th February, Available at: http://inhabitat.com/tomoko-shioyasus-lace-like-tapestries-made-from-delicate-cut-paper/ (Accessed: 25th April 2013) 

(3) Jasmine, 2011, Incredible Paper Cut Tapestries by Tomoko Shioyasu, [Blog] 30th March, Available at: http://strictlypaper.com/blog/2011/03/incredible-paper-cut-tapestries-by-tomoko-shioyasu/ (Accessed: 25th April 2013)