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1 Contemporary Art: ART NOW Corporations become involved in every aspect of life and the arts. High speed media and travel especially the internet create more cross cultural connections. Damien Hirst, Andy Goldsworthy, Ice spiral & Diamond Encrusted Treesoul Hole, uses only natural Platinum cast of a materials found on site 1980human skull, 2008, present highest price paid to a living artist $100 million, it cost $28 million to make Van Oord, Palm Island, Dubai, custom designed islands for sale, began

2 Contemporary Sculpture Inspired by animation and using materials never thought of as art materials Takashi Murakami, Reversed Double Helix, 2003, Rockefeller Center, New York City Demakersvan design house, Lace Fence, Dutch, 2009

3 Contemporary Architecture Angles and curves go in every direction made possible by new lighter building materials and inspired by artists not trained as architects. Daniel Libeskind. Design for World Trade Center Site, New York Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall, architecture by Frank- Gerhry acoustics by Yasuhisa Toyota finished 2003

4 Contemporary Assemblage Artists use a variety of materials all at once to communicate: paint, photography, collage, illustration Chris Ofili. Holy Virgin Mary Paper collage. Seen as insulting to Catholics, the Mayor of NY, Giuliani, tries to have the Brooklyn museum closed for showing it. Ironically, the artist is Catholic and meant it to be a modern version of the virgin. "Life at 'Ol' Virginny's Hole' (sketches from Plantation Life), Kara Walker uses life size narrative silhouettes to explore the complex sexual and violent history of race in America. Sigmar Polke. I don t Really Think about Anything Too Much. 2002

5 Contemporary Photography Carefully staged and meticulously designed sets with elaborate makeup transform the portrait. Artists deal more directly with controversial issues like politics, ecology, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexuality Jeff Wall. After Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the Preface Light confirms my reality and gives birth to my form Cindy Sherman. Untitled #224, The highest paid female artist & the highest paid ever for any photograph $3.9 million #96 Yasumasa Morimura. Self Portrait Twins, 1988 Yasumasa Morimura. An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo The fabric & hair piece are Japanese.

6 Contemporary Installations Maya Ying Lin. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Black granite inscribed with the 58,256 names of the American service casualties of the Vietnam war Mel Chin. Revival Field: Pig s Eye Landfill The plants are helping to restore this polluted field by absorbing the toxic metals from the soil. Social Responsibility in art Wenda Gu. United Nations-Babel of the Millennium Chinese immigrated to the US when China would not show his work because its government was afraid of idden messages in the imaginary language on paper made of human hair. Shirin Neshat. Fervor A multi screen film using the words of the Persian poet, Rumi and pop music to tell about love, passion, revolution, individuality, feminism, spirituality, and tradition. The artist was born in Iran she now lives in the US.

7 Contemporary Performance Art Matthew Barney. Cremaster 3: Five Points of Fellowship In his first solo art show in New York he was naked strapped into a harness, using ice hooks he climbed the gallery ceiling, and walls into a refrigeration unit housing a weightlifters bench covered in petroleum jelly. The photo to the left is a film still from a 7 hour film of a game show based on secret societies rights of passage. At the point in the picture the artist is tossing the oversized plastic bag pipe flute, the bag of which is laying next to him made of a 4 horned sheep native to Scotland which he must toss the pipe into to complete the instrument.

8 Ignore this slide Burning man, raves, and hip hop, modern painting big eyes, graffiti/street style

9 Resources Shirin Neshat. Women Without Men Shirin Neshat. Turbulent Performing Arts Center of L:os Angeles Freedom Tower Kara Walker lide=279