Assessment Task 5
Draw using contemporary Techniques
Mary Tancred
17 Sept 2012
Draw using contemporary Techniques
Mary Tancred
17 Sept 2012
Swoon
Swoon (Caledonia Dance Curry) is a street artist born in New London, Connecticut, USA. She moved to New York at 19, and specializes in life-size wheat paste prints and paper cutouts of people. Swoon studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and started making street art in approx 1999.
Swoon in Paris
Swoon at 24th and Hampshire
Woodcuts on brown paper wheat pasted on urban walls
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Swoon invaded the 2009 Venice Biennale with a crew of 30 artists and musicians on boats made of trash. The exhibition was entitled the "Swimming Cities of Serenissima"
Swoon's installation extends from the elevators right through to the lobby. It is also 40ft up to the ceiling. The work entitled, Anthropocene Extinction is made up of intricately cut paper and is currently showing at the Boston Institute of CA until end of December 2012. This particular exhibition looks at the effects of industrialized society on people and the environment. The portrait is of one of the last Australian Aboriginals to have experienced a traditional Aboriginal nomadic culture.
Historical context and links with art styles
- Kathe Kollwitz German Expressionist
- Indonesian Shadow Puppets
- Gordon Matta Clark
- José Clemente Orozco - Mexican Muralists
Relationship and connection to my own practice
- Boldness of Swoon's images
- Images of ordinary people
- Wheat paste image
Critically evaluate the effectiveness of the drawings
- Images are striking
- There is intricate detail but also bold rough strokes
- Cut outs are incorporated as well
- Use of bold colour sparingly
