I find these artists’ work to be truly amazing because he managed to turn cans of his poop into $300,000 pieces of art. The only reason that this can even be considered art was that he canned it and decided to start calling it “Artist’s Shit”. He explained that art Read more…
In this work, Salcedo looks to explore ideas of remembering and forgetting. She created an installation where on slabs of stone the names of 300 refugees that lost their lives on passage to Europe have been written. Instead of etching their names into the stone, we see that their names Read more…
This painting by Rene Magritte from 1929 is interesting and is an iconic Surrealist piece of work that creates a three-way paradox. In the image, Magritte has painted a pipe followed by the words “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” which means “This is not a pipe” in French. That is Read more…
I found this piece of work by Shilpa Gupta to be very interesting as it deals with ideas of what constitutes art and acts as a form of political commentary. It is a very simple piece of work on a white sheet of paper where 100 people from India, Canada, Read more…
One of Shahzia Sikander’s most recent pieces of work titled “Reckoning” really caught my eye and I think it relates to the animation projects we worked on in class. She worked on this piece and animated it with the help of Pulitzer winner Du-Yun. In this piece, she depicts an Read more…