My teacher studies also included
inspiring practice periods.
Not exact matches
It's fascinating to think of Schapiro,
inspired by the discourse she was helping to create, doing these pieces when she was able to return to her studio after the intense
period of working with the feminist program on the Womanhouse project in the fall of 1971 and early winter of 1972, but before she had a name for this work, before «femmage» and «pattern and decoration» became movements and personal brands, with their declarative power but sometimes restrictive effect on art
practice.
First up: Harry Smith «s Heaven and Earth Magick (1962), a surreal collage film composed from Victorian - era catalogues and exercise manuals that Smith produced over a
period of five years using a randomizing selection process called sortilege,
inspired by the Surrealist
practice of automatic writing.
This fantasy of a direct projection of thought not only had a decisive impact on the birth of abstraction but also influenced surrealism and its obsession with the collective sharing of creation and, in the post war
period, it gave rise to numerous visual and sound installations
inspired by the revolution in information technology, leading to the declaration of «the dematerialisation of art» in conceptual
practices...