JENNY HOLZER
'protect me from what i want'
This work has been made accessible to the general public by putting it on such a huge billboard in a busy city.
RENE MAGRITTE
'ceci n'est pas une pipe / this is not a pipe'
This is not a pipe, but an image of the pipe.
'the union of 'signifier' and 'signified' is an entirely arbitrary one, as words do not have a natural relationship to meaning.' (Writing on the Wall, Morley, S.).
The image and the text are both complimentary and contradictory. Complimentary in the sense that the text mentions the 'pipe' in the image / contradictory because the text is announcing that the image is not what you thought it was.
DQAIN MICHAELS
'a letter from my father'
In this image, the father is looking at what is presumed to be the son and the son is looking away. It looks as though the photograph has been staged to provoke emotion / thought, as it causes quite an obvious response. The image is seen first, causing you to make assumptions, and then the text is read, adding meaning and facts to the situation.
I think that if the text was word processed instead of handwritten, it would alter the meaning and make it less personal. The text feels visually awkward / intimate because of the arrangement on the page. I would expect the text and image to be more organized together. The image and text are complementary / the image supports the text / the image and text are frames in the same story, but are slightly askew. The image is also portraying the love between a parent and their child.
ED RUSCHA
'the'
The snow covered mountains / blue sky could imply that it is an advert for something?
You look at the image as a whole / 360ยบ and then read the text horizontally from left to right.
CY TWOMBLY
'quattro stagioni'
I only fully understood the work after it was explained to me. The colours and shapes in 'Autunno' are supposed to depict decaying fruit that has fallen from the tree. Twombly would paint huge canvases and cut out small sections of them for his final pieces.
He uses text in his paintings, written in Italian, concealing Roman and Greek mythologies behind areas of paint. We already expect his paintings to have a certain level of ambiguity so that they can be deemed 'fine art'. This work is both revealing and non-revealing, and feels quite concluded.
CART NOIRE ADVERT - GREG WISE
'are you sitting comfortably? then i'll begin.'
The 'George Clooney' of the older generation.
'and' from the Goya series / inches from the rest series / what was happening at the time? which (image / text) makes us read the image the way we do?
why did he do the Goya series? compare with other works by Baldessari / how is the work read today?
image / text / analyse the work against the context in which it was originally made / research the background of the work.
