Megan Klansek's Photo Blog

  Christian Marclay was born in California in 1955, but grew up in Switzerland. He worked in many different fields including noise art, painting,photography, and video arts. He studied at multiple institutes including the Massachutets College of Art and Design. He created multiple songs and had well known works including Record WIthout a Cover, The Clock, and more. (wikipedia)     The first piece I am choosing to talk about is this one. It appears to be cassette tape film draped across a paper with some cassettes at the bottom. The piece gives off a very fun and spunky vibe. The tapes coming down the page remind me of streamers throw at a party or toilet paper being thrown at someones house. I also love how theres an everymely dark blue and a white and not really any other depth. The other piece I am choosing to talk about is this one, which I feel like fits really well with the other piece. I appreciate how this piece is much more organized while the other is a lit...

  Pierre Cordier was a Belgian artist born in 1933. He loved Jazz when he was younger, but started his photography endeavors after meeting a friend and photographing him. He then started dabbling in what would later be known as chemigrams. He discovered this after writing on photographic paper with nail polish then later realized that using different “resist materials” created different effects on his papers. He later went on to produce art that was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. (wikipedia) The first piece I chose to talk about is this one. One thing I like about this piece is the repetitiveness of the lines in the piece. I also think it's extremely impressive how there are barely any imperfections in this piece, especially since I did chemigrams, and I know how uncertain the process is and how quickly things can change. I imagine this probably took a very long amount of time and attempts to perfect this project. The second piece I am choosing to talk about is this one. ...