To complete the trilogy of artists talking about working practices - and the back and forth dance of painting- here below is a studio interview with Elizabeth Murray. Murray's works can be found in private collections, in NY subway commissions and in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was one of a few successful and respected artists in the heavily Neo Expressionist 1980s in New York that garnered respect in what was largely still a man's game -- and even more admirably, she did it while inserting graphic, cartoonish imagery into the conversation of abstraction.
I went to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I saw lots of exhibitions and galleries, but my favorite was gallery 800s with My favorite artists Claude Monet, and Vincent Van Gogh.Van Gogh's Cypresse's and Wheat Field with Cypresses and Monet's View of Vétheuil,The Manneporte (Étretat),The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest are a few of my favorites.I like Monet's landscapes and and the techiniques he uses with oils in them.Van Gogh's Style style and thickness as the Cypress, I like the variations and the rymthyms in his paintings. Van Goghs Cypress is similiar to Monets View of Vétheuil as in the subject matter and in the blue, greens, and yellows they use. deb sousa
ReplyDeleteI liked watching Elizabeth Murray paint the shapes she created. I noticed she used a variety of techniques we learned in class like feathering and using the palette knife instead of a brush.
ReplyDeleteAt one point she said she found a way to believe in herself by looking at paintings. She would look at a particular de Kooning painting and look at the paths of the brushstrokes or the different techniques he applied. Then, she would go back to her paintings and use what she saw in other works to the piece she was working on. I feel that this is how many people today work and get their inspiration.
~Melissa
I've seen this video be4 and I find it facinating how Elizabeth Murray paints each huge piece individually then sticks the shapes together as forming a puzzle with her pieces. I like the saturated cartoony colors she uses. Walton's work is very weird but I like the weird dark humor in them. I like the Monkey that sat on the head of the table. deb sousa
ReplyDeleteThis is a great video that I have watched before. Elizabeth Murray has a great personality that fits her style of work. She is enthusiastic and always happy knowing she is making a living doing what she enjoys. Murray has a strong sense of composition, she orients each pieces/blocks to complement the other. In the end, her entire work consists of solid colors bulked around others by it. The best feature about Murray is her outlook on art, such as when she states an artist life is filled with struggle and sufferings yet that is what makes an artist unique and enjoyable in essence.
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These artwork of Elizabeth Murray remind me of Dr.Seuss stories. The art is cartoonish with bright colors and outlines. In 3D we did project: We put together a group of shapes. Each shape was a unit. There were repetition and differences. When we let free and give up a fixed way of being, we got an artwork that blew our mind away.
ReplyDeleteOne more thing I got of the video is, Elizabeth Murray mentioned how she works alone to create her pieces. And gets her children to critique. I struggle with being isolated when I paint, I miss human contact after an hour or so. I understand from her, it is part of the training to be an artist.
Thanks for this video.
- Anuradha Raghuraman
Cartoon-y, silly... these can be descriptions of Murray's work. But also with the undeniable touch of the abstract. Like Matisse, the prime effect of her works seem to be the play on the beauty of color. The composition is ramped up with the canvas shapes emphasizing the cartoony shapes even more so. The art world does tend to me a man's world. And unlike some of the other works we've seen, Murray does not use ugliness to make her mark, but rather the more conventional utility of beauty. In all fairness it also does seem that while men can create physical beauty and still be considered a serious artist, women have to come in through the back route. But Elizabeth Murray takes the challenge head on, without sacrificing.
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I like murray's work for the fact that she brings something new to the world. But that may be to broad of a statement because artist does precisly that but its what she brings that I admire. SHe paints cartoon like imagery which is fun and goofy. Personally I enjoy looking a art work with is fun and happy rather than a upsetting image. I also like how in the video she said she gets her kids to critque her pieces. I found that very fascinating because kids will give you a very different critque than any adult. And by doing this I feel it keeps her paints full of youth, playfulness, simplicity, and overall fun.
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For my museum trip I decided to go to the Metropolitan Museum of art in NYC. Which is one of my favorite museums by far. I enjoyed several of the gallery including the ancient cultures such as Greece and Egypt, but one piece that I liked a lot that I decided to talk about is a Elizabeth Murray Piece, entitled “Terrifying Terrain.” Interesting enough I chose this piece and we ended up watching a video about her which I thought was cool. This piece is painted on shaped canvases and has very sharp edges which go in all directions. She uses a lot of reds and blues in it. And has several different wavy textures on top of one another. Overall the piece to me gives off a sense of confusion and chaos. But I do find something beautiful about it as well, especially the use of vibrant saturated colors.
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