Event help
Hi guys it’s michael. I’m running a bunch of visiting artist events this next quarter and I could use help with admin and running the events.
Shoot me an email if you are interested and we can chat about what we could do.
Thanks and hope you are having a great spring break.
Best
Michael
MCALJ report
Yi Mao
One of Robert Rauschenberg’s work “Feeding the Birds (from the Carbird series)” is currently shown at the “A LEGACY OF ART LOVED: GIFTS FROM ROBERT AND DOROTHY SHAPIRO” exhibition. This art piece is an offset lithograph and screenprint collage on cardboard. Rauschenberg was an American painter and graphic artist who participated in the pop art movement. He is famous for combination of painting and collage. This work “Feeding the Birds” reminds me of those collage artworks from Dada movement. Dada was an anti-WWI art movement and it was almost against each former art movement. Dada artists (may also call them “Dadaist”) were fond of applying collage technique to their work. They found most of materials from trash can on the streets. Things like paper receipts, match boxes, theater tickets and cardboard could become their subjects of artworks. A lot of Rauschenberg’s collages have similarities to those work from Dadaists in form, arrangements of materials, composition, etc.
Another exhibition is now shown at MCA La Jolla is “The Visual Elastic: Cartoon Aesthetics from the Permanent Collection”. Museum selects nine artists and their work from permanent collections to represent the aesthetics of the cartoon in various methods. Most of art pieces from this exhibition are paintings and drawings. Just like printmaking artists usually sign numbers like “12/56” in the bottom of work, people can tell these cartoons at exhibition were produced for numerous pieces. One of the work “No Title (It is Never)” by Raymond Pettibon is a pen and ink drawing. Pettibon used simple black ink presenting powerful effect of fire. The lines and way of brushstrokes applied create a visual effect of motion.