Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith is the daughter of Tony Smith, an American sculptor, but she was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1954. She helped her father in making models for his sculptures, and having been raised a Catholic and in the formalist systems evoked her to create the drawings, prints, and sculptures that she does. Smith narrates with beliefs and knowledge in her work. Smith created sculptures where she would reference organ, cellular, and nervous system drawings for her creations. Animations, narrations relating to mythology, folk stories, and everyday objects were incorporated into her work too. Her work also focuses on morals and sexuality.
Seated Nude, 2005
170.5 x 45.7 x 38 cm. (67.1 x 18 x 15 in.)
Sculpture, Bronze with silver nitrate patina on painted wood base
Calling, 2000
23 x 16.5 in. (58.4 x 41.9 cm.)
Prints and multiples, Ektacolor Print Mounted to Two Ply Board (Signed/Dated/Numbered) – Framed with Pace MacGill Gallery label
PUPPET, 2001
12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Prints and multiples, Color Iris Print (Signed/Numbered/Dated) – Framed w/Pace Editions Label
“Kiki Smith.” artnet. Web. 14 Nov. 2017.
“Kiki Smith.” artsy. Web. 14 Nov. 2017.
“Kiki Smith.” art21. Web. 14 Nov. 2017.
Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman is a painter born in Verdun, France in 1965. Her formal education in painting is from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), in Providence, Rhode Island. Although she studied in Rhode Island, she moved to New York in 1987. While in Rhode Island, she was immersed in the punk and LGBTQ+ scenes. Although, in New York she found a stronger sense of her punk, where she fond a “pissed-off mood among the people. Her work has been described as a voice for the LGBTQ+ community, by Massimiliano Gioni (new Museum creative boss). Eisenman’s art has a sense of being alone-isolated, which is common for queer people. Eisenman speaks,
“[B]y the mid-‘90s, I was in my own romantic bubble…I was separate in some very deep ways from my family and from people in general, but that didn’t preclude me from being critical of this insane culture we’ve created. I was looking two ways at once, intellectually at the world around me and emotional back to my own experience.” Eisenman deviates from her artistic education and paints through a stream of consciousness.
“Nicole Eisenman.” artsy. Web. 23 Nov. 2017.
“Nicole Eisenman.” cmoa. Web. 22 Nov. 2017.
“Nicole Eisenman’s Paintings Stand Out from the Crowd at the New Museum.” artnet. 5 May. 2016. Web. 22 Nov. 2017.
Kathe Kollwitz
Kathe Kollwitz is known as a German, naturalist artist who lived from 1867-1945. However, she was born in Konigsberg, Prussia (modern day Kaliningrad, Russia). Kollwitz’s work is feminist in that its attention was focused around women, especially in a time when men were the ones with THE spotlight in the art world. She also included working-class folks in her art and produced self-portraits too. Women were not seen as important enough, and art was not focusing on women, further adding a touch of feminism to her work; women were trying to break through the doors of the at world for acceptance (because men were scum). Her work often included dark lights with contrasting whites-the stark contrast reflected the time she lived in. Although abstraction was emerging, she was a stark naturalist.
“Kathe Kollwitz.” artsy. Web. 23 Nov. 2018.
Kathe Kollwitz. Moma. Web. 26 Nov. 2018.
Nedom Kito, “Why Kathe Kollwitz, an Icon of German Modern Art, Is Still So Controversial on her 150th Anniversary.” artnet. 18 July. 2017. Web. 26 Nov. 2018.
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Jake and Dinos Chapman are brothers and artists from Britain. Dinos is the older brother, ahving been born in 1962 (London,UK), and Jake Chapman was born in Cheltenham, UK in 1966. They went to different colleges: Dinos Chapman attended the Ravensbourne College of Art and received a BA there in 1981, and an MA from the Royal Colelge of Art in 1990. Jake Chapman attended the North East London Polytechnic to get a BA in 1988 and got an MA from the Royal College of Art in 1990. They started creeateding create prints and installations, as well as sculptures, in 1991, and their work touches on debatable subjects such as politics and religon, as well as morality. Art history, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence are big in their work too. Their installation We Are Artists (1992), shown at the Institue of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London, gained them traction. They had an etching, in an anti-aesheticv fashion, with body parts of a nude chold whose face was transformed into genitalia. With that piece, they were referencing Francisco Goya. Not surprisingly, their shocking work looks into darkness and pain, while seeing beauty and humor in it. In that sense, it is gothic. Even though Francisco Goya lived from 1746-1828, the Chapmans reference Goya to mark that there is still violence, such as war, into the 21st century. While at an opening of one of their shows in Spain, the brothers revealed that The Disaster’s of War Tension drew them in.
The Sum of All Evil (2012/2013)
Fucking Dinosaurs (2011)
clothes mannequins and painted bronze; painted steel
“Chapman brothers reunite with Goya’s art 16 years after defacing it.” theguardian 17 Nov. 2017. Web. 29 Nov. 2017.
“Jake & Dinos Chapman.” Artsy. Web. 2 Dec. 2017
“Jake and Dinos Chapman.” davidrisleygallery. Web. 27 Nov. 2017