Marcel Duchamp

     

Additional Thoughts on Coffin's Untitled Sculptures

     After presenting information about Peter Coffin's Untitled Sculptures to the class, I had some additional thoughts on the exhibition. Coffin's choice of a construction method of build was significant. In the construction method the sculptor, "is usually concerned more with the definition of space than with the mass, affording experiences quite new in the field," (Taylor 129). In Untitled Sculptures, the definition of space is emphasized. Since the silhouettes are only one inch thick, they lack the volume people associate sculpture with.

Patty's picture

And what do the Markers mark?

In the center of a park on crossroad of 23rd Street and Broadway five black and white sculptures stand tall and proud. One, who walks by there on their way to work might never give it any attention, another, who is searching places like this one might be charmed and inspired by it.

Independent Visit 3: Bello's Big Apple Circus

 

Flatness in Demoiselles d'avignon

 After having seen Demoiselle d'avignon a first time and not having really gotten a lot out of it, it was helpful to go see it a second time after our class discussion, where everything finally was clear to me. I must say that it is a perplexing concept to grasp, the idea that a painting is made to point out that depth cannot be shown on a canvas. However, at the same time, the painting also seems to hint of depth itself, otherwise how could a woman's hand be behind her back or how could she be facing sidewards without there being another side of her beyond that?

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