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Art and its context

Creative project Factory
Installationsansicht zu 'No Drones (adjusted to fit)' und 'Crazy' von Louise Lawler im Museum Brandhorst.

Key data

Technique: Digital
I can do alone: Yes
Required time: < 20 minutes

Instructions for making it yourself

You will need

  • camera / smartphone
  • PC / tablet
  • image editing program or app
"A WORK OF ART IS PRODUCED BY MANY DIFFERENT THINGS. IT ISN’T JUST THE WORK OF AN UNENCUMBERED CREATIVE ACT. [...] ART IS ALWAYS A COLLABORATION WITH WHAT CAME BEFORE YOU AND WHAT COMES AFTER YOU. [...] NO WORK IS REALLY PRODUCED BY ONE PERSON."

Louise Lawler

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Step 1

Take a picture of a work of art:

 

Choose a painting, installation, photograph, sculpture, video or something else!

Talk about it

How is art presented, stored, and consumed? To what extent does space affect the impact of an artwork?

Step 2

Look closely at the space and the artwork. How is the artwork displayed?

 

Address this in your photograph.

STEP 3

Edit and present your photograph in a way that emphasizes the specifics of the photographed artwork, or place it in a new context.

Reflect

ART OR THEFT?

What motivates artist Louise Lawler to wander through exhibitions with her camera, photographing packages of cereal, tomato juice, or ketchup?

Ponder this

Artist Factory

Artist Louise Lawler

was born in Bronxville, New York State, USA, in 1947