Art and its context
Creative project Factory
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Technique: Digital
I can do alone: Yes
Required time: < 20 minutes
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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Source
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?
