Assignment 2

 Sophie Jodoin 

https://momus.ca/picturing-nothing-reading-the-drawings-of-sophie-jodoin-through-the-words-of-samuel-beckett/

Jodoin's 2014 exhibition in Montreal's Battat Contemporary showed her more minimalistic work than she usually does. These works were more abstract and not very representational as most drawings are (as I believed.) She also included works of collage which were cutouts from books and magazines and put on display. This act of using found art challenges what I think of art as being authentic and original.

Cornelia Parker

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/parker-pornographic-drawing-t07324

Not only does the act of dripping blotches of pigment onto paper then mirroring the image challenge my idea of what a drawing is, but the process of how Cornelia Parker came to create these images also expands my view on art. Her series of "Pornographic Drawings" started by excreting the ferric oxide of pornographic film tapes and forming it into a workable medium which she dripped onto paper to create these Rorsch blot-esque drawings, which were interpreted as such. Many people saw sexual organs in these drawings and some were even disgusted by these abstract shapes. It challenged how I think the process of representational art could be made and perceived.

Part 2

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