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The Biography Of Bruce Nauman - A Contemporary Artist
The biography of Bruce Nauman, A contemporary artist. Describing and evaluating his work of art, the meaning and an image.
Bruce Nauman – Art Piece “Clown Torture” Bruce Nauman was born in 1941 in Fort Wayne , Indiana . Since the early 1970’s he has been recognized as one of the most innovative and provocative of contemporary artists. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin , Madison in 1964 with a BFA, then the University of California , Davis in 1966 with an MFA . In activities, speech, and materials of everyday life is where Bruce finds his inspiration. He concentrates
ates on the way in which an activity can transform or become a work of art rather than the development of a characteristic style (Art:21 Bruce Nauman n.d.).
“Clown Torture” is enclosed in a darkened room with four color video monitors, speakers, videotape players and video projectors. Only two of the four television monitors are oriented right side up, one laying on its side and one upside down making images being abstract or disorienting. In one sequence, a clown screams at an unseen antagonist. In another, a clown repeats the elliptical story “Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence”. The clown is depicting a sense of frustration. Another video shows clowns trying to balance objects with little success. The third video resembles a clown using a public toilet from a closed circuit security camera. The “Clown Torture is a shattering spectacle of color, motion, and sound displayed at high volume (Art:21 Bruce Nauman n.d.)
From the caked makeup of the clown’s faces to the power cords running across the ceilings, walls, and floor, the artifice is obvious, being an ingenious device of artful stratagem. The viewer, like the clown, is the subject of experimentation and interrogation, with activity occurring from nearly every angle. Although the clowns are only acting-out traumas, these videos are very difficult to watch making the viewer question his or her own participation in the events on the screen (Art:21 Bruce Nauman n.d.)
Making an indirect reference to real life on difficult subjects such as insanity, political torture, and surveillance, the work makes complex connections between theater, media, and apathy. These scared and scary clowns seem simultaneously real and unreal.
The make-up and enormous amount of wiring is obvious in the creation of this art piece, but the subject matter such as real life insanity, political torture, and surveillance is portraying a reality that is neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence Webster Dictionary n.d.).
This abstract form of art is portraying a message to its viewer’s a question of reality.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/mystical
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/nauman/card1.html
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