Thought experiment: Imagine if in every single movie made today, not a single white person was seen. It wouldn’t seem right. What does it mean to be left out, excluded? Those of us who live in the Midwest are not very fond of the term “flyover country”; it’s dismissive. Consider this much …
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Fables, or animals with tales, are short stories that date to ancient times. The two-thousand-five-hundred-year-old animal fables of the Greek slave Aesop are still heard today. Often moralizing or satirizing, the stories are told by animals who speak. Contemporary fables include Charlotte’s Web, 1952, by E.B.White and George Orwell’s 1945 political fable Animal Farm. Fables with talking …
Tom Orr’s Vessel is a three-dimensional sculpture, but it also creates an amazing visual feature of moire patterns that echo historically the Op Art of the Sixties. Moires are the appearance of wavy lines that form when two separate sets of lines overlap. Vessel’s waves of moire, TOM ORR, Vessel, 2009, powder coated steel, Collection of Goldman-Kuenz Sculpture Park …
Dennis Oppenheim was a peripatetic artist, working as many did in the 1960s, first in Earth Art, then Body Art and Video Art, combining the last two in Performance Art, before moving on to Sculpture proper. In each discipline, Dennis Oppenheim was an influential artist, well-respected by his peers. Among Oppenheim’s many accolades, he was …
Northern Moon is a fine example of what an artist can accomplish when offered a studio, two assistants, a choice collection of metals, and a one-week deadline to create. During a visit over Christmas break with Canadian artist Rod Dowling, Illinois artist and SIUC art professor Aldon Addington created Northern Moon. Away with a project in …
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