The artist deconstructed his love and fascination with Los Angeles painters Calvin and Hobbes when attending the opening ceremony of his new solo exhibition in Hershon. Pickett's works span nearly 400 feet and consist of eight canvases 12 feet high and 45 feet long. This was painted by the artist Paul Philippe Otto in 1883, a key whirlwind of civil war attacks. 1863 On July 3rd, the third and last day of the Battle of Gettysburg, General george pickett and his allies failed to break through the defense lines of the Alliance. This historic defeat turned the allied situation around. In order to describe the incident accurately, Philippoteaux, an expert who claimed to be from Paris, interviewed the survivors and studied the military strategy. Evelyn hankins, a senior curator at Hirshhorn, said that when he worked in painting and oil painting, "he didn't take sides". "He described the bravery of soldiers, the honor of fighting and * * *, instead of standing on one side. "
It is a 3D effect with depth and perspective when playing games, and its jaw-dropping depiction of literary, religious and military scenes makes "Cyclone" very popular in Europe and America at the end of 19. The carefully restored Hurricane Gettysburg is still created by the United States for Bradford.
One of the few such works, Cyclone and other early American paintings aroused people's doubts about the politics of military memorials. "How many times have we walked past those old, dusty monuments," he said, and thought deeply about their significance? He not only talked about the Confederate statues and the debate about whether they should stay or leave, but also talked about the Vietnamese-era helicopters he found in the National Archives near Hirshhorn. This helicopter was temporarily installed to start the performance in Vietnam. These performances violate objectivity, and Americans can't agree on which events are worth remembering, forgetting, ignoring or criticizing, so he asked, "How do we write history? A person with writing ability. What about the history of the game?
1883 pickett accused the French artist Paul Philippe of painting around Gettysburg. He implied indirectly that we all have this right and responsibility. He believes that "questioning power is the cornerstone of democracy." He said that the key is an open dialogue driven by curiosity. He said that problems will lead to dialogue. "The answer will only shut people up."
In order to keep the dialogue open and sometimes push it into unforgivable or unexpected areas, Bradford uses different media to reflect American history. His first personal museum exhibition in Los Angeles included Spider-Man, a video clip imitating sexism and homophobia in the 1980s, and finding Barry in the United States after Hurricane Katrina.
He mapped the HIV infection rate and built a 70-foot-high ark mitra with the FEMA logo of the pet that the survivors tried to find after the storm. At present, a portrait in the color of 150 is on display at the Los Angeles County Art Museum. The size of this mural is consistent with the scene when the police filmed castel in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Bradford was the winner of the MacArthur Foundation's "Genius" Award in 2009. In the 1960s, he grew up on a board of directors in south-central Los Angeles. He is the eldest son of two children, and he never knew his father. His mother is a hair stylist. In the early 1970s, she decided to move her family to a safer place in Los Angeles, which he called "Santa Monica House". Birkenstock and the Socialist National Movement, his mother finally opened her own salon in Lamert Park, close to their former neighbors. After graduating from high school, he got a barber's license and worked with his mother.
Pickett's installation spans nearly 400 feet and consists of eight canvases 12 feet high and 45 feet long. (Provided by artists and Hauser and Voss. Photo: Cathy Carver was a black homosexual in the 1980s. He saw people he knew and people from other places die of AIDS-related diseases at the Los Angeles Club. In order to escape their fate, he fled to Europe intermittently in his twenties. He will hoard his hairline until he runs out of money, then work, save money and wander around.
In his early thirties, he moved to Los Angeles and entered an art school. He experimented in different media, read the works of philosophers and art theorists, and obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts in california institute of the arts. He continued to work in his mother's salon, while also doing art, studying how to use abstraction to investigate race, gender and socio-economy. 200 1 A collective exhibition held in Harlem Studio Museum made him on the wish list of collectors all over the world.
Bradford's paintings usually sell for $654.38 million. In order to create these works, he looked for materials from the streets of Los Angeles, which can be traced back to the day when he finished art school, when he could not afford acrylic and other expensive supplies. He prefers to use what he finds, "pull out things that don't belong to the art world and let them enter the art world."
He can also add house paint, or tail paper with chemical hair treatment, or make color advertisements for payday lenders and other enterprises targeting residents in low-income areas. He layered these elements into large collages, and then used power tools, bleach and other methods to scratch, scorch and fade the paintings.
Picot's charge (two men) (details) by Mark Bradford, 20 16-20 17 (by artists and Hauser &; Provided by Wirth). Photo: Joshua White is in charge of pickett. He printed the digital image of Cyclorama in Gettysburg on the billboard material with blue background to prevent the image and the following text from visually infiltrating. In order to create a scaffold, he fixed strings in dozens of rows on a large number of canvases, with each row spaced 4 inches apart.
"When I realized how big a 400-foot straight line was, I was very scared," he said. He needs rope to create a "grounding mechanism that won't make me panic." He compared them to an explosion controlled by archaeologists, allowing for the orderly excavation of the following history. The rope became the substructure. He explained, "I don't draw many sketches." I solve all problems through labor. "
He used some pieces of paper, the same color as Philip's painting, and finally used the image of Gettysburg. Then he dug up the materials on the billboard and dragged his guide rope and paper layer. The echo of the pulled rope forms concentric circles on the canvas. Like his early works, he scratched and tore the paintings repeatedly until he felt them wrinkled.
The location of museums along the National Shopping Center inspired these paintings, just like the circular Hirshhorn Gallery where they hung. He said, "I'm always bothered by what happens in the mall." "This is the place where democracy and dissident ceremonies are held", such as the March for employment and freedom held in Washington in August, 1963, 10 women's March, 20 17. Bradford's historical research on Picot's accusation focuses on neglected women's contribution to the civil rights movement.
At Hirshhorn Gallery, Bradford stood in front of pickett's last accusation painting "Dead Horse" and described how the process of pickett's accusation has changed over the years. "There is a three-dimensional equation.