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[[File:Mona breakfast.jpg|thumbnail|"Mona Breakfast" (aka "Jerry's"), 1976, 33"x46", poured acrylic]] |
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With the 20th century came the use of '''plastics in art.''' In the latter half of the century, plastic making technology advanced so that it was feasible for artists to start using [[plastic]] as a [[Artistic|medium]]. |
With the 20th century came the use of '''plastics in art.''' In the latter half of the century, plastic making technology advanced so that it was feasible for artists to start using [[plastic]] as a [[Artistic|medium]]. |
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*[http://www.tylerturkle.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/anatomy/window.jpg Image: Artistic black silhouettes on glass window panes] |
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*[http://www.tylerturkle.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/curtain/curtain1.jpg Image: Plasticene puddles of color that lie on the floor] |
*[http://www.tylerturkle.com/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/curtain/curtain1.jpg Image: Plasticene puddles of color that lie on the floor] |
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Revision as of 18:15, 8 August 2013
PLASTICS IN ART
With the 20th century came the use of plastics in art. In the latter half of the century, plastic making technology advanced so that it was feasible for artists to start using plastic as a medium.
Artist and Filmmaker Tyler Turkle is credited with the term "Plastometry". Plastometry is used in art to describe the malleable and ubiquitous presence of plastic in our lives.[1] The idea of "Plastometry" is best demonstrated with Turkle's use of liquid acrylics, pouring and molding them into artistic black silhouettes on glass window panes, plasticene puddles of color that lie on the floor and rubbery curtains emblazoned with “Visa” and “MasterCard” as commentary on our national obsession with plastic. Craig Adcock, University of Iowa writes, "In Turkles work, we are brought back to the world and are made aware of acrylic paint, not merely painted with acrylic paint. Because his paintings involve themselves with contemporary issues of representation, words like "surrogate," "duplication," and "replication" come to mind..."[2] In the mid-1970s, Turkle started experimenting with liquid acrylic, first pouring it on velvet-wrapped plywood for the 1976 work, “Mona Breakfast.[1]
Artist Roxy Paine created a sculpture making machine: a large metal contraption that oozed Polymethyl methacrylate|acrylic on to a conveyor belt that jiggled slowly back and forth. The barely liquid plastic would pile up and solidify. After a few hours, the conveyor belt would move the pile forward and begin a new sculpture. The machine was exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in January 2001.
Noted Artists Working With Plastic
- Tyler Turkle - Artist and Filmmaker
- Roxy Paine - Artist
See also
- New materials in 20th-century art
- Acrylic paint
- Plastic in art
- Image: Artistic black silhouettes on glass window panes
- Image: Plasticene puddles of color that lie on the floor
