#hirshorn

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so the guy w/ pompadour reminds me of the one whose name should not be spoken (hint: reminds w/chump).

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YAYOI KUSAMA IN THE HIRSHHORN COLLECTION, Washington, DC.

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GNOMES OF ALL TIME

ID: three gnomes arranged on park benches in a garden. their bodies are made entirely of evergreen boughs, with red and green cone-shaped hats and red mittens where their hands should be. They have no faces except perfectly round noses below their hats. End ID

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06/24/2024

Kodak DC4800

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Hirshorn salt print

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Simone Leigh

Cowrie

Terracotta porcelain steel.

Hirshorn museum

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One of Hal Hirshorn’s 2013 salt prints.

Credit…Hal Hirshorn

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My artwork that I made for a friend. Hopefully she keeps it and when I die they’ll hang it at the hirshorn.

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[ID: an excerpt from Laurie Anderson's exhibit: Four Talks in the Hirshorn Museum. The poem is painted directly on a black wall with white paint, in loose, chalk like strokes.

"I dreamed I was a dog in a dog show and my father came to the dog show—and he said, 'That's a really good dog! I like that dog.'"

Underneath the poem is a rough drawing of a large short haired dog. End ID.]

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Hal Hirshorn, Artist of Otherworldly Photos and Paintings, Dies at 60

Hal Hirshorn, an artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, who nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique cameras and homemade paints to produce haunting photographs and landscape paintings, died on Feb. 4. He was 60. His sister, Harriet Hirshorn, said the cause was coronary artery disease. He died at a friend’s apartment in…

[ourhistorytoo]

Nothing Without Us

Can be watched on Kanopy for free.

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Event Write Up #3

This week had the opportunity to travel to the Hirshorn Museum in DC to view the Basquiat x Banksy exhibition. I was very excited to view Basquiat’s work in person because he is one of my biggest artistic inspirations. While there I also saw the Osgemeos : Endless Story exhibit. I was in awe of their style and creativity.

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Eye catching faux baroque art. Hilarious meets art history and technical prowess.

Flora Yukhnovich at the Hirshorn Collection in DC.

From the description:

b. Norwich, England, 1990

Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too (2022)

Oil on linen

Flora Yukhnovich's monumental paintings combine subjeots, themes, and palettes drawn from earlier artistic movements with the dynamic brushwork of postwar American painting.

In Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too, she puts elements of the eighteenth-century Rococo style, characterized by pastel colors and sensual femininity, into conversation with Abstract Expressionism, associated with the swaggering, hypermasculine stance of painters such as Jackson Pollook. The resulting composition hovers between figuration and abstraction, as Yukhnovich's broad, swirling brushwork makes the female nudes all but melt into the surrounding landscape. This fluid, all-over quality, in which landscape and figures slip in and out of focus—also seen in Lee Krasner's Siren, to the right-thwarts conventional objectification of form in favor of a more sensual or even empathetic engagement.

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Yayoi Kusama- Artist Essay

Yayoi Kusama’s work heavily relates to the theme of bodies and identities. In a lot of her older art, she uses the physical body as part of the performances. In these artworks, Kusama covered the performers in polka dots, which is a theme throughout her career. In her the documentary, ‘Kusama – Infinity’, Kusama decorates herself and mannikins in colourful polka dots. Her physical presence in this performance could relate to how her personal life and experiences are intertwined with her artwork. Her performances and art are largely influenced by her mental health struggles, using her hallucinations of polka dots in her artwork. In an essay by Bree Richards, Kusama’s physical artwork is explored. “The presence of the artist’s body, and an embrace of the performative, however, connect this seminal artist's divergent practice and continue to colour her art today.” (Richards, B). This quote shows how Kusama’s physical presence in her work links her personal life to her creative inspiration. One of her installations, ‘Infinity Mirror Room: Phalli’s Field’ uses parts of the physical body. This installation uses mirrors to reflect a part of the body. Hirshhorn Museum explores this artwork in an article. “The reflective surfaces allowed her vision to transcend the physical limitations of her own productivity.” (Hirshhorn). This explores how Kusama uses mirrors in her artwork to expand her creativity and push her physical limits. This artwork could relate to personal reflection looking into a person’s physical self. The artist is influenced by her own struggles and experiences. Juliet Mitchell explores the background and influence behind Kusama’s artwork in an essay, ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Flower’. “Kusama has always put her ability to hallucinate at the centre of what she is trying to depict.” (Mitchell, J). This quote outlines that Kusama’s ability to hallucinate inspires her creative ideas portrayed through her art. Yayoi Kusa ma also explores this idea in her autobiography. She talks about how her dark past and previous troubles inspire her artwork. “wrung from the scars left on my heart during the hopeless darkness of my adolescence, are fundamentally what keep me creating art” (Kusama, Y). This illustrates how an artist’s struggles and traumas can inspire a creative journey and self-expression through art. I think that Yayoi Kusama’s artwork explores an interesting point of using a person’s own experiences to create art.

Bibliography

Mitchell, J (2012), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Flower, Tate

Richards, B, Yayoi Kusama: Performing the Body, Available at: https://play.qagoma.qld.gov.au/looknowseeforever/essays/performing-the-body/ (Accessed 08/10/24)

Kusama, Y (2011), Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, Tate

Hirshorn, Infintiy Mirror Rooms, Available at: https://hirshhorn.si.edu/kusama/infinity-rooms/ (Accessed 15/08/24)

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06/28/2024

Kodak DC4800

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Hal Hirshorn