Back to the Human in John Logan’s “Red”

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Armin Gómez ◽  
Eva Citlali Martínez

AbstractLaureate play “Red,” by John Logan, is a dramatic representation of biographical facts about and intellectual positions of the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko (1903–1970). With the tool of semiotic methodology named “Dramatology” it is possible to appreciate both text and staging – which go beyond a theatrical experience. “Red” leads the reader/spectator to question current human pragmatism and environmental insensitivity. Its main character wants to change the usual perspective of seeing and understanding pictures in order to achieve a more emotional and enriching art experience. The staging embraces certain tasks such as the construction of a large-format frame and the application of red paint on a canvas to stimulate the audience’s senses, breaking theatrical illusion. Ecocriticism allows us to describe the dramatic strategies of “Red” that raise audience awareness.

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina Nikolova ◽  
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The research is studies the spontaneity and expressiveness of children’s art and is based on the views of Mark Rothko. The pedagogical methods of the abstract expressionist, aimed at preserving the immediacy of the pictorial expression, are relevant and applicable today. The study offers a methodology for the development of color perception and color abilities of the preschool child, which fits into the context of Rothko’s pedagogical views.


Palíndromo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Makowiecky ◽  
Luciana Marcelino

RESUMOEste artigo visa analisar e registrar a transição do pictórico ao digital no pensamento e na produção da artista Yara Guasque, professora do curso de Artes Visuais da Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, pesquisadora em arte e tecnologia. Seu percurso artístico e intelectual parte de uma produção pictórica nos anos 80 e 90, centrada em pinturas monocromáticas de grandes dimensões com aplicação de têmpera sobre lona, na qual encontramos questões formais como cor e dimensão, que a aproximam dos artistas expressionistas abstratos da década de 50, especialmente com Mark Rothko, artista de maior aproximação. Transfere-se para o campo das artes digitais a partir dos anos 2000, cujos trabalhos tornam-se ainda mais experimentais e colaborativos. Percurso sintomático da atual mudança de paradigmas analógico/digital, o artigo busca analisar os atravessamentos do conceito de imersão tanto na produção pictórica quanto na produção digital realizada pela artista. Partindo das possibilidades imersivas do campo pictórico chega-se ao estudo da imersão em telepresença nos trabalhos experimentais realizados pelos grupos Perforum Desterro e Perforum São Paulo, coordenados, respectivamente, por Yara Guasque e Artur Matuck.Palavras ChaveImersão, pictórico, expressionismo abstrato, arte virtual, telepresença. AbstractThis article aims to analyze and record the transition from pictorial to digital in thought and production of the artist Yara Guasque, Professor of Visual Arts at the University of the State of Santa Catarina and researcher in art and technology. Her artistic career and intellectual moves from a pictorial production in the 80s and 90s, focused on large monochrome paintings by applying tempera on canvas, in which we find formal questions such as color and size, that approach her work of abstract expressionist artists of the decade 50, especially Mark Rothko, artist closer. Then she moved to the field of digital arts from the 2000s, whose works become even more experimental and collaborative. Her way is symptomatic of the current paradigm shift analog /digital, the article seeks to analyze the crossings of the concept of immersion in both pictorial and digital production performed by the artist. Starting from the immersive possibilities of pictorial field comes to the study of immersion in telepresence through experimental work carried out by groups Perforum Desterro and Perforum São Paulo, coordinated respectively by Yara Guasque and ArturMatuck.Key wordsImmersion, pictorial, abstract expressionism, art virtual, telepresence.


Elements ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Sarno

Synesthesia is not only highly instrumental but primary in our figurative thought and expression. The overlapping of sensory modalities can be used to elucidate complex layers of perception through a universal type of metaphor. In regards to abstract expressionism, a visual strategy that is vague and vat, referring to alternative modes of perception to comprehend painting proves extremely useful when exercised with discretion. The research I have conducted includes psychological experiments, studies on color, gravity, physics, acoustics, architecture and art criticism. By analyzing gravity, volume, pitch weight and saturation in music, I have identified them in abstract expressionist Mark Rothko's art. Although these components are mutable in Rothko's career, they are consistently present.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Jansen Aui

<p>This research explores the relationship between architectural space and the abstract expressionist art of Mark Rothko. Rothko’s large format, post-1950’s paintings employing his signature ‘color-field’ style instigated much discourse relating the works to ideas of spatiality: particularly those of atmosphere, emotional intensity, and the abstract presentation of space. This thesis begins with the observation that there is a certain ‘authenticity’ lacking in reproductions of Rothko’s art, where the full effect of the ‘original’ is lost or betrayed in the process of its reproduction. From this premise within art, it finds an analogical relationship between architecture and its reproduction, particularly in photographed space and in the conventions of architectural representation. In both these cases, the full effect of the ‘space’ they describe (their ‘original’) is argued to be in some way lost. To explore this analogy, this thesis firstly develops a relationship between the artist and space: that ‘within’ the artwork, and that between this art and physical spaces (the artist’s studios and spaces of exhibition). Secondly, this thesis develops a shift of the artist’s spatial thinking toward architecture, with particular reference to Walter Benjamin’s concept of the ‘Aura’ of the original work of art. As read through his essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction [1936], the Aura is interpreted as the essential ‘authenticity’ of the Original work that is lost within the act of reproduction. The argument concerning Rothko and spatiality is therefore furthered through specifically focussed readings of how this Aura might manifest metaphysically (i.e. experientially, as opposed to physically), through a parallel discussion of Rothko’s art and several ‘thematically’ related architectural case studies. In doing so, it explores the way Auratic architectural experiences can be invoked within the perception of an embodied presence. In both the applied aspect of this research by design thesis, and in its conclusion, there is a relationship highlighted between architectural convention (as reproduction), abstraction, and the immediacy, authenticity or Aura of a spatial encounter. It is concluded that from this singular study of an abstract painter, architects can learn something of the direct exchange or translation between the users of architecture and the transcendental realm of the ideas of architecture or space.</p>


Author(s):  
John Szostak

Kenzô Okada was an American painter of Japanese birth, and one of the earliest artists from Asia to earn an international reputation as an abstract expressionist. Okada began his artistic training at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, but withdrew in 1924 in order to travel to France. In Paris, he met fellow expatriate Fujita Tsuguharu and also became acquainted with Alberto Giacometti and Marie Laurencin. A comparison of Laurencin’s portraits with work from Okada’s initial phase suggests her example was important in the development of his early figural style. Okada returned to Japan in 1927 due to financial hardship, at which point he became associated with the Nikakai, where he exhibited for the next thirty years. In 1950, Okada moved from Japan to New York, where he befriended Mark Rothko, Bradley Walker Tomlin, and Clyfford Still. The work of these New York School painters encouraged Okada to forego representational styles in favor of abstraction. During this latter phase, he rendered his paintings in subdued, flat colors with a decorative lyricism often associated with the aesthetics of traditional Japanese paintings; in a 1968 interview, Okada later came to define abstraction as "West and East meeting each other." Okada became an American citizen in 1960 but made frequent visits to Tokyo, where he died in 1982.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Jansen Aui

<p>This research explores the relationship between architectural space and the abstract expressionist art of Mark Rothko. Rothko’s large format, post-1950’s paintings employing his signature ‘color-field’ style instigated much discourse relating the works to ideas of spatiality: particularly those of atmosphere, emotional intensity, and the abstract presentation of space. This thesis begins with the observation that there is a certain ‘authenticity’ lacking in reproductions of Rothko’s art, where the full effect of the ‘original’ is lost or betrayed in the process of its reproduction. From this premise within art, it finds an analogical relationship between architecture and its reproduction, particularly in photographed space and in the conventions of architectural representation. In both these cases, the full effect of the ‘space’ they describe (their ‘original’) is argued to be in some way lost. To explore this analogy, this thesis firstly develops a relationship between the artist and space: that ‘within’ the artwork, and that between this art and physical spaces (the artist’s studios and spaces of exhibition). Secondly, this thesis develops a shift of the artist’s spatial thinking toward architecture, with particular reference to Walter Benjamin’s concept of the ‘Aura’ of the original work of art. As read through his essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction [1936], the Aura is interpreted as the essential ‘authenticity’ of the Original work that is lost within the act of reproduction. The argument concerning Rothko and spatiality is therefore furthered through specifically focussed readings of how this Aura might manifest metaphysically (i.e. experientially, as opposed to physically), through a parallel discussion of Rothko’s art and several ‘thematically’ related architectural case studies. In doing so, it explores the way Auratic architectural experiences can be invoked within the perception of an embodied presence. In both the applied aspect of this research by design thesis, and in its conclusion, there is a relationship highlighted between architectural convention (as reproduction), abstraction, and the immediacy, authenticity or Aura of a spatial encounter. It is concluded that from this singular study of an abstract painter, architects can learn something of the direct exchange or translation between the users of architecture and the transcendental realm of the ideas of architecture or space.</p>


Author(s):  
Nathan Walter ◽  
Yariv Tsfati

Abstract. This study examines the effect of interactivity on the attribution of responsibility for the character’s actions in a violent video game. Through an experiment, we tested the hypothesis that identification with the main character in Grand Theft Auto IV mediates the effect of interactivity on attributions of responsibility for the main character’s antisocial behavior. Using the framework of the fundamental attribution error, we demonstrated that those who actually played the game, as opposed to those who simply watched someone else playing it, identified with the main character. In accordance with the theoretical expectation, those who played the game and came to identify with the main character attributed the responsibility for his actions to external factors such as “living in a violent society.” By contrast, those who did not interact with the game attributed responsibility for the character’s actions to his personality traits. These findings could be viewed as contrasting with psychological research suggesting that respondents should have distanced themselves from the violent protagonist rather than identifying with him, and with Iyengar’s (1991) expectation that more personalized episodic framing would be associated with attributing responsibility to the protagonist.


PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Albert Bardi
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Author(s):  
Alistair Fox

Through a comparison with Janet Frame’s Autobiography, from which it is adapted, this chapter analyses Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table as the first New Zealand film to present all three of the main maturational phases characteristic of the coming-of-age genre, but as experienced by a Pākehā girl. Identifying the effects of a repressive environment as the source of the emotional stresses that lead the main character, Janet, to be institutionalized for schizophrenia, the discussion shows how she finds respite in fictive creativity and a world of the imagination. It also shows Campion’s personal investment in the story as a displaced representation of her own mother’s fight with mental illness.


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