NurtureArt talk- Oct 27, 2010
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Transcript of NurtureArt talk- Oct 27, 2010
Painting the ‘Apocalyptic Sublime’
Muse Fuse
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NurtureArt
OCTOBER 2010
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
Dad’s Lab…
Science Textbooks, TV shows, Time-Life books… The Internet
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
Declassified Cold War Imagery
Declassified government files
"Trinity" July 16, 1945the first nuclear test
Alamogordo Test Range Jornada del Muerte Desert
(“Journey of Death”) New Mexico
The Rapatronic is a Camera made by the EG&G Co. in the 1950's to photograph atomic explosions at the rate of 1/1,000,000 of a second.
"Dog“, November 1, 1951Operation Buster-Jangle, Nevada Test Site, Area 7
1417 Foot Airdrop from B-50
“Castle Bravo”High yield thermonuclear weapons test (H-bomb) detonated on an artificial
island at Bikini Atoll February 28, 1954 (GMT)
Joy Garnett: Bikini (1997) 20 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Fireball with Joshua Trees (1998) 48 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett:Christmas Island (1998) 50 x 42 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Boltzman (1999) 20 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas.
Frederick Church: Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860
Gerhard Richter:RaketeRocket 1966 93 cm X 73 cm Oil on canvas Catalogue Raisonné: 110-2
Rocket Science
Public military documents
Television: Night vision / Tracer fire : The First Gulf War (CNN)
Kosovo: Gun camera imagery (Mpeg)
Joy Garnett: Rocket Science. (2001) 28 x 38 inches. Oil on canvas.
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
The Media Narrative
Joy Garnett: News Anchor (Kabul) (2002) 26 x 32 inches. Oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Night Vision, Baghdad (2006) 38 x 44 inches, Oil/canvas
Joy Garnett: Road. (2007) 35 x 38 inches. oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Jog. 2003. 26 x 46 inches. Oil/canvas
Joy Garnett: Oil. (2008) 38 x 44 inches. Oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Paris Riots (3) 2005. 11 x 14 inches. Oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Paris Riots (6) 2005. 15 x 20 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Plume 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas
Joy Garnett: Flood 2 (2005) 26 x 46 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Flood 5 (2006) 54 x 60 inches. oil/canvas.
Joy Garnett: Dusk (2007). 30 x 38 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Noon. (2007) 56 x 60 inches. Oil on canvas.
Joy Garnett: Yellow Smoke. (2009). Oil on canvas. 26 x 30 inches.
Joy Garnett: Explosion, Yellow & White (2009)Oil on canvas. 32 x 26 inches
Joy Garnett: Crash. (2009) 38 x 48 inches. Oil on canvas
Source Material
• Science + technoscience photography• US Government + military archives• News photos; photojournalism (mass media)• Influences/direct references to other art works
Thomas Ruff: jpeg ny02 (2004) 8 ft. 10 in. x 11 ft. 11 3/8 in
Boom & Bust:
Source Material
Boom & Bust:
Paintings, drawings, prints
Boom & Bust:
SOURCE BOOK
All paintings by Joy Garnett appear here courtesy of the artist and Winkleman Gallery, New York. They are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license. Other images appearing for the purpose of this lecture may be licensed separately.
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