Though we usually think of visual artists working in paints, inks, or clays; artists have also experimented with art media as strange and unconventional as bubblegum, elephant dung, and human blood. Take a look with us at some of the more surprising materials artists have created with throughout time.

2021年12月22日 · Looking back at 2021, here are seven global artists who created magic and wonderment through materiality. 1. The sculptural art of Kristof Kintera gives creative expression to e-scrap. The green pastures, sprawling fields, untamed gardens embellished the earth before its major portions decayed and turned into barren land.

2018年7月5日 · In the contemporary art world, an increasing number of artists are choosing to work with materials that have the potential of disturbing viewers. The British-born artist Tracey Emin’s work includes an installation constructed using pregnancy tests, a box of morning after pills, tampons, as well as blood and tissue paper.

Some artists use materials to heighten a work’s sense of reality. French painter and sculptor Edgar Degas dressed his Little Dancer Aged Fourteen in a real cotton bodice, cotton and silk tutu, and linen slippers. But his commitment to the cause goes even further—Degas used dark blonde human hair for the dancer’s tresses.

2020年6月16日 · 在诞生之初，“材质艺术”（Material Art）曾受到先前当代艺术对物质性探索的启发，特别是意大利的贫穷艺术（Arte Povera）和日本的物派（Mono-ha）在20世纪六七十年代的实验。

2012年9月18日 · The article addresses concepts of material agency in the work of scholars from Karl Marx and Marshall McLuhan to Anthony Giddens and Alfred Gell. It then discusses differing ontologies of agency, including animism and fetishism, in which material agency plays a key role.

2019年5月26日 · Drawing on analytical philosophy of art, this article argues that an artist’s moral character can indeed affect the content of their art. Focussing on a recent exhibition of Picasso’s art, I make use of a key notion: that of the correct, or true, ontology of artworks.

2020年12月22日 · Rethinking imagery, repurposing materials, this new blog post feature artists who are subverting mediums and create art in alternative ways.

2010年3月10日 · A History of Irritated Material probes art’s relationship to politics and the archive through examples of art activism from each decade since 1945, many on show for the first time in Britain...

2020年1月11日 · Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory political art installation that highlights the thousands of migrants who have perished while crossing the rugged, vast Arizona/Mexico border. The installation consists of a 20-foot-long map of the area and is populated with over 3,200 handwritten toe tags, filled out over the course of the exhibition ...