Susan Rothenberg Susan Rothenberg's paintings are very interesting and unique. The way she choses to incorporate memory in her art is unique. Every painting is connected through the mixture of the same colors and brushes. She tries to make the experience recurring. She has a very abstract way of painting. Most of the objects, animals, and people in her paintings look like impressions of what they would look like in really life. She also uses a lot of color in her paintings. She states how she doesn’t like to use pure color but instead mix them with other colors to get a duller appearance. She also goes on to explain why all her paintings are painted in birds eye view. It is a view that not many painters use unless painting landscapes. It makes her paintings even more interesting to look at and see things in the way she perceives things. Everyone perceives memories in their own way and Susan Rothenberg's perception was truly unique and different.
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Audio ArtJanet Cardiff is a well-known audio artist. One of her sound installations called “The Forty Part Motet” was created in 2001 but recently was shown in the Fuentidueña Chapel, The Cloisters from September 10 to December 8, 2013. “Regarded as the artist's masterwork, and consisting of forty high-fidelity speakers positioned on stands in a large oval configuration throughout the Fuentidueña Chapel, the fourteen-minute work, with a three-minute spoken interlude, will continuously play an eleven-minute reworking of the forty-part motet Spem in alium numquam habui by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis” (metmuseum.org). Viewers are able to walk around the installation and experience the sounds from every angle. “The Forty Part Motet is most often presented in a neutral gallery setting, but in this case the setting is the Cloisters' Fuentidueña Chapel, which features the late twelfth-century apse from the church of San Martín at Fuentidueña, near Segovia, Spain, on permanent loan from the Spanish Government. Set within a churchlike gallery space, and with superb acoustics,” (metmuseum.org). It truly is an amazing piece where every voice can be heard throughout the installation. The fact that it was installed in the Fuentidueña Chapel only enhances the experience of the piece for the viewer. |
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