Friday, April 15, 2011

Ron Mueck

Some of my favorite art is that which causes the viewer to give a double take--art whose illusion of reality nearly overwhelms the act of its creation. Ron Mueck's work is an example of such art. While Mueck began his artistic career working on scenery and lending voices to characters on an Australian children's show, he found a higher calling, producing the fantastic, hyper-realistist human forms. This alone isn't that exciting. Special effects people have been recreating the human form for decades. The factor that make's Mueck's work different is not readily aparent in photographs--but when you notice the size of the viewers present, it's jarringly obvious. Scale. Each of Mueck's figures has been exanpded to 2 or 3 times their normal size, or inversely, has been shrunken to fit in your pocket. One of the beauties of this work is that these changes in size do not come at the expense of detail, or proportion. Each figure exists alone in its own surreal world of enormity or insignificance, and each has something to say about those factors in every human being.









5 comments:

  1. very imaginative and full of details.good work hope we can get some inspiration and make it something really creative.

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  2. thnks for the names of the artworks. makes it heaps easy to do this assignment

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  3. Daaaaaaaamn! One of the most precise and visually amazing artists working today!

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  4. The one with the shoes is "Karma" by Do Ho Suh.

    Remko

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  5. Thanks for the heads-up. It's been removed.-Egan

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