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You certainly can. As Joe demonstrates.
You question should have been "Should you . . .?"
ooops ... sorry, needed an edit.
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Andy Warhol did a whole series of photos / screen prints of crime scene photos / electric chairs / car crashes etc. Disturbing subject matter but looked very impressive when viewed as a collection of work
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"before pressing computer technology into action to saturate his digital images with ultra-vivid colour." - Not sure if this is the artist or reporter who thinks saturating an image is 'cutting edge'; as both iphoto and picasa allow this, I suspect it's 'stretching the point'.
Re; the question 'in hand' - while the purpose of 'art' is to question the world around you; I see no wrong in delivering any subject - providing the audience has some understanding of what it is about to see.
I'm not especially interested in owning the 'art' - but as commentary; why not?
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Even though it’s not something I personally would feel comfy to produce images about from my personal ethical framework artists often deal with uncomfortable subject matter. And the day when they are no longer free to do so will be a dark day indeed.
I also appreciate that his images are about the media presentation of disasters rather than the disasters themselves.
Thanks to the heads up on the exhibition. One for my diary.
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@ Lloyd - I think you mean 'Joe' not 'Jay' - nowt to do with me yer honour
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"artists often deal with uncomfortable subject matter"
Yup - because that tends to guarantee the most column inches. As it has done here...
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Artists are people of their time - if they use PR to get attention, who can complain? Certainly not marketing types (he he)
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It depends whether the level of media attention something is likely to generate is the primary driver behind the artwork in the first place...
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Some might say this artist is receiving good inches based on her disasters to date...
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Jay - is that not purely abstract artistic practice though?
Just because we don't understand it, doesn't mean its not art. Or something.
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as an architectural modelmaker of 8 years,i'd probably really enjoy working on something like this,as an art graduate well it's interesting to a point,in my opinion,its fun and photographically unremarkable.
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Much of what we are fed by tv/movie industry is recreations of real life disasters.
What is this guy doing that is any different, in fact seeing the two samples I'd say they are probably a lot more tasteful than anything done by the TV/movie companies, and respect it for its much lower budgets.
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The trouble is he is not doing anything. The finished products don't add up to anything. When we play with models -- model trains, model planes -- etc. we kind of play God and I am sure we have all staged or imagined crashes, disasters etc. If this an artist (and there is scant evidence of imagination, creativity or solid powers of thought) the question is what he thinks he is gaining by leeching off real disasters. What on earth has been added to the sum of human achievement . . .
It would be nice to think that there was some evidence of thinking about that media mediation of disaster etc.
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Joe Mawson and the other artists in the exhibition will be speaking in a public roundtable discussion next Tuesday 21 April - open to all to have your final say!
Come to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds for free coffee/tea at 6pm and then join in the debate. We're open until 8pm, too for those who haven't seen the exhibition yet.
Hope to see you all there!
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