Irreverent Art World Standardized Test
Below is a test I came up with, mostly for my own amusement.
Let me know what you think of it in the comments below, or make suggestions for new questions!
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Jay Gidwitz
The Online Art Portfolio of Jay Gidwitz
Contemporary Art
Elephant Painting a Picture
Well, this doesn’t surprise me. It’s from the Telegraph newspaper, if you click the image it’ll take you to the site.
I think it’s genuine, and I’ve heard of elephants making art before.
If an elephant can paint a picture, anyone can paint a picture.
And it goes to my theory that we’re are all creative and that [...]
Art Competition: “Humans in the moment”
About a month ago I submitted to “The TOPTEN Human in the Moment“– an online competition put on by ARTROM gallery based in Rome.
One of my pieces got in!
The Winners’ Exhibition opens Sunday, May 4th at 7:00pm (Rome time) on artromgallery.com.
The picture was an unpublished image from the Erich Zann posters.
Can you be a Surrealist and NOT be in the Surrealist Movement?
My “Dada and Surrealism” professor made the distinction between Surrealists and surrealists. According to him, the people who were deemed to be in the surrealist movement at any given time (by Andre Breton) were surrealists, and the people who weren’t in the movement weren’t surrealists, even if their work was surreal.
I like the professor, but [...]
New images: the “Rachel’s Knife” series
These images were produced through and from the installation project “Rachel’s Knife,” which I created with David Harrington. We created the installation by using chance operations to choose objects to get from the free stuff section on Craig’s List.
After acquiring a room full of stuff the next stage was to decide what to do [...]
Blue Room Show
Two more pieces are going up in a show at the Blue Room at Brown University.
“Dark River” and “Dream Logic” are going to be in it.
Below: “Dream Logic”
Below: “Dark River”
Big thanks to Caroline Washington.
“Unpack This!”
Ann Kidder’s “Unpack This!” art show was a wild success! Metropolis played great music, I’m currently working on my second collaboration with David Harrington, who is in Metropolis.
“Abstract Surrealism,” and “First Lake” were in the show.
Above: “First Lake”
Above: “Abstract Surrealism”
