Third Reference: Alfredo Jaar

Art

My third reference will be a visual artist, architect and filmmaker named Alfredo Jaar. He was born in Santiago de Chile, Chile, on 1956 and he is working in New York City. 

Jaar has done more than 60 public inventions around the world, and more than 50 monographic publications. His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum.

He is famous thanks to his artworks in which he mix important, delicate and sensitive elements in order to design the structures and messages on his photography, architecture, art and theater. The concepts and ideas he use to develop his work are facts from the past and the daily life situations and conflicts, such as the racism, slavery, classism, inequality and discrimination.

Chosen artwork:

Alfredo Jaar

Gold in the Morning I, II, III (Oro en la mañana I, II, III), 1985

Taken from: http://glosario.malba.org.ar/#glosarytext

-> Slavery and racism.

-> Dark colors -> no happiness.

-> Postcolonialism: A theoretical school that emerged between the decades of 1980 and 1990, that is based on the colonial situations and their effects.

More about Postcolonialism:

"Poscolonialismo".

Retrived from: http://glosario.malba.org.ar/#glosarytext.

Why is it my third reference?

Alfredo Jaar will be my third reference thanks to the clarity he uses to communicate feelings and ideas and to the colors he uses according what he wants to express. I am going to use Jaar's ideas and strategies to develop and complete the interdisciplinary unit project about our Latin-American identity.

More Jaar's artworks:

"A logo  for America" (1987).

Alfredo Jaar.

Retrived from: http://www.alfredojaar.net/.

Alfredo Jaar.

"La geometría de la conciencia".

Retrived from:  http://www.livegap.cl/la-impresionante-obra-de-jaar-que-nadie-conoce-en-santiago/.

Alfredo Jaar.

Untitled.

Retrived from:  http://www.galeriaanimal.cl/ediciones/alfredo-jaar-2/.

More artworks I liked:

Annemarie Heinrich.

Retrived from: http://www.malba.org.ar/tag/annemarie-heinrich/?v=diario

Benito Quinquela Martín.

"Elevadores a pleno sol" (1945).

Óleo sobre tela.

200 x 164 cm.

Colección Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.

References:

• "Alfredo Jaar". Alfredo Jaar, (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.alfredojaar.net/ 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "Arte latinoamericano siglo XX", Malba. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.malba.org.ar/evento/arte-latinoamericano-siglo-xx/ 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• Verboamérica. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://glosario.malba.org.ar/#glosarytext 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "ANIMAL". (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.galeriaanimal.cl/artistas/alfredo-jaar/ 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• Elevadores a pleno sol - arte y ciudad - Arte argentino | Conectar Igualdad. (n.d.). Retrieved January 22, 2017, from https://www.educ.ar/dinamico/UnidadHtml__get__e471dadd-d4d1-4e2c-897a-b09b28723067/node/86.html 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "Annemarie Heinrich", Malba. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.malba.org.ar/tag/annemarie-heinrich/?v=diario 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "Alfredo Jaar". (n.d.). Retrieved from http://catalogo.artium.org/book/export/html/330 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "ANIMAL". (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.galeriaanimal.cl/ediciones/alfredo-jaar-2/ 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "La impresionante obra de Jaar que nadie conoce en Santiago". (2014, March 01). Retrieved from http://www.livegap.cl/la-impresionante-obra-de-jaar-que-nadie-conoce-en-santiago/ 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "Alfredo Jaar, de Chile a África". (2008, April 07). Retrieved from https://tigrepelvar3.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/alfredo-jaar-de-chile-a-africa/ 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "Viva el Arte: Alfredo Jaar". (1970, January 01). Retrieved from http://vivaelarte-cabusrri.blogspot.com.co/2011/03/alfredo-jaar.html 22/01/17 8:13 pm.
• "Benito Quinquela Martín Art". (n.d.). Retrieved from https://es.pinterest.com/malugiuni/benito-quinquela-mart%C3%ADn-art/ 22/01/17 8:13 pm.