Leonardo da Vinci, the Last Supper, and I : Contemporary Appropriations

ISBN-13: 9783639144864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 64 str.

Nilsen Turan-Kennedy

Opis

This book looks over the appropriations of the past art in Contemporary American Art through my own paintings and the question of whether or not there is an accepted practice of appropriating the art of the past in Contemporary art is scrutinized. Many artists have challenged art history and have made interpretations of the Last Supper including Andy Warhol, Rene Cox, Ronald Leax, and Mary Beth Edelson. New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman suggested during his conference at the Contemporary Art Museum in St.Louis in 2005 that the reason of the tendency among many contemporary artists to appropriate masters work was the pressure of the past, even though no art that was made in the past was perfect. Because I think the same way, I chose to execute a series of paintings related to one of the famous art works in the world, the Last Supper (1496-1498) by Leonardo da Vinci and wrote about it as well in this book.

O autorze

Mostly affiliated with her contemporary abstractions over maps
and plans, Nilsen Turan-Kennedy is an artist-author living in
the USA. She received her BFA in painting in 1992 from Mimar
Sinan University in Istanbul. She received her MA in Art from
Webster University in St Louis in 2006.