11/27/2023 0 Comments Art text 4The Art Dealer Told Me This Fake Rothko Would Make me Feel Rich by CB Hoyo, 2017, via CB Hoyo website This means he creates 1:1 fakes of famous paintings that he then writes over with different messages. Unlike Juan Uribe or Wayne White, who turn to “ readymade” canvases, when it comes to his criticism towards the art world, CB Hoyo paints his canvases from scratch. But no matter the medium, his art is text-based. Hoyo works with various mediums from painting to sculpture and installation. He is also very active on social media, starting conversations with his followers about art, about the issues which he addresses, about very awkward and personal subjects. He is a self-taught Cuban artist, who lives and works in Europe. ![]() The words are made out of big, chunky letters in WordArt aesthetics, in warm, pastel tones of pink, purple, orange, or blue.ĬB Hoyo Forged Magritte by CB Hoyo, 2020, via CB Hoyo websiteīorn in 1995, CB Hoyo is the youngest of the artists included in the article. From a technical point of view, he doesn’t actually paint the landscapes himself, but buys them from markets or thrift shops and then puts his signature 3D words over. Like Juan Uribe, Wayne White also uses irony as a light motif of his text-based art. And you can do it every which way.” Wayne White was born in 1956 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, and worked a big part of his life as a set designer and cartoonist. Build giant letters that say exactly what you want to say. Just jump in like the kids in Mary Poppins. On Wayne White’s personal webpage, the “Word Paintings” section begins with a quote that seems to encompass White’s approach to text-based art: “I took a vacation from the Art World in cheap landscape reproductions. Wayne White and Word Art High by Wayne White, via Wayne White website Some text-based artworks became famous all over the world, such as Barbara Kruger’s “I shop therefore I am” and Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture. Others went along with giving a direct, not-at-all hidden meaning to their art and therefore created text-based art or word art. Willem de Kooning changed sides as he became one of the pioneers of conceptual art. ![]() But not all artists were comfortable with reducing art to its techniques, its theory, so a few new movements were born from this. That is how the New York School was born. Artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Clifford Still wanted to get back to the basics, to the pure act of creating art without any symbolism attached to it. It appeared as a reaction against the high culture denoted by Abstract Expressionism. Text-based art has been officially around since the 1950s. Before Juan Uribe & Co: The Origins of Text-Based Art Untitled by Barbara Kruger, 1985, via Museum of Modern Art, New York
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