Images of Broken Art

Broken Love

Hot Love

Tear

Torn

Hype

Broken Art

Broken Art _ Movie_ with artist statement

Broken Art

                                                                                                                 Jihwan Park

Artists who art not satisfied with the accepted canon of previous art feel compelled to break that art. My Broken Art series is literally breaking artwork. This artwork references iconic images from the recent past. Through breaking, these icons, which represent things, are turned into symbols (which represent words). There is a mysterious correlation between the icons and symbols in Broken Art. Among the works in the series, the word TEAR is created by tearing canvas, and the word LOVE is created by broken wood stretchers with torn canvas cloth making a heart shape. There are other elements in the series with these semiotic characteristics.

Broken Art reflects contemporary art. It explains how some of modern art was born, and satirizes the contemporary art world. Seeking only monetary value in art is called Broken Art, but breaking art from the past in order to find a new direction can also be called Broken Art.

 My Broken Art series comes from the experience in which my artistic legacy was trampled by people. My work attempts to show that even though they may break the artist’s legacy, they cannot destroy the artist’s inspiration. Even with broken art, an artist can create something of great value.

In my research on artists who use glass in their work, I came across Shayna Leib.
Her work isn't extremely relevant to my final installation piece, but I love her use of glass with regard to space. Her piece entitled "EQ" in particular is visually interesting, in its use of different heights and proportions.

www.shaynaleib.com

artist

Russell Mills is an artist I really enjoy. His work has been used often for music related things such as album covers etc. His use of materials, in particular the textures and complexity of the images is something I really appreciate, probably more so now than before. There is a resonance to his work for me and i suspect that comes from the layers and the "old" feel to some of his pieces. He uses a lot of different materials, coal dust and wax, sometimes feathers and found objects. I see similarities to my own photographs in some of his textures etc.

http://www.russellmills.com/index_old.html

video things

A few frames i found on an old 16mm movie, edited and looped.

final video pieces

here are all my videos from the semester! thank you everybody for your comments, advice, opinions, and reactions, I really appreciate the feedback, and please comment on this or talk to me in the studio if you have anything else you wanted to say to thought about!!

afterlife

here is my final video for new forms! it is a music video for the Arcade Fire song "Afterlife." I have a few other videos I haven't shown yet that I will today in critique, that I will put up in a compilation post of all the work I have done throughout the semester.