Year 11 GCSE Art

Q. 4 Fusion

Question 4- Fusion

Artists, craftspeople and designers are sometimes inspired by the fusion of art forms. Contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe creates work that combines film, sculpture, sound and the still image.Robert Rauschenberg combined painted, printed and sculptural forms in his work.The architect David Chipperfield fused old and new elements in the ‘Neues Museum’, Berlin.

Investigate relevant sources and produce your own work, in any

appropriate media, in response to fusion

Pierre HuygheEmploying folly, leisure, adventure, and celebration in creating art, Huyghe’s films, installations, and public events range from a small-town parade to a puppet theater, from a model amusement park to an expedition to Antarctica. By filming staged scenarios (such as a re-creation of the true-life bank robbery featured in the movie, "Dog Day Afternoon"), Huyghe probes the capacity of cinema to distort and ultimately shape memory....

‘Contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe creates work that combines film, sculpture, sound and the still image.’

Robert Raushenberg

Rauschenberg’s enthusiasm for popular culture and his rejection of the angst and seriousness of the Abstract Expressionists led him to search for a new way of painting.

One of Rauschenberg’s first and most famous combines was entitled “Monogram” (1959) and consisted of an unlikely set of materials: a stuffed angora goat, a tire, a police barrier, the heel of a shoe, a tennis ball, and paint. This pioneering altered the course of modern art.

‘Robert Rauschenberg combined painted, printed and sculptural forms in

his work.’

David Chipperfield

David Chipperfield Architects won the international competition for the rebuilding of the Neues Museum in collaboration with Julian Harrap.  The design focused on repairing and restoring the original volume, respecting the historical structure.  Both the restoration and repair of the existing is driven by the idea that the original structure should be emphasized in its spatial context and original materiality – the new reflects the lost without imitating it.

‘The architect David Chipperfield fused old and new elements in the ‘Neues

Museum’, Berlin.’

Martha Rosler

Dj Pettitt

Michael Deeng

Fusion

Definition:

The process or result of joining two or more things together to form a single entity

Fusion

Amalgamation

Energy

Combine

Mixed media

Divers Weld

Contemporary

ConnectJoin

Diverse

Collaborate

Merger

Melt

Vintage