Member hod… Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform I'm working on a project for a senior class at my school. The project is about typography and fine art. I'm designing three alphabets and painting them onto a canvas, to make the point that typography is a fine art. My professor is asking that we find ten 'contemporary' artists that are doing what we're doing. So do any of you know of people who are treating type as a fine art. ie incorporating it into painting, sculpture or anything like that. Something beyond simply designing a font. I've looked around and I haven't really seen much of this, but if you know of anyone who is doing this I'd greatly appreciate your input. If you have any questions about what I mean exactly feel free to ask as well. Thanks! Link to comment
Member kei… Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 i Ed Ruscha does (did?) a lot of typographic paintings. Link to comment
Member cra… Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 Ifyour looking for present day artist then I think the list will be fairly short. I think a good look at any typographic book will give you a long list of artists such as the cubists (Picaso and Braque), The futurists (Bella, Cara and Severini) most importantly Fillippo Tommaso ("words in freedom") Marinetti. Then look at modernists like, El lissitsky (who created 'of two squares' typographical "paintings"). Constructavists Alaxandr Rodchenko. De stijl and Dada Theo Van Doesberg. The Bauhaus, Kurt Schwitters, Moholy Nagy, Lissitski and other modernists like Piet Zwart and Vilmos Haszar. You may also find that looking at some of hte graphis typographic manuals will give you a better modern approach and na incling of some more artistic renditions. I used to love the work of an excellent japanese sculpture/designer who's sculptural brushed steel work I would class as art but his name has been lost to time... I think it was something like, Takanobu Igerashi? you've got me onto a subject I love, so I'll find out ond get back to you. Link to comment
Member hod… Posted November 27, 2003 Author Share Posted November 27, 2003 paul, if you could find the japanese guy's name I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm really interested in sculpting letterforms in metal, but I haven't done it yet. So if I could see someone else's work who is/was doing that type of work that would be excellent! thanks! Link to comment
Member hra… Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 There's Delve Withrington, in the Bay Area. Very talented - does all kinds of aristic lettering. http://www.myfonts.com/person/withrington/delve/ I also remember this guy (once mentioned by Tiffany or Tanya, either here or on Typographica) that took famous old paintings and added huge 3D letters into the scenery - but I don't remember his name. Lastly, our Ole Sorensen has made some 300-pound metal letters. BTW, the Japanese guy you want is probably Takenobu Igarashi. hhp Link to comment
Member ken… Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 Consider the role that lettering played in some of the work of Jasper Johns. He was using vernacular stencil letters, as opposed to designing an alphabet himself, but some of his large alphabet paintings are remarkable in their exploration of two-dimensional space. One example:"0 through 9", maybe not the best; I can't find any images online of his large, alphabet canvases. Although not what you're specifically asking about, I suspect, you might also take a look at the work of Jack Stauffacher, a typographer and printer who has explored letterforms as pure shape in compositions that he creates using old wood types. Almost completely unrelated to your exporation, but worth mentioning as a tangent, Beatrice Riese created a series of marvelous abstract, all-over compositions in pencil, each named for a different typeface. One example: "Syntax, Souvenir, Symbol" (a lo-res scan can't do justice to the work, unfortunately). Link to comment
Member aqu… Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 From the typophile homepage. Alphabet as Art: http://www.uml.edu/dept/art/ Link to comment
Member cra… Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 Thats exactly the man HHP; I was one letter out (Takenobu Igerashi) not a bad gues after ten years of not seeing his work. But yes very inspirational use of typographic forms to create truely original architectural sculprure. Link to comment
Member joe… Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 Lari Pittman. He's not well represented on the web. A contemporary artist in Los Angeles. A monograph is available at some art Museum bookstores. Find it. Lovely. Joe Link to comment
Member mat… Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 1. Christopher Wool is the bomb. 2. Kay Rosen 3. Sean Landers, the king of slacker art. 4. Probably not what you're looking for, and not so contemporary, but Joseph Kosuth 5. Also not so contemporary, but nonetheless, Bruce Nauman & Robert Indiana 6. Jack Pierson Link to comment
Member hod… Posted November 28, 2003 Author Share Posted November 28, 2003 Randy, that's funny you should mention that, because that's where I go to school. I haven't yet seen it, but I definitely plan on it. And thanks for all the input everyone. Link to comment
Member hoe… Posted November 28, 2003 Share Posted November 28, 2003 Margaret Kilgallen was one of my favorites, and she is deeply missed. Link to comment
Member Dan… Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 My favorite is the Swiss artist Paul Klee. Lettering in many of his paintings was as important as any other line or color. Link to comment
Member ano… Posted December 1, 2003 Share Posted December 1, 2003 Of course, Jasper Johns http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/psearch?Request=S&imageset=1&Person=65280 and Robert Rauschenberg Link to comment
Member sou… Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 not sure how everyone feels about graffiti and if you can call it fine art.. but i like "delta" a lot.. not all links are relevant but i know he did some stuff with letterforms, 3d, paintings and sculptures http://www.deltainc.nl http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Crater/2801/delta.html http://masterplan.ooo.nl/ http://www.graffiti.org/delta/delta_1.html Link to comment
Member bee… Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 incorporating type into paintings... Christian Schwartz and Chank Diesel www.orangeitalic.com/ www.chank.com/ Link to comment
Member sno… Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for... Thomas Ingmire These are a little easier to see. John Stevens Katharina Piper Timothy Botts Cardozo Kindersley He's a stone cutter. Check out the his alphabets cut in stone in the gallery. I love the flourished alphabet. 2wenty2 I bookmarked this site because I thought that the sculpture (bottom right) was really neat. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 > Cardozo Kindersley > He's a stone cutter. That's a she, I think. hhp Link to comment
Member sno… Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 Oh my gosh! You're right Hrant! All this time I had her confused with her husband. Thanks for the heads up. Link to comment
Member dav… Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Hey. My fave is Demuth's Figure 5 In Gold. David Roughs Link to comment
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