COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0005170
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aahi0005170
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Work Title (display):
Quotation
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
1972
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2009-09-11
Work Creator (display):
Komar and Melamid (Russian, active USA, collaborated 1967-2003)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
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false
Work Creator notes (display):
Vitaly Komar (1943) and Alexander Melamid (1945) are born in Moscow. They attend and graduate from the Stroganov School of Art and Design (1967). Their first joint show, Retrospectivism, appears in the Blue Bird CafÈ (Moscow, 1967). "Even if only one of us creates some of the projects and works, we usually sign them together. We are not just an artist, we are a movement" (from artist's statement). During the late 60's and early 70's, Komar & Melamid found the movement that they call Sots Art, a unique version of Soviet Pop and Conceptual Art, which combines the principles of Dadaism and Socialist Realism. During these years, they also work on Post-Art, pioneering multi-stylistical images prescient of post-modernism, which will become popular in the 80's. They collaborate on various conceptual projects, ranging from painting and performance to installation, public sculpture, photography, music, and poetry. They also collaborate with other artists, for example, Douglas Davis, Fluxus member Charlotte Moorman, Andy Warhol, among others. In 1973, they are expelled from the Youth section of the Soviet Artist Union. In 1974, they are arrested during a performance in a Moscow apartment show and later their works, along with the works of other nonconformist artists, are destroyed by Soviet authorities at the open-door "Bulldozer Show." By 1978 they are living in New York. Their first show in the West is at the Feldman Gallery (New York, 1976), and their first individual museum show is at the Hartford Athenaeum (Harford, USA, 1978). In the 80's, they continue developing their Sots Art (Nostalgic Socialist Realism Series, May 1st Installation at the Palladium Disco) and Post-Art (Diary Series, Anarchistic Synthesis Series, Bayonne, N.J. Series). They are the first Russian artists to receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, and are also the first Russian artists to be invited to the Documenta 8 (Kassel, Germany, 1987). They devote their projects in the 90's to iconoclasm (Monumental Propaganda, American Dreams), democracy and elitism by statistics (People's Choice), and ecology (Ecollaboration with Animals, Asian Elephant Project). Komar & Melamid's most recent projects are devoted to art as a religion and to the synthesis of irony and spirituality (Van Gogh Art Ministry, Symbols of the Big Bang and Nostalgic Nonconformist Art, a project in progress). The last collaborative work by Komar and Melamid, the project "Symbols of the Big Bang" was shown in New York City at Yeshiva University Museum in 2002-2003 (see catalog "Komar and Melamid; Symbols of the Big Bang" by Anthony Julius, Reba Wulkan, and Ori Z Soltes). At the end of 2003, Vitaly Komar created this website and established "Former Komar and Melamid's Art Studio Archive". In 2004, V. Komar started to work on his individual project "The Three-Day Weekend" . In 2005, this work was shown at the Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York; Ben Uri Gallery, Jewish Museum, London; Matthew Bown Gallery, London, UK; and Humanity Gallery in Cooper Union School of Art and Design, New York (see catalog by Dore Ashton and Andrew Weinstein, and artist statement). The last collaborative work by Komar and Melamid, the project "Symbols of the Big Bang" was shown in New York City at Yeshiva University Museum in 2002-2003 (see catalog "Komar and Melamid; Symbols of the Big Bang" by Anthony Julius, Reba Wulkan, and Ori Z Soltes). (http://komarandmelamid.org/chronology.html accessed 2009-09-23)
Work Creator UCB affiliation notes (display):
not certain whether artists came in fall of 1986 or spring of 1987
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 1986 or 1987
Work Creator (corporate) members (sort):
Melamid, Aleksandr
Work Creator (corporate) members (sort):
Komar, Vitaly
Work Style Period:
Minimal
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Minimal
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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false
Work Subject:
socialism
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socialism
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Work Subject:
red (color)
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red (color)
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
oil paintings
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oil paintings
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on canvas
Work Measurements (display):
46.5 in (H) x 31 in (W)
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Taylor, Brandon. Contemporary Art: Art Since 1970. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2005.
image_source_copy_from_print_name
Taylor, Brandon. Contemporary Art: Art Since 1970. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc., 2005.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-13-118174-2
Image Source Reproduction page number:
55
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Vitaly Komar and Aleksandr Melamid
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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