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Do a pretentious art critique for a work that resembles a dog carved out of snow

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Do a pretentious art critique for a work that resembles a dog carved out of snow, 2003–2004) A hip living room in which all the furniture has been removed to create a giant room, 2003–2004) A factory floor in which a tiny, human-size doll wears a standing body, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature toys, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature snowmen, 2002–2003) A room filled with miniature figurines, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature couches, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature airplanes, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature LEGO sculptures, 2000–2001) A room filled with miniature dolls, 2000–2001) A room filled with miniature cars, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature airplanes, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature televisions, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature toys, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature apartments, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature plants, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature dolls, 2000–2001) A room filled with miniature airplanes, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature houses, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature cars, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature birds, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature flowers, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature flowers, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature airplanes, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature cars, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature houses, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature houses, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature flowers, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature animals, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature birds, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature flowers, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature planes, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature houses, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature birds, 2001–2002) A room filled with miniature children

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Do a pretentious art critique for a work that resembles a dog carved out of snow with a tricycle attached? Thats what artist Arno Meyer does in the sequence of twenty-four montages in the collection of the William Wilson Gallerys Humboldt University Museum. The sequences are divided into five long vertical sequences and a single white-space section. Each sequence consists of forty-seven shots of the same subject, taken from different angles and with varying degrees of transparency, that show the same pose, pose, and pose again and again. The sequence is shot in black and white, in close-up, cropped, low-key monochrome, with one object in a clear and identifiable focal point. The sequence consists of three parts, each segment consisting of fifty-six still images. The subject of each still-image sequence is a doll that is posed so that the camera catches the whole event on the one hand and the subject of each scene on the other.The forty-five shots that make up this series are from a variety of subjects and their poses, from a nude soccer player to a violent street fight. All are shot on a black or white photographic filmstrip, usually wet-foam and backed with several layers of different paints. The paints are applied in a way that creates the illusion of drying time. The image of a woman lying on her back with her arms outstretched is only a figuration of the actual time of execution. The movements of a woman in the same pose, while captured on film, remain identical. Even though the scene is repeated several times, the final results remain the same. The paintings are in extremely bright colors and strongly demarcated by a faint, diamond-shaped reflection in the white of the glass. The mirrored reflection is mirrored in the mirror. The result is a curious but seductive illusion, which is neither harsh nor strong. The effect is convincing in a way that the originals are completely unnatural.The effect is convincing in a way that the originals are totally unnatural.

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Do a pretentious art critique for a work that resembles a dog carved out of snow? Imagine. The question is: how well do you like that work, one day in a while? Would you like to be an artist, or a critic?At the Museu de Arte de Barcelona, Hans Haacke presented a collection of rarely seen and often-overlooked early modern works. Glimmest edges are found in the once-formidable Jan Salm, 1928, by one of his most gifted and self-contained writers, Leopold von Wiegand. The small works in Haacskes exhibition (the most recent being a work by the A.C. Penrose, 1916) mark the first time Haacke has exhibited a significant number of works by these creators of the then-new abstract vocabulary. Many of these are found in Haacske's permanent collection: for example, four of John Chamberlain heavily varnished examples of the very latest in Modernism; 16 of Paolo Colomers monumental-size columns and 4 of Edmond Lamers stained-glass sculpture; 14 of Lord Alfred Russells paintings; 13 of Bridget Riley, Georges Vantongerloo, and Anna Maria Vassimiro; 14 of Louis Strother and Charles Arnolds elegant pieces; and 12 of William Carlos Williamss late-twentieth-century works. Of these, several were added to the exhibition.Hands down, Haacske's point is that the young Abstract Expressionist pioneers of the 20s were like clockwork: they came out of nowhere and everyone knew it. He points to this fact in a beautiful but nowhere-is-going-on pamphlet on the origins of Abstract Expressionism. But the funny thing about Haacske's view of Abstract Expressionism is that, by the time he did his show, it was more than a decade after the avant-garde movement had begun.

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in the middle of the desert. Theres a whiff of historical revisioning and just the slightest whiff of off-color humor. This is a beautiful work of recent art. Daniel P. _____ for W.P.A.A.

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Do a pretentious art critique for a work that resembles a dog carved out of snow? I want to hold you accountable for your sins, he tweeted at the show opening. Thats why i want to be known as a superhero: to bring everyone to the surface, to give everyone a chance to shine.A video titled After Blue Collar Sports, 2013, records a man dressed in one of these purple jumpsuits, whose hands are painted white, the only color in the work, trying to get his bearings on the seemingly inhospitable snow-covered plains beyond. In it, the man tugs at the very seat of his truck. On another screen, a blizzard-stricken distance sign on the wall lets you know what it is: A flailing device containing an electronic device designed to amplify and analyze data. As soon as you read the words, the pictorial surface completely disintegrates and the viewer is surrounded by an electric field; no moving part of the world remains.The atmospheric effects in the video are played against a band of black text rendered in large black lettering. The plain black text with its strong echoes of the printed word and the logos of science and technology reads like a cryptic message sent to the earth. A glowing blue green line pulls the viewer into the empty space of the black, at once a signifying the earths moisture and a protective barrier. The white text is literally a metaphor for earth, the earths power, and nature, and the effects of those forces on the physical world. This space is a weirdly surreal world that draws its meaning from a mirror image. Some of the images resemble their source materials: in Blue Collar Sports, we are trapped in the construction of the earth, and the earth is a figure in its own right.The object of the video is a small cardboard box, a fragile protective shelter for a figure with a huge head, who seems to be trapped in the center of the box.