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Until now, I thought that art criticism was just an art review -a description of the work on exhibit. However, after I read the handout, I now know the various types of art criticism with a fine example. Above all, I can make a clear and correct art criticism of artcriticism ,when I understand them perfectly. Through this opportunity, I can feel a great interest in art criticism.


respond ART21 - paul pfeiffer.

The reason I chose paul Pfeiffer was that I was interested in media art. It was difficult for me to understand media art until I saw his work. However, his works were easy to understand and made interests about media art.

First of all, his work shows relationship between space and media art. Dutch Interior (2001) is video project that show typical, normal home interior from second floor down the stairs to the entrance on a large, free standing projection wall. A tiny hole draws people toward the wall and People take a peek through a hole. Inside hole displays the location of the projected interior. Through small hole, we can show a different angle of invisible space from the doorway to up the stairs. As the change in scale, arrangement of same space, his work expresses relationship between person's eye perspective and space construction. Expressing elements that I thought I felt difficult through a way of unique media art was so impressive. Especially I really liked the way of combining the elements of interior with the media art.

Secondly, his work shows media art through really attractive sports scene. I felt a great interest in his work Fragment of a Crucifixion (after Francis bacon).the reason I like his work was making an easily sympathy and humorous. Fragment of a crucifixion is basketball player Larry Johnson celebrating a slam dunk on perpetual motions. Through Basketball players with sensitive, extreme expression of face, he expresses the further suggestion in the title to a 1950 work by post-war British painter Francis Bacon. Jump over age, he concentrates on not only compositional similarity but also space similarity using different materials and elements by through medium of the figure’s screaming. When I saw this work at first time, I liked a witty composition of scene. After understanding his work, I was really surprised by his remarkable sense of art.

Thirdly, he represents connections between time and media art. Morning after the deluge for which he made film of the shinning followed the change of time. It opens with a white-hot sun suspended mid- frame in a brilliant red sky. A deep blue waves scroll down from the top of frame to the bottom of frame. When scrolling disappears at the bottom and the top of the frame, the sun is left temporarily separated from the sky. The process reappears over and over again. So we can see endless and impossible sunrise and sunset. I can feel a good interest in His incredible process of the works in computer media art.