Monday, February 7, 2011

What is Words Art?

This is my favorite. Words can really be spectacular when combined, intertwined, and enhanced into a Words Art. What do I mean? What is words art? Take a look at the image below.
Credits to st3to on deviantart

The power of this art is in the words themselves, the meanings they carry, and sometimes how the meaning of each word in the art correlates. Of course, the design of the final presentation can separate which art is brilliant and which one is simply just great. Again I emphasize on the meaning, as this was what attracted Conceptual artists in the 1960s to start creating this kind of work. The popular one from 1985 was the neon word art by Bruce Nauman: White Anger/Red Danger/Yellow Peril/Black Death. Notice the words.

White Anger/Red Danger/Yellow Peril/Black Death by Bruce Nauman

Notice what shape does it look like? (Apart from children toy)

Nowadays words art already proliferates online with the even more convenient production process through computers with its dozen of image editing software. It has also gotten more popular to laymen through T-shirt designs, for example. What else could be achieved through words art, I am not sure, maybe you dear experts could leave some comment and enlighten us all?

Finally I would like to close this with paintings from Sean Landers, a New York artist born in 1962, who stands for the a particular group of 90's generation. Which group? It's the slacker one, the ones that's often associated with the circumstances where there's not much to fight for for this generation. But of course it's not entirely true. eh?
 

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