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Modern Artists

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Why does this topic interest me?

As a student who studies art, I already know about parts of this topic quite well, and I have noticed from studying art history, that modern artists dont have alot of attention in the media as much as they used to.

also noticed that the media has given artists a specific steryotype of personality and behaviour in films 5/4/12

I've

Stereotypical views of modern artists presented in the media

Outlandish/eccentric Very

poor or very rich male aged

Moody Mostly Middle Dress

unusually

Anti-social
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Spaced Brian Topp

The

lodger in the flat below Tim and Daisy's. is a rather bizarre and somewhat angst-ridden and pretentious artist. spoken and intense, Brian gives the impression of being almost psychotic and sociopathic; in fact, he is just very shy and timid.

Brian

Quietly

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Spaced Brian episode 1, beginnings

We

first meet Brian when time takes out the rubbish at night time and brains door is open, Tim asks who's there to be faced with brain in nothing but cowboy boots and a cowboy hat.

introduces brain to daisy, she asks if he rents 5/4/12

Tim

Spaced Brian episode 7, ends

In

the last episode of series one, Brian seems more relaxed around the main characters however he still seems like a strange person as he says I see all my ex girlfriends well not so much see, more watch

this episode we find out that Brian has a side which is never seen as we hear that he had sex with Marsha after becoming very drunk. 5/4/12

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Banksy

exit through the gift shop

A film directed by Banksy, that tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a French immigrant in Los Angeles, and his obsession with street art. The film charts Guetta's constant documenting of his every waking moment on film, from a chance encounter with his cousin, the artist Invader, to his introduction to a host of street artists with a focus on Shepard Fairey and Banksy, whose anonymity is preserved by obscuring his face and altering his voice, to Guetta's eventual fame as a street artist himself. The film premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on 24 January, 2010. It is narrated by Rhys Ifans. The music is by Geoff Barrow. It includes Richard Hawley's "Tonight The Streets Are Ours". The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 83rd Academy Awards, and broadcast on British public television station Channel 4 on August 13, 2011. There has been debate over whether the documentary is genuine or a mockumentary. Banksy has said in interviews that editing the film together was an arduous process, noting that "I spent a year [...] watching footage of sweaty vandals falling off ladders" and "The film was made by a very small team. It would have been even smaller if the editors didn't keep having mental breakdowns. They went through over 10,000 hours of Thierry's tapes and got literally seconds of usable footage out of it." Producer Jaimie D'Cruz wrote in his production diary that obtaining the original tapes from Thierry was particularly complicated. The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews, holding 96% on Rotten Tomatoes, and was nominated for Best Documentary in the 2011 Academy Awards. One consistent theme in the reviews was the authenticity of the film: Was the film just an elaborate ruse on Banksy's part, or did Guetta really evolve into Mr. Brainwash overnight? The Boston Globe movie reviewer Ty Burr found it to be quite entertaining and awarded it four stars. He dismissed the notion of the film being a "put on" saying "Im not buying it; for one thing, this storys too good, too weirdly rich, to be made up. For another, the movies gently amused scorn lands on everyone." Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 stars out of 4, starting his review saying that "The widespread speculation that Exit Through the Gift Shop is a hoax only adds to its fascination." However, in an interview with SuicideGirls, filmmakers Jaimie D'Cruz and Chris King denied that it was 5/4/12 a hoax, and expressed their growing frustration with the speculation that it was: "For a while we all thought that was quite funny, but it went on for so long. It was a bit disappointing when it became

Damien Hirst
Damien

Hirst Slammed by British Media: He Simply Cant Paint

it were not for his prodigious fame, would Damien Hirsts canvases be exhibited at Londons hallowed Wallace Collection? Of course not, says Tom Lubbock in The Independent. The man simply cant paint: 5/4/12

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Damien Hirst : The Artist as Media Celebrity http:// www.artdesigncafe.com/Damien-Hirst-media-celebrity-2001

During the 1990s, Damien Hirst (b.1965) became Britains most famous, young, living sculptor and painter, in part because of his own flair for self-promotion and the publicity skills of his primary patron Charles Saatchi. Damien Hirst evinced marketing abilities while still studying at Goldsmiths by organizing a student show entitled Freeze (1988) in a derelict Docklands building. Once established, he continued to curate high profile mixed exhibitions with wacky titles such as Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away (Serpentine Gallery, 1994). Artworks presenting the corpses of creatures such as fish, sharks, cows and sheep floating in formaldehyde inside glass vitrines extended the shock-horror imagery associated with Francis Bacon and attracted numerous headlines and cartoons. Further publicity resulted when one of these works "Away from the Flock" (1994) shown at the Serpentine Gallery was vandalized and a court case followed.

By 1994, Damien Hirst had become so well known that the BBC TV arts strand Omnibus was willing to devote a whole programme to him. The following year, the British arts establishment endorsed him by awarding him the Turner Prize organized by the Tate Gallery and sponsored by Channel 4 TV. Once Hirst was earning money, he diversified. Like his patron, he became a businessman by investing in London restaurants and bars, such as The Pharmacy, Notting Hill Gate, which he then "branded" by displaying examples of his art. Hirst also expanded in terms of media: he devised a billboard image, an advertisement for Absolut Vodka, a commercial for cable television and a trailer featuring live rats for an opera. His "spot" paintings were reproduced on dresses and he directed a narrative film entitled Hanging Around 5/4/12 He designed the book Snowblind (1998)a limited edition text about cocaine (1996).

Damien

Hirst Absolut Vodka advert

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Tracy Emin
Tracey

Karima Emin is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists).

1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 19631995, a tent appliqud with names, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal 5/4/12

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Momart fire

In 2004, the tent was destroyed in a fire at the East London Momart warehouse, along with two of Emin's other works and some 100 more from Saatchi's collection, including works by Damien Hirst, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Martin Maloney. Many other works were also lost, including major pieces by Patrick Heron and William Redgrave. The public and media reaction was not one of sympathy but of mockery and scorn, focusing on the YBAs, Damien Hirst, the Chapman Brothers, and Emin, with particular attention to her tent. Tabloid papers, The Sun and the Daily Mail, both stated they had already created their own replacement tents, and the latter's Godfrey Barker asked, "Didn't millions cheer as this 'rubbish' went up in flames?" The same implication gained applause on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions?; Hugh Rifkind in The Times thought similarly to The Independent's Tom Lubbock, who wrote:"It's odd to hear talk about irreplaceable losses. Really? You'd have thought that, with the will and the funding, many of these works were perfectly replaceable. It wouldn't be very hard for Tracey Emin to re-stitch the names of Every One I Have Ever Slept With on to a little tent (it might need some updating since 1995.)" Emin took a phlegmatic view of her work's destruction, saying, "The news comes between Iraqi weddings being bombed and people dying in the Dominican Republic in flash floods, so we have to get it into perspective." She was, though, upset at the public reaction to the fire, pointing both to lack of cultural understanding "The majority of the British public have no regard or no respect to what me and my peers do, to the point that they laugh at a disaster like a fire." and to lack of compassion "It is just not fair and it's not funny and it's not polite and it's bad manners. I would never laugh at a disaster like that I just have some empathy and sympathy with people's loss."

5/4/12 ago to make that, I don't have that inspiration and inclination now ... My work is very 10 years

She also stated that she could not remake the tent, because "I had the inclination and inspiration

Does the media merely reflect the identity of this group, or does it construct a new collective identity.

The

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Hypodermic Needle Theory, also known as the Magic Bullet Theory, was the first major theory concerning the effect of the mass media on society. Originating in the 1920s, the theory was based on the premise of an all-powerful media with uniform and direct effects on the viewer or audience. The Hypodermic Needle Theory is