3. Describe and discuss the use of light, space and objects used by David Hockney in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy to show the deteriorating relationship between the couple.
4. What elements of Anselm Kiefer’s paintings do you think viewers in Germany might have found disturbing?
5. How do you think wrapping a bridge in plastic fabric makes it an art object?
6. What do you think of how Tracey Emin exposes her own life experiences in her art?
7. Examine the Stravinsky Fountain by Niki de Saint Phalle and her husband Jean Tinguely which was inspired by the music of Igor Stravinsky (Fig.18.25).
a. Do you think the black and highly coloured sculptures work well together?
b. Which works do you think best express the musical compositions?
www.youtube.com – Search for ‘Joseph Beuys | Utopia at the Stag Monuments’ (5:21) to watch curator Norman Rosenthal and artist Antony Gormley discussing ‘Utopia at the Stag Monuments’, the most important UK exhibition of Beuys’s work
www.khanacademy.org – Search for ‘Christo and Jeanne-Claude, The Gates’ for an article on one of the artistic couple’s most extensive works
Figure 18.25 Stravinsky Fountain, 1983, by Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, fibre-reinforced plastic and steel, Paris.
