Hi,
Before leaping into this perhaps we should ask for a visual example of what we are discussing?
Can the sender of the original email send an example either by a link, cutting and pasting, or with an attachment.
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From: Georgina Lewis <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] term for a type of drawing or graphic image? To: [log in to unmask] Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 3:52 PM
Although the thing you're describing is visual in nature I'm wondering if you're not actually referring to the phenomenon of "concrete poetry". See http://infinityskitchen.com/blog/concrete-poetry/ for example.
best, Georgina Lewis On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Bouchard, Karen <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
When I was a kid, people did this with typewriters!
Karen at Brown Univ.
For the nerds among us, there is the subset of ASCII
Art - creating images using characters available on a computer keyboard. For
instance, here is Michelangelo's David: http://www.textfiles.com/art/david.art.
Though some images were large and elaborate, possibly even converted from
actual photos, much of the art was used in email signatues;
these cows were very popular: http://www.instinct.org/cows/ascii-cows1.html.
--Heather
Heather Cleary Digital Projects
and Metadata Librarian Otis College of Art and Design 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los
Angeles, California 90045 Phone 310 665 6926 Website http://blogs.otis.edu/vrclib/ Email
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Where
is Sherman Clarke when we need him?
Helen
Chillman
Yale
University
I am not convinced that words like mosiac and collage should
be co-opted for this specific sub-section of artwork that you are asking about.
Here are my thoughts: I have studied Chinese painting and wish that I had
written my thesis proving that the Chinese masters inspired the European
impressionists. This work that you are describing feels like a modern take on
impressionism, pointalism, and the like. Chuck Close was not the first person to
create pixelated artwork (that's a way to describe it) - but he did inspire
the commercial craze of creating images that are composed of smaller,
individual images.
Why create a word when you can just describe them that
way?
Please also check out the work of Ayakoh Furukawa. see
the "Text Drawing" section of her website: http://www.ayakohfurukawa.net/ . This
work is described by her galleries as text-based
drawing.
-- Sara Henderson, Assistant
Director Asian American Arts Centre 111 Norfolk St. NY, NY
10002 o: 212.233.2154 c: 347.464.8398 artasiamerica.org
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Haines, Annette <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]> wrote:
In addition to
Jill’s suggestions, perhaps the term mosaic?
Annette Haines Art & Design Field Librarian
University of Michigan
I would call that a
collage, or if all photos, a photo collage.
Jill
Timm Mystical Places Press www.mysticalplaces.com Publisher of Artist Book
News www.artistbooknews.com
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I'm hoping that the
collective wisdom of arlis colleagues will have an answer to this: I've been
trying to find examples of images or drawings where the image, perhaps a face
or figure, is made up of multiples of small images like letters, words, or
figures, etc. Is there a term or label for such images? Or a more precise
description for them? If you can point me to any examples, or names of artists
(probably graphic artists in advertising or commercial art?), I would
appreciate it. Kathy Zimon
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