Marina Abramovic

Monica Vazquez

HUA 101.1301

Professor Harmon

November 11, 2013

Postwar Modern Movements

Choose an artist from the Art 21 website- http://www.pbs.org/art21/. Watch the artist interview and write a summary about their work on your blog: discuss themes, process, etc. in their work.

Marina Abramovic is a Yugoslavian artist who is a both a painter and a performer. Abramovic began her artistic career as a painter when she was a child. When she was the age of  twelve she had her first art exhibition. As a painter she was very into the colors blue and green, and she was also fascinated by truck accidents. During a period of her career she would go to the scenes of different truck accidents and she’d pictures so she could later paint about them. After that she then started drawing about the sky especially clouds, she found a certain attraction in painting clouds. In her twenties she began performing, she believes performance is a tool. Through the early stages of her performance career she begins performing with scenes that were violent and tough. After doing this she then begins to focus her performance on mental peace and extended time. She focuses on time because she thinks, “art should become longer as life gets shorter”. She believes she has is a performer but she is also a teacher, she wants to teach other artist so she can transfer knowledge to the younger generation. She wants to remain a legend and in order to achieve this she has to focus on making her art last and making the art of others last as well.