Paul Cezanne, Mont Saint-Victoire, 1902-1906

Paul Cezanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1885-87

“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.” Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906

Pablo Picasso, Girl with Mandolin , 1910

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso 1881-1973

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Light/Space Modulator, 1930

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 1895-1946

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Photography

Moholy-Nagy, Double Loop, 1946

Moholy-Nagy, Nickel Construction, 1921

Moholy-Nagy, City Lights, 1928

Heinz Mack, Light: Dynamo #2, 1966

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Heinz Mack 1931 -

Olafur Eliasson at MoMA and PS1

James Turrell Ganzfeld

“According to the artist, Ganzfeld is an art installation that slows viewers to a standstill, practically forcing them to succumb to another way of looking. As he puts it, Ganzfeld is creating experiences that allow viewers to ‘see themselves see’.”

“Blind Sight refers to a condition, brought on by trauma or dysfunction, which inhibits people with sight from actually seeing. I am interested in the seeing that occurs within. In the lucid dream there is a greater sense of color and lucidity than with the eyes open. I am interested in a place where the imaginative seeing and the seeing of the external world meet, where it is difficult to distinguish the seeing from within from the seeing from without.” James Turrell

Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1971 Synthetic fabric (scrim), wood, fluorescent lights, flood lights

Busser Howell

Busser is the blind artist whose studio we will be visiting later in the semester.

(E-­‐oo-­‐gen  Ba-­‐oo-­‐char)  

“My task is the reunion of the visible and the invisible worlds, photography allows me to pervert the established method of perception amongst those who see and those who don’t.” Evgen Bavcar (blind artist)

Evgen Bavcar, A Close Up View, 1997

Bavcar, Blind Man’s Bluff, 1997

Pete Eckert, Electroman (blind artist)

Javier Tellez, Letter on the Blind for the Use of Those Who See, 2007 Film transferred to video, 28 minutes

Sophie Calle, Blind, 1986