Time: Art work to go with this theme?

Question

For my contextual studies I need to look at artists whose work was based (losely or specifically on time) I have already looked and written about 'Persistence of Memory' by Dali but was wondering if there were anymore especially one or two textile artists who focused on this theme.

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehching_Hsieh
http://www.answers.com/topic/daniel-stein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willard's_Banjo_Clocks

Im not sure if im on the right track with your question...
Are you speaking in term of artwork OF timepieces or artwork done in certain periiods of time or an amount of time ot took to do the artwork... let me know...

Answer 2

William Hogarth's print, Time Smoking a Picture and Lorado Taft's Fountain of Time sculpture in Chicago come to mind.

Also - the Art:21 series on PBS covered some contemporary artists working on the theme of time.

Answer 3

There is a contemporary artist named Tim Hawkinson that the New York critics association has named best sculpture and installation artist of the century. I'd look up his work. He does various pieces dealing with time.

"Inasmuch as time has always been an issue for Hawkinson, he has devised various ways of measuring it. Some of his works plot time in its traditional sense, although obliquely; others employ odd recording devices, such as the tree, to document differing spans of time. Stamtraumld, Shatter (1998) is a fake shattered tempered-glass window, which is actually meticulously contructed from mirrored ribbons set in polyester resin. In this transcription, we see the record of a blow delivered to the centre of the 'glass.' However instantaneous in real life such a happening might seem, cracks record the invisible radiating pattern of shock-waves which actually grow over time. Is there a logic guiding even such arbitrary eventsNULL Is its rationale any different from Hawkinson's seemingly absurdist charting of the rise and fall of empires modeled on the digestive system of the body in Wall Chart of World History from Earliest Times to the Present (1997)? "

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2000/08/14/27330.html

Answer 4

Here are some paintings that an artist you've never heard of has done that incorporate time, or perhaps the altering of time, in them. Over the years he has included time and it's symbols in a dozen or so of his paintings.

I'm not sure if you want to use a relatively unknown artist as part of your studies but you might consider this: All artists, from Van Gogh to Dali, started out unknown.

Hope you like these:

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/0003d8tq/g41

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/0001atpk/g2

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/0002rb9b/g16

http://pics.livejournal.com/unmired/pic/0003w0fc/g16

Answer 5

This may be a little abstract, but a lot of the Pop Art artists could qualify, based solely on their subjects being of the Pop era.

Answer 6

I would say try Michelangelo's Dawn, Twighlight, and Night and Day sculptures representing these times of day as people ^_^

Answer 7

"The Three Ages of Woman and Death" by Hans Baldung Grien is a good one as well as "Vanitas" by Juan de Valdes or "Wheel of Fortune (Vanitas)" by Audrey Flack

Answer 8

Try Yahoo seach for images.... I have been inspired by many of the results found.

Answer 9

Finally, that's what I was looking for! Thanks to author of this question.

Answer 10

try wheelsoftime.com