Text & Image

What is Text and Image?

Text and Image is a style and form of art where both visual aspects and text are combined to convey a certain message and or meaning. Usually, text and image is mostly done when artists are stating their own opinions and certain things such as, political, religious, and any views they want to send a message about. Alot of text and image art usually becomes very influential and infamous in scenes such as street art, music, and fashion.

The example of Text and Image art I will be using is Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger is an artist that hails from New Jersey but made an impact on text and image type of art in the New York City and L.A. street art scene along with "Obey Propaganda" artist Shepard Fairey who would continue to make this type of art influential, she started booming during the late 80's and early 90's. Her art consisted of her opinions and commentary on civil rights issues such as Feminism, one of her most infamous pieces of art "Your Body Is A Battleground"(1989) is about women's reproductive rights and was used during protests and became known for being part of the beginning of post-modern activist art, Which many artists would come to be a part of.

Examples of Barbara Krugers art pieces:

Hybridity in Art

JOEY HOLDER & HYBRIDITY IN ART:

In art, there are many sub-genres and types, hybridity in art is when different types of art making comes together in a combination, a hybridity of art.

One of the artists that partakes in hybridity is Joey Holder, an artist based in the UK, she uses many elements in her art that mesh together to make one big constant mixed melting pot of media.

In an interview with Dazed Digital when asked how she would describe her work she stated "I paint, sculpt, make video, multimedia installations and have numerous blogs and image streams. My work seems to be about how these things are networked together, how they are set in ‘constellation’ – its about the 'tissue' which connects them.

The very 'human' way in which we make sense of the world is to name, structure and hierarchize things, yet these systems are always in flux. In my work I mix elements of biology, nanotechnology and natural history against program interfaces, screen savers and measuring devices. I see no object or substance in a fixed state; everything is always transforming and morphing into something else."

She sculpts, uses film and video, and paints all to mix these elements together in order to make the hybridity she's known for. One way I can describe her art is futuristic naturalism. Like a forest, technology, and LSD, all put into one to create the morphing and transforming pieces of art Joey Holder creates.

I actually enjoy Holder's art a lot because it's very aesthetically enjoyable, it kind of compromises the way you would normally view art because it's so simple, yet so complex. Mixing 3-D and 2-D aspects of art and sometimes even sculptures, it creates the very surreal aspect within art that many fans of contemporary art love. And that is something that shows up in art that uses hybridity a lot because it's so unorthodox and so mixed within the arts. How I might be able to use hybridity within my own art by using music made by me, sculpted clay and the use of video if I ever want to continue stop-motion claymation, as well as incorporating images and audio to create a video or film rather than having to shoot to make a video. Something that also really interested me is the eeriness in Holder's art, the use of colors in some of her art really shows how a different hue or a mix and shade of colors make you feel some type of way and I feel that it's very important to convey the intended feeling to an audience even if art is subjective, and Joey does an awesome job at it.