In Blog Task3, I’ll look at how artists in the 80’s remixed their ideas and collected resources, and examine their feasibility.
The artist I studied is Eva Aeppli(1925-2015) from Switzerland. Since the 1950s, Eva Aeppli has started to create her own works with strong personality. Aeppli’s art works are diverse, but her distinctive personal style runs through her whole life. Whether it is painting, weaving art, etc., she always chooses dark colors for her works. Her works have always represented the state of human abstinence. Starting in the 1960s, she created a series of paintings showing skulls, faces, and even twisted corpses. The brutality of the Nazis and the suffering of the people had another effect on the artist’s depiction of human beings.
Some see her art as a reflection of pessimism and darkness, but in fact, from the 1960s to the 1980s, her paintings were heavily influenced by Picasso and Dali and Munch. In the 1960s, he absorbed the influence of pop art and new reality art at that time. Her works are absurd, which is the result of her fusion and transformation of her predecessors’ artistic thoughts. It is difficult for us to study whether the ideas of these works are unique to her, but it is certain that her works have been deeply thought and investigated.
