Bruce Nauman was born December 6, 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He is a contemporary american artist that has worked with different types of mediums such as sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. He went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison obtaining a bachelors degree in mathematics. He completed his master's degree in art from the University of California. He as received numerous awards through out the years, both locally and worldwide, for his art work. Some of these awards include the Larry Aldrich Award and Wolf Prize in Arts which he received for his work as a sculptor. His most significant or famous work includes "Laair" (1970), "Vices and Virtues" (1988). "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truth", "Setting a Good Corner" among other.
For my cover project, I choose Bruce Nauman and his first piece the neon sign “The artist helps the world by revealing mystic truth”. The initial idea for this piece came from a beer sign display at a grocery store in San Francisco. He then re-did this neon sign and displayed it at the front studio of a grocery store on the windows facing the street. The purpose behind the neon sign was to catch the eye and interest of people walking by, to display something that did not look like art but had a deeper meaning of art. It was a text to see who would pay attention and letting the viewer have there own take on the art work. I choose this artist because he deliver strong messages in the most unusual way.
My plan in remaking this piece is to construct a collage using images of nature, since spiral images are often used to represent different design in our environment. I will place these pictures in a spiral and inside of it I will write, using paint as my medium, the definition of art "arte" in Spanish. Bruce Nauman as obtain interest in communications and languages and displayed it in his art pieces. We have been discussing in class that art can be interpret in many different ways by having different cultural backgrounds. I decide to deliver a message in another form of communication in which can be interpret in a different culture.
