Fero Corpum Ferri An exploration of the role of human physiology against a backdrop of everincreasing mechanical supplantation

David Bennett

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Anderson, Kim

Keywords

Body, Data, Industrialization, Surrealism, Art, Painting, Drawing, Technology, Physiology

Area of Concentration

Art

Abstract

This essay, Fero Corpum Ferri, is meant to accompany a thesis exhibition, comprised of paintings and drawings. The paintings are executed on a medium scale, composed of brightly colored anatomical, mechanical, and invented shapes. They intimate a Pop art or graffiti sensibility that remains coolly detached while approaching varying levels of anatomical and schematic depictions � from organs and machinery to cellular abstraction and invented mechanisms. The project continues the investigation of the tensions between humanity and the growing industrial landscape begun by the Dadaists in the early 20th century. The paintings and drawings in this series invoke metaphors for larger issues of integration of man into his mechanical, and now digital, society. Unexpected juxtapositions encourage reflection on the body and machine, abstracting their original functions. The invented compositions strive to further the dialogue begun by the Dadaists, positing an integration of forms that is neither wholly organic nor man-made.

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