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Art21 first featured artist Arturo Herrera in 2005
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Watch the original & uncut 13 minute film online! (via Hulu)

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Own Season 3 Today: DVD or iTunes
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Arturo Herrera is featured in the Art21 episode "Play" along with fellow artists Ellen Gallagher, Oliver Herring, and Jessica Stockholder. The Season 3 DVD features 4 episodes, 18 artists, and is available from PBS and Amazon.

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Josiah McElheny & Opera
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After being invited to The Metropolitan Opera in New York by Arturo Herrera, fellow Art21 artist Josiah McElheny was inspired by the chandeliers and created his first film work:


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"Keep in Touch" (2004)
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This work by Arturo Herrera is comprised of 5 sets of 13 images with identical hand-painted backgrounds, onto which the artist added unique collaged images. Each background image is an abstraction of a cartoon animation cell, from which a number of identifiable features were removed. In an interview with fellow Art21 artist Josiah McElheny, Herrera says:

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John Cage's "4'33"
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The composer John Cage took the idea of "music without content" to its logical extreme when he composed the work "4'33" during which musicians sit silently for the allotted 4 minutes and 33 seconds—playing nothing—permitting the sounds of the audience and room to come into the forefront.

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Piet Mondrian's "Broadway Boogie Woogie" (1942-43)
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Arturo Herrera asks if an image can be musical. Piet Mondrian, one of the towering figures of abstraction in the 20th Century, had similar questions when he created "Broadway Boogie Woogie." Learn more about this artwork, which is part of the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection.

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Channels: Abstract ArtAmerican ArtArturo HerreraContemporary Art

Exclusive Episode #055: Filmed in his Berlin studio, artist Arturo Herrera discusses themes of subjectivity and abstraction while drawing connections between his love of music and his hopes for how audiences come to appreciate his visual work.

For Arturo Herrera, abstraction is a language rooted in the practice of assembling and composing fragments. Herrera collects illustrated books, comics, and paint-by-number paintings, cutting and splicing them into new forms. He also creates his own source material by fragmenting drawings, watercolors, and shapes made by applying paint directly from the tube. Herrera collages all of these elements together, pasting them together to create a new whole.

Learn more about Arturo Herrera: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herrera

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. Special Thanks: Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.

We used this particular video to get students thinking about how to visually interpret music and use music as a starting point for abstract works of art. The students enjoyed how Herrera combines printed material into his work and truly creates an installation of framed works that seem, somehow, "musical"... a performance.
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00:00:10 I really would like to play music or at least to know how it is made or how it is composed.

00:00:23 It's such a, you know such an enigma to me that somebody could actually put notes down and it will mean something. I can’t play music. I don’t have a musical ear. I am frustrated by that.

00:00:38 Music is related to what I do because music actually offers no solution. It offers no, it has no content. It’s just total subjectivity.

00:00:53 I would like to make pieces into the visual images that I am trying to do. I want them to be non-objective just like music is.

00:01:04 Can visual image be subjective? Yes. Can visual images be musical? I don’t know.

00:01:15 When I listen to music, I am happy to be in the state of not knowing when I am listening. I know what I am listening, but I don’t, I don’t know what to do with it.

00:01:25 That state to me is interesting, in the same thing as one looking at images.

00:01:37 Of course, intellectually I know what I am looking at and emotionally I am getting some kind of information, but in which ways these associations lead me to the process, the journey

00:01:50 or the way to get there is what’s interesting to me. So, music provides that in unusual ways

00:01:58 and hopefully I would like to make images that also provide that to the viewer.