Thursday 9 October 2014


Bill Viola

This post is about a man named Bill Viola. In this post I will be showing different items of his work through videos and images and possibly GIFS.
Bill viola is a very dark kind of man. He bases all his artwork designs on his near death expreience which was him him drowning. This is why most of his pictures are involving water or passed our people being carried. He also bases his work on the life experiences such as birth, death and aspects of conciousness











Bill Viola (born janurary 25. 1951) is an comtemporary video artist and is considered one of the leading artists that express their art using electronic, sound and image technology. He grew up in various places in the streets of New York city. Such as Queens and Westbury. When he was on vacation with his family in the mountains where he nearly drowned. He described it as "The most beautiful world I've ever seen in my life" and "without fear" and "peaceful."






In 1973 Bill Viola graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. His department of study was in the experimental studio of the college of visual and preforming arts. Including the synapse experimental program. Which made CitrusTV.