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Question 2 - Twentieth Century Art (DADA (Characteristics (Anti-art…
Question 2 - Twentieth Century Art
DADA
Characteristics
Anti-art movement
Changed the bases and general assumptions of art by exhibiting ready-made artworks
Automatic art - comes from subconscious, art is not deliberately created using emotions
Abandoned conventional methods of making art
Fountain
Ready-mades represent the wish, a thought that someone elevated the object into the status of an artwork
Characteristics - Ready-mades are everyday manufactured objects converted into artworks simply by the artists act of choosing them
Signed R.Mutt
Fountain, industrial porcelain for public urinal. Placing the urinal at 90 degrees made its useful significance disappear under the new tittle and point of view
Surrealism
Burning Giraffe
Breaking up the female form and mystification around female sexuality
Women skin appears to be peeling, exposing whats beneath
Women appear in skeletal form
Women stand in isolation, they are featureless, deprived of sight and hearing - symbolic of women who reached their journey toward equality
Title is interesting - giraffe is smaller than the two females in the foreground
Te drawer opens out of the thorax with drawers coming out of the leg connects to secret drawers in the human psyche
Characteristics
Colours are rich and deliberate brush strokes
3D qualities emphasized in order to strengthen dream elements
Complex and confusing
Uses space depth and light
Photo-realism, emphasis on detail - enhances discomfort and confusion to the viewer
Dream images and personal phobias
Op art
Characteristics
Use geometric designs to create movement
Relationship between the artwork and the viewers field of vision
Op art relies on optical illusions
Uses theories of perception
Illusions of metamorphosis and movement
Formal and scientific
Vega
Named after the brightest star in the constellation Lyra
Distorted in certain areas to create illusions of concave and convex shapes within the picture surface
Movement and depth are created through stretching a linear grid
Uses optical illusions to focus the viewers attention on the act of viewing itself
Turns the viewer from a passive spectator into an active agent in the creation of the artwork
Pop art
Characteristics
Uses silk-screen
Produced the same subject matter in variations
Repeats motifs
Impersonal and objective works
Concentrated on well known brands
Works have mechanical, inhuman quality, synthetic and manufactured
Marilyn Monroe
Warhol depicts Marilyn's public persona, the glamerous film star and icon rather than the individual
By repeating the image, she is made into an impersonal symbol of American society values, and lost sense of individuality and identity
Variations show Marilyn with bright yellow hair, plastered coloured face and bright red lips
Later versions - reduced to a pattern or series of repeated images
Warhol produced a vast number of prints of Marilyn Monroe's face
Photo realism
Characteristics
Influenced by the powers and the limitations of the reflex camera
Main theme is portraits of friends and family
Has a form of face blindness which makes it difficult for him to recognize people
Process is as important as final product
He has dyslexia
He enlarges his subject matter on a huge scale, this enlarged image forces the human eye to acknowledge aspects that are usually fixed by the human eye
Close uses this scale to ensure that the spectator can only focus on one section of the work at a time.
The effect of enormously enlarging the heads tends to make them less of a representation of the person that is portrayed, although more real in the sense that one is looking at an enormous portrait. Reminder that a camera has no inbuilt sense of scale
Self-portrait
A camera merely makes a copy of a view as seen from a single perspective - parts of the face will be in focus, while others will be blurred
The work's appeal is enhanced b the spectators inability to focus on the entire image at once. This give the portraits an intesity
Explores the cameras mistakes
Abstract Expressionism
Characteristics
Doesnt want to illustrate feelings but rather express them
Captivated by Red-Indian mythology and art
Influenced by Eastern philosophy and religion
Subjects his works to thee rhythms of nature
Uses anything as paintbrushes - sticks, knives, etc
Paintings are layered webs of paint
Lavender Mist
Network of lines, splatters and paint drips
This work is an intricate web of oil colours mixed with black enamel and aluminium paint
Colours are finely webbed into an allover unity
Swift and assured movement of the artist arm
Intuition and accident play a large and deliberate part