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Contemporary Art, Dan Flavin: flavin_intro , Robert Morris T01532_9-2 -…
Contemporary Art
Materials
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Mixed Media
Mickalene Thomas
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Beteye Saar
Uses many mediums and techniques in her work that each offer different meanings and contexts in her work
-In Black Girl's Window, work is assembled in a purposeful manner, uses printmaking, collage, and daguerreotype.
The piece represents life and death in the use of the daguerreotype of a skeleton and the cosmic sky, including moments of Saar's life that show death, but also include the lifestyle of other black people as well in the unequal treatments and racism.
Len Leye
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Flusser Form and Material:
-Theory and form is the material world
-Theory is more permanent than the material
- Material and immaterial is not opposites, because they rely on each other to exist
Video/Sound
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Shartis
The use of video and imagery in Shartis' TOUCHING allows for sound and mood to develop from the flickering and physedelic effect. It distorts and displaces the viewer in a way that a still, traditional medium can not do.
Traditional Use
Gu Tai work
-precursor of performance art
-1950's
involves the artist's body, more traditional to art than performance
Roberto Lugo
Porcelain clay, medium used in contrast to the surface treatment. Work illustrates the graffiti and the lower class, gentrified, and his upbringing.
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Audience
Art that required an actual presence:
-This work required an audience to function and activate
-If no person or audience was there it would not give anything to the audience
-This would be a characteristic of minimalist art that Fried considers to not be art
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Audience that viewed the work in the specific moment: work that is temporary or can only be experienced once, can not be done again.
Carolee Schneeman
-With many of Schneeman's works they had to be seen and experienced in the setting taken place to understand the full context and emotion happening, it was live, unedited, and in the moment. In few cases the experiences were video taped.
This brings the question of whether performance art can be understood after the event, if it can be brought back again through video and still leave the same impact. Is it object hood because it is theatre? Is the art made afterwards considered another piece aside from performance?
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Recorded
Allan Kaprow
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conceptual art
Feminist art
Carolee Schneeman
Interior Scroll
-removes a scroll from her vagina front of an audience
-talks on the dominance and power of males and the view point of feminine art nothing taken seriously compared to male art
Including her limits
Yoko Ono
-Cut Piece
-Invovles the audience in which they participate with heperformance
-Audeince lines up to cut a piece of fabric from Yoko Ono's clothes
-the performance deals with sexuality, vulnerability, objectification and usage of woman in a sense of claiming a piece of fabric and a piece of her
Social/Political
The Attendant
-Video recorded art
-work talks about the displacement and and power between white and black people.
-displays a traditional museum and dream like BDSM alternative
-example of Bell Hook's margins
Bell Hook's Margins:
-encourages to use the margin as a space of radical openness, see the margin in a helpful manner rather than a oppressing one.
-Margins is not a safe space to depend on
-Bell Hooks's idea of margin's is shown in The Attendant.
-The margin of white supremacy and power versus black people is shown in which there are workers vs museum visitors
-The dream vs. reality that shows follows the idea of margins being a personal vision of society
-where Black people have more power, (showing a dominant perspective, and white people being below and submissive)
Franz Fannon: The Fact of Blackness
-Blackness is a concept that defines the role of slavery and separates colonized people from colonizers
-Colonization prevents the colonized to develop a sense of self
Short History on Minimalism:
-Objecthood (Not art according to Fried)
-Stirred away from traditional art
-Work created from idea that it did not resemble something else, in this case it was considered original, not overdone, and new.
-no clear meaning
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Minimalism:
4 main components (According to Fried):
-Objecthood
-Durational, has a limited time in which it is seen compared to a painting that can be seen and relooked at as many times and as the audience wants
-Situational, rehires something (audience) to be in it's space to function
-meaning/concept is subjective and made to the viewer based on how it is viewed
-Theactrical
Tony Smith
-Object in space
-steel box
-no parts to whole
-relies on the viewer and the time and experience it is held
-work is not made by the artist themself, Smith's work is solely made and thought up by him but made by a company,
Is work like Tony Smith's considered art if he never had touched it? Is the idea and craft making enough to be considered a form of art?
Modern Scultprue:
-Autnomous (can exist without the audeince having to be there, the audeince does not need o interact for the work to function
-opposite of minimalist art
-considered to be art according to Fried
-Work is parts to whole, unity and harmony
-Work does not just sit and take up space as an object
According to minimalist artists, sculpture is unoriginal and not considered to be minimalist, but what about Sculpture in the expanded field?
Dan Flavin:
-Work is made up of neon lights
-Uses the space surrounding it, as light reflects and bounces off the walls
-Is not bound by a picture frame, and extends past the medium itself
-part of the minimalist art movement
-does not carry concept into it's work and is made up of the minimalist idea, having no direct origin/resemblance
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Robert Morris
-4 identical cubes that are made up of mirrors
-requires the audience to walk and interact around the space to activate and function
-Situational, and will hold a meaning to the audience once they begin to walk around, this will be different for everyone.
Despite these artist believing that their work derives from nothing and resembles nothing, is the work they make possibly unconsciously still stemming from something? Looking at Dan Flavin's work it can be considered or related to something, to try and separate work and make no resemblance I personally think is impossible, as it still can be made out to be something.
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