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What is Art?How does one recognize Art?
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Is this Art?
Wrapped Coast
By Christo
Just a normal urinal
Brillo Box
By Andy Warhol
Marie Osmond &Child – Christmas Decoration
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Is this Art?
Seated Woman
By George Segal
Readymade
By Marcel Duchamp
Michael Jackson & Bubbles
By Jeff Koons
Bull’s Head
By Pablo Picasso
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Is this Art?
Wax Fingers
By Anna Blackmore
Chocolate bunnies
Plaster cast of a victim from Pompeii
Yoyo stand
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Is this Art?
Just a can of Campbell’s Soup
Just an office stool
House tented for termite fogging
Luncheon in Fur
By Merret Oppenheim
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Can we define art by its function?
Aesthetical – Art is created to please
Personal – Art is a means of personal self-expression
Informative – Art is produced to illustrate
Ideological – Art is meant to persuade
Economical – Art is a business
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Functions of Art Aesthetical – Art is created to please
Henri Matisse: Pastoral (1905)
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Functions of Art Personal – Art as a means of self-expression
Jan Zrzavý: Self-portrait (1907)
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Functions of Art Informative – Art is produced to illustrate
Giotto: Fresco in Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi (1297-99)
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Functions of Art Ideological – Art is meant to persuade
Taras Gaponyenko: Back to Mother (1935)
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Functions of Art Ideological – Art is meant to persuade
Man-made famine in Ukraine (1932-33)
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Guide for the Nazi exhibition of so
called Degenerate art (1937)
Art itself becomes an object of Ideology
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Functions of Art Economical – Art is a business
Jan Kotík: Money Talks IV (2002)
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As means of expression and communication
As a text
As a system of signs
Art can be defined
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If art is a system of signs, does it mean that everything could become art?
Are there any limits?
Herman Nitsch: Orgies and Mysteries Theatre
Robert Mapplethorpe: Joe, New York, 1976
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Are there any limits?
Alexander Brener: Dollar sign sprayed on
Malevich’s painting White Cross (1997)
Protests against IMF – Prague 2000 Proclaimed as art by Alexander Brener
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What is Art then?“A work of art is anything that is said to be a work of
art by people who ought to know.”Sylvan Barnett
Who are these people?
Artists
Art-historians
Art dealers
Gallerists
Etc.
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Alfred H. Barr: Cubism and Abstract ArtDiagram for a catalogue (1936)
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Are cave paintings objects of art history or archeology?
Deer, Niaux (circa 13 000 BC)
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Master Theodorik: Holy Ram, Karlštejn Castle, Chapel of the Holy Cross (1365)
Art object or Cult object?
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Screen for ancestor shrine Kalabani, Igbo, Nigeria
Art object or cult object?
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Armory Show, New York, 1913
Art and its context
Marcel Duchamp: Fountain (1917) Exhibition of the Society of the Independent Artists
Sherrie Levin: Fountain After Duchamp (1991)
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Richard Long: Walking a Line in Peru (1972)
Leaving the Museum
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Keith Arnatt: Keith Arnatt Is an Artist (1972)
Embracing the concept
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Gillian Wearing: Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say And Not Signs
That Say What Someone Else Wants You To Say (1992-93)
Leaving the artist aside…
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Illumination of S. Augustin’s De Civitate Dei (second quarter of 12th c.)
Status of the Artist
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Arnold Böcklin: Self Portrait (1893)
Status of the Artist
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David Černý: Artist Standing (1995)
Status of the Artist
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Jeff Koons: Hand on Breast (1990)
Status of the Artist
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Janine Antoni: Loving Care (1992)
Status of the Artist
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Description and Analysis
“Until one tries to write about it, the work of art remains a sort of aesthetics blur … After seeing the work, write about it. You cannot be satisfied for very long in simply putting down what you felt. You have to go further.”
Arthur Danto: Embodied Meaning
(1994) “Eye does not mirror but takes and makes.”
Nelson Goodman: The Languages of Art (1968)
“Looking is not as simple as it looks.” Ad Reinhardt
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Description and Analysis
To get the meaning you have to interpret the subject matter, the form, the material, the sociohistoric context, and (if known)
artist’s intentions.
Analysis = Concerned with cause and effectHow does the work mean
Meaning x Meanings
Different for the Artist and for the Audience(s) in various times and cultures
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Josef Václav Myslbek: Saint Wenceslas (1900-24)
Subject matter x Content
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David Černý: Saint Wenceslas (1999)
Subject matter x Content
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Michelangelo: Creation in Sixtine Chaple (1508-12)
Technique and its material qualities
Composition and its effect
Color and its effect
Light and its effect
What was the purpose of the work?
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Artemisia Gentileschi: Judith and Holofernes (circa 1620)
Gustav Klimt: Judith and Holofernes (1903)