Friday 5 November 2010
Project 7 The Flanneur
Project 7 The Flanneur
Definition stroller -lounger-saunterer - loafer
Charles Baudelaire 1821-1867
French poet art critic (portrait painted of him by Courbet 1848)
Charles Baudelaire - his definition of flanneur was that of a person who walks the city in order to experience it - this does not limit the word to someone committing the act of a peripatetic stroll in the Baudelaire sense but can include a complete philosophical way of living and thinking. After the French 1848 revolution the empire was re-established with bourgeois pretentious of 'order and morals' . Baudelaire turned to art saying that traditional art was inadequate for the new modern life. Social and economic changes brought on by the industrialisation demand that artist immerse themselves in the metropolis and in Baudelaire's phrase `a botanist of the sidewalk`
Walter Benjamin 1938 wrote an essay on flanneur as part of an analysis of the Paris poet Charles Baudelaire "The Painter of Modern Life" in which he showed a poetic and poets vision of public places and spaces of Paris coining the term "motility" Benjamin was himself associated with a left wing group of Marxist intellectuals (the Frankfurt School) in which he used Baudelaire's poet or the figure of a flanneur as a metaphorical device for understanding the cultural impact high capitalism had on Parisian's in the mid 19th century. He turned his mind to the arcade or in his words' the original temple of commodity capitalism'. the glass covered passageway filled with shops commodities, consumers and prostitutes provided the flanneur who in defiance of high capitalism would stroll and observe the intoxicated consumers.
The Works of Art in the age of Mechanical Reproduction 1935 acknowledges that change often occurs in ways that artists can neither predict or control. 19th century innovations in techniques or reproduction (photography and film) transformed the experience of art in such a way that Benjamin calls "the decay of aura" this meaning that a work that processes an aura (an effect of distance) must be unique and remain inaccessible to the audience. He insists that aura has a ritual function that can makes itself useful in cults (fascism ' Fuhrer cult' ) as a modern ritual that changes art for reactionary means yet film and photo made it possible to make endless copies of works of art therefore depriving it of its aura (if you see too many photos etc of a famous work of art it becomes the norm not original masterpiece ( i,e,at an art gallery).
For Baudelaire the role of the artist was to express modern life and human emotion which was to engage with the outside world Schwarzback (1979-.1) suggested that 'modern life is city life' (the city is a playground of inspiration and a perfect setting for the artistic expressions of modern life
Schwarrzbak (1979.23) also suggested that Charles Dickens had an 'attaction of repusion' towards city life seen in his novels "places and people" in London are used in Oliver Twist to show a nightmare vision of a city of death (dark,evil, fear and suspense for both the characters and the reader. Dickens walked the city (playing the role of the flaneur) which would act like a tonic and enable him to take up with new vigour the flagging interest of his stories and breathe new life in the them.
Street Photography The flanneur term tendency towards detached but attuned observation
One notable application of flanneur of street photography comes from Susan Sontag 1933-2004 American author literary theorist and political activist in a 1977 essay, In the book On Photography as well as her view of the history and present day role of photography in capitalist societies in the 70's she describes how, since the development of hand held cameras in the early 20th century the camera has become a tool for the flanneur.
visit to Tate Britian Oct 2010
visit to Tate Britain 2010
Paintings
Paul Nash 1889-1946 English landscape artist- surrealist notably war artist considered one of the most important English artists of 1st half of 20th Century
His painting of Totes Meer 1940 (Dead Sea) painted during his time as war artist (2nd world war) From a distance you think you are looking at a rough landscape it is not until you get closer that you see the planes like a plane graveyard which I guess it is one of the affects of war. Nash was said to say 'Death is the only solution on how to fly'. was also known to sometimes work from photographs.
John Linnell 1792-1882 English landscape artist and naturalist
Kennsington Gravel Pits 1811-12 oil on canvas this painting with its observation of textures for the ground bright lighting and the vivid sky was developed from a study of watercolours previously painted by Linnell
Peter De Wint 1784-1849 English landscape artist
Children at Lunch by Cornstock 1810 oil on canvas
This captures the children taking a well earned break from the hard labour working at a young age on the farm they are captured completely unaware of being observed.
David Wikie 1785-1841
The Village Holiday 1809-11 oil on canvas
This painting has so much to see and say on the moral and humorous study of everyday day life this is on the theme of virtue and vice - (drink) a man hesitates between going home to the wife or staying for another drink the wrong decision is shown by the collapsed drunk, even the dog was ashamed of him.
There were two paintings by William Mulready (1786-1863)
The Rattle 1808, The Last 1884 both so clear and detailed the rattle, The Rattle, the father offers a rattle to his child and the man's face reflects the child's delight The Last, fully detailed story of boy arriving late to school and the consequences of this!
Thomas Webster 1800-1886
Late at School 1834 another artist who shared with Mulready the interest in subjects concerning childhood and education. I like the look on the two children's faces at the entrance you can read what they are thinking! and the child inside looking out at them.
Duncan Grant 1885-1978
Bathing 1911 the male nudes represent the continuous movement of a single figure and the bodies like the water are stylised to heighten the effect of the decorative image
Definition Mezzotint is printmaking - technically a dry point method
We looked at many modern pieces in the gallery
Rachel Whiteread 1963 untitled Black Bath 1963
Damien Hurst 1965, (artist room Tate Britain)
Trinity Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology 2000 showing the anatomy of various parts of the body and the development of child in the womb all displayed in wall length glass cabinet.
In the main entrance were two works by Fiona Banner--- impressive the 1st was the Harrier, suspended vertically floor to ceiling wall to wall, mimicking the bird a harrier hawk it had hand painted feather markings, its cockpit was the eyes and the cone was the nose the beak looking like a trussed bird.
Behind this in the next part the the main entrance was the Jaguar which was belly up on the floor, stripped of paint showing a highly polished surface which becomes a mirror reflecting back its surroundings beautiful work. Fiona was born 1966 English artist short listed for the Turner Prize 2002
Note While reading though book received for Christmas (A Brief History of Art) came across L.H.O.O.Q. Mona Lisa with a moustache 1919/1930 Artist Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp would purchase everyday items and re-appropriate its use as an art work either by defining or defacing it in some way as in the Mona Lisa this he did by inscribing it with the letters L.H.O.O.Q. and drawing a moustache on the face!!! the letters when spelt out in French read phonetically as Elle a chaud ou cul (she's got a hot arse) I do not agree with defacing a masterpiece. But I suppose it is one way to catch the public eye and to make them think.
Paintings
Paul Nash 1889-1946 English landscape artist- surrealist notably war artist considered one of the most important English artists of 1st half of 20th Century
His painting of Totes Meer 1940 (Dead Sea) painted during his time as war artist (2nd world war) From a distance you think you are looking at a rough landscape it is not until you get closer that you see the planes like a plane graveyard which I guess it is one of the affects of war. Nash was said to say 'Death is the only solution on how to fly'. was also known to sometimes work from photographs.
John Linnell 1792-1882 English landscape artist and naturalist
Kennsington Gravel Pits 1811-12 oil on canvas this painting with its observation of textures for the ground bright lighting and the vivid sky was developed from a study of watercolours previously painted by Linnell
Peter De Wint 1784-1849 English landscape artist
Children at Lunch by Cornstock 1810 oil on canvas
This captures the children taking a well earned break from the hard labour working at a young age on the farm they are captured completely unaware of being observed.
David Wikie 1785-1841
The Village Holiday 1809-11 oil on canvas
This painting has so much to see and say on the moral and humorous study of everyday day life this is on the theme of virtue and vice - (drink) a man hesitates between going home to the wife or staying for another drink the wrong decision is shown by the collapsed drunk, even the dog was ashamed of him.
There were two paintings by William Mulready (1786-1863)
The Rattle 1808, The Last 1884 both so clear and detailed the rattle, The Rattle, the father offers a rattle to his child and the man's face reflects the child's delight The Last, fully detailed story of boy arriving late to school and the consequences of this!
Thomas Webster 1800-1886
Late at School 1834 another artist who shared with Mulready the interest in subjects concerning childhood and education. I like the look on the two children's faces at the entrance you can read what they are thinking! and the child inside looking out at them.
Duncan Grant 1885-1978
Bathing 1911 the male nudes represent the continuous movement of a single figure and the bodies like the water are stylised to heighten the effect of the decorative image
Definition Mezzotint is printmaking - technically a dry point method
We looked at many modern pieces in the gallery
Rachel Whiteread 1963 untitled Black Bath 1963
Damien Hurst 1965, (artist room Tate Britain)
Trinity Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology 2000 showing the anatomy of various parts of the body and the development of child in the womb all displayed in wall length glass cabinet.
In the main entrance were two works by Fiona Banner--- impressive the 1st was the Harrier, suspended vertically floor to ceiling wall to wall, mimicking the bird a harrier hawk it had hand painted feather markings, its cockpit was the eyes and the cone was the nose the beak looking like a trussed bird.
Behind this in the next part the the main entrance was the Jaguar which was belly up on the floor, stripped of paint showing a highly polished surface which becomes a mirror reflecting back its surroundings beautiful work. Fiona was born 1966 English artist short listed for the Turner Prize 2002
Tuesday 28 September 2010
Project 6 Photography versus Painting
Project 6 Photography versus painting
(Definition of resonance the effect of an event or work of art beyond its immediate or surface meaning)
After reading Brik’s article I think in the end both artists and photographers accepted that each interpreted a subject in his or her own way.
The case of photos versus painting is that photos give you instant results where as with the painting it takes time and if you wish to change the subject you simply take another photo where as with the painting you either change it or start again so photographs give you the quicker result.
Although there are artists who can and have produced paintings (some copies of masterpieces) in a matter of hours and are able to convince the art world that they are the originals? (I watched an interesting program on this subject on T.V.)
Painters thought that they could produce a painting in true colours with the use of various colours on the palette. This was not so in the early stages of photography, but as this progressed with trial and error when taking coloured photos they were able to show the true colours. As time has progressed coloured photograph can now be `doctored' to give a more realistic picture.
Painters then declared that ‘Precision is not the ultimate aim’ nature not being the subject more the initial idea on which to interpret in his or her own way.
i.e. the photographer captures life while the painter interprets it in his own way.
Some believe that art (painting, sculptures) is true art where as photographs are the insignificant art, the photographers dream is to produce photos that look more like paintings, by airbrushing etc?
R.M. Rodchenko Russian born 1891 died 1956 was once a painter, poster artist but changed to photography, which was mainly experimental so is not known to many people. He was a versatile Constructivist painter. Before turning to photo montage and photography he often shot photos from odd angles usually high or low to shock the viewer and postpone recognition he wrote “ one has to take several different shots of a subject as if one looks around instead of though the keyhole each time”
Rodchenko was at odds with Kasimir Malevich’s abstract spiritualism; this was shown in his transition towards constructivism when he argued his painting were “construction since they were made from real materials (canvas, wood, tacks, and pigment in oil)
Kasimir Malevich's painting
Self portrait
Rodchenko's paintings
Painting: White circle – 1918 oil on canvas in which he explored how different colours react in conjunction with different backgrounds and forms (an optical conflict occurs as the viewer’s eye tries to determine which of the two circles should hold precedence.
Rodchenko stopped photographing in the 1940s and returned to painting though he did continue to organise photography exhibitions for the Russian government during those years.
Rodchenko stopped photographing in the 1940s and returned to painting though he did continue to organise photography exhibitions for the Russian government during those years.
Film poster – The battleship Potemkin
Photograph – White Sea Canal 1933 – built by criminals and other undesirables rehabilitated though labour. He took a number of photos that would provide the raw material for the masterpiece of political propaganda
The American artist Barbara Kruger owes a debt to Rodchenko’s work.
Joseph Kosuth American conceptual artist born 1945
One and three (Chairs) explores the nature of art rather than producing art pre se thus art is very self – referential to this art work features a physical chair a photograph of that chair and a text of a dictionary definition of a chair
The photo is a representation of the chair
The chair is a work of art
The definition is the photograph
Bruce Nauman born 1941 Indiana sculpture, photographs neon, video, drawing painting print and performance
Eating my words 1967 colour photograph
Transfers the artistic control from the act of creating to the act of reading the process that defines the work
Betty (1988) by Gerhard Richter born 1932 when I first looked at this picture I thought it must be a photograph the colours are so intense it is in fact a painting of a photograph (which is a technique used by Richter) this is of his daughter she faces away from us into to what looks like a black canvas but is in fact one of the artists dark abstract paintings. Betty seems to be unwilling to look at us and the black canvas is not likely to communicate with her so she is a a vold on her own so this presents a sense of absolute separation from everything and everyone. The darkness brings out the brightness of her colours notice too the hair which looks so real it gives the impression that you could reach out a touch her to make her turn. This thickly painted canvas evokes sadness and despair and was thought to be in response to the Vietnam war
The Stone Breakers 1849 by Gustave Courbet 1819-1877
oil on canvas
This depicts two labours breaking stone in a field of stark realism. The two men dressed in ragged clothes with their modest lunch pails in the background have their backs to the viewer (as did Betty) and are straining under the menial and demanding labour one to young for hard labour the other to old. This painting in my view is realistic to the point of being nearly a photograph as it is such a scene that you could imagine in life. Compared to (Betty) the colours are muted browns, yellows, orange and the rocks have a silvery sheen.
Wednesday 11 August 2010
Project 5 Art as a commodity
Project 5 Art as a commodity
Art as a commodity (to be traded – it is sometimes the only way capitalism can own art. Some argue that this is the only way to belittle art by owning it as an investment rather than the joy of looking and enjoying the art.)
Fetishism of Commodities
I think I understand the first principal in the first paragraph i.e.the mention of wood being a commodity that can be used to make another object for use and or pleasure (sometimes equally as beautiful as the structure of the wood itself) but it is still wood whatever it is made into. And that an object or painting cannot produce itself into something else without the interference of man who then produces something special from the first
object of equal beauty.
At this time I cannot quite get to grips with the connection between the article and work by artists such as Jeff Koons and other artists
Examples of Jeff Koons work--- Rabbit – Naples Italy 2003
Ballon Flower - Polsdamer Platz – Berlin Michael Jackson and Bubbles – Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art Modern.
Cracked Egg – (blue egg) it is interesting that you can see the reflection of the egg on the egg itself which is high polished (a new birth perhaps)
One of my favourites is called Kiepenkeri 1987 made in stainless steel it is displayed in the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden in the National Mall Washington DC
i.e. Cleaner= phallic (male) + sucking (female) + cleaning (purity or goodness)
Jeff Koons born 21-01-1955 American Known for his large reproductions of banal (common place)
objects such as balloon animals made of stainless steel with a mirror finish and brightly coloured.
He studied at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and Maryland Collage of Art. He revered Dali and briefly worked as a commodities broker while gaining recognition as an artist which he gained in 1980, and set up a studio in a Soho loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway. Had at least 30 assistance each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work (similar to Andy Warhol factory). Notable by being produced by a method called Art Fabrication (when artists enlist the help of a Art Fabrication studio which has access to specialised machinery and labour necessary to make a complex project i.e. employing labour to make the project, but claiming the acclaim for the work??
In 1991 Koons married the Italian soft porn movie actress Iiona Staller known as `Cicciolina` and embarked on a series of work that concentrated on recording their ecstatic love-making (why) with no holds barred of these he claimed a religious significance which made them more outrageous to the general public.
Jeff has stated that there is no hidden meaning in his work!!
Similar artists to Jeff Koons are Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst and possibly Duane Hanson.
Note:
Since progressing further in to this course I have been able to understand more on this subject and looking at objects in different ways, and appreciating some of what the artists are portraying.
Art as a commodity (to be traded – it is sometimes the only way capitalism can own art. Some argue that this is the only way to belittle art by owning it as an investment rather than the joy of looking and enjoying the art.)
Fetishism of Commodities
I think I understand the first principal in the first paragraph i.e.the mention of wood being a commodity that can be used to make another object for use and or pleasure (sometimes equally as beautiful as the structure of the wood itself) but it is still wood whatever it is made into. And that an object or painting cannot produce itself into something else without the interference of man who then produces something special from the first
object of equal beauty.
At this time I cannot quite get to grips with the connection between the article and work by artists such as Jeff Koons and other artists
Examples of Jeff Koons work--- Rabbit – Naples Italy 2003
Ballon Flower - Polsdamer Platz – Berlin Michael Jackson and Bubbles – Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art Modern.
One of my favourites is called Kiepenkeri 1987 made in stainless steel it is displayed in the Hirshhorn Museum’s sculpture garden in the National Mall Washington DC
Koons work often displays layers of clear deliberate Symbolism as in the pristine vacuum cleaners placed in an airtight museum case (more likely to be used for precious objects)
i.e. Cleaner= phallic (male) + sucking (female) + cleaning (purity or goodness)
Jeff Koons born 21-01-1955 American Known for his large reproductions of banal (common place)
objects such as balloon animals made of stainless steel with a mirror finish and brightly coloured.
He studied at the School of Art Institute of Chicago and Maryland Collage of Art. He revered Dali and briefly worked as a commodities broker while gaining recognition as an artist which he gained in 1980, and set up a studio in a Soho loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway. Had at least 30 assistance each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work (similar to Andy Warhol factory). Notable by being produced by a method called Art Fabrication (when artists enlist the help of a Art Fabrication studio which has access to specialised machinery and labour necessary to make a complex project i.e. employing labour to make the project, but claiming the acclaim for the work??
In 1991 Koons married the Italian soft porn movie actress Iiona Staller known as `Cicciolina` and embarked on a series of work that concentrated on recording their ecstatic love-making (why) with no holds barred of these he claimed a religious significance which made them more outrageous to the general public.
Jeff has stated that there is no hidden meaning in his work!!
Similar artists to Jeff Koons are Tracy Emin, Damien Hirst and possibly Duane Hanson.
Note:
Since progressing further in to this course I have been able to understand more on this subject and looking at objects in different ways, and appreciating some of what the artists are portraying.
Tuesday 10 August 2010
Project 4 Ideology and interpellation
Project 4 Ideaology and interpellation
IDEOLOGY .... set of ideas that discusses the goals, expectations and actions
INTERPELLATION.... act of interruption
Or Marxism understands ideology as a creation or class and the subjects position in relation to capital and production process
Project 4
Althusser explains structuralism in two ways :-
1 Ideology that which you imagine does not necessary correspond to what is real i.e. an illusion – different people have their own take on the subject matter.
2 Individuals are based as subjects of ideology i.e. Celebrity’s, powerful business people, those in authority.
3 I think Althusser’s interpretation to ideology is drawn from Freud and Lacan’s concepts of the conscious and the mirror phase respectively these according to Althusser are both agents of repression and inevitable (it is impossible to escape ideology to not be subjected to it).
Athusser denied being a structuralist and called Structuralism “ structuralist ideology” he showed his basic
assumption that experience consciousness and subjectivity are themselves of an imaginary relationship between an individual and his or her real conditions of existence.
Marxist art history attempted to show how art was tried up to specific classes, how images contained information about the economy and how images make the `status quo’ seem natural .
Courbets – Burial at Ornans is an expression of the painters egalitarianism (upholding the principle of equal rights for all) - this caused an uproar when exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1850 on the grounds that it idealised the peasants it portrayed, while subjecting the clergy to savage criticism.
Definition visual – what we see – the physical aspects of the world around us everyday
Definition culture - includes language, ideas, customs, tools, works of art rituals and ceremonies etc.
e.g. The staircase from La Sagrade Familia in Barcelona Spain,an example of modern architect Gaudis obsession with nature as well as the use of the circular may say that the staircase was constructed to
represent a snail or a circular form found in nature.
IDEOLOGY .... set of ideas that discusses the goals, expectations and actions
INTERPELLATION.... act of interruption
Or Marxism understands ideology as a creation or class and the subjects position in relation to capital and production process
Project 4
Althusser explains structuralism in two ways :-
1 Ideology that which you imagine does not necessary correspond to what is real i.e. an illusion – different people have their own take on the subject matter.
2 Individuals are based as subjects of ideology i.e. Celebrity’s, powerful business people, those in authority.
3 I think Althusser’s interpretation to ideology is drawn from Freud and Lacan’s concepts of the conscious and the mirror phase respectively these according to Althusser are both agents of repression and inevitable (it is impossible to escape ideology to not be subjected to it).
Athusser denied being a structuralist and called Structuralism “ structuralist ideology” he showed his basic
assumption that experience consciousness and subjectivity are themselves of an imaginary relationship between an individual and his or her real conditions of existence.
Marxist art history attempted to show how art was tried up to specific classes, how images contained information about the economy and how images make the `status quo’ seem natural .
Courbets – Burial at Ornans is an expression of the painters egalitarianism (upholding the principle of equal rights for all) - this caused an uproar when exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1850 on the grounds that it idealised the peasants it portrayed, while subjecting the clergy to savage criticism.
Definition visual – what we see – the physical aspects of the world around us everyday
Definition culture - includes language, ideas, customs, tools, works of art rituals and ceremonies etc.
e.g. The staircase from La Sagrade Familia in Barcelona Spain,an example of modern architect Gaudis obsession with nature as well as the use of the circular may say that the staircase was constructed to
represent a snail or a circular form found in nature.
Fenichel chapter
Project 2 Fenichel chapter
Distinction between looking and seeing: Looking using ones eyes
Seeing: combination of that act, and the action taken on the information gain though the eyes
i.e. you see an accident and the information gained from that informs your mind to want to help in someway. Or a new born baby brings emotion of joy, tears, wonderment etc.
The act of looking could be seen as being virtually identical or substitute for some activity i.e. watching or participating could be classed as a form of fetishism by fixing an irresistible gaze on someone or some object the eye or the glance becomes a sadistic weapon.
The eye plays two parts: -
1. The person gazing holds the stare of the victim or object in his power.
2. The person who looks is fascinated by what they see.
The looking glass is a form of magic – it confronts the person with what they look like rather that what they think they look like in your minds eye. In your minds eye you devour the devour the object or person you are looking at to be forced to imitate or grows like it.
When you think of something you imagine what it looks, feels (tastes maybe) like when you see the said item it turns out to be something different.
One looks at an object or person to share in its experience or has an impulse to injure or destroy the object seen?
Thoughts
Can a painting hypnotise you though your eyes that you look further with your minds eye to see more?
Could the eye be the messenger from the brain i.e. what the eye sees’ the brain computers and learns from it?
Distinction between looking and seeing: Looking using ones eyes
Seeing: combination of that act, and the action taken on the information gain though the eyes
i.e. you see an accident and the information gained from that informs your mind to want to help in someway. Or a new born baby brings emotion of joy, tears, wonderment etc.
The act of looking could be seen as being virtually identical or substitute for some activity i.e. watching or participating could be classed as a form of fetishism by fixing an irresistible gaze on someone or some object the eye or the glance becomes a sadistic weapon.
The eye plays two parts: -
1. The person gazing holds the stare of the victim or object in his power.
2. The person who looks is fascinated by what they see.
The looking glass is a form of magic – it confronts the person with what they look like rather that what they think they look like in your minds eye. In your minds eye you devour the devour the object or person you are looking at to be forced to imitate or grows like it.
When you think of something you imagine what it looks, feels (tastes maybe) like when you see the said item it turns out to be something different.
One looks at an object or person to share in its experience or has an impulse to injure or destroy the object seen?
Thoughts
Can a painting hypnotise you though your eyes that you look further with your minds eye to see more?
Could the eye be the messenger from the brain i.e. what the eye sees’ the brain computers and learns from it?
Project 1: Modernist Art: The Critic Speaks
What is Greenberg talking about in general---?
His essay shows his observation of technical changes in art itself and the way it is perceived i.e. Greenberg was friends with the painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland whose abstract paintings he (Greenberg) labelled “Post painterly abstraction”
Morris Louis Bernstein b. 28th November 1912, d. aged 49 7th September 1962 (Amercian abstract expressionist painter)….. In 1950 he became the earliest exponent of Colour Field Painting (primarily by large file of flat solid colour spread across or stained on to the canvas creating areas on unbroken surfaces and a flat picture plane - moment less on gesture brushstroke action in flavour of an overall consistency of form and process).
(Wikipedia – Morris Louis Bernstein – Colour Field)
Kenneth Noland – b 10th April 1924 d. 5th January 2010 American abstract painter also known for Colour Field Painting Met Norris Louis in early 1950 (in early 1960’s thought of as a minimalist painter).
Gustav Klimt is in Greenberg’s eyes the first real modernist Philosopher (he was the first to criticise the means itself of criticism) – modernism used art to call attention to art – Old masters used flat surfaces to tell a story thus it was a negative factor.
Artists mentioned by Greenberg as Monet, David, Manet, Cezanne, Fragonard, Ingres, Cubist Giotto Cimabue, and Mondrian Kantian
(British Journal of Aesthetics Greenberg, Kant and the problem of Modernist painting by Paul Crowther – Barbara Reise – challenged as did T J Clarke, Greenberg b. 16th January 1909 d. 7th May 1994
Art critic's exerted extraordinary influence as a champion of Abstract Art.
Note to myself – not sure I understand all of his theory’s so has given me a lot to think about and must come back to add more as his idea’s are completely new to me - STUDY MORE
Quote LOOKING IS CONCEIVED AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION MODERNISM IS MORE THAN JUST ART AND LITERATURE IT INCLUDES ALMOST ALL THAT IS ALIVE IN OUR CULTURE WITHOUT THE ART OF THE PAST ART SUCH AS MODERNIST ART WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE
Greenberg’s essay on Modernist painting is built on his earlier thoughts of avant-garde art and culture
He also believed that Kant was the first real modernist.
His essay shows his observation of technical changes in art itself and the way it is perceived i.e. Greenberg was friends with the painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland whose abstract paintings he (Greenberg) labelled “Post painterly abstraction”
Morris Louis Bernstein b. 28th November 1912, d. aged 49 7th September 1962 (Amercian abstract expressionist painter)….. In 1950 he became the earliest exponent of Colour Field Painting (primarily by large file of flat solid colour spread across or stained on to the canvas creating areas on unbroken surfaces and a flat picture plane - moment less on gesture brushstroke action in flavour of an overall consistency of form and process).
(Wikipedia – Morris Louis Bernstein – Colour Field)
Kenneth Noland – b 10th April 1924 d. 5th January 2010 American abstract painter also known for Colour Field Painting Met Norris Louis in early 1950 (in early 1960’s thought of as a minimalist painter).
Gustav Klimt is in Greenberg’s eyes the first real modernist Philosopher (he was the first to criticise the means itself of criticism) – modernism used art to call attention to art – Old masters used flat surfaces to tell a story thus it was a negative factor.
Artists mentioned by Greenberg as Monet, David, Manet, Cezanne, Fragonard, Ingres, Cubist Giotto Cimabue, and Mondrian Kantian
(British Journal of Aesthetics Greenberg, Kant and the problem of Modernist painting by Paul Crowther – Barbara Reise – challenged as did T J Clarke, Greenberg b. 16th January 1909 d. 7th May 1994
Art critic's exerted extraordinary influence as a champion of Abstract Art.
Note to myself – not sure I understand all of his theory’s so has given me a lot to think about and must come back to add more as his idea’s are completely new to me - STUDY MORE
Quote LOOKING IS CONCEIVED AS A MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION MODERNISM IS MORE THAN JUST ART AND LITERATURE IT INCLUDES ALMOST ALL THAT IS ALIVE IN OUR CULTURE WITHOUT THE ART OF THE PAST ART SUCH AS MODERNIST ART WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE
Greenberg’s essay on Modernist painting is built on his earlier thoughts of avant-garde art and culture
He also believed that Kant was the first real modernist.
project 2 Fetishising the object of your eye
Scopophila derives from Freud's 'sopicdrive' the infants drive to pleasurable viewer. This concept is further expanded by Freud's 'primal scene'( i.e. male child unseen by parents watching them copulating, also Lucan's 'mirror stage' (when the boy child realises he is different to his mother).
Voyeurism - meaning viewing the activities of other (unknown to them) and fetishism (in film, the over- investment of other parts of the body) usually through another's eyes.are two strategies adopted by males to counteract the fear of sexual difference, both of which have illicit connotations.
Question 1
The importance of looking and seeing has significance not only in the present day culture but also through history evident in i.e. gorgon: Oedipus - blinded as a punishment. The project has helped in my way looking in a ritualistic way. Such as went we visit an art gallery we look for recognition and substitution of what is missing in the exhibits. Looking also signifies identification and we try to identify with the exhibits in the gallery. I wonder if the environment of the art gallery allows us a safe place to do this?
The articles do suggest that staring at someone is a best bad manners and even worst threatening in some ways to look is to show power.
Freud suggests that desire is crucial to looking ( i am not sure I agree with this).the scopophilic instinct is a sexual one. Pleasure is looking as an object be it painting, china, buildings etc. to try and share its experience.
Some people feel the need to watch television to search for what is missing in their lives and also for identification (ocular interjection) due to the mirror and self image. I think we watch television because we learn from documentaries, etc and find pleasure in others i.e. comedy etc.
I do not think everyone has visual fetishes in relation to sexual gratification in way view (the way I was bought up those avenues were not entertained. If we were to use a simplified and de-sexual view of fetish, "to replace something with something else" then I would agree that a city dweller could possibly substitute an image of countryside over living in the city.
I think that in general most people would keep images of family wedding etc in the form of either photos and videos as they bring back happy memories and as a memento of happy times. The importance here is the mirror and self image which could play a greater role in keeping such images.
Voyeurism - meaning viewing the activities of other (unknown to them) and fetishism (in film, the over- investment of other parts of the body) usually through another's eyes.are two strategies adopted by males to counteract the fear of sexual difference, both of which have illicit connotations.
Question 1
The importance of looking and seeing has significance not only in the present day culture but also through history evident in i.e. gorgon: Oedipus - blinded as a punishment. The project has helped in my way looking in a ritualistic way. Such as went we visit an art gallery we look for recognition and substitution of what is missing in the exhibits. Looking also signifies identification and we try to identify with the exhibits in the gallery. I wonder if the environment of the art gallery allows us a safe place to do this?
The articles do suggest that staring at someone is a best bad manners and even worst threatening in some ways to look is to show power.
Freud suggests that desire is crucial to looking ( i am not sure I agree with this).the scopophilic instinct is a sexual one. Pleasure is looking as an object be it painting, china, buildings etc. to try and share its experience.
Some people feel the need to watch television to search for what is missing in their lives and also for identification (ocular interjection) due to the mirror and self image. I think we watch television because we learn from documentaries, etc and find pleasure in others i.e. comedy etc.
I do not think everyone has visual fetishes in relation to sexual gratification in way view (the way I was bought up those avenues were not entertained. If we were to use a simplified and de-sexual view of fetish, "to replace something with something else" then I would agree that a city dweller could possibly substitute an image of countryside over living in the city.
I think that in general most people would keep images of family wedding etc in the form of either photos and videos as they bring back happy memories and as a memento of happy times. The importance here is the mirror and self image which could play a greater role in keeping such images.
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