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What is Art? part 2Themes and content, context, effect/affect
Last class• subjectivity in art
• art as a carrier of meaning
• meaning in art usually ambiguous, implicit
• different contributors to meaning
• Form, formalism, how form works with content to make meaning
• genres of art
• representational vs figurative vs abstract vs non-representational
• Styles in art, classical vs romantic
• media or mediums and process
Themes and content
• Iconography- symbols that are traditional, usually religious, that most people understand the meaning of
Michelangelo’s Pieta Pieta by Sam Taylor Wood
Iconoclasm• greek for “image-breaking”
• literally- destroying religious icons or symbols or outlawing their use
• figuratively- someone who goes against the grain, breaks convention
ancient Buddhist statue destroyed by Taliban
Religious or sacred
Tibetan Buddhist designThe Incredulity of St. Thomasby Caravaggio
Religious or sacred
Virgin Mary by Chris OffiliPiss Christ
by Andres Serrano
Political/social
Ai Weiwei
Political/social
Picasso’s Guernica
Banksy
Political/social
Political posters/ propaganda
Political/social
stories and history
Oath of the Horatii, by Jacque-Louis David
stories and history
Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze
stories and history
Trajan’s column
stories and history
Battle of Orgreave by Jeremy Deller
Nature
Monet’s Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge
Nature
Andy Goldsworthy
Nature
Jennifer Steinkamp
Identity
Rembrandt’sSelf-portraits
Identity
Frida Kahlo
IdentityCindy Sherman
Dreams and fantasy
Salvador Dali
Dreams and fantasyPop Surrealism
Mark Ryden
Dreams and fantasyPop Surrealism
Andrea Castro
Dreams and fantasyPop Surrealism
Lisa Falzon
Dreams and fantasy
Matthew Barney
Dreams and fantasy
Theo Mercier
Humor
Marcel Duchamp and the Dada art movement
Humor
Erwin Wurm
Humor
Olaf Breuning
Humor
Guerrilla Girls
Art as a theme“Art about Art”
Art as a theme“Art about Art”
Context•the historical or biographical
circumstance that surround the work
•the setting or placement of the art (a wall, a gallery, outdoors, on pedestal, etc)
•Site-Specific= typically made for a certain space, perhaps made onsite rather than in studio. Could be installation art, land art, ephemeral art, public art or monuments.
Context
Duchamp’sFountain
Michelangelo’s David
Site-specific art
Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (Land art)
Christo’s & Jeanne Claude’sThe Gates (public art)
Site-specific art
Monica Gryzmala(installation art)Katharina Grosse
(installation art)
Moi
Effect / Affect• effect = visual or other sensory result of
a way of working with the media (ex. drybrush technique)
• affect= the bodily or emotional feeling of the experiencer
• artists use effects to try to create affects
Affect
Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault
Affect
Olafur Eliasson, the
Weather Project at
Tate Modern museum
AffectMarina Abramovic