Case Study: The tradition of the need to change peoples mind sets

Case Study: The tradition of the need to change peoples mind sets 25723791Marcel Duchamp: WorldLived during modernism Society:Expression of the good things about technology Example: Wassily Kandinsky (Russian)Considered the Father of Dadaism

Marcel Duchamp: World Plate 1 (Works during modernism)

Marcel Duchamp: Work Fountain Made 1917Originally displayed on its sideSigned with a fake nameWhat is an artwork?Protest against techImportance of Signature

Marcel Duchamp: WorkBicycle wheel Challenges 1) Use of ready-mades in art 2) What is art?Disallows both objects to original purpose

Marcel Duchamp: InfluencesThe contrast in static and dynamicLeft Duchamps Bicycle wheel Right is 1912 Kings and Queens surrounded by Swift Nudes

Marcel Duchamp: ResponseJournalist Jonathon Jones: There is not really any other art like his, despite his infamous "influence". He discovered something new; no one can discover it again. The cleverest artist of the 20th century played a great joke on history, for Duchamp, who sanctioned and signed replicas of his works and is the prophet of the simulacrum, is in truth inimitableXu Beihong: WorldLived during late Qing DynastySociety values: personal expression Increased Western influence3 types of artists:1)Individualists2)Commercial and Court Artists3) The Orthodox Schools

Xu BeiHong: WorkActed argument for teaching both art styles in schoolsBoth tonal and bold brush strokes come from western Fine strokes come from Traditional Chinese art. Used to break a mindset

Xu BeiHong ImpactShen Weis evaluation, Xu Beihong for 'horse,' the traditional themes were new development: on the one hand, drawing on the experience of Western painting, the horse's body with the light and shade effect, producing light beauty, on the other hand, the shape, the full use of his its foundation more solid modeling, painting a change in the characteristics of ancient horse Biaofeitizhuang reduce physical exaggeration, highlighting the precise and objective body, and the third, in pen and ink, he experiences a sketch based on refined generalization form own unique stylized language, so he will be traditional themes combine with Western realistic painting, completed beyond the traditional, he described the horse comes from observing and sketching life experience, have a strong sense of reality and of life. Horse Paintings old time, the Xu Beihong greatest contribution in painting horses aspect is the Western painting experience into the impact Ren Bo painting by Xu will be an objective body of rigorous shaping and Chinese ink painting charm good combination and sent to a certain ideological meaning, which is a historic breakthrough in the development of Chinese painting he made.Francisco Goya: WorldNapoleonic War finishedWent deaf National pride EconomyLoss of LifeFrancisco Goya: WorldPlate1

Francisco Goya: InfluencesBattle Bosworth P.LoutherBourg (1740-1812) right

Compare stylesFrancisco: Works3rd of May 1808Faceless napoleon troopsThemes: honest depiction of massacreSymbols used dead man , colour, troops, Christ figureShock break Romanticism

Franciso Goya: Work Impact Art journalist Jeff Fleischer The Third of May is not a happy painting. In fact, when it was completed in 1814, it was arguably the darkest and most haunting work of art ever created about war. But, for the artist who used the painting to avoid a visit to the Inquisition, the iconic image has a sunnier side. Francisco Goya: Influence

Velazquez Venus at the Mirror aboveNude Maja below Cmpare styles Francisco Goya: WorkShocked responseReasons:the gazeNudity of woman (Status*)PostureBreak convention