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CHALLENGING REPRESENTATIONAL ART
CHALLENGING REPRESENTATIONAL ART
Lets have a looK at KANDINSKY
Lets have a looK at KANDINSKY
"Open your eyes to music, your eyes to painting. And don't think! Ask yourself .... whether the work of art has carried you away t a world unknown to you before. If so, what more do you want?"
"Must we not then renounce the object altogether , Throw it to the winds and instead lay bare the purely abstract?"
Violet-orange 1935
oil on canvas
"for many years, i have sought the possibility of letting the viewer 'stroll" within the picture, forcing him to become absorbed in the the picture, forgetful of himself."
Kandinsky 's move towards abstract painting was driven by what he called his "inner necessity to find the spiritual art form free from the references to the external world."
Do governments have the right to govern over art?
Consider the art making practice of Wassily Kandinsky.
Consider the art making practice of Wassily Kandinsky.
Does the paintings created by Kandinsky relate to thinking of Plato or Aristotle? Give reason for your thinking. Provide evidence by describing aspect of his works or aspects within a particular work.
Does the paintings created by Kandinsky relate to thinking of Plato or Aristotle? Give reason for your thinking. Provide evidence by describing aspect of his works or aspects within a particular work.
Kandinsky always left the meaning of his work in the eye of the beholder, claiming that it was whatever the "spectator lives or feels while under the influence of the picture."
Why do you think The Nazi's in WWII confiscated works of Kandinsky and destroyed them.
Mark Rothko - "I know. You are not alone"
Mark Rothko - "I know. You are not alone"
How can a painting council the viewer?
How can a painting council the viewer?
How colour works. Emotional communication with colour.
How colour works. Emotional communication with colour.
How can music ignite passion and inhance the artist's practice?
How do artists defeat language?
How can nothing be everything?
What is the power of 'REDNESS' ?
What is meant by COLOUR , MARK MARING and SCALE and TOUCH doing the job of the figure?
CONTROL and RELEASE
ORDER and CHAOS
It is by those two art sponsoring deities, Apollo and Dionysus, that we are made to recognize the tremendous split, as regards both origins and objectives, between the plastic, Apollinian arts and the nonvisual art of music inspired by Dionysus. The two creative tendencies developed alongside one another, usually in fierce opposition, each by its taunts forcing the other to more energetic production, both perpetuating in a discordant concord that agon which the term art but feebly denominates: until at last, by the thaumaturgy of an Hellenic act of will, the pair accepted the yoke of marriage and, in this condition, begot Attic tragedy, which exhibits the salient features of both parents.
from Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
.......Manzoni’s idea actually worked on several layers, from a political statement to his belief that art should contain very personal elements of a person. Tin cans full of poop were as personal as it got for Manzoni. ........more
How One Artist Turned Cans Of Poop Into $300,000 Pieces Of Art?
Was Manzoni intent to create an artwork that was aesthetically pleasing?
What do you think his intentions were at the time?
Did his intentions reflect the society of the time?
Do you think this work is about reflecting consumerism, capitalism, challenging artistic conventions or something more subjective.
If POP art reflects the culture of the time, does this mean it is a philosophy or simply a fashion or trend?
Are all art movements based on a philosophy?
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