Art is trapped in the cage of society, constantly being judged and interpreted regardless of the artist’s intent. There is no escaping it, however, there are ways to manage and manipulate the cage. Two such examples are Kandinsky 's Little Pleasures, and Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. Both pieces were very controversial and judged for being so different in their time, but they also had very specific ways of handling the criticism and even used it to their advantage. We will be looking at the motivations for each artwork, what made the art so outrageous, and the public’s reaction to the pieces. Both pieces were made with the publics reaction in mind, however, both artists desired a different outcome than the other. Duchamp created Fountain after one of his previous paintings had been rejected from the cubist room at the Salon that his brothers …show more content…
Duchamp’s piece was not controversial because of the simplistic nature of the piece, nor the oddity of it- it was controversial because he had not made it himself. People were very opposed to this idea because they believed that art was something made and not found. Duchamp’s “ready-made” art, which were always mass produced objects made by machines, was offensive to them and so they rejected it wholeheartedly. Unlike Fountain, Kandinski’s Little Pleasures was not rejected because of the nature of its ’creation’, it was rejected because people had never before seen art with such a lack of recognizable forms. Before Kandinski, art had always had representations of things from life, and Little Pleasures seemed almost completely arbitrary to them with no connections to the world they lived in. As such, both pieces were, at first, denied the title of “art” because society was unable to break from tradition and admire something
The Kandinsky painting represents“ Chaos and control.” This quote is mentioned repetitively and strategically throughout the movie to illustrate the fluctuation of lifestyles and relationships the characters undergo throughout the film. In one scene they are relaxed, happy, and having a good time conversing with friends and in the next scene they are frantic, outraged and arguing. In other words, the Kittridges lives, like the Kandinsky painting, are out-of-balance and easily swing back-and-forth between a life of case and control.
In the Enseigne, art is also shown to serve a function that it has always fulfilled in every society founded on class differences. As a luxury commodity it is an index of social status. It marks the distinction between those who have the leisure and wealth to know about art and posses it, and those who do not. In Gersaint’s signboard, art is presented in a context where its social function is openly and self-consciously declared. In summary, Watteau reveals art to be a product of society, nevertheless he refashions past artistic traditions. Other than other contemporary painters however, his relationship to the past is not presented as a revolt, but rather like the appreciative, attentive commentary of a conversational partner.
Art is a very important part of humanity’s history, and it can be found anywhere from the walls of caves to the halls of museums. The artists that created these works of art were influenced by a multitude of factors including personal issues, politics, and other art movements. Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, two wildly popular artists, have left behind artwork, that to this day, influences and fascinates people around the world. Their painting styles and personal lives are vastly different, but both artists managed to capture the emotions that they were feeling and used them to create artwork.
One of the most unique figures in the continuum of the art world, Marcel Duchamp changed the way we look at and produce art today. Marcel Duchamp was by far, one of the most controversial figures in art. Two of the most well known and talked about pieces by him are The Fountain and The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even . Duchamp created many other pieces that caught the attention of critics, other artists, and the population in a negative way; however, these two pieces alone, brought about the greatest amount of controversy.
In this essay I will be discussing what, in my own opinion, makes good art. To justify what I consider to be a good standard of art, I will be analyzing the work of French symbolist Eugene Carriere and contrasting this with artwork I consider to not be 'good art'.
In conclusion we can see that even worlds apart artists can still find inspiration from unlikely subject matter. Watteau’s from the theater. Picasso’s from the street. Both artists not only showed their era in their art but also themselves and others. Even when it comes to entertainment it seems that not artist can escape the idea of shaping their own worlds into their piece of art. As well, both also showed not only the similarities but also differences of their era and how art was viewed.
Through successful conceptualization and execution of his “action” installations, Joseph Beuys was able to present how he and many others felt about such matters related to psychology, the social structure, and politics. The messages in Beuys’s works may not have been clear to many, but he sought to show that all humans are creative and that art is not meant to be easily understood because there wouldn’t be a need for art if is was. I believe Joseph Beuys can be considered one of the greatest time-based performers of his time.
Some say that Marcel Duchamp, also known as Rrose Selavy, is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. From a young age Duchamp was under a heavy influence of art. For instance, his grandfather “...practiced engraving…” (Lebel). Duchamp’s mother even painted landscapes. This resulted in, “Four of the six Duchamp children [becoming] artists.” (Lebel). Duchamp was influenced by his two older brothers who encouraged him to pursue art. He was also heavily influenced, in his early art stages, by, “...Paul Cezanne…” (Lebel). In 1906, Duchamp moved to Paris at the time when modernism was about to explode. “...[Duchamp] was part of the generation who were influenced and inspired by this revolution.” (Jones). When Duchamp reached the age of twenty five, he started getting influenced by the,”...theater adaptation of Raymond Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique with Picabia and Guillaume Apollinaire.” (“Marcel Duchamp Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works”). The plots of this story and the puns, which Duchamp used in many of his works, are what influenced him the most. He "’felt that as a painter it was much better to be influenced by a writer than by another painter.’" (“Marcel Duchamp Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works”). In this same year, 1911, Duchamp may have also been influenced by, “allusions to homosexual intercourse, Kabbalism and tantrism…” (Girst). Girst says this may have been the only work of art Duchamp
I chose Auguste Rodin’s The Thought as the artwork to write about in this paper. This paper will introduce the style, context, and subject of Rodin’s The Thought. Besides that, the paper will also demonstrate that although Rodin is considered as forerunner of modern sculpture, he didn’t reject elements of great artists of the past.
Jackson Pollack and Vincent van Gogh are some of most famous artist before and after their time. Each artist has a similar and different painting methods that they use when painting pictures. There most well-known paintings are called “Number 1” and “The Starry Night”. The paintings give off emotion by how they look, but each one is painted in different ways. The public did not find their paintings wanting when they were made. The difference was how long it took for them to get recognized for their work. Lastly, the paintings gave different and similar reactions to people that have changed over the years of their existence.
Many of us visit art galleries and wonder what an artist is trying to tell us with his paintings or sculptures. It's never easy to interpret a piece of art as everyone sees it from their own perspective. Many of the master pieces of Salvador Dali have been replicated and volumes have been written about his artwork. Two of those will be compared and analyzed in this essay ; "Apparition of Face and Fruit- dish on a Beach" and "The Persistence of Memory". One is about the inseparable fate of humanity from nature the other is about memories that we create at every step and that come back to us and keep haunting us.
Transgression suggests operating beyond accepted norms and radically reinterpreting practice by pushing at the boundaries of both what art is or even what it could be. Transgression opens up a wide range of possibilities for the artists which I will be showing through the first part of this essay. I will be showing and discussing the work of Carolee Schneemann, Rick Gibson and Gunther von Hagens.
I believe that Matisse and Picasso can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free from Paul Cezanne. Below I have attached all three paintings that we are going to talk about. The first one is Paul Cezanne’s the Large Bathers. To me this is a painting of a bunch women bathing out in the open. The colors are more neutral and bland, but still has a claiming effect on you. According to Wikipedia, this is the last of the oil paintings by Cezanne, and they consider this one to be unfinished. After seeing the other paintings of bathers, I would agree with that statement. His other paintings have more life in them.
This art, like most, can be applied to the viewer in any way they wish. A person may look at one of the sculptures and see themselves. They may see a man who is going through challenges similar to their own; someone who is trying to free himself from these bounds. Such challenges may include an attempt to escape financial bounds or personal weaknesses. The interpretations are only limited to the comparisons a viewer
The nature that these two artist are expressing is not pretty much relative to each other. Conceptual art involves the work of an artistic idea that takes precedence over traditional artistic and material concerns.