Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Exquisite Corpse
Monday, March 30, 2015
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Questions About Art
1.
What is a work of art? Describe qualities found in artworks.
a visual idea created from someone's mind using materials. Textures, skill, colors, patterns
2.
What should an artwork provide to
both the maker and the viewer?
artwork should tell a story and have an emotional connection between artist/viewers
3.
Why do people make art?
To express their feelings and passions on certain topics
4.
Where does one encounter art?
public, museums, school, advertisements, tv, social media
5. What is the role of the artist?
To create a piece of artwork that will stir up opinions, ideas, and emotions of other viewers
MoMA | Dada
World War I and
Dada
·
What is Dada and why did it come into existence? Dada is an art movement inspired by World War I and doesn't share common styles between artwork.
Marcel Duchamp and
the Readymade
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Discuss Duchamp’s notion of “Readymades”. What are they?
Mass-produced objects isolated from their functional context.
·
How do they change your expectations about what
art can be?
In my opinion, artwork would be a painting, sculpture, photograph, drawing, etc., but now, artwork can be any object created by man
·
Chance Creations:
Collage, Photomontage, and Assemblage
·
Dada artists turned to non-art making
strategies…
o What
did they embrace?
chance accident
o Why
did they take this approach?
It was their way of protest, showing the violent world they lived in
·
Artist
Collaboration
·
What is the value of art made by Dadaists?
The value doesn't lay in the artwork itself, but in the act of collaborating with others to create new visions
Word Play
·
How and why did Dada artists work with words?
sought to undermine the fundamental structure of rational, ordered society. They turned words and letters into abstract forms and stripping forms
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