But is that Art?
Chapter 4: Money, Markets, Museums:
1. Select one of your own works and relate it
to a specific idea presented in this chapter? If you cannot find a connection,
describe why your work is divergent.
Throughout reading this chapter, I
feel like my most recent work where I had to create a painting using a
system that created a different mark
during a specific moment during the system. It Lasted about 12 hours , than I
added another 3 hours because I felt that the piece was unfinished. But my
system was that I would have three colors, Green for horses, Red for Trolleys,
and Blue for bikes and every time I saw them I would have to leave the Painted
Ball on the Canvas and let it roll around for 2 minuets until I saw another.
This work is similar to Jackson Pollock's Painting Blue Poles. I feel
like the ideas behind both of these pieces was to let the system, or the paint
make the mark. No matter how the piece came out it, can be considered random.
This can be seen throughout some of my blog posts. I will try and post a
picture of My System painting
Pick one work in this
chapter and answer the following questions. What ideas drive the work selected?
Who was it created for? What purpose does fill? What questions does it raise?
The work I chose to write about is Jackson
Pollock's painting the Blue Poles. As for the ideas
behind this work, I believe the brochure cover "showed a huge tabloid
headline that denounced the painting: 'Drunks Did It!' But , on the inside of
the brochure, the museum (and presumably its members) got the last laugh by
pronouncing, 'Now the world thinks it's worth over $20 Million. And it's yours
from $14.50 (the price of a membership) After succumbing to this appeal, will
the new museum member really be able to look at Blue Poles for its artistic value. As for whom it was created for,
personally I believe he created this work with the viewers aesthetic feelings
in mind, while still using his own creative process. As for the viewer I believe he intended it
for not just one person but for everyone. From looking at this work, it can
ether engage you or it can raise many questions. Questions such as Why did he
use those color choices? Was there any specific way he dropped the paint on the
canvas? Why did he create this work? etc.... These are all good questions that
could arise if someone was unfamiliar with the work at hand.
2.
List any ideas that are new to you in
this chapter.
From reading
this chapter It was really interesting to learn
how museums reflect many values about the artworks they present.
Notes:
·
Some
Museums reflect significant local archaeological finds, like the museums of
Greece near Olympia and Delphi. Pg 91
·
Museums
may reflect the identification of an artist with a place. Georgia O'Keeffe
lived in New Mexica for most of her working life, and her imagery draws upon
pueblos and the desert's vast skies, flowers, and bleached animal bones. Pg 92
·
Minority
groups argue that new museums are needed because their artists, tastes, and
values have not been represented in mainstream museums. Ppg 92
·
"Enjoyment
of opera in films is always a dread giveaway of upper-class status, whereas a
likimg for country- western music shows the opposite- that a person is earthy
or redneck." Pg 94
·
20th
Century barbarians cannot be transformed into cultured,
civilized human being until they acquire an appreciation and love for art. Pg
99
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