History of conceptual art
What is art, why it can be an art. Who define it is art. There are many problem we should think about. These conceptual artist both create some innovative / creative even crazy thing, they ask public, what is art.
Paul Cezanne - trees and Rocks near the chateau Noir
For expressionism, a painting could represent nothing, it show visuals. For conceptual art, Duchamp created Fountain which is a signatured toilet put in a gallery, he changed people’s attitude to art.
Robert Rauschenburg, eraesd.
Is painting be valued by the aritist’s popularity?
Chirs Burden, shoot
Michael Craig-Martin,an Oak tree
The work shows a glass desk which put a cup of water, which shows affordance to locate / put somehing there. But the desk is so high so people are impossible to put thing on there, which shows hindrance
Marina Abramovic, Rhythm 0
The artist allow audience see herself as a object, and use some tool on her body, base on please or punish. People hurt her in the end. This performance show human’s evil heart
Richard Prince, cowboy
Damien Hirst, A Thousand Years
An installation which division death and live.
Tracey Emin, My bed
Arst’s show a bed which audience can imagine the situation of the holder. It shows some negative / despair, so it has a potential narrative ability.
Cornelia Parker, the Distance
Andrea Fraser, untitled
Fraser problematizes whether selling art to collectors in of itself is a form of prostitution.
Mediengruppe Bitnik, Surveillance Chess
Who can read the art
The reason of a creation of a art, must be understood. whatever it can be or not, art should be read. Who is the audience? What kind of people have the ability to read? It is a scope of art. Which means, this thing in these crowds, would be seen as art, and in others people’s opinion, it could be nothing even a rubbish. So when we talk about an art, or discuss is it an art, shall we think about the context of creation, reason of creation.
Art without audience
If an art which doesn’t need any audience, the artist do the work only for self, it show his own feeling, emotion, is it an Art? If you understand the meaning of that, or you appreciate the visuals of that, you think it is a art; if not, that is not art for you. So for an art, a personal art, the value not be defined as how much people understand that, is could be how it shows author’s idea.
Are art works as common goods
We know arts can take commercial profit for artist, even Van Gogh sold his work for survive as well. So, art definitely can be a kind of good, cause it bring money.