Art history and contemporary application
Today’s seminar, we discussed simple development of art. Start from first engraved art work to contemporary painting / installation, I found the some steps of development on art.
History of Art
motivation of the first art
The first art work could be a shell, the ancient human engraved some pattern on it, the reason that person created these pattern could be going to decorate the shell, thus it might be the first art work in the world
As a kind of creature, the basic requirement of accent human is survive, when they did something which not for survive, they created art. Art actually is not necessary for survive, it even waste labour force and resource in prehistoric context. However, art indeed satisfy some requirements like aesthetic. The first art work could be not a painting, because human painted for recording and communication, in this condition, painting can be defined as word, symbol, they have practical function.
What is art? When some actions are made for aesthetic and entertainment rather than survive, it could be defined as art. It support human’s psychological requirements, makes us happy and relax, and it might be the minimal function of art.
development of painting
In Classical painting, reality is the most important thing which artists seek. Perfect shape, precise perspective / angle, classical gave people best imagination of myth and religion. With the development of painting, human explore human body, philosophy, and these motion promoted humanism. In my view, classical painting not only support solid painting technics and theories, but also supported humanism and culture in that period.
Focusing on impression and memory, expressionism and impressionism showed unique style on describe light and atmosphere. Artist use more emotional and objective skill to paint. Bright colours, rough stroke, they express emotion in painting.
In 20th century, art expanded a significant count of styles and genres. Artist more focus on geometric, graphic and form. Reform, reconstruct, and reproducing, art got into daily life. Different concepts and attitudes were accepted and conveyed by sorts of art.
Relate to my own project
In today’s seminar, some genre I’m interest in are Relational aesthetic. During my EP&IV project, I painted some illustration about individuals and group.
This work shows the relationship between individuals and environment. Many points stack beside a corner of wall, they fill this space, became a part of this space.
In my work, I tried to create many individual and explore their relationship. In current step, I only divide them by colour and scale, but in future, I’d like to use real-time to generate variables. Furthermore, these individuals should influence each other, they can make a group and different group could combine or effect another one.
In this picture, the growth of groups can be showed, we can see the trace of offset.
关系中的美感是什么,怎么体现? 个体集合成群体,群体融于环境,它们之间形成了一种层级(hierarchy)关系,而层级关系就是构成形式感的关键.所在在之后的视觉训练中,要注意不同层级间不同的相互作用方式.
- 个体具有独特性,差异性 // unique, differences
- 个体组成群体,群体滋生新的个体 // generate
- 群体影响/合并群体 // influence & combine
- 环境限制群体,群体适应环境 // limitation & acceptation
Land art
Land art can be understood as art in nature. Artists generally use raw materials to tiny adjust nature environment, in addition, they add some elements to highlight existed original aesthetics which made by nature. Therefore, land art focus on environment and object.
These work might not be pure land art, but in my view, these mirror with geometric shape created strong visual in context. Although these sharp edges show appeared human-made feeling, the reflective images combine well with context.
So we can see some common points between relational aesthetic and land art. Next step I’d like explore more theories about these.