Conceptual Art:
Mode: way an artwork is created.
IDEA – the artwork was essentially about.
If work existed as an idea-it was no longer necessary for it to exist as a finished
work.
Art became about ideas
The body became the form of the medium
Some exist as just documents of the work – no finished actual work
Made with temporary media (snow/leaves)
Material existence and exist only in the mind.
Moves out of galleries and into arenas
CHANGE
Excludes painting / sculpture as an imitation of nature
The actual work of art is not the object but is the activity in which the
artist was engaged at the time of his creation.
Ideas represents are considered its essential component.
Artists intentions & ideas.
Message is of importance
Performance Art:
- Diverse range of forms
- Theatre, music & visual arts: deliberate blurring of the previously distinct
aesthetic categories was intended to focus attention on the relationships
between the artist, work & spectator.
- Closely connected with ‘happenings’ but was usually more carefully
planned & generally did not involve audience perceptions.
- Foreseen discomfort of the artist.
, - Temporary nature (thought the written word was too limiting)
- Venturing into an arena, where artists felt encouraged to proceed as if
unrestrained by rules & traditions
- Freedom of subject matter, medium / material
- Simply visual communication: incorporated words & called upon
concepts of myth + ritual
- Enabled them to offer their work at any time
- Instant access to the receivers of their work – with no critic
- New level of control over its display
- Appeared to offer the max possibility for converting art from an object
of consumption to a vehicle of ideas & action – NEW FORM OF VISUAL
COMMUNICATION
Joseph Beuys:
- Symbol of regeneration (Group of Tartars found him and brought him
back to health) they wrapped his body in animal fat for insulation. = fat a
symbol of regeneration.
- Felt an artist’s entire life should be an artwork, and that anyone can be
an artist.
- Teacher and healer – art can heal trauma
- Mythic, shamanistic quality to his work
- No physical evidence of art having taken place (conceptual)
- He said sculpture was an evolutionary process – process of change that
occurs in the materials like the fat.
- Sculpture could change / evolve to him.
Coyote:
- Week-long interaction between a man and an animal a ‘psychological
trauma point’ was supposedly trapped into.
- Presents himself as a shamanic figure, communicating with an animal.
Symbolically to recover a lost relationship for the materialistic west.
- He saw humanity as out of touch with itself.
- He was fascinated by natural, mythology and alchemy.
Mode: way an artwork is created.
IDEA – the artwork was essentially about.
If work existed as an idea-it was no longer necessary for it to exist as a finished
work.
Art became about ideas
The body became the form of the medium
Some exist as just documents of the work – no finished actual work
Made with temporary media (snow/leaves)
Material existence and exist only in the mind.
Moves out of galleries and into arenas
CHANGE
Excludes painting / sculpture as an imitation of nature
The actual work of art is not the object but is the activity in which the
artist was engaged at the time of his creation.
Ideas represents are considered its essential component.
Artists intentions & ideas.
Message is of importance
Performance Art:
- Diverse range of forms
- Theatre, music & visual arts: deliberate blurring of the previously distinct
aesthetic categories was intended to focus attention on the relationships
between the artist, work & spectator.
- Closely connected with ‘happenings’ but was usually more carefully
planned & generally did not involve audience perceptions.
- Foreseen discomfort of the artist.
, - Temporary nature (thought the written word was too limiting)
- Venturing into an arena, where artists felt encouraged to proceed as if
unrestrained by rules & traditions
- Freedom of subject matter, medium / material
- Simply visual communication: incorporated words & called upon
concepts of myth + ritual
- Enabled them to offer their work at any time
- Instant access to the receivers of their work – with no critic
- New level of control over its display
- Appeared to offer the max possibility for converting art from an object
of consumption to a vehicle of ideas & action – NEW FORM OF VISUAL
COMMUNICATION
Joseph Beuys:
- Symbol of regeneration (Group of Tartars found him and brought him
back to health) they wrapped his body in animal fat for insulation. = fat a
symbol of regeneration.
- Felt an artist’s entire life should be an artwork, and that anyone can be
an artist.
- Teacher and healer – art can heal trauma
- Mythic, shamanistic quality to his work
- No physical evidence of art having taken place (conceptual)
- He said sculpture was an evolutionary process – process of change that
occurs in the materials like the fat.
- Sculpture could change / evolve to him.
Coyote:
- Week-long interaction between a man and an animal a ‘psychological
trauma point’ was supposedly trapped into.
- Presents himself as a shamanic figure, communicating with an animal.
Symbolically to recover a lost relationship for the materialistic west.
- He saw humanity as out of touch with itself.
- He was fascinated by natural, mythology and alchemy.
