Modern Art Remixed - Tate Liverpool - Week 4

Painting is Over ... Long Live Painting

Conceptual Art - Idea is everything, not aesthetics etc

1940s Painting was being challenged

Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty, 1970

Joseph Kobuth - Titled. Art as Idea as Idea, Art, 1967

Carolee Schneeman - Scroll, 1975

Challenge to artists, art system

Daniel Spoerr - Prose Poems, 1959-60

Challenge the status of painting

Very Political

Left wing

Against capitalism

(American’s celebrated capitalism)

Pollock - isolated in a spiritual space, gifted, important most were male, genus, heroic

this was most peoples perception of painters at that time

Munch

Picasso

Van Gough

Western White Males

Artists began to stop representing everyday life, in the past they brought life and art together.

Roland Barthes wrote about it.

Advertisment - anti class

Cinema - quick fighting for attention

shortens peoples attention span

Jean Tan

Arman

Klien - Neuveau Realism

Pick up objects to make art which is real life

Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel (Everything comes down to Duchamp)

Arman - In Limbs, 1962 (accumulations of boxes of consumer items in disrepair)(throw away culture)

Arman - Condition of Women, 1960

Blue Beards Wife

Arman - Filled a whole gallery with rubbish, 1960

Yves Klein - Le Vide, 1959 earlier had the same gallery but it was completely empty.

Daniel Spoerri - Prose Poems

Stuff glued to a table top the put on the wall.

Consumerism - some one gets money out of it but not the artist

Personal

Artists were giving everything values even things that would normally be thrown away. book of drawings from his house with each item having a caption about it even something as simple as a pin.

The world was making you think you need something even when u didn't.

1968 - Famous for political conflict, radical

Surrealists - very politically aware

CoBrA - Inspired by surrealists - Same political views

Christian Dotremont - Coupe de Seinence

Chance, subconscious

Max Ernst

Letterism

Isidore Isou 52 Nombres

Raymond Hayes

Jacques Villegle - Decollage

Urban Vandalism opposite of collage

Billboard, Posters - mixed images and text etc

Public space shouldn’t be used for corporations to feed their information when people didn’t realize.

Situationist International - 1967

Guy De bord - Society of the Spetical

Every form of art poetry, film etc

freedom, satisfaction

Giuseppe Pinot - Gallizo, 1958

Rectification

Marcel Duchamp - L.H.O.O.Q,1919

JAke and Denos Chapman - Insult to Injury, 2003

the images they drew on became worth more after

these things were happening everywhere no pinpoint

Conceptual Art

Paris 1968

Student strikes - Bad living conditions, didn’t like the way they were being treated

Then they were joined by workers

Question every part of life including art

Lerwance Weiner -Pearls Rolled Across the Floor, 1994

On a String

Piece together the image in your head

If its in you head your own view of the work he cant take that away from anyone.

Douglas Huelbar - “The world is full of object, more or less....” find quote

On Kawara - Date Paintings

Daniel Burren - Peinture, 1965-68

Sit Down, 1998

galleries people walking in the streets everywhere you can think of

Robert Barry - Telepathic Piece, 1969

Joseph Kosuth - Art as idea ...., 1968

One and Three Chairs (chair, definition, picture)

Representations of objects

IDEA

originality

putting things in front of people that was already there.

Broodthaers - Casserole et Moules Fermees, 1964

Hans Haacke - A Breed Apart,1978

always fighting art cynical about capitalism big problem with pop art

Rene Magritte - This is not a Pipe

Difference between representation and the real thing

MArcel Broodthaers - Femund’Homme Belge and Femur, 1964/65

Department of Eagles, 1972

Question the role of the museum

Created fake exhibition, questioned how things are categorized

Eagle = State Power

Museum = State Power

Hans Haacke - Information, 1970 - Anti Establishment

Assassinations

Bad time for Liberals

Artists were asking difficult questions

Haacke - Shapolsky et al Real Estate

Holdings, a real time social system as of may

People living in very bad conditions the bad guys were shown in true colours and the Guggenheim wouldn’t show it

OPen war fair

Separation between art and politics

Jannis Kounellis - Exhibition of 12 horses, 1969

Pistoletto - Venus of the Rags, 1967

reality against beauty of art

Images....

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Black - E Gallery (Previously named Blackie)

I have never previously gone to the Black - E gallery I didn’t no that it was open I thought it was being refurbished. I did go and see a piece there during the biennial (a paper house) but I thought the artist was just using a derelict space.

Combination between a contemporary arts centre and community centre/youth centre.

The building was once a wooden chapel built in 1811 which then burned down in 1840. 18 months later it was rebuilt as Great George Street Congregational Church and then opened as the Black - E in 1968 as the UKs first community arts project by Wendy and Bill Harpe with help from Sir John Moore.

It was opened to bring children in and to encourage them to experiment and have the courage and confidence to go out and make something of them selfs. The doors are open to anyone who wants to get involved.

The building is in the progress of being refurbished at the same time as running. I hope while they are doing the work they don’t cover up all the aspects of its previous life because its a very interesting building and very large. The main area which need to be done up is what will be the entrance there is going to be large sliding glass doors into the rounded staircase which is similar to the atrium at the Guggenheim with the stairs spiraling up the sides. This area will also be a gallery space.

The Black - E has various methods of funding city council, independent charity, arts council, donations and charges to people using the spaces for functions ranging from around £50 - 100 for a babies christening to £9000 for a large corporate conference.

The Gallery used to be called the Blackie which originated from the colour of the church, the stone was covered in grime and smoke the mixed race communities that helped open it up helped to also choose the name. They were unhappy when the name was forced to be changed slightly to Black - E. People were questioning wether it was racist especially in America.

In the main exhibition space were the work was on the wall was large and mainly lovely sets of chance drawings and collages done by the communities including children as young as 6 and as old as 70.

Talk by Stephen Clarke

John Baldessari at the Tate Modern

Pure Beauty

Active Artist for 50 years

Based in Los Angeles since 1960s

one of the most influential artist of his generation

Pioneer of conceptual art

Text and Image art combined

California

He has problems with being categorized or pinned down to a place

California Map Project Part 1, 1969

Artists shouldn’t be labelled on where they come from.

Mexico Boundary Project (detail) 1969

Very successful in New York and Europe

But recognition was slow in California

Artist in California stay there and don’t take there work to other places (stuck in a rut)

Text Work

Tips for an Artist to Sell, 1966-68

Acceptance - important for the sale of art work

The place where you live might not support you as an artist.

He’s not a Californian artist, his work is not about California but he is based in California.

He called him self an Abstract Expressionist but his work does not represent this but he does talk about it in his work.

Artists can be identified in many ways for example age, location, gender etc.

Painting of the rules of painting.

Clement Greenberg, 1966

Could be a minimalist or a Pop Artist

Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles 1960. The Place to be and show your work in California

Ed Ruscha - Standard, Amarillo, Texas, 1962

Baldessari - Econ - o - Wash, 14th and Highland, National, 1966

His studio was an old cinema

He cremated the work because he couldnt sell it then he put the ashes in little boxes which then became pieces of art.

Takes place at the rise of conceptual art

de materialization of the art object and to some extent the artist

Marcel Duchamp had his first Retrospective

A Painting by Dante Guido, 1969

A Painting by Helen Morris, 1969

Who’s is the art - his for the idea or the person who painted it?

Joseph Kosuth - Main figure in conceptual art practically wrote the manifesto

Titled (Art as Idea as Idea), 1967

John Baldessari - I will not Make any more Boring Art, 1971

Works from photos and records with photos

I am Making Art, 1971

Mixing up Painting and Photography

Wrong, 1966-68

Photography and text mixed together became essential in his work.

Teaching - He became an art teacher to make a living even tho he doesn't enjoy it at first, but he decided to use it to his benefit and makes work on it.

CALARTs - Institute of Arts set up by disney in California. Film School

His influence comes from his students

He then starts to work with film and film stills

Script, 1974

People read from the same script he then looked at how different people interpreted it differently.

Brutus killed Caesar, 1976

Sequence

Photo comparison becomes his unique style

His main work comes when he is in his 50s

Cindy Sherman

Appropriation

Embed Series - Ice Cubes - U BUY BAL DES SARI, 1974

Craig Owens - Art critic who explores the relationship between the artist and the gallery and asks who is responsible for the meaning of the works.

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 3 - Workshop

Dictionary of Avant-Gardes - Workshop

The task is to create a dictionary of words relating to 20th and 21st century art and culture with your own small defenitions. Refer to works in the Tate exhibition. The words can be personal opinion as well as intellectual art terms.

A -

B - Boundaries - Artists are trying to break any boundaries and labels put on them.

C

D

E - Experimental - Specific areas of art are classed as experimental for example film and digital art.

F

G - Ground Breaking - What might be groundbreaking to one person may not be to the next so its hard to give a definition or example.

H

I - Impact - Many pieces of work were depentent on the shock factor and after a while people were not affected by the shock factor because it became the norm

J

K

L

M - Mathmatical - The use of exact measurements, shapes etc are being use for example Bridget Riley’s Illusions.

N

O

P - Price Tag - Many meanings behind works where hidden behind the price tag.

Q

R

S - Society - Many led be small artistic or social based groups, challenging traditional art and also present society.

T - Temptation - Use of something to interact with but then making it so you can’t.

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Work in Progress, Un Finished.

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 3

DaDa and Surrealism

Dada Manifesto - New York, Paris, Barcelona etc

After World War 2

Young artists angry about the world, the war

Not made there mark yet

Spontaneous, chaotic

destroying systems involved with capitalism

The impressionists looked dated

Active demonstrations - noise concerts, violent, horrid

Big difference between rich and poor

Made to go and fight, seen death and destruction

reacting against this

no interest in pretty images

destruct anything to do with capitalism

DaDa - Yes Yes

Hobby Horse

Naivety

Hugo Ball

Tristan Tzara

Marcel Janco

Hans Richter

Jean Hans Arp

Sophie Taeuber Arp - DaDa Head, 1920 (destructing the bust)

Cabaret Voltaire - Puppetry, poetry, dancing etc

make the art as ugly as possible

Anti - Art, Aesthetics etc

Hans Arp - Collarge with Squares Arranged Accordingly to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17

Chance, Irony Games, Word Play, Manipulation, Loss of Meanings

Marcel Duchamp - LHOOQ, 1919

Picabia - Portrait of Cezanne, 1920 anti establishment, or normal art

Man Ray - Cadeau, 1921-63 everyday object made viscous and useless

Marcel Duchamp - Fountain, 1917

By product art as an art

Duchamp was a very talented painter which was less known, could paint anything needed a new way forward

fed up of art institutions choosing what art is and what can be displayed

Signature forms the art

Open exhibition - but the fountain was not aloud to be exhibited

R Mutt - Also stands for poverty

Readymades - put forward to symbolize something else

you pay for the name of the artist

artist began to choose what art is

even if he didn’t make it the change and signature made it art

very powerful at the time

questioning everything

marcel protested why it wasn't exhibited which was part of it

Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel, 1913

distributing everyday things in a new way

DaDa movement 1919

George Grosz - Toads of Property, 1920 more figurative

Ecle Homo Series, 1923

Explosive attacks to the establishment and capitalism

Capitalists - lust, sin, pollution, money

juxtaposition between rich and poor

Bourgeoisie

Photo montage, collage

Hanna Hock - Beautiful Girl, 1919-20

manipulated beings

Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, 1915-23

Bachelors on the bottom

mimicking something in your head

DaDa became norm and the artists began to become minor celebrities

the group started to dissolve

most challenging period of art - yet freedom began and art as an idea

DaDa had a rippling effect everywhere and on everything

Literature became fragmented

Ballet Russe - Parade Ballet was classed as high art

Andre Breton started 1924 Surrealism Excluded Reality

Artists in revolt against society

Freud important to surrealism, sexual desire drives everything, objects have gender and identity. symbolizing death repression a form of depression.

Hans Belmer - Plate 9 of Les Jeux de la Poupee (The Games of the Doll), 1949

Naivety, childhood next to a man on the bed horrid connotations

Change the way you think/see reality

Freud’s theory of the unconscious

negativity getting low and boring

positivity become to arrive

Jean Miro

Dali

Picasso

Hans Belmer had a theory that a lot of people were abused as kids - Chapman Bros

"beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" quote by Isidore Ducasse

the sewing machine was female and the umbrella was male, Rape and prostitution

Max Ernst - Men Shall Know Nothing of this, 1923 (poem on the back)

dedicated to Andre Breton

Rene Magritte - The Reckless Sleeper

Things on you mind

Dali - Pushed out - Metamorphosis of Narcissus

his farther told him he was his brothers reincarnation

he represented women as rotten fruit and decaying things

he was frightened of women but desired them

The Lugubrious Game, 1929

Impeccable painting however strange the subject was

the surrealists didn’t like him becoming a celebrity and disowned him

Magritte

Man Ray - Lee Miller, Neck, 1930 (erect penis shape)

Meret Oppenheim - Fur Covered Cup and Saucer and Spoon, 1936

items of fetish, unaccessible yet they were everyday

Became glamourous and daring

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 3

DaDa and Surrealism

Dada Manifesto - New York, Paris, Barcelona etc

After World War 2

Young artists angry about the world, the war

Not made there mark yet

Spontaneous, chaotic

destroying systems involved with capitalism

The impressionists looked dated

Active demonstrations - noise concerts, violent, horrid

Big difference between rich and poor

Made to go and fight, seen death and destruction

reacting against this

no interest in pretty images

destruct anything to do with capitalism

DaDa - Yes Yes

Hobby Horse

Naivety

Hugo Ball

Tristan Tzara

Marcel Janco

Hans Richter

Jean Hans Arp

Sophie Taeuber Arp - DaDa Head, 1920 (destructing the bust)

Cabaret Voltaire - Puppetry, poetry, dancing etc

make the art as ugly as possible

Anti - Art, Aesthetics etc

Hans Arp - Collarge with Squares Arranged Accordingly to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17

Chance, Irony Games, Word Play, Manipulation, Loss of Meanings

Marcel Duchamp - LHOOQ, 1919

Picabia - Portrait of Cezanne, 1920 anti establishment, or normal art

Man Ray - Cadeau, 1921-63 everyday object made viscous and useless

Marcel Duchamp - Fountain, 1917

By product art as an art

Duchamp was a very talented painter which was less known, could paint anything needed a new way forward

fed up of art institutions choosing what art is and what can be displayed

Signature forms the art

Open exhibition - but the fountain was not aloud to be exhibited

R Mutt - Also stands for poverty

Readymades - put forward to symbolize something else

you pay for the name of the artist

artist began to choose what art is

even if he didn’t make it the change and signature made it art

very powerful at the time

questioning everything

marcel protested why it wasn't exhibited which was part of it

Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel, 1913

distributing everyday things in a new way

DaDa movement 1919

George Grosz - Toads of Property, 1920 more figurative

Ecle Homo Series, 1923

Explosive attacks to the establishment and capitalism

Capitalists - lust, sin, pollution, money

juxtaposition between rich and poor

Bourgeoisie

Photo montage, collage

Hanna Hock - Beautiful Girl, 1919-20

manipulated beings

Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, 1915-23

Bachelors on the bottom

mimicking something in your head

DaDa became norm and the artists began to become minor celebrities

the group started to dissolve

most challenging period of art - yet freedom began and art as an idea

DaDa had a rippling effect everywhere and on everything

Literature became fragmented

Ballet Russe - Parade Ballet was classed as high art

Andre Breton started 1924 Surrealism Excluded Reality

Artists in revolt against society

Freud important to surrealism, sexual desire drives everything, objects have gender and identity. symbolizing death repression a form of depression.

Hans Belmer - Plate 9 of Les Jeux de la Poupee (The Games of the Doll), 1949

Naivety, childhood next to a man on the bed horrid connotations

Change the way you think/see reality

Freud’s theory of the unconscious

negativity getting low and boring

positivity become to arrive

Jean Miro

Dali

Picasso

Hans Belmer had a theory that a lot of people were abused as kids - Chapman Bros

"beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" quote by Isidore Ducasse

the sewing machine was female and the umbrella was male, Rape and prostitution

Max Ernst - Men Shall Know Nothing of this, 1923 (poem on the back)

dedicated to Andre Breton

Rene Magritte - The Reckless Sleeper

Things on you mind

Dali - Pushed out - Metamorphosis of Narcissus

his farther told him he was his brothers reincarnation

he represented women as rotten fruit and decaying things

he was frightened of women but desired them

The Lugubrious Game, 1929

Impeccable painting however strange the subject was

the surrealists didn’t like him becoming a celebrity and disowned him

Magritte

Man Ray - Lee Miller, Neck, 1930 (erect penis shape)

Meret Oppenheim - Fur Covered Cup and Saucer and Spoon, 1936

items of fetish, unaccessible yet they were everyday

Became glamourous and daring