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
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