In “The Monochrome and Black Canvas” by Thierry de Duve, the author is developing a discussion around several works of critics such as Greenberg, Fried and Judd and challenging how minimalism is affecting the definition of the modern painting. I need to explain the relationship to Modernist art and theory by using a work of […]
Exercises within Part Two The Modern in painting and sculpture 2.0 Find two paintings and one sculpture, each of which appears concerned with modernity, modernism and modernisation. Indicate the relevant features on annotated reproductions. The following should be addressed: Does the subject seem to be of its time? Does the work or its subject matter […]
The term ‘mechanical’ : Greenberg also uses the term ‘mechanical’ to describe a characteristic of kitsch and is also used in describing the processes of producing some Pop Art. Thinking about Postmodernism in comparison with Modernism Postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony or rejection towards ideologies and various tenets of universalism, which […]
Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding This part of the course made me very aware of the influence of different causes on the life of artists and art. The happenings in the art world in the years since World War II was to greatly advance modernism. I have tried to read as wide – […]
Assignment One , My tutor suggested that I keep additional material in a separate section of my blog. I decide to add the extra writing about the Potter work in this section and took it out of the original essay. In my comments on Tansey’s painting I found and interesting link with work of Potter, […]
My tutor is appreciative of the reading I have started to do and commented on the length of my assignment essay as I did not keep to the word length. I should work on structuring my writing to keep to the word length – mine was twice the approximate 1000 words required!! Background research material can […]
20 June 2018 Art Theories Exercise 1.0 In his book, The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle writes that there are “portions of the real world, objective facts in the world, that are only facts by human agreement. I need to make a list of 10 such ‘things’ that exist only because we believe them […]
Thanks for joining me! This is my learning log and blog about my studies at OCA, and the subject for this blog is Visual Studies 1: Understanding Visual Culture. This course is divided into 5 parts which I have to work through and hand in an assignment per part. I get the impression there will […]
During April to 8 May 2018 I visited 2 exhibitions by local artists. Invocations to the Plate by Deborah Bell : 12 to 2 June 2018 at David Krut Projects, Parkwood, Gauteng. Deborah Bell is one of South Africa’s most celebrated contemporary artists and works in a range of media on canvas and paper, produces […]