"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it’s just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture ‘This is a pipe’, I’d have been lying!" — René Magritte REPRESENTATION The study material now conclude that...
I used as feature image a picture taken as a still from the movie, Dead Poets Society - During this chapter of the studies, reading Plato and trying to get to grips with the theory I came upon the discovery that the USA was born with the idealism embedded in...
‘The nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in the sciences in which the relatively small-scale 18th century disciplines of natural history (which recorded and classified the world) and natural philosophy (which explained and investigated natural phenomena) gave way to large, influential and powerful sciences – the specialised, professionalised and distinct disciplines...
With regards to the assignment I think I had some positive feedback, and hopefully with regards to the length of the assignment, I did ok! My tutor added some extra pointers which I really appreciate in terms of further understanding and connecting the process to the learning. I would like...
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...
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...
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...
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...