Another day Closer to Paradise - David Hensel

It is really unbelievable incident. Instead art piece was displayed its support piece. Hey, is not art an illusion - projection in mind which can be manipulated.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5081744.stm

Favorite aspect of that art is its title.

Hirst's Shark - Khan academy clip

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock - Khan clip

I love his action paintings, how he was concentrated, his movements when he was walking along the canvas (Jackson Pollock 51), the reactions in my mind when looking at those pieces. I have seen the film and it also influenced me to think about the context around his art.

I like the critic: "What was to go on canvas was not a picture but an event." - Harold Rosenberg

Contemporary art - Exercise 2 - What is art?

What is art?

Really, what is art? For me, a piece which makes me happy. It could be film, it could be a series, a painting. And I do not know if it is really art because there are pieces which were marked as art but I do not like them.

We can know it is art because we have proofs for it from society. We see it at galleries, critics are saying it is art, it was sold for a huge money, it is displayed in museum. Is that enough?

I think there are two main areas. The first: ourself recognition what is art (what we learned about it and what had influence on our judgement - culture, other opinions) and the second: the others who established critical issues around what is art.

"To put art back in the service of the mind." Marcel Duchamp: to go behind the piece of art? To let mind imagine something when it sees an object? Like a film montage?

Contemporary art - Exercise 1 - Duchamp's Fountain

First response: ugly, strange, it can't be art, who could say that?

I was thinking about that piece and I must say Marcel Duchamp might wanted to show the world from another point of view. The things we use everyday and not too much consciously lets say and now we see them in other angle and named differently, in other context, it could make an effect to stop for a moment and think "hey he is kidding? what is that about? Fountain?" Illusion is the word which appeared in my mind.

I was also thinking if I can display that piece in my house. I do not why but a model in smaller scale I would have it.



26.9.15: I agree with that comment from TheNicoleTrain youtube Duchamp's Shovel

"It's not about admiring the aesthetic qualities or it or diminishing it of it's function to be looked at purely for it's beauty or lack of. He was challanging the perception of art, it was a test for the masses. Showing the world that art is in the interactivity of the mind, and what each and every person thinks of the object not the object itself. The art is in the debate, the art is in the thinking."

Grayson Perry's Reith Lectures

Here are some of my notions:

Why he done the talks: to give people a tools how to understand contemporary arts
What is good and who can judge it?
For example: critical issues are conflicting.
Where BEAUTY comes from? Soft problems and subjecting issues.

Validation process. Who validates? Critics, art dealers, public, collectors, art curators. Visitors numbers equal good museum, museum quality.

I have found a great link. It perfectly explains the first talk.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c37b1b6a-3017-11e3-9eec-00144feab7de.html

Exercise 5 - planning studies

Study schedule: I would like to finish the course within one year. There are five assignments, so the schedule should be as below:

04.12.15 assignment 1
21.02.16 assignment 2
08.05.16 assignment 3
24.07.16 assignment 4
16.10.16 assignment 5

It is not one year but I think I could work.

I will be studying at home over weekends and I can spend some time by reading books when I am back home from work.

Primary and secondary source

I clearly remember in my mind what happened at Nationally gallery when I was there in '90s. I was really in hurry to see Rembrandt's paintings but suddenly a shining yellow thing hit my perspective from a distance. It was a magical charge which made me to change direction and when was closer I realized it is Vincent's sunflowers. There were so beautiful, warm feelings to stand before it, that I suddenly realized why somebody could pay a fortune to get it. I have never had such a strong experience at all. All printed versions are worthless, you need to see it, go the galleries :-)

Exercise 4

hmmm, originally I thought it is a piece of art from Mark Rothko but it is not.

The author is Godlewska de Aranda, Izabella and a title of that piece is Space, Time, Motion, Green.

Five words: Mystery, Hidden, Simplicity, Hope, Lost. I love it.