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Year 1 Define Art Theory class

Year 1 Define Art Theory class

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10/09/2024

Lesson 1: Fruit of the knowledge

Quotes by Mariana:

‘’Try to resist the potential backlash from within’’

‘’Who is even able to understand what is good or bad?’’

‘’You look at something and it’s gonna make you feel’’

Artists mentioned:

Kant:
A German philosopher and one of the central enlightenment thinkers -
he was also called the ‘’father of modern ethics’’, the ‘’father of modern aesthetics’’

Avant-Garde:
Avant-Garde means the ’’vanguard’’ or the ‘’advance guard’’ - basically the people and ideas that are ahead of their time. Usually it refers to a movement in the arts.
Avant-Garde can also be used as an adjective to describe something that’s cutting-edge.

17/09/2024

Lesson 2:
‘Art has to show us the World we live in - what is even the point otherwise?’

‘’Why was the Mona Lisa Important?’

Words mentioned:

Convoluted:

Auction:


Artists mentioned:

DADA: Important artistic movement developed during WW1, its core message to go against capitalism, war and the concept of the “aesthetic” through satirical and irrational compositions. Highly political art, collages very popular form of dada art

Colored Mona Lisa: (andy warhol’s situation with the mona lisa: insert here)

Damien Hirst: ‘’fetishistic approach billionaires have to art’’ -

Yishay Garbasz: (‘The work is called “Fucking Damien’ )

YBA’s: ‘Young British Artists’

(Bien says something about the animal’s (shark?) thing is leaking, maybe in italy, piss is leaking?)^

Vito Acconci: seedbed at MET

Trisha Brown: (performance Artist)

Andrea Fraser: (little frank and His Carp, 2001)

Documenta Germany:
Ruangrupa:
Hito Steyerl:
renzo martens:
richard bell: indigenous artist
venice biennale:
catpc congo:
istanbul biennale:
mel jordan the freeee collective:
santiago sierra:
rauschenberg:


‘amongst other things i’ve taken up smoking’ (exhibition)

LESSON 2 UNCOMPLETED^
(pls help fill in)

24/09/2024
Lesson 3: “A stake in the unknown”

Words mentioned:

Post-Black:
New generation of artists, not concerned with discussions over race & identity
They draw on the history and artistic styles of predecessors while also re-introducing styles neglected during the 1990s

Post-racial:
post-racist (a country)

New Black:
trendy, inadequate term

Heterosexual matrix:

Old Negro:
Previous generation of black intellectuals (according to Locke) was too interested in perpetuating black stereotypes (instead of moving on & embracing possibilities)

New Negro:
is meant to highlight abandoning these restrictions & identifying new possibilities.
Aware of humanity and intellectual creativity/using them to move beyond older notions.
Turn towards art, science as an open space of expression and replacing previously grotesque and offensive caricatured with positive self-expression (Locke)


The Black Diaspora:
“super-diversity” – first introduced by Steven Vertovec (2007) meaning; not just diverse for example ethnicities, but also having different genders, sexualities, cultures, religions etc.
Also importance to establish differences but also similarities!! to oppose exclusion



Cosmopolite:
A citizen of the world

Everyday racism:
Micro racism experienced on a daily basis by black people (in the Netherlands)

Harlem Renaissance:
A period of activity and growth in the African American arts, between the end of WW1 - Great Depression and WW2 where Arts, Performance, Sculpture etc. faced rapid growth
Some black women also acknowledged as significant figures in the movement, however it was still difficult for them to kickstart promising careers since painting and sculpture was not considered feminine
An Artistic movement celebrating African American identity and heritage working on changing the perception of Black people, voicing problems in existing states of matter






Sensationalist:
A person who presents stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest or excitement, at the expense of accuracy.
"sensationalists got their kicks out of misreporting the murder"
Presenting stories in a way that is intended to provoke public interest or excitement, at the expense of accuracy.


Surrealism:
An artistic and literary movement that challenged realistic depictions and focused on the concept of the unconscious and dreamlike.
Metaphorical and allegorical representations


Diaspora
The dispersion or spread of a people from their original homeland.

Context:
The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.

Etymology:

Androcentric:
Centered on men or the manufactured monopoly men have on historical topics.
Placing a masculine point of view on one's own worldview.
‘You need to have a very conscious choice to move away from this mindset’.

Invented History:
(James Baldwin in “ The fire next time”)

Super-diversity:
(Tariq Ramadan)


Artists mentioned:

Kent Monkman:
”Miss Chief’s wet dream”
Alter ego miss chief
focusing on colonization, traditional painting

Baronesa van Kant:

Mari Katayama:
Self portraits with textile
She shows something without telling the whole story, so you still have to look it up

Zanek Muholi:
Uses a lot of elements of daily life

Adrian Piper:

Oreet Ashery:
Alter ego

(Del) la Grace Volcano

Bell Hooks:

Zakiyyan Iman Jackson:
”Becoming Human”

Suzanne Cesaire
Possibly the person who invented surrealism
There is not much to find about them because they possibly burned all of their work

LESSON 3 UNCOMPLETED^
(pls help fill in)

Queer Art of Failure: Interesting Terms

“Low Theory”:

hegemony: A political, social or cultural dominance of one state/group over a group of individuals.

Shadow Feminism: A form of protest against the patriarchal standards of society, by refusing and failing to succumb to socially acceptable and gender conforming behaviors. Associated with antisocialism, passivity and self-negation.