Sol LeWitt:
I feel he could use fewer words by saying: "Conceptual art activates the left Brain as expressionism activates the Right brain."
It seems that he is saying just that only with soo many more words. He says it's not logical, but maybe it leans more towards the objective sense?
I will agree the most successful are usually the most obvious! I disagree that conceptual art has little to do with the mentioned disciplines. He may mean that artists rarely consciously use these. I have used only mathematics that are simple or blatantly obvious, I feel this stands out more. Less is more.
I can see how artists will never admit to minimalism. There is always a complexity behind an artistic presentation. mini skirts? matchboxes? mini artists? Was he trying to be funny? If so, he failed.
His mention that 3D art and Architecture are completely opposite natures, I can see that their stems are seprate of each other, but their vines intertwine, without individual distinction. I think we may very well link 3D art and architecture in EVERY way! For one high school art class all we studied was art and architecture. Through all the places of worship, buildings of business and so on, the line us students saw between the two faded fast, because we would only critique them as 3D art!
His paragraph on the physical fact of 3D art made me anxious for holograms to become easy to construct. Wouldn't that be quite the movement in art history? The age of holograms!
I feel this guy was very critical and closed minded. I could barely agree with him, but then again that was over 40 years ago. I don't see that as an excuse, I rarely come across a fellow student of art and find them closed-minded, it's kind of in the job description to be open-minded!
Kaprow:
I don't think the art form or "rules" changed. I will say it's the thought processes that have changed and evolved and so follows the pushing of the limits, expanding the boundaries! I dispise talk of the 'evolution of art' or that 'times have changed'. These make me think that the people who are actually driving the evolutions and changes are just taking the backseat. It's the people who create the explanding experiments and it's the different people with their different thoughts, different reactions and responses that make it seem like it's morphing. It's just we are looking at the art as a predicate through that persons perspective. It's like taking a picture of a rock with a blue lens, then taking a picture of that same rock with an orange lens. The rock is the same, but how we are shown this rock has changed. Using the phrase 'Evolutionary Art' makes an inanimae object animated to me, undeserved.
Mr. Higgins: Child's history
That is bogus that Maciunas became mad at those who didn't 'stay true' to the original group of 'Fluxus'. If maciunas was such a dedicator to Fluxus and saw Fluxus as it was(is?) and didn't become greedy, he would have totally embraced all changes because clearly that was the definition of the name of the movement. duh.
This guy seems pretty funny, protesting a group he performed with later that same day? That is original, ha!
I really liked the simplicity that was portrayed in this reading!
Mr. Higgins: HAPPENING!
For the process of naming happening, my response is simply: that is the largest artistic creation the naming. can't define it, leave it to the spectator to interpret. The naming seems the first step in spectation of this artistic venture. I makes it part of that whole, instead of just the slightly dislocated label. Genius!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Reaction
Origin of Happening
What I got out of this reading was more or less about the evolution of intermedia. That these happenings were artists exploring new media, becoming what we know now as intermedia.
Paragraphs on Conceptual art
What I got out of this reading was that conceptual art isnt really about the visual, but rather the idea, as long as the artist gets the idea to come off of the page or canvas or whatever, than that is good enough.
I couldnt print off the other readings, Ill see if I can before class today.
What I got out of this reading was more or less about the evolution of intermedia. That these happenings were artists exploring new media, becoming what we know now as intermedia.
Paragraphs on Conceptual art
What I got out of this reading was that conceptual art isnt really about the visual, but rather the idea, as long as the artist gets the idea to come off of the page or canvas or whatever, than that is good enough.
I couldnt print off the other readings, Ill see if I can before class today.
Ideas about the 2nd Readings
In Sol LeWitt's article, I found a lot of interesting and relevant information that pertains to projects we have done in class. I really thought of the color project with the tea packets I saw last class as well as the manga recreation.With this article I found it helpful to also look up the definitions of the movements and words that were important because the artist said he defined them, yet you don't know if he skewed the definition to his advantage. Considering this piece as a whole I think there were a lot of statements presented about Conceptual art and it's meaning, as well as how it compares to other art and things around it.
The other articles were also very interesting. In the Fluxus Story by Dick Higgins I felt like I was involved in a narrative about the defending of the originality of the Fluxus movement and how the original creators of the idea had to fight to keep the imitators away. The whole movement seemed like it had to fight for it's originality as well as keeping in check with there normal lives, because for instance Maciunas had issues with the way his mother received the displaying of his work to the public. I also thought it was interesting the way he described the creation of the Anthology because they said it was more simple than complicated when it was first created since they didn't have a true name to associate the movement with. Overall, the ideas in this second passage were very intereging to read.
Allan Kaprow's article was also very interesting presenting the idea that art doesn't have a lot of differentiating qualities between the mediums. That artists have gone beyond the limits of confining to certain things although museums have pushed to keep the limitations between the viewer and the art work.
Last the second article by Dick Higgins called The Origin of the Happening is captivating in the sense that it discusses the artists around in the time of Dick Higgins.
Reviews By: Sara Gomer
The other articles were also very interesting. In the Fluxus Story by Dick Higgins I felt like I was involved in a narrative about the defending of the originality of the Fluxus movement and how the original creators of the idea had to fight to keep the imitators away. The whole movement seemed like it had to fight for it's originality as well as keeping in check with there normal lives, because for instance Maciunas had issues with the way his mother received the displaying of his work to the public. I also thought it was interesting the way he described the creation of the Anthology because they said it was more simple than complicated when it was first created since they didn't have a true name to associate the movement with. Overall, the ideas in this second passage were very intereging to read.
Allan Kaprow's article was also very interesting presenting the idea that art doesn't have a lot of differentiating qualities between the mediums. That artists have gone beyond the limits of confining to certain things although museums have pushed to keep the limitations between the viewer and the art work.
It's about releasing the artistsays Allan in the last paragraph, but is it truly if the work doesn't have an ability to have an intimate connection with the viewer? So then he says the goal is to not allow a barrier between art and life. The las paragraph is very complete in his thoughts on life and art.
Last the second article by Dick Higgins called The Origin of the Happening is captivating in the sense that it discusses the artists around in the time of Dick Higgins.
Reviews By: Sara Gomer
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