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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Vansay Vivanh
Allan Kaprow, From “Essay on the blurring of art and life.”
What is the boundaries that has kept art and life apart? Do we feel that boundaries no longer exist or is it something we invented to keep categorized? Reading this excerpt got me thinking about what rules we have set ourselves with that confined what art is. To view art as something “shiny,” something “shshsh-don’t touch,” placed in a gallery, it’s just a remnant now. As Allan has written “that both the physical and metaphysical substance of the work continue indefinitely in all directions beyond the canvas.” There is just more than things we create and beyond. I think we take our experiences with art, what we hear, what we view, what we see, our thoughts, add it with our lives. But viewing art and separately is something he do naturally, it’s in our nature to categorize everything.
Sol LeWitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967)
There’s something about the article that made me cringed. Probably the number of things that contradicted each other or the that I put too much thought to what’s he’s saying. There were many things that seem like just tangents that trying to correct itself but would not emit to. Out of all of it, I did though was able to follow general idea of what conceptual art is. “The idea of concept is the most important aspect of the work.” Setting your own rules to what the artwork should end up as. Though I did not like things were worded, I did like at the end of the article, were he states that this art form works for him and may not be for everyone. That he tries not to push the idea, yet it’s there.
A Child;s History f Fluxus, Dick Higgins
Like with the Sol Lewitt’s work, I just put too much thought on the idea of what fluxus maybe, and felt it related to found objects. I’m so uses to complaining about everything, second thinking a lot that this concept seems hard to get for me. think I just needed to let the information flow and not think about it so much like fluxus, itself.
Allan Kaprow, From “Essay on the blurring of art and life.”
What is the boundaries that has kept art and life apart? Do we feel that boundaries no longer exist or is it something we invented to keep categorized? Reading this excerpt got me thinking about what rules we have set ourselves with that confined what art is. To view art as something “shiny,” something “shshsh-don’t touch,” placed in a gallery, it’s just a remnant now. As Allan has written “that both the physical and metaphysical substance of the work continue indefinitely in all directions beyond the canvas.” There is just more than things we create and beyond. I think we take our experiences with art, what we hear, what we view, what we see, our thoughts, add it with our lives. But viewing art and separately is something he do naturally, it’s in our nature to categorize everything.
Sol LeWitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Art (1967)
There’s something about the article that made me cringed. Probably the number of things that contradicted each other or the that I put too much thought to what’s he’s saying. There were many things that seem like just tangents that trying to correct itself but would not emit to. Out of all of it, I did though was able to follow general idea of what conceptual art is. “The idea of concept is the most important aspect of the work.” Setting your own rules to what the artwork should end up as. Though I did not like things were worded, I did like at the end of the article, were he states that this art form works for him and may not be for everyone. That he tries not to push the idea, yet it’s there.
A Child;s History f Fluxus, Dick Higgins
Like with the Sol Lewitt’s work, I just put too much thought on the idea of what fluxus maybe, and felt it related to found objects. I’m so uses to complaining about everything, second thinking a lot that this concept seems hard to get for me. think I just needed to let the information flow and not think about it so much like fluxus, itself.
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