Chapter 12: Con
Artists like Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munk, Paul Cezanne, often had their art used as examples to look for in artists for mental illnesses
Art in the modern, American sense, has been somewhat reserved for a select few (mainly higher economic status). So an appreciation and perception of art was resented by the majority of the population, leading to an “anti-intellectual“ strain
Dada and Pop Art
Duchamp displayed Nude Descending a Staircase, which was a dada work, an exploration of the traditional. He experimented using photo studies of figures in motion with a cubist style
Pop: thought that all art should be in the realm of fine art
Dada questions about what society accepts as real, true, original, and valuable, while Pop, questions how and why “products are marketed“
Lichtenstein, used an art style similar to that of comic books, and tests the U.S. viewers’ cynicism and discomfort with modern art
Feminism
Georgia O’Keefe made abstract flowers, with a nonobjective flow of music
Judy Chicago chose her name to claim legitimacy and agency; used the work dinner party to represent the last supper and the “sacrifice of women“.
Some feminists of the ‘70s elevated certain body parts seen as low, dirty, and gross