Week 8 - Postmodernism I: Non-Traditional Materials

Sum week 7

• cold war

• obliterated portraiture

• unrefined + raw art

• anxiety

• atomic age

works that ask you to solve them, relationship - they need you

Haptic - looking and knowing how it feels

Arte Povera

‘Structure that eats’

Observations

• organic raw

• time as a tool

• ordered

• contrasting

• life, sustaining

• something that needs to eat and sustain energy

• a source of energy like how people need to eat

• solid but polished (man made element)

  Is it hard to understand

• yes - not your traditional artwork (not something that you are used to), easy to understand hard to explain

• no - read the sign (understand and relate humans need to eat)

• became a clece so people do to study

• sceptics may think that it is a trick and puzzle that is supposed to make you feel dumb

Battery V11/2

• cold structure

• mean, anti-human

• felt muffles noise

• you have to be there art

Square tubes

• no use (no longer has any use) deprived of purpose

• isolated

• simplified human forms

• boxes with more life

• forms are revealed

• industrial, city

• dirty no places that people go to often, smooth and cold

somatically neutral - stop looking at the material and more on the art such as oil paint, a vessel of which we see the art through

Why would you want to ignore materials in art?

• The material is what the artwork is communicated through

• analysis at the for front

• want people to see the artwork and what they are communicating

• what the art offers alone

• could look at the skill

• looking at something that is in the room with you and centres you with the artwork

Assignment 1: AI

• don’t answer all of the questions, be selective

• look at the marking rubric

• be specific to the generated response

• just have a clear and accurate response, don’t push the word limit

• just discuss the AI not your own

• try to get a good prompt

Assignment 2: Annotated bib

• citation + explanation

• show monash

• 50-75 words per annotation