Appropriation

Appropriation is a term used in the art world that describes the taking of parts of other peoples work and including it in your own. this raises the argument of plagiarism and of how much can you take before it is stealing and is no longer your own work but a mangled piece of other peoples work. i think that appropriation is ok to an extent. i do a lot of digital painting and i will use stock images as reference for my painting, i always get the stock holders permission and i make the image my own, i don't actually add their photo to my work, in my eyes that is the same as me going out with a pencil and pad and drawing a building, surely the architect could say ive appropriated his work in my piece of art.

ill just leave it with a quote by steve jobs ' good artists borrow. great artists steal'

Sites of display

Muse Wormiani - cabinet of curiosity reflected power of collectors

Galeria Milan - industrial - based on Passage des Panoramas - Paris 1799
Leeds victorian quarter - 19th century iron and glass roof - Barrel vault.

"All that is said melts into air"

Use value- is it doing its job?
Exchange value - what is it worth?

Neo Avant Garde practices 1960's onwards.
Sophie Calle - collects in cabinet - updated.

Quiz

What was the name of the famous international photographic exhibition of the 1950's that showed images of life and work from around the world? Family of man

Who argued that beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Immanual Kant

What is an isotype? Symbol/image thats not culturally specific.

In what year was the festival of britain? 1951

What was the significance of the helmet in the festival of britain logo? Britania/ Roman empire

In what decade was the first photograph taken? 1820's

What is an indexical sign? Shadow / smoke - indicates something was there.

Who coined the phrase 'form follows function'?Louis Sullivan 

To which country did the futurists belong? Italy

What was the name of the building in which the great exhibition was held?Crystal Palace

what dates marked the beginning and end of the modern period? 1860-1960

What was Haussmanisation? Rebuilding of Paris

Who reffered to his typography as 'words in freedom'? Marinette

To which art movement does the idea of automatic drawing belong?Surrealism

Festival of britain 1951

Designed by Abraham Games the logo was used all over. 

After war everything was black with coal - festival was designed to be colourful and bright.

A lot of contempory art was included such as sculptures to help people to look to the future.

YSP

Today we visited the YSP, honestly i didnt enjoy it. I like sculpting when the sculpture has been made with skill, i dont like all of this modern crap, its the same as when you go in a gallery and they just have a dog shit on a podium, it isnt art. A painting where you look at it and you cant comprehend the level of skill the artist possessed is art. Painters used to be masters now they stick a shark in a formaldehyde tank and call it art, its stupid, firstly Damien hurst how many times are you going to put something dead in a tank and rape millions from galleries for it! dont get me wrong Damien hursts paintings are actually really good, i just dont agree with the shark or the sheep one or that life cycle of the flies thing he did, its just disgusting. he didnt catch the shark, he didnt build the tank, he didnt preserve the shark, he just named the piece then sold it for MILLIONS, that isnt art an artist should be involved in the process of making his art for gods sake. anyway back to the sculpures, im sure there is a reason that the 'artist' for want of a better word, made them. i just dont 'get' it, i suppose the rusty tin can at the bottom is probobly protesting recycling and global warming and that sort of nonsense but honestly there are better ways of protesting recycling than making a crushed can and leaving it in a sculpture park in the middle of yorkshire! the running man looks like a cheap anthony Gormley to be honest, i think it looks unfinished. A shirt in the middle of a field, why!? what possible message is that supposed to give out?

 some giant red childrens blocks, maybe it is saying something about as you grow up dont lose your childishness or maybe you should play more, which in itself is a very true statement but when the sculpture giving that message has a sign near it saying do not climb the sculpture i find it quite hypocritical, maybe that one is just me though.

finally the plate with the chicken feet on it, i like it. its nice plain simple, its a dinner plate with chicken on it, made me want a roast dinner. the graphics on it are clear and precise.

all in all i wasnt very pleased with the YSP, half of the sculpures had been moved, we had to walk through muddy fields in bloody winter And to top it off the cafe was extortionate! 

Avant Garde

The avant-garde falls within the modern period and it too is concerned with modernization (industrialisation / technological change) and modernity (cosmopolitan, everyday life) – but it is at odds with modernism (functionalism / unity/ art for art’s sake). 

One of the hallmarks of the avant-garde is ‘discontinuity’; hence it requires an active rather than passive participation of the spectator.

We also noted that the period after 1960 is generally referred to as the post-modern. If an avant-garde practice can be said to continue after 1960 it is referred to as the neo-avant-garde.

Paris

This view of Paris shows the long straight and wide boulevards that radiate from key points in the urban landscape. This characteristic plan is the result of Haussmannisation. Paris in the early 19^th c was prone to cholera outbreaks that devastated the population. The principal cause of these outbreaks was the sewerage system that poured foul water upstream into the Seine. The rationale for Haussmann’s plan was clean water. But there was another political motive – the suppression of revolt.