The piece looks like somebody threw point at a piece of canvas. This piece is a prime example of modernist art. Its completely abstract and doesn't have any point to it. This is something a third grader could do, yet this piece will sell for a couple of thousand euros. It took no skill to create. It is also not original. You walk into a museum and half half the abstract art is the same, a bunch of paint blotches. The artist, who is unnamed, has created an aesthetically pleasing piece but it can hardly be called a work of art.
Art takes time and skill. Something that was not needed in this piece. The piece also passes along very little emotion. Just colors on a canvas. with no order or form its a chaotic collection of dropped paint. Its not even done in a way to suggest any kind of pattern or form. there is no unity, no repetition, and no continuation.
Um . . . I think you analyzed it from a modernist perspective . . . xD
ReplyDeleteI think Ashley is at least partly right here - some of your objections to this piece seem rooted in modernist ideas about originality. On the other hand, the work you are critiquing is in itself rooted in modernist concerns - abstraction, formal issues, etc. Some of the points you make seem purely subjective and somewhat unsupportable - it is possible some people would think this work does convey emotion - though, again, that is hardly a postmodern concern. Certainly a postmodern critique of this work is possible - it is possibly too rooted in one individual's expression, concerned with formal attributes but not speaking to the larger world, etc. I would argue that just because something is abstract doesn't mean it has no point - any more than an instrumental piece of music has less of a point than a song. I would also argue that there is plenty of repetition and unity here - repeated drip forms that unify the canvas. Why is the artist un-named? Remember it is important to cite properly. You could have chosen a work by a known artist - especially as you claim all abstraction is essentially the same.
ReplyDeleteYea I noticed dureing class that I had the completely wrong idea of what the assignment was.
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