Session 5, Values & Tastes

Session 5

Values and Tastes - how do we form these?

Vatriana - illustrator who paints, work is not in museams/tate, but is very popular and very wealthy.

Art different from Fashion - Fashion is functional, changes frequently, whereas art is more steady.

How do we judge what is good and what is not?

Ancient Egypt - graphics, idealised view of the world, art being functional (funeral purposes) and not found in day to day life. The idea of blending the ideal world with the real world, or is this true with all religions? Or do I have the right to just as an athiest?

Ancient Greek
Showing the ideal man/ women as organised

Ancient Rome
Idealology, dont know the artists of the beautiful Roman archetecture or art, I feel that this drastically reflected society back then when an artist was just a job you got told to do and everyone had their place. Now its about self expression and the new and exciting.

Renassaissance
Changed view of artist, special, looked at world through different eyes.
(st.Peter and appossalls) artists were commisioned through wealthy families to paint exactly what they were told to paint.

AD1420- AD1525
Painter painted himself in paintings. This was done at a time when mirrors where first being used for self portraits.

Western arts individual? - China/Russia

Rocco
Followed Baroc
Optimism, wealthy society, Decorative, Fashion Design, Bit Fluffy, not taken seriously

Neoclassism
Sachie Gallerie - was supposed to be the taste makers (they choose work to show in the gallerie therefore only the work they show will be viewed by the public and have the exposure to the public to make money.)

Romantasism
To overthrow nature, domintate, cliche's

Realism
Shocking, oppisite to public tastes at the time, offensive, challenges society.
Old expressionists as good as modern day artists.
portable painting became the thing of the past, with exhibits only existing for a couple of weeks or could only be viewed through photographs.
Postmodernist - pop artists, no artistic skill
Decorative items - craft or art, function/ non-functional
work N.227 won turner prize - definition of art???

Artists - history how we understand ourselves through science/ society

Greek artists - part of the government, part of society/ central to society

India/ Japanese - pay by sq foot for advert billboards

Is the artist looking for an audience in the public or art critics?

Creative Impulse (Mythology)

Mathew Barney - used to be a male model, now chooses to spend enormous amounts of money creating very wierd preformance art (the cremaster cycle)

Damien Hurst - set up his own shop instead of showing his work in a museam

Who depicts how much things are worth? museams/ galleries?

Artists persuasion
civilisation - accepts taste makers
boarder crosser - not accepted by general society/ taste maker
representer - views of society/ sometimes accepted