scholarly journals Movements and Remediation: Lack of Site-Specificity in Modern ArtWorks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Okhvat

The article analyzes the works of contemporary art, taking into account the features of their functioning. The main goal is to determine what changes have taken place in the basis of a work of art, which allows us to designate this object as an object of contemporary art. The results obtained lead to the conclusion that one of the features of a work of art is the lack of site-specificity. The specificity of the site is the affiliation of the work to a specific place and time: when the affiliation changes, the relations of the object, context and viewer also change. The level of site-specificity of works of art relates to their cultural circulation. Works of modern art are the result of a strategy of figurative saturation defined by a series of constant movements and remediation. The works of contemporary artists are marked with the transition from individual or serial discrete objects to manipulating populations of images using various methods of selection and "reframing”. Keywords: work of art, contemporary art, site-specificity, remediation, figurative saturation

Author(s):  
LIZA MARZIANA MOHAMMAD NOH ◽  
HAMDZUN HARON ◽  
JASNI DOLAH

Untuk menghayati sesebuah karya seni pokok persoalan yang hendak dikaji bukanlah keindahan sematamata tetapi unsur yang menyebabkan sesuatu simbol itu terjelma. Subjek, bentuk dan makna adalahtiga aspek dalam simbol yang menjadi asas kepada penghayatan sesebuah seni. Ketiga-tiganya salingberhubungan dan tidak boleh di pisahkan kerana daripadanya kesatuan karya terbentuk seterusnyamenjelaskan gagasan seniman. Demikian dalam memaknai karya, unsur seni adalah penting untuk dikajisebagai data fizikal yang bertindak dalam menghubungkan konteks sesuatu karya itu. Kertas kerja inimenerangkan penggunaan unsur-unsur formalistik untuk menganalisa data bagi memaknai simbol budayaMelayu dalam karya seni catan moden Malaysia. Dengan menjadikan Balai Seni Visual Negara sebagailokasi kajian, kertas kerja ini merujuk buku himpunan warisan tampak negara 1958-2003 terbitan BalaiSeni Visual Negara. Sebanyak empat karya di tahun 1970an sehingga 2000 dipilih bagi menyiasat bentukdan maknanya. Sebagai kesimpulan, kertas kerja ini diharapkan dapat mendedahkan kepada masyarakatumum dan peminat seni khususnya mengenai analisis formalistik sebagai satu cara menganalisa karyaseni. In appreciate of a work of art the fundamental question to be examined is not the sheer beauty but anelement that causes a transformed symbol. Subject, form and meaning in symbols are three aspects thatare fundamental to the appreciation of art. All three are interconnected and cannot be separated to formthe whole aert work and subsequently to define the notion of artistism. Thus in defining an art work, artis an important element to be studied as the physical data in relating the context of the piece of artwork.This paper describes the use of formalistic elements to analyze data to interpret the symbol of Malayculture in Malaysian modern art paintings. By making the National Visual Arts Gallery as the locationfor research, this paper refers to the compilation books of national heritage published in 1958-2003 byNational Visual Arts Gallery. A total of four works from 1970s up to 2000 are selected to investigatethe forms and meanings. In conclusion, this paper is expected to disclose to the general public and artenthusiasts in particular on formalistic analysis as a means of analyzing works of art.


2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Lidija Merenik

“Death in Dallas” is a video-installation by Zoran Naskovski comprised of a) visual documentary material connected to the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the president of the USA and materials about his public and private life; b) a soundtrack comprised of a poem accompanied by gusle by Jozo Karamatić with decasyllabic lyrics “Death in Dallas” by Božo Lasić. The unexpected and strange combo birthed a work of art which contains different layers of meaning and one of the most complete postmodern works of art in Serbian modern art. Naskovski had combined the seemingly incompatible codes of popular culture into a specific artistic method of its own genre – “Balkan noise”. Using the method of “noise” music, in which every noise, soundscape or voice has equal meaning and value; he included epics, tradition, politics, popular and folk culture. Finally, by doing so he had completely shifted the paradigm from modern to postmodern, from the substance of myth to a demystification of this type of representation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2(71)) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
S.M. Krykbaeva ◽  
G.A. Abdurahmanova ◽  
L.Sh. Bakirova

Background. reveals art analysis of archetypes and artistic images reflecting the Kazakh national culture in the paintings of modern artists of Kazakhstan The ways of art history analysis have been revealed for the most characteristic archetypes and artistic images of the Kazakh national culture, which are revealed by modern Kazakhstani artists in their paintings. A typological method is suggested in studying the development of contemporary contemporary art in Kazakhstan. The revival of the traditional worldview in the modern art of Kazakhstan is justified. Scientific novelty is connected with the historical and art history analysis of symbolizing, ethnosign functions of culture on the basis of reconstruction of the sign-symbolic system of the pictorial type, through which an interpretation of various types of contemporary art of Kazakhstan is given. Contemporary art of Kazakhstan is characterized by the integration of various types, genres and styles, while the development of the world by new means is carried out through signs and symbols established in the context of traditional culture. The performed art history analysis indicates that the sign-symbolic system of the Tengrian world picture is actively and quite fully implemented in various types and genres of modern art in Kazakhstan. In the works of contemporary artists, along with geometrics, signs and symbols of the animated world (plant and zoomorphic) are used, relevant in the aspect of the ecology of culture, as an answer to the global challenges of our time. The results are significant for theoretical and practical understanding of the problem under consideration, in particular, for Евразийский Союз Ученых (ЕСУ) # 2(71), 2020 5 deepening the description and analysis of works of art by Kazakh artists, as well as for further systematic analysis of works with elements of archetypal motifs and mythological images. Article materials can be used in training courses of art faculties and specialties


2019 ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Marko Đorđević

This paper focuses on the ideological transformation of modernistic aesthetic fetishism into what Professor Rastko Močnik has termed “aesthetic imperialism” in contemporary art. Our hypothesis is that this transformation is an effect of the overdetermination of artistic production to fictitious capital. In order to examine this hypothesis, we shall explore the transformation of the simple, modernist work of art into the twofold, contemporary work of art (which must first be a claim to aesthetic evaluation and only then a work of art). We do not suggest that modernism did not know the term “artwork,” as applying to those art products that were not recognized as works of art, but rather that there was a change in the very process of aesthetic evaluation. We believe that, unlike the unitary modernist recognition of products as works by the institution of art, there is twofold recognition in the contemporary age. Here the claim to aesthetic evaluation is allowed to every product, but confirmed only to those that successfully reproduce the ruling “aesthetic imperialism.” Even though ideologists of contemporary art present this change as a result of progressivism that is inherent to the institution of art, we would like to argue that it is an effect of the abovementioned overdetermination of artistic production by fictitious capital, that is, its effects in aesthetic and legal fetishism. This hypothesis will be examined in two relatively autonomous instances: economic and ideological (artistic).


Author(s):  
Laura Luise Schultz

This article discusses how the idea of a national list of canonical works of art is at odds with performative strategies in contemporary art as they have developed since the early avantgardes first began to mix art and everyday life. From the middle of the 20th century, performative art forms such as happening, body art and all sorts of peformance art and theatre, challenged the notion of the work of art in favor of a concept of art as event or practice. Through the work of American modernist poet Gertrude Stein, and especially her deconstruction of the concepts of masterpieces and genius, the article explores how the performative turn has changed the way art is inscribed in a larger cultural context and history: Significant works of art no longer claim their right to glory through their monumental permanence and significance, but through their ability to change: to relate to shifting perspectives on an ever-changing reality.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-235
Author(s):  
Oleh Yasenev ◽  
Oleksii Dubovyi

The purpose of the article is to identify current trends in the use of works of fine art in the interior of the premises, as well as to clarify the impact of works of art in the interi­or on the psychophysical state of a person. The research methodology contains general scientific theoretical methods of analysis, syn­thesis, abstraction and observation, as well as art analysis. The scientific novelty is to de­termine the features of the influence of works of modern art both on the appearance of the premises themselves and on the psychophys­ical state of a person. The paper attempts to identify the features of human interaction with works of contemporary art, in particular in the aspects of interactivity, relaxation and aesthetic pleasure. The article contains an explanation of the artistic techniques used to achieve such ef­fects. The analysis of works of modern painting by the artist O. Yasenev, placed in the interior of the premises, is used in the work. Conclusions. The study identified the benefits of applying contemporary art in the interior. The use of art, which is created on the border of figurative and abstract perception, is common today. In par­ticular, such art often has a surreal component, which encourages the viewer to interact with the imagination the most. This approach is rein­forced by the technique of work with a trace of deliberate imperfection, which also creates the ground for co-creation. Such work can divert the attention of the recipients, distract them from everyday worries and promote their relax­ation. The mentioned technique also contrib­utes to the visual expansion of the space of the room. In fact, such criteria should be followed by the designer when selecting works of art in the design of modern interiors.


1970 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 241-265
Author(s):  
Bente Kiilerich

From the late 1960s onwards, Italian sculptors, especially those associated with the Arte Povera movement, have frequently made overt references to ancient art. Their work may be an exact replica of an antique statue, but more often the artist makes significant formal changes with regard to medium and provides the work with a different title. The present article discusses sculptures of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giulio Paolini and Mario Ceroli, as well as some by the English sculptor Edward Allington, and touches upon the Danish artist Christian Lemmerz. When referring to earlier art, the contemporary artist often makes use of the multiple, in this way questioning the concept of the original and unique work of art. The Romans also made serial productions of Greek statues, ans sometimes it is difficult to tell whether an ancient statue is a so-called “Greek original” or a so-called “Roman copy”. In fact some sculptures, like the Laocoön, do not fit into either category. It is argued here that the Roman attitude towards originality is to a certain extent comparable to that of contemporary artists. But while the Roman artists stressed the cultural continuatio, the contemporary of classical images lay bare the distance between past and present.


Author(s):  
Dira Herawati

Accountability report is a written description of creative experiences as an artist or a photographer of aesthetic exploration efforts on the image and the idea of a human as a basic stimulant for the creation of works of art photography. Human foot as an aesthetic object is a problem that relates to various phenomena that occur in the social sphere, culture and politics in Indonesia today. Based on these linkages, human feet would be formulated as an image that has a value, and the impression of eating alone in the creation of a work of art photography. Hence the creation of this art photography entitled The Human Foots as Aesthetic Object  Creation of Art Photography. Starting from this background, then the legs as an option object art photography, will be managed creatively and systematically through a phases of creation. The creation phases consist of: (1) the exploration of discourse, (2) artistic exploration, (3) the stage of elaboration photographic, (4) the synthesis phase, and (5) the stage of completion. Methodically, through the phases of the creative process  through which this can then be formulated in various forms of artistic image of a human foot. The various forms of artistic images generated from the foots of its creation process, can be summed up as an object of aesthetic order 160 Kaki Manusia Sebagai Objek Estetik Penciptaan Fotografi Seni in the photographic works of art. It is specifically characterized by the formation of ‘imaging the other’ behind the image seen with legs visible, as well as of the various forms of ‘new image’ as a result of an artistic exploration of the common image of legs visible. In general, the whole image of the foot in a photographic work of art has a reflective relationship with the social situation, cultures, and politics that developed in Indonesian society, by value, meaning and impression that it contains.Keywords: human foots, aestheti,; social phenomena, art photography, images


1959 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 389-401
Author(s):  
James Johnson Sweeney

AllOfUs who have considered the problem of enjoying contemporary art are aware that the most serious barriers to it are the reluctance on the part of many painters and sculptors to put aside the notion that a work of art must mirror the physical world about us and their unwillingness to accept the fact that all true art must go “through the looking glass” — that is beyond the mirror.


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