By discussing the conditions during the Postmodern era we can understand why artists such as Tracey Emin, Cindy Sherman, The Chapman Brothers chose to reject traditional aesthetics instead conveying their intentions through shocking subjects and media to convey their intentions to the audience.
“In both Britain and New York contemporary artists have shunned the tradition of aesthetics, preferring to communicate their meaning through shocking subjects and media, what is now referred to as the “abject”.
Their use of shocking images is referred to as the abject a term first used by Julia Kristeva (a psychoanalyst and literary theorist), which is a rejection of traditional aesthetics that came before, discarding the belief “that beauty and aesthetic …show more content…
The face of the doll stares directly outwards her face a blank expression. Giving the disturbing indication of non endorsed intercourse. Sherman has made the doll’s face the signifier of the piece; the yellow hair, red lipstick, and the smoothness of the doll in contrast to the rest of the image makes the face the focal point. The dolls “eyes reminiscent of the pleas for help from the ‘demoiselle in distress’5, the violence against women is represented through this unappealing image. Sherman plays a role in the feminist movement; her art work showing the subordinate role of women. After all “It really is time for change in society, and maybe if we all took more notice of vocal feminist artists such as Tracey Emin then we could get there. As she herself said, "I'm not happy being a feminist. It should all be over by …show more content…
Based on the private life of Emin that people often keep to themselves.
Emin’s piece was inspired by an “absolute breakdown” that led her to “spend four days in bed, I was asleep and semi unconscious.” When Emin’s “looked at the bedroom she couldn’t believe what she could see, this absolute mess and decay of her life.” This shockingly realistic depiction of ones mental state conveys Emins intention that “art isn’t for looking at its for feeling” and its “identity is created by the results people had to it.” Which is a part of the Postmodern period of audience orientation, its no longer about just being aesthetically pleasing its about arising emotions within the viewer.
“Postmodernism overturned the idea that there was one inherent meaning to a work of art or that this meaning was determined by the artist at the time of creation. Instead, the viewer became an important determiner of meaning, even allowed by some artists to participate in the work as in the case of some performance pieces. Other artists went further by creating works that required viewer intervention to create and/or complete the
“In both Britain and New York contemporary artists have shunned the tradition of aesthetics, preferring to communicate their meaning through shocking subjects and media, what is now referred to as the “abject”.
Their use of shocking images is referred to as the abject a term first used by Julia Kristeva (a psychoanalyst and literary theorist), which is a rejection of traditional aesthetics that came before, discarding the belief “that beauty and aesthetic …show more content…
The face of the doll stares directly outwards her face a blank expression. Giving the disturbing indication of non endorsed intercourse. Sherman has made the doll’s face the signifier of the piece; the yellow hair, red lipstick, and the smoothness of the doll in contrast to the rest of the image makes the face the focal point. The dolls “eyes reminiscent of the pleas for help from the ‘demoiselle in distress’5, the violence against women is represented through this unappealing image. Sherman plays a role in the feminist movement; her art work showing the subordinate role of women. After all “It really is time for change in society, and maybe if we all took more notice of vocal feminist artists such as Tracey Emin then we could get there. As she herself said, "I'm not happy being a feminist. It should all be over by …show more content…
Based on the private life of Emin that people often keep to themselves.
Emin’s piece was inspired by an “absolute breakdown” that led her to “spend four days in bed, I was asleep and semi unconscious.” When Emin’s “looked at the bedroom she couldn’t believe what she could see, this absolute mess and decay of her life.” This shockingly realistic depiction of ones mental state conveys Emins intention that “art isn’t for looking at its for feeling” and its “identity is created by the results people had to it.” Which is a part of the Postmodern period of audience orientation, its no longer about just being aesthetically pleasing its about arising emotions within the viewer.
“Postmodernism overturned the idea that there was one inherent meaning to a work of art or that this meaning was determined by the artist at the time of creation. Instead, the viewer became an important determiner of meaning, even allowed by some artists to participate in the work as in the case of some performance pieces. Other artists went further by creating works that required viewer intervention to create and/or complete the