Modern and Contemporary Conceptual Art
“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.” Marcel Duchamp. As I personally have never been one to make conceptual art work with ease; I have decided to explore the conceptual. My exploration starts with Marcel Duchamp. It is said that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades changed the way we think about art.
Duchamp argued that aesthetics and skill were not what made art, it was the artists idea that mattered. This idea is where the ready-mades and then Dadaism come from. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he created his first ready-mades. Ready-mades say that anything can be art if the artist has the idea to make it art. Marcel Duchamp and …show more content…
He is a multimedia artist and painter. He creates imaginary environments in which paintings, sculpture, drawing, video, and found objects commingle. I see similarities with Althoff and the Fluxus movement. Althoff is taking his traditional art such as his painting and approaching the way they are displayed in many ways. He is creating an environment for the viewer or the everyday ordinary person. Althoff’s work also takes influence from Dadaism in his use of found or ready-made objects. ‘and then leave me to the common swifts’ is a combination of Althoff’s paintings drawings and sculptures combined with found objects. This exhibition has the feeling of an attic with random sometimes creepy items thrown around and forgotten. This environment is an extension of Althoff’s paintings. His paintings are not always clear but do give off an ominous sense, a haunting feeling. Some painting look very much like a child made them. It is like attic filled with lost haunting memories. Yet these objects thrown around and the filth and dirt makes his exhibition like an anti-exhibition filled with anti-art, and his actual …show more content…
Very different from Kai Althoff but not so different from the Dadaists. Ai Weiwei makes works of art conceptually based on Chinese society and culture. For Ai Weiwei art is not the art it is about starting discussions, making things known and trying to create change. Ai Weiwei’s art is a form of protest, as was the Dadaists. In my opinion I believe the start of conceptual art in modern art helped to expand art to what it is today, in contemporary art. Contemporary art today seems to have no real style, it is all styles. Although art that is done for pure aesthetics and skill are still done there are many artists that work purely
“I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.” Marcel Duchamp. As I personally have never been one to make conceptual art work with ease; I have decided to explore the conceptual. My exploration starts with Marcel Duchamp. It is said that Marcel Duchamp’s ready-mades changed the way we think about art.
Duchamp argued that aesthetics and skill were not what made art, it was the artists idea that mattered. This idea is where the ready-mades and then Dadaism come from. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he created his first ready-mades. Ready-mades say that anything can be art if the artist has the idea to make it art. Marcel Duchamp and …show more content…
He is a multimedia artist and painter. He creates imaginary environments in which paintings, sculpture, drawing, video, and found objects commingle. I see similarities with Althoff and the Fluxus movement. Althoff is taking his traditional art such as his painting and approaching the way they are displayed in many ways. He is creating an environment for the viewer or the everyday ordinary person. Althoff’s work also takes influence from Dadaism in his use of found or ready-made objects. ‘and then leave me to the common swifts’ is a combination of Althoff’s paintings drawings and sculptures combined with found objects. This exhibition has the feeling of an attic with random sometimes creepy items thrown around and forgotten. This environment is an extension of Althoff’s paintings. His paintings are not always clear but do give off an ominous sense, a haunting feeling. Some painting look very much like a child made them. It is like attic filled with lost haunting memories. Yet these objects thrown around and the filth and dirt makes his exhibition like an anti-exhibition filled with anti-art, and his actual …show more content…
Very different from Kai Althoff but not so different from the Dadaists. Ai Weiwei makes works of art conceptually based on Chinese society and culture. For Ai Weiwei art is not the art it is about starting discussions, making things known and trying to create change. Ai Weiwei’s art is a form of protest, as was the Dadaists. In my opinion I believe the start of conceptual art in modern art helped to expand art to what it is today, in contemporary art. Contemporary art today seems to have no real style, it is all styles. Although art that is done for pure aesthetics and skill are still done there are many artists that work purely