Anti-art

Every artist has special traits that make them loveable or hateable to some people. The artists that I chose are loveable in my eyes. Their art speaks truthfully and depicts art in unique ways that few understand. The artists I chose are not average artists. They seem to go above and beyond in their work, as well as show their strengths, weaknesses, joys, sorrows, dreams, and nightmares through their work. The first artist I chose was Salvador Dali. I chose Salvador Dali because he was an…

Modern art was born ugly. "It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly," an American critic wrote, describing the 1910 Salon des Indépendents in Paris. "The drawing was crude past all belief, the colour was as atrocious as the subject. Had a new era of art begun?" Even Henri Matisse himself was sometimes shocked by his creations. According to his biographer Hilary Spurling, "His own paintings filled him with perturbation. At some point in 1901 or 1902 he slashed…

Cubism (The Art Story, Web.). As Surrealism came nearly after World War I and World War II, artists decided to recreate the destruction left behind turning into a fantasy. Fantasy: the imagination above the reality of life, which was illustrated as art. The combination of the two eras led to the creation of an art form that was unknown and out of the art world. Surrealists used their subconscious mind and creativity to turn the reality into a dream, which made outstanding pieces of art. The…

Buñuel’s intentions were to astound and offend the bourgeois. The film denotes an enraged reaction against what was called “avant-garde” in those days, which is basically new, unusual, and experimental ideas or art works. Dali and Buñuel succeeded in producing a film that is like an insult to art by leaving the…

player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada Marcel Duchamp is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His importance even reaches until today. Duchamp not only contributed beautiful artworks, but he also changed the definition of art. He used art to raise questions about art and society. He is a rebel and a revolutionary in terms of art. Early art and transition Duchamp studied art at the Académie Julian from 1904 to 1905. Most of his early…

During the movement there was many pieces created that could be considered the embodiment of the entire movement. But, the ready-mades and pieces created by Marcel Duchamp brought Dada into the spotlight and eventual acceptance into the contemporary art community. One famous piece created by Marcel Duchamp that shocked the world was the ready-made urinal titled, “The Fountain.” The piece was extremely sarcastic in nature and mocked previous sculptors (“Dada Movement, Artist...” 1). The…

questioned expectations about what art should look like or made. Duchamp found success in Paris as a painter but he was interested other ideas. Looking for a difference to represent objects, Duchamp began presenting objects as art. Duchamp selected mass produce that were commercially available, mostly utilitarian objects and he label them as art. Duchamp claim to have chosen everyday objects based of visual indifference by doing so, Duchamp build his way for Conceptual art. Duchamp picked a…

the fixed ideals of the artworld as well as questioning the definition of art. His artmaking process involve readymades where ordinary manufactured objects that the artist select and modify, as an antidote to what he called "retinal art". By simply choosing the object and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it, the Found object became art. This is what makes readymades so significantly alluring and domineering as art, however, readymades were…

Surrealism changed the way people viewed art and its ideals. While it may seem that Surrealistic art is just a mash of random ideals, Surrealistic art shaped and offered a new view on art. The Surrealistic art style is important in forming future art styles and allowing artist to stretch their imaginations more. Two important artists who practiced this style are Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali. While both artists had similar styles, there are different aspects. Salvador Dali’s piece that was…

In the 1920’s there was an art movement that changed the way art was defined, this was known as the surrealist art movement. Surrealism originated in the late 1910s and early 20s as a literary movement that experimented with a new form of expression called automatic writing or automatism. In Paris in 1924 the publication of the manifesto of surrealism by poet, Andre Breton made surrealism an international and political movement. Many artists and poets such as Louis Aragon (1897–1982), Paul…