Post #15 - Reading, GRQ, and Discussion - Arson and Mansfields Modern Art Excepts

GRQ:

1. Cubist-Based Art
2. Faktura
3. Dada
4. Futurist
5. Tatlin
6. Tatlin's
7. Gabo
8. Stepanova
9. Chance
10. Le Concert Bruitiste
11. Kinetic
12. "Art into Life"
13. Readymade
14. Light, Space, and Motion
15. Industry
16. Machinery, Machinery

Discussion: Difference Between Modern Art, Post-Modern Art, and Contemporary.

Modernism mostly deals with art from the 1860's to the 1970's and it is characterized in throwing away the old and bringing in the new. It is often tied to the industrial revolution where change was made. The creation of photography threw painting off balance a little bit. Anti-modernism is a number of parallel art movements after World War 1. It was a reaction to the war and supported the Avant-Garde movement and ended up taking notes from typical and traditional art. Futurism was thrown into the mix and that is where the emphasis on themes associated with contemporary themes came to be. Post-modern art takes place in the 1960's. Contemporary art is born and that is art since modernism. It is art made within "our lifetime" and is the umbrella for most of the modern art of our age. It is art made in the present. Modern and Contemporary are used in unison. Both Modernism and Anti-Modernsim is connected through Contemporary art. 

Discussion: Chance Art

In the creation of our piece "Childhood Remembrance 2.0" we found it important to portray the styles of dada art where we left it simply to chance. In order to do that we ripped up the construction paper in random ways without thinking as another aspect of leaving it to chance. Then once all of the paper was ripped, we glued the paper then threw the paper and pressed it down, once the whole paper was covered, we picked it up and shook the loose paper off. Then we restarted the process until we got to where we are now. For an artwork purely created by chance it came out to look super abstract. It was very interesting to see where the paper would land and then stay for the final result. Dada is a rather random art form which I believe can be art because even if you shut your brain off, there is still artistic characteristics of the piece. 

Video:

https://youtu.be/1PWCnw55fiA