Strategies of Modern and Contemporary Art II.. Can Art Save the World? Mondrian/ Kandinsky – religious – Art as a bridge to a clarity of vision – .

Strategies of Modern and Contemporary Art

II.

Can Art Save the World?

• Mondrian/ Kandinsky – religious– Art as a bridge to a clarity of vision– http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=C04J

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Mikuláš Medek

• Jedovnice, Moravia (CZ) 1963

Spirituality, Surrealism and Youth Protests

• Rothko http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=xbS0Z-n3vww&start=3234&end=3435&cid=4887334

• Surrealism http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=f0HeSrqXKps&start=47&end=280&cid=4886830

• 1968/69 as a heritage of surrealism http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=f0HeSrqXKps&start=3002&end=3358&cid=4887272

• Devětsil (CZ)- surrealist movement

1968 Dissent

• Radical social agenda: – students´ and workers´prostests– Anti-Vietnam war protests– Growth of feminism

• Avant-garde artists begun to challenge modernism (= male/ progress)– Jasper Johns or Richard Hamilton– Performance – Fluxus – Beuys– Situationist International

1970s: Conceptualism

• Paintings no longer need to be necessarily coloured of be flat

• Sculptures do not necessarily have to be upright or to have volume

• Duchamp anything can under certain conditions qualify as „art“

• Intention: to frustrate the market mechanism• Confusion

Women´s Art

• Conceptual Art – photography, collage

• Martha Rosler, „House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home“, 1967-72

• http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=zgYDuA-fBLg&start=2408&end=2509&cid=4887537

Performance

• Deriving at some distance from dada

• From alternative theatre

• From the happenings movement of the 1960s

• Resists to be treated as commodity

• http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=3JEx6CDW6-o&start=571&end=728&cid=4919607

Performance: Joseph Beuys

• http://swf.tubechop.com/tubechop.swf?vurl=AFc1BeS0vKI&start=2700&end=2845&cid=4887694

• http://youtu.be/Mo47lqk_QH0• http://youtu.be/5HVOCay10m8

Marina Abramovic

• http://youtu.be/W8xzvUC_qms?t=1h10m21s

• Magiciens de la Terre, 1989, Centre Pompidou, Paris– Nigthsea Crossing

Conjuction

• The Artist is Present, 2009 – http://

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– http://youtu.be/W8xzvUC_qms?t=44m10s

• Dematerialization– Gino De Dominicis,

Invisibility http://youtu.be/W8xzvUC_qms?t=1h7m4s

– John Cage, 4m33s

Painting and Politics: from 1980s onThe Third Text

• Journal, 1987 • http://

thirdtext.org/online

• RASHEED ARAEEN

• Further reading: • http://thirdtext.org/?

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Painting and Politics: 1970s- 1990sSoviet Conceptualism

• Komar and Melamid, „Quotation“, 1972

Soviet Conceptualism and Performance

• Collective Actions– Andrei Monastyrsky– Began to develop John Cage´s ideas concerning

the role of chance and randomness; inspired by Samuel Beckett

– Ritualistic actions of enigmatic nature– The Third Variant, 1978 – lying in a ditch until the

audience wandered away– Underground Art, 1979

Painting and Politics, from 1980s on: Body Art

• 1980s: The return of the figure and expression• http://

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