Mixed Contextual

DADA - 

Surrealism

• 1924 + 1929
• First mentioned in 1917 during a play by Francis Poulenc called Les Mamelles de Tiresias
• Super Realism 

Les Mamelles de Tiresias

• The Breasts of Tiresias - its name in English
• Surrealist Play/Opera

Marcel Duchamp 
Fountain - Urinal
                 - Gallery said he could show anything
Nude Descending a Staircase - extremely provocative/caused anger & frustration
                                                  - 1912
                                                  - Believed to be Out of Order
Sixteen Miles of String - 1942
                                        - Other Painters/artists were angry with Duchamp for doing this to their artwork

Sacks of Coal suspended from the ceiling 

International Surrealism Exhibition 

Salvador Dali - Diving suit

                       - Had to be saved from it

1960's Minimalism & Land Art

Donald Judd

• Started as critic
• Questioned: What is possible in art?
• Plywood
• Copper
• Beauty in Common shapes

Minimalism
Take a part of something away to make it artwork
Question what is Art

An Oak Tree - Michael Craig Martin
                      - Glass of Water
                      - It's an oak tree because he says it is
                      - Links to Urinal (DADA)

What is an oak tree?
An oak tree is only an oak tree because someone says it is
Same as a table or chair

Description of a Chair \
Image of a Chair          -- They're all chairs, because they all have the fears/descriptions of a chair
A Chair                         /

Minimalist design is now very common & sought after
Modern Homes
Simple shapes

Land Art - works with nature & the land we live on
David Nash- Loves materials
                   - Geometric forms
                   - Pyramid, cube, sphere - Red, Yellow, Blue - Primary Colours & Shapes
                   - Thinks about his work a lot

Ana Mendieta- Performance & land art mixed
                       - Mother Earth
                       - Covers herself with nature in films
                       - Fell/jumped/pushed out of her window & died
                       - Carl Andre (Husband) on trial for her murder but all claims were passed & cleared

Nancy Holt - Sun Tunnels
                    - Perfectly aligned with Summer & winter solstice
                    - Stars line up with holes on the inside of the tunnels
                    - Swamp
                    - Blindfolded walk through a swamp
                    - Husband guiding her with instructions
                    - The Camera is her eyes

Oak Tree Images

Fluxus & Conceptual Art

John Cage

• Chance
• Randomised & based on luck
• 4'33 - Sat in silence for 4 minutes 33 seconds
• What can you hear? In silence what do you hear?
• If everything is silent then what do you hear?

• Water Walk
• Sounds are not accidental
• Everything happens for a purpose

Steam pot
Party popper
Bath running
Rubber duck
Waters flowers
Piano
Audience find it funny?
Music because he says it is
Mathematical Nonsense

Yves Klien

• Used naked ladies as paint brushes to paint a large canvas in front of a live audience
• Anthropometries - name of the canvases
• Some people like the idea & some people hated it - mixed opinions
• People judged it but the ladies in it loved the artwork
• worked with only 4 colours, pink, gold, blue & yellow
• International Klien Blue - Trademarked colour
• Very spiritual
• 'Living Brushes'
• Women said he respected them for being his instruments of Art
• Used Airbrush, Fire (not on people) and his classic Klien Blue plaint

Piero Manzoni

• Early 60's
• Hard boiled eggs
• Cans of poo (his own) - different languages saying 'Artist's shit'
• died 1969

Conceptual

• The Society of Spectacle - didn't care about art, only reality
• Re-wrote comics
• Didn't like Art
• Tried to get rid of consumerism
• Art/posters in the streets rather than in galleries/museums (belief)
• Selective people will find it funny
• 
  
• Eventually became an Art movement instead of a rebellion against Art
• Their artwork/posters & posters soon ended up in museums under the name of 'Modern Art'

Guy Debord- 

• Founder of SoS
• Committed suicide because he thought the CIA were bugging his flat/apartment
• Predicted the boom in consumerism but didn't know that we would actually enjoy it

Fluxus

• World is too uptight
• Be more happy
• General Humour
• Not Serious
• Have Fun
• Still quite a dark movement though
• Weird
• Much larger than Art - any type of creativity was effected
• 'Culture'
• Open & experimental
• Pushing the boundaries of Art

George Mecunis

• Founder of Fluxus

Fluxus Festival 1962

• Sat at a panel in front of an audience
• Little subtle performances
• Broken/breaking instruments
• Destroying a piano

Yoko Ono

• Cut Piece - She sat on stage and the audience were invited to come up & cut chunks of her clothing off

Joseph Beuys

• Felt of Fat
• Filz T.V

Sarah Lucas
(Now)

1960's (Videos & Knowledge at the moment)

Face of Tomorrow
Whitechappel Gallery - Collaboration of Architects, Painters & Sculptors
                                    - No reason why sculpture has to be static
                                    - Always talking about the future

The Sixties - The Years that Shaped a Generation
Vietnamese War
Rebellion
Women's Rights
Rock & Roll music
Martin Luther King Jr.
Black Rights
Anti-Authority
JFK's death
The Summer of Love (Jimi Hendrix - Music festival - South of San Fransico)

Early 60's
Space Age
Op Art (Optical Art)
American Pop Art
Confident
-JKF elected in 1959
-Shot dead in 1963

Late 60's
Hippies
Vietnam War
Rebellions

Media Ideas Installation

Mental
Emotions
Feelings

How Animals effect our feelings
Cute
Fluffy

Scaly
Hairy

Satire Targets/Subjects

Satire Targets/ Subjects

Justin Bieber

I prefer the bottom one out of the two as it looks more realistic, I think i's still going to enhance his facial features.

1960's Pop Art

Very busy period of time
New ideas
A lot of projects in 50's continued into the 60's
A lot of bad planning (housing & buildings)

Richard Hamilton- What is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing? (1956)
Recreated in the 1990's with more modern features

Some say this is the first Pop Art collage/artwork (Due to the lollipop)
Pinnacle of Technology/life at the time.
Tape recorder
Food
Ford (Car logo)
Theater
Comic
Victorian man (history)
Mr. L.A & Burlesque lady

British Pop Art-
Pop Goes The Easel - Ken Russell (Video)
Artist shown as more fun
Younger
Fashionable
Hanging around together (Celebrated more)
Staged/Acted
David Hockney dancing

Peter Blake-
This album artwork for The Beatles was a combined piece from Peter Blake & Jann Haworth

This is the list of names of the people featured in the Collage above

Allen Jones- 
Chair
Hatstand
Table
Royal Academy Exhibition
Woman seen as household objects

More presentation images

Sculpture/Metamorphosis Presentation