Critical frameworks A Assignment 2
Critical frameworks A Assignment 2 Outline of my approach to the assignment
I identified three critical frameworks pretty clearly across the works I put in my dossier.
1.Expressionism how it was written about by Susanne Langer, that art works communicate something that cannot be put into words. She wrote that some things are “matters which require to be conceived through some symbolic schema rather than discursive language.” She wrote that artworks themselves are symbols “ a way of making something invisible visible”
2.Minimalism / Post Minimalism. Seeing the artwork for what it is,not as a metaphor for something . You, see the process of how a piece is made. Artists use every day materials like cardboard boxes bricks and steel and other soft materials too. You see the workings of the artists hand perhaps their anxiety the effort in working things out.
3.Feminism.(embodiment) Simone de Beauvoir wrote that a body is not a thing ,it is a situation. Our body is not only a physical thing in the world but at the same time it is how we see the world.
What themes unite my posts
I think the main theme is that that the artworks all give a shape to something that can’t be described in language. In the interview with Agnes Martin she says you cannot let ideas about yourself or the world get in the way of the work of painting. The outsider artist ,Laure Pigeon. All of the pieces weren't so extreme but all of them expressed something elusive, personal and interesting that I cant put into words.
Yvonne Rainer and Simone Forti who are both dance artists and Augusta Richardson’s work all have the theme of swapping the idea of spectacle and perfection.for an idea that each part is equally important. Forti writes in a very natural way working out her thoughts, being unsure and the struggle in doing her art. At the same time she accepts that its alright to be not sure .
Edouardo Chillida and Robert Ryman as well as Simone Slee and Augusta Richardson’s work all use everyday materials that emphasise the making of the works and something that the may fall or crumble.
What communities of practice are represented? Performance artists Sculptors Painters
What guided your selection of precedents?
I chose artworks first of all that interested me in some way. Works that showed the effort or workings in the making of them Works that seemed to threaten to fall into disorder but managed to hold on or are ordered in
their disorder e.g ‘The Way Things Go ‘- A Chain Reaction “ Peter Fischi and David Weiss performance piece
Works that seemed to focus on the work itself rather than the spectacle (e.g. how it might be received by an audience )
Sculptures of towers of various size and power. How does the dossier enable you to see your own work in a critical way?
It was useful to look closely at the pieces I chose for the dossier. I could see repeating themes in the works that are also in my work. It has helped me to start to look at what is important to me in my work and how what I am doing in my studio is happening in the context of the contemporary art world.
