CONCEPTUAL ART

Conceptual art is supposed to give an idea or concept to the person viewing it. It doesn't accept the creation of traditional art. Joseph Kosuth is an influential American conceptual artists. His work is known to strive to explore the nature of art. He would rather focus on the ideas than making the art itself. His most famous piece is "One and Three Chairs." It consists of an actual chair, a photograph of the chair that is in the room, and the dictionary definition of the word chair.His works stand for what they exactly are. Works such as his "Five words in blue neon,"completely demonstrate this idea. In doing this there is no debate on what it is, because it is simply just five words in blue neon. This is the best and only way to describe it. I appreciate what Joseph Kusoth and all of the conceptual artists have done. With Joseph Kusoth specifically, I like how he takes the mystery out of his pieces. There is no pining and confusion about what his pieces mean.

Performance Art

For my performance art proposal i had Maggie and Victor get in the sit up position on the ground. Between the two of them they had the choice in which direction they wanted to crunch to first. The idea is for them to be going in opposition to one another. Each time the Victor and Maggie sit up they have to touch hands so it makes a noise. They have the choice to clap once, twice, or three times each times they hit hands. Victor and Maggie should do this until they have created their own rhythm. When Maggie and Victor first read my proposal they were confused on what i meant by opposition. Maggie thought that i meant when she was down on the ground while Victor would be up in the full sit up position. Once that was explained they both jumped right into it. My first thought was for them to alternate between hitting hands once, twice, or three times. But Victor and Maggie took it as they could choose to do one, two, or three. But that then made sense because that was exactly how i explained it on the sheet. But it worked out fine. At first they had the initial reaction to hit both of their hands together, but then i told them that they were only supposed to hit one hand. There really wasn't a rhythm that was made mainly do to the fact that it wasn't done until there was a rhythm created. This proposal would have been more successful if Victor and Maggie committed more time to being in tune with what both of them were doing in relation to each other. This is an activity that needs time to be done correctly. It would take as long as the five minute mark before a exact and apparent rhythm was being made by both Victor and Maggie. By the end of the activity Victor and Maggie should have felt comfortable with their actions and it should have become second nature to them. If i could do this activity over again the right way, i definitely would.

Dada

Dadaism or Dada began at the start of World War I. Most of the people involved in the movement were in opposition of anyone whom they thought was the main cause of the war. They were highly against conformity in society and most importantly in art that had anything to do with the war. Through their harsh rejection of the war, their art work expressed non logic and exulted scenes of chaos. Dada was meant to reflect the opposite of anything art.It was "anti-art." With all of this opposition to traditional art many try to find the point in all of this. Dadaist wanted to completely wipe out The traditional aesthetics and culture of art. Dada can be very hard or very easy to perceive. I can understand where the artist of this time were coming from with their opposition to the war. But i have a difficult time in understanding why they would want to forget about all of the basic principles of art. It could have been to start new, to create something that was based off of self expression and not the traditional aesthetically pleasing art forms. I don't know if i completely agree with the Dadaist movement. The emotions were so intense at that time in our history that i think that they were the driving force in this movement.