Performance Art: The Real World

Iconography

Iconography is the use or study of images or symbols in visual arts. The idea that a company or influential group could persuade the everyday person to choose their product over another by only showing a single image. Its truly an amazing feet to have accomplished, the ability to almost brand the publics minds with specific icons and logo that without the name of the company being represented, a person would know what the product is and what it does.The world revolves around money, and money revolves around what people want to affiliate themselves the most with.

Museums Live On!!

Museums in the 21st century have moved from a place of high times respected fine art and the only place one could go to enjoy the experience of viewing famous works of art, to well, its still the same actually. But it has become less of an experience than it had once led on to be. Now, with the introduction of the inter-web and television, art has been exposed to the world, far beyond it has ever been before.

The expansion of museums can actually be the downfall of them on general. Now, this doesn't quite count for the MOMA or the Natural History Museum, but rather for smaller private museums. With expansion comes the obvious influx of people, and thus more money. But When the system is broken down, its not about the money, but rather the sharing of ideas and creativity that made some artists who their names lived on to become in history as the greats of modern art.

Virtual museums might be the solution to the time that we are now living in. That with the technology that is part of our everyday life, it would only make sense to incorporate a computer generated form of a museum for the everyday person to look at rather than making the rip to the actual place. But its been my experience that seeing a work of art in person beats the hell out of seeing it online. Its a completely different experience from seeing in on your computer screen to walking in the presence of something truly great.

Performance Art

Performance art is an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance and in this case, on an outside platform. The public view is the audience when it comes to performance arts. Its a concept that is not always understood by the public, but in a sense thats a good thing. If it were understood and everyone knew what was happening, the art would be less like art, and more of a performance without meaning.

Today, Niya and I chose to combine all three activities into one big performance piece in and around the Georgetown campus. For starters, having never done anything like this before, it was actually an enlightening experience being able to fool the watchful public eyed into something that was completely fake, rather just an act or performance. The looks that we received from every person we passed were along the lines of ridiculous and obscene. But because it was all fake, and we weren't actually crazy, it was fun and just a really good time.

Duchamp Research

Marcel Duchamp invented the art of readymades, which were basically everyday items on the street or in the home that he basically gave a title and signed it, than called it art. Sometimes he would even modify the objects, but only to a certain extent. He challenged the art world with the old question, basically what makes art, art and what i art and what isn't art. If you ask me, it was a brilliant idea, because, all in all, what is art if not everything. Everything is art, because everything is natural, thus once origination from the same place; nature.

cite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades_of_Marcel_Duchamp

Duchamp's Large Glass Blog

The reading itself was very confusing, mainly the point of the machine never really got to me. The ideas none the less were rather interesting in the depth that they were capable of. The idea behind the bride and the bachelors and the separation between them , in the sense of what the machine represented brought a mysterious side to the whole thought process that Duchamp must have gone through when inventing this contraption. When reading about a work from a man like Duchamp, you really need to look at his work from an alternative perspective from your original. A different kind of thinking has to go into it. The idea of 'mind, body and spirit' all come together when discussing his work, because all these pieces intertwine. Overall, the reading although difficult brings out the absolute 'craziness' in a sense of what Duchamp's mind was like, so in turn, I really like the reading, mainly the ideas behind it though.

Gestalt

Gestalt - In the terms of art, gestalt is the type of picture that has two pictures within it. A picture is created by both the positive and negative space.