PLAN
1. What were my initial enquiries?
- Exploration of commercialism and aura in art and the choice of the artist to conform to one or the other. Rules of taste driving artists towards high art pretensions and entrapment within art institutions or into kitsch consumerism. Does the accepted view of art actually inform our taste, how vulnerable are children to being told the definition of good art?
2. What were my rationales for image making?
- To visually realise the conflict between aura and consumerism through re-appropriation of high-art imagery and pop culture icons into kitsch iconography.
3. How do my images relate to the overarching theme?
- While the images explore the issue of kitsch and ridicule of high art, I have strayed away from the focus on rules of taste and challenged this by satirising art, capturing a transgression of the institutionalised view of art taste.
4. Why have you used certain materials?
- Working within the constraints of a kitsch aesthetic, I have worked primarily with metallic, holographic media, in eccentric colours conventional to kitsch objects. Collage has enabled re-appropriation of existing images inline with this formulaic aesthetic.
5. Which image from the image analysis essay is best reflected in my journal?
- Koons' 'Michael Jackson and Bubbles' resonates most with my visual work as I have paralleled Koons' flux between high art conventions and pop-culture tropes through media and subject matter. While Koons' sculpture explores pop-culture, kitsch imagery in a high art context and traditional media, my work explores high art imagery against pop-culture icons through kitcsh tropes and garish media.
7. Relevant quotes and key theorists from triangulation essay to include?
- 'Rules of taste enforces structures of power' Sontag
- The reproduction artist as 'the lesser genius who absorbed the Pure Forms and Styles of the Master and attempted to give these some sort of currency by applying them to objects of everyday use' Munari
- 'Tretchi committed the cardinal sin of commercialising his work and selling it to the masses' Ward
- 'The masses, thanks to reproductions, can now begin to appreciate art as the cultured minority once did' Berger
- 'Taste is not free and its judgements are never merely 'natural'
Quotes not from triangulation essay:
- The original of a reproduction as 'an object whose value depends upon its rarity' Berger
- 'When a painting is put to use, its meaning is either modified or totally changed' Berger
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