Discussion Facilitator Response for Art & Representation

Getting ready to facilitate the discussion on Art & Representation I felt excited about the possibilities. We had created what seemed to be an exciting and different way to communicate about what we had read as well as change things up during class time.

I was expecting a greater response in understanding and application of the material with facilitating the class discussion in the way we did. Unfortunately the message, to me at least, was lost in translation.

I was hoping for each of us to create something representative of the "words" given and then reflect upon the similarities and differences between the products.

In the future if I was to recreate this project I would pose acute question during the discussion prior to creating and reflect upon these same questions after. some of the questions i feel would have been effective to propose are:

Does the act of representing something accurately mean the artist needs to portray it as it truly is, or is the aura of it good enough?

By recreating a subject that was created in the past again in the present effect it's authenticity?

How does time effect your personal response?

If time is a factor to how your might respond to a particular set of circumstances, how does it appropriate itself within your reproduction of the same set of circumstances today?

I feel that by posing these questions before and after it would have created a more accurate understanding of how we where trying to appropriate the material in an artistic way.

Art and Identity

Questions:

-Does the exploring of identity by appropriation and manipulation result in a broader understanding of specific cultures?

-With Art & Identity's roots being grounded in feminist and racial progress how has it effected Caucasian male artist reflection on themselves?

-How will globalization as well as the rise in inter racial and same sex relationships resulting in children effect the understanding of identity in the future artists of the world?

Harold Olejarz



Judy Chicago



Peter Black



Robert Colescott

Art & The Body

Questions:

-Does the gender, sexuality, race or culture of the artist have a greater influence on their art work then other influences?

-How does religion play a role in the use of the body as an art form?

-How does source play a role in the understanding of these pieces?

-Does Art & the Body dually enforce representation and deformation or is it a compositions whose context is categorized differently?

William McCormick


Coplans


Bourgeois


Pearlstein

Art & Deformation

Questions:

-How does the viewers interpretation of "art" and "body" effect ones understanding of deformation?

- Does the act of creating horrible things generate from previous acts of horrible things? And does this inevitably create a positive thing?

-How does the use of material effect to emotional response of the viewer?

Self Mutilator



Dark Asphyxiation



Cori



Sophie Ristelhueber

Art, Nature & technology

Questions:

-How does our understanding of science and nature effect the artist ability to represent nature as a form or art?

- Does the perception of nature change when it becomes places with in the walls of a museum?

- How does out ability to change genetics effect what is possible within our ideas of production as an artist or consumption as a consumer?

-How does the environment in which the artist grew up effect the type of work they produce with in their present environment?

Jim Sanborn



Rebecca Horn


Sophie Ristelhueber

Art & Narrative

Nedko Solakov


Jeff Wall


Jeff Wall


Tina Barney

Questions:

-Do the symbols with in the narative effect the understanding of the peice over time?

-How does multipul versions effect the understanding of one narrative?

-Do narrative works aim to expose the underbelly of human nature or is it by direct correlation from the viewers point of view that the act or acting allows them to see themselevs within the characters?


Pastiche- imitation, appropriation, spoofs.
This word really summed it up for me, both chapters Art & Narrative and Art & Representation. Artists are using their understanding of how to change and alter reality to best fit their perspective. They augment the characters of stories, or change the slightest detail to help postulate a greater interest or meaning. Why not make something more visually interesting to look at? But are we as the viewer really reading the context correctly or does the story inevitably change from moment to moment?

Art and Representation

Susan Rothenburg


Aurel Schmidt


Oliver Herring


Robert Williams


Charles Ray

Questions
-Does the act of continuously replicating reality eventually lead to abstraction or is the act or replicating and abstraction already?

-When representing something realistic, is the realness found in the authenticness and mimicry of the objects with a piece or the feeling it is transmitting?

-Does the viewers understanding of the representation change with time or is the idea everlasting?

“Well, are you doing a figure or are you doing this presence? You’re doing the presence.” So I let go of whatever I needed to, and I kept what I wanted.” ROTHENBERG
Isn’t all art representing something?
I really enjoyed reading this topic, as well as, presenting it to the class. All of my work is representative through emotion and when I read Rothenberg’s quote I felt I really connected to it. I work from a place that has no physicality, it is only energy; but in contrast I produce something with a lot of physical elements.