Question | Answer |
Duchamp was a member of which Art movement: | The Dada movement; Dadaist |
Name of Duchamp's sculptures? | Readymades |
Definition of the Dada Movement? | - A movement following WWI - despised and challenged authority, the old conventions of art - questioned long-held assumptions about what art should be, and how it should be made |
List Duchamp's two Duchamp works | The Fountain and the Bicycle Wheel |
What were "Readymades" made of? | Mass produced, utilitarian objects, |
What is the purpose of the Readymade? | To mock the strict approach to art making and to liberate the art world |
What was Duchamps message through objects? | redefined what is art, created a beauty and art to the mundane object. Forced the audience to view ordinary objects in a new artistic light. |
How did the audience react to Duchamps "Readymades" | Critics accuse him of plagiarism, theft, immoral |
Why is Duchamp influential ? | His re-contextualizing and change in definition of objects as art, and the comment on the limits in art. Paved the way for conceptual, modern art. |
Mike Parr: Describe his use of line? | Gestural, Kinetic, spontaneous, directional, expressive, aggressive,loose, sketchy, semi-abstract |
Mike Parr's is a .... artist? | Performance artist, heavily influenced by the Fluxists |
Mike Parr, Worked in what time period? | 1970's |
Duchamp worked in at what time? | During and after WWI |
What is Mike Parr's purpose within his self-portraits? | To subvert and distort the accepted notions of beauty and accuracy- Distortion |
What emotions and effect does Mike Parr's work create? | creates a sense of vulnerability, grotesque, confrontational, unsettling because of personal context- of physical deformatity |
What does Parr's works evoke within the audience? | depicts the artists personal narrative, direct and opposing the viewer, autobiographical, life force and energy |
What conventions of classical portraiture does Parr challenge in his works? | The concept of idealized beauty, the depictions of accuracy. The glamourised fully developed human body. The idea of depicting deformity. |
Damien Hirst what type of artist? | - English sculptor, installation artist, painter and printmaker. |
Classical art period- What year? | 1BC |
Classical art period- What year? | 1BC |
Renaissance- What period? | 15-16th Century |
Modernism- What period of time? | late 19th/20th century |
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