Context of Contemporary Art Flashcards
What is Context of Contemporary Art?
Factors that surround a work of art.
Context of Contemporary Art includes a host of conditions such as:
-Historical Events
-Economic Trends
-Social Norms
-Religious Attitudes
Historical and Cultural Contexts refer to:
The historical, social, political, and artistic climate or period in which the artist was working when the artwork was created.
Primary Context
The artist’s attitudes, beliefs, interests, and values; education and training; and biography (including psychology), intentions and purposes of making his/her art.
Secondary Context
The external
conditions in which
the work was
produced. ( function of the work; religious and philosophical convictions; socio-political & economic structures; and even climate and geography.)
What are the 3 Art Criteria ?
- Aesthetic Experience
- Consensus to the Art World
- Cultural Practice and Shared Meaning
Our responses towards
phenomena like enchantment,
fear, awe, terror, or guilt all
that it takes to name something
as art or consider something as
artistic.
Our responses towards
phenomena like enchantment,
fear, awe, terror, or guilt all
that it takes to name something
as art or consider something as
artistic. Aesthetic Experience
The art world is a
network of institutions
which exercises the
power to set the terms
with which public is
made to perceive art.
Consensus to the Art World
Every culture creates art,
and each has its own
standards of
representation, its own
cultural context, and own
aesthetic conventions.
Cultural Practice and Shared Meaning
- a place where personal and group
identities are nurtured as
individual experiences are
accumulated and collective
memories are commemorated.
-is viewed as a key
identity maker.
Region
- reflects relations between
different human beings and
groups that are bound by
shared and distinct
identity, language, culture,
and tradition.
Region
What are the Fundamental components of Art?
- Form
- Language
- Mode of Production
