ART GNRL 1020 1st Edition Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture I Developing Visual Literacy Outline of Current Lecture II Seeing the Value in Art III Who are Artists a What are their functions IV Public Sculptures Current Lecture Chapter 3 Seeing the Value in Art The Art market depends on Wealthy clients o What are they seeking Ownership piece of culture Investment Patronage Silvie Fleury Seria ELA 75 K Plumpity plump 2000 Shopping cart made of gold o Shows high end shopping Also shows wealthy investors Seeing the value in art Art and the Monetary value These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute This raises questions about the value of art The value The historic value The Intrinsic value Chris Ofili the Holy Virgin Mary 1996 8x6f He was British and Catholic The piece was in the Satacchi gallery He was challenging the normal virgin Mary image o Dark blue cape o Pious expression o Medieval religious icon rendered in scandalous fashion Public Reaction challenged conservative religious beliefs and the Euro centric Virgin Mary o For doing so there was a threat to cut off funding for the Brooklyn Museum Manet Luncheon on the Grass 1863 Paris exhibition scandal painting is rejected Accused of abandoning the paintery tradition of the time o Brush strokes were hidden in his style Cause a scandal and now 150 years later the work is a master piece o Rejected as too modern Picasso Les Demoiselles 1907 Controversial because o Size abstraction of female figure o Subject matter harshness of line One of the 1st modern movement paintings o Designed for beauty o Multiple view points Duchamp nude descending staircase Scandal but became successful Movement on 2D surface Teddy Roosevelt Navajo belt Who are artists What is function 1 Artists as she he who experience life and provides information to the greater public 2 Artists as reporters represent their world ofen whistle blowers 3 As analysts attempt to look beyond what is visible 4 As activists through their art they hope to see things in different ways Public Sculptures Alex Calder Mobile artist Carl Andre Made a sculpture by organizing different rocks on a median Richard Serra Made the tilted Arc o NYC lower Manhattan area o Caused public conflict Maya Lin Made the Vietnam memorial Controversy Reflects the person looking into it All the people studied today challenged public thinking and public traditions of beauty In Art each person has an individual idea of beauty Muybridge Shows movement on 2D page o Photos of people riding horses Marey Black suit with white stripe Shows movement on 2D page