Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Antinous by Paul Delvaux

An interesting forum for discussion about Modern Art.
Posted by Puppy at 1:33 PM
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Julian H. Kitching said...

That's quite an interesting example - look at the readers' comments on this article and painting:

One likes it for its emotional appeal - he sees softness, etc.
Another likes it because he doesn't understand it (and then invokes quite different qualities from those mentioned by the first reviewer - coldness, etc.)
Another seems implicitly to appreciate the painting because of his fondness for another painting by the same artist.
Another seems to like the painting because he has background knowledge of the situation that the painter is portraying.
Another says it's rubbish, and another says that children could do it!

Now on the surface this seems to uphold the claim that "it's all subjective" and so on, but most of these people have given some sort of grounds for their reactions, and if we dissect out these grounds carefully and look at them at a deeper level, we may start to see some common strands in the sorts of criteria that might be used in the appreciation and criticism of art.

Let's have a go at doing this, shall we?

April 28, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Julian H. Kitching said...

OK I'll start! Here is some structure...

When evaluating artwork, to what extent should we focus on:

1) the intentions of the artist?
2) the reaction of the audience?
3) the formal properties of the artwork itself?
4) the (historical and geographical) context in which the artwork was conceived?

May 2, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Anonymous said...

well, i believe that there might be some basic Criteria that we should consider like the different shadings the colours that have been used in the art this is basically from the perspective of formal properties of an artwork. when we consider the reaction of audience that might differ from our background we have as in the environment as well as the culture can affect our reaction while evaluating .Moreover, while we consider from an artist point of view this might be evaluted as in to what extent does the particular artwork convey the artist feeling.As for the historical and geographical in my opinon the context or the situation should be realistic.

May 4, 2009 at 2:04 PM

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