Conceptual Art: Ana Medieta

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Review


Ideas About Art

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Based on Plato's philosophical reflection on the arts and beauty,  the artist copies the experienced object, or uses it as a model for his work. For the philosopher, on the other hand, beauty resides in the idea and not in sensible things. 

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For Aristotle beauty is contained in symmetry, which he considers the symbol of perfection, linked to the classic concept of beauty: harmony, order and proportion.

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Baumgarten, reaffirmed that the essence of beauty could not occur without the discovery of aesthetic sensible pleasure. The beautiful and the aesthetic are not alien to the sensitive. What comprises the artistic is given through sensibility.

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Baumgarten proposes aesthetics as a science of sensible knowledge, which deals with beauty. "The end of aesthetics is the perfection of sensible knowledge as such and this is beauty." 

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Kant is interested in art for its connection with beauty, not for art itself. Beauty, according to Kant, is not a quality typical of beautiful things produced by artists, but rather a feeling of pleasure of the subject who judges things as beautiful, whether they are works of art or of nature. 

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Hegel established that aesthetics was a science that deals not with sensations but with the philosophy of art. For Hegel, art is the highest platform for spiritual elevation. For Hegel, art is the perfect sensuous expression of the freedom of spirit. It is in classical art, therefore—above all in ancient Greek sculpture (and drama)—that true beauty is to be found.

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In the 19th century, however, avant-garde concepts applied to aesthetics began to question traditional approaches. The change was very evident in painting with the French Impressionists, Post-Impressionists,  Cubists and Expressionists. 

Terms

Marcel Duchamp

Retinal Art

Readymades

Found Objects

Installation Art


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CONCEPTUAL ART

Definition 

Conceptual art, sometimes simply called conceptualism, is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. In other words, it is art in which the idea presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if there is one.

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 Today we will study conceptual art. You will be introduced to the work of Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta. 
 

Please, see the information bellow and move the discussion forward by answering to  the given questions.



                                ANA MENDIETA




Hayward Gallery Exhibition Trailer: Ana Mendieta, Traces

 

Question 1

 

What elements used Mendieta in her work? Why is her work important? 






Question 2

According to Howard Oransky what elements of Mendieta's life found their way into her work?


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LINK
Ana Mendieta: Archive of Women Artists
 
 

 

Question 3

After reading the introduction to Ana Mendieta's work, what would you say is the importance of Death of a Chicken (1972)?
 



Raquel Cecilia Mendieta on Ana Mendieta at Galerie Lelong

 

 

Question 4


In which way was Mendieta's work experimental?

 

Question 5 

 

After watching these videos, why is Mendieta's art work considered conceptual? 



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Activity 1

Nature Art

a) Go outdoors. 
 
b) Find a green spot, observe it and find an element that you find beautiful, or resonates with who you are. 
 
Individual Work
 
c) Interact with the environment and photograph (or record) your interaction with your chosen element.

Group Work
 
d) Go back to your groups. 
 
Agree on using an element (within your individual chosen spot) and make an artistic-interactive proposition Mendieta's style.
 
 Record it and/or photograph it. 
 
POST YOUR WORK ON DISCUSSION BOARD. 


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Activity 2

 

Gather with your group and create the lesson procedures based on your experience with nature art making.

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