Artistic Explorations: Marcel Duchamp

Friday, April 19, 2013

the Creative act

"The creative act is not performed by the artist alone;

the spectator brings the work in contact with

the external world by deciphering & interpreting its

inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution

to the creative act."

Marcel Duchamp

April 1957

Austin Carpenter

Collagraphs

Ben Engel

Ella Rosenberg

Eric Loytty

Hannah Hatton

Jack Radford

Jacob Dudzik

John Chirchirillo

Nick Miller

Ryan Horton

Scott Walker

Will Silvers

Zach Cassady

Etching

Will Silvers

Davis Martinec

Watercolor

Emma Carter

Here is a sample of this week's Photo Essay Assignment:

To view Sara Cazorla's Photo Essay,
click here.

A Photo Essay by William Vogel

NYC Photo Essay by Isaac Catchatoorian from Good Day on Vimeo.

And finally, an interesting look into how we view ourselves:

Real Beauty Sketches from John X. Carey on Vimeo.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

One Last Lecture

"Every time someone tries to be like someone else they help form a category."

Samuel Carter

Humans like to categorize. Categories help us form paradigms, and they help us remember where to find things. Art is about categories. Media, theme, style, period...categoria ad nauseum. Aristotle lists ten categories in Organon, the first being substance or essence. Art is inherently prophetic- the maker imparts to the thing made substance. The viewer interprets. A conversation begins. Conversation abounds in the Art Room at Trinity (see below for examples).

Pieta

1498-99

Michelangelo

One last lecture.

This week, students viewed ten works of art that have survived humankind, in spite of physical abuse (intentional and unintentional). Here is the list:

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn

Danae

Rembrandt van Rijn

Rokeby Venus

Diego Velazquez

The Virgin and Child With St. Anne and St. John the Baptist

Leonardo da Vinci

Portland Vase

Maker Unknown