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Topic
MOMENTARY ART

Reading Assignment
The three basic components of a work of art.

Subject A subject is a person, a thing, or an idea. A person or thing may be recognizeable to the average observer, but an idea ma not be. In abstract or semi-abstract works, the subject may be somewhat perceivable but in nonobjective works, the subject is the idea nbehind the form of the work, and it communicates with those who can read the language of form. The subject is improtant only to the degree that the artist is motivated by it and thus is only a starting point. The way a subject is presented or formed to give it expression is the important consideration.

Music, like art, deals with subjects and makes an interesting comparison. In the visual arts, the subject is often a particular thing viewed and reproduced by the artist. But at other times, artr presents "nonrecognizable" subject an idea rather than a thing, Like wise music sometimes deals with recognizable sounds --thunderstorms and birdsongs in beethovens pastoral symphony or taxi horns in gershwins An american in Paris. While represent rather abstractly, these are the muscial equilancies of recognizable subjects in art work. By way of contrast bethovens fifth symphony and gershwins concerto in f are stictly collections of musical ideas. In the medium of dance choreopgrahps often has no specific subject, but dancing in coplands ballet rodeo is to a degree oriented. In all of the arts subjects obviously should be judged not alon but by what is done with them.

Subject The term form has various meaning in discussions of art. When applied to sculpture form refers to the essence of the sculpture as expressed in its total organization/ Asculptures appearance is a result of the use of the elements of line texture, color,shape, and value and their relationship to the principles of harmony and variety. Form does not refer exculsively to the sculptures shape, although shape is the result of form. On the other hand sculptors may speak of forms when referring to the shapes sugessted by cavities or protuberances. Even in two dimensional work formal organization involves all the visual device. Using these devices, effective artists arrange and manipulate their materials to convey what is being expressed. Some artists arrange intuitively, others logically. With experience however all artists develop a personal feeling for organization and form.

By Form is so central to the creation and understanding o are that we devote an entire chapter to it. The principles of formal order are flexible and creative, not dfogmatic rules, every work is original and has its own unqiue problems. Thus an artist employs the principles of form to create meaning in structure.

Content The emotional and intellectual message of an artwork is its content, a statement, expression, or mood found in the work by the observer, ideally attuned to the artists intentions. For example the photographer W eugene smith suggest meaning through his subject and the associated symbols of death in figure 1.13. In this work form expresses meaning through the somber use of the black and grays, the restriction of texture and the emphasis of low diagonals. For some people, content is confined to associations aroused by familiar objects or severs to art hat expresses familiar experiences. A broader and more meaningful experience does not rely solely on the subject of the image but can be subtly reinforced by the form. This content born of form can be found in abstract as well as realistic works. Samantha B 08:15, 29 May 2009 (UTC)} This is from the book Art Fundamentals :Theory and Practice by Ocvirk, Stinson, Wigg, Bone, Cayton. -- Interesting Links: The Szpliman Award--and award for momentary art. http://www.award.szpilman.de/best08.mit.html http://www.award.szpilman.de/best08.cho.html http://www.award.szpilman.de/best08.sze.html http://www.award.szpilman.de/best08.kua.html http://www.award.szpilman.de/best03.wei.html http://www.award.szpilman.de/best04.bol.html http://www.award.szpilman.de/best04.buh.html ( balloon) http://www.award.szpilman.de/best04.bus.html   (blue ice cream and sun) http://www.award.szpilman.de/best04.leh.html (bouncing ball)

Chihulys work and ice wall http://www.chihuly.com/Video/j2k.html http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly/archive99/week40/index.htm

Ace of cakes http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/shows/channel/0,1000011,FOOD_32078_10721,00.html

Discussion Questions
-What is Art?-

What is ART, which is considerate so important and necessary for humanity? Art is architecture, sculpture, painting, music, theatre, poetry in all its forms. An ordinary man will say that Art is such activity as producers of beauty. “Art is a human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature; the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movement or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of Beauty; the high quality of conception or execution as found in works of Beauty”. All those definitions found in the dictionary. Does art then has to be beautiful? The ordinary man will say yes. For him it seems clear and understandable that art consist in manifesting beauty, and that a reference to beauty will serve to explain all questions about art. In Russian for example music can be pleasant and good, or unpleasant and bad, but there can’t be such thing as “Beautiful” or “ugly” music. Beautiful may relate to man, a house, a view. Beautiful can be used only in a concept that is pleasing the sight. So do the “beautiful” has to be “good” and does “good” include the world “beautiful”? It is taken for granted that what is meant by the world beauty is understand by everyone. Yet the question what is beauty remains to this days quite unsolved. The question of art supposes the purpose of art is to be beautiful or pleasing, when the true purpose of art is expression. Art is about creation, being unique, personality, not beauty. Beauty is in the eyes of beholder. What is beautiful to one is spiteful to another. The art expresses idea, emotion and can help us understand the culture in which we belong. Does art has to be eternal? And is there anything in the universe that is eternal? When I was looking over internet eternal art the first thing that pop out was tattoos. The definition of eternal, however, is: “without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing”. Is there anything that last forever? Some people say that spirituality lasts forever. I will not argue with that because each person decide for them does they believe in “God” or no. I don't know that there is a forever or eternity. Maybe people just wish it to be, because they like to believe there will be continuity in time and life and love. The SZPILMAN AWARD is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations. Ephemeral art is by its very nature impermanent. There are any numbers of art works of all mediums that are intended by their creators to not 'last', or to 'last' only for a while. Which that brings us to the use of 'Time' as an artistic medium. There are some artists that use the ephemeral art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TXDSlhSo-U ; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyTICpTXA9M http://www.award.szpilman.de/best07.mem.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftAxiqzOf4o&feature=related “Andy Goldsworthy is a brilliant British artist who collaborates with nature to make his creations. Besides England and Scotland, his work has been created at the North Pole, in Japan, the Australian Outback, and in the U.S. Goldsworthy regards all his creations as transient, or ephemeral. He photographs each piece once right after he makes it. His goal is to understand nature by directly participating in nature as intimately as he can. He generally works with whatever comes to hand: twigs, leaves, stones, snow and ice, reeds and thorns.” Citing his web site. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Andy+Goldsworthy&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=ZR4gSrwrkpy2A9_KyJcE&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

"Ugly art"  "Beautiful art" 

- Media Momentary Art -

In this day an age, we often take things for granted. We assume that an immaterial object has no life expectancy, it will always be there for us. This is a primitive notion however. As we have seen throughout the years, things come and go in phases, including art. What is in and what is out always changes. Lets then focus on arts that we don't consider sometimes.

Music is defiantly an art form recognized by many. Over its many years of evolution, it has changed time and time again. The question I ask you then is do we consider music momentary art? Even with the advent of devices such as Ipods and cds?

Both Film and Photography capture moments in time. Once the image has been captured, it will be printed over and over again in successive repetition. (Photo) But is the product we get the actual art, or are we simply admiring that specific moment in time? Once the photo is taken and printed, we can no longer go back and change it.

Much like in film. The multiple replications make it widely available. But stop to think. The image we see projected is all just temporary. We see a sequence of images capturing time in motion. Once again, once we get a disc that will play back a copy of the film. So are they a permanent art form?

Take all pieces of media art. Over time our tastes change, from one fad to another. We recall times in history and link various music, photos, films, clothing, to that time frame. These days we seldom rarely see them in public. Is then all media art momentary? What of all art in general?

________ Some think that some momentary art exhbits/performances are just stunts or entertainment and not art. Do you think that these "pieces" are art? Do they possess the three basic fundamentals? Some people think it is pointless, or a waste of time.Do you think momentary art is meaningful?

Final Assignment
Make two pieces of momentary art--an art piece that will last for less than a day.

Piece #1: Document the piece with photography, recording, etc.

Piece #2: Do no documentation. When the piece is gone, it is gone for good.

Presentation: Show the documentation of piece #1 and describe how you think the documentation relates to the original object. Then describe the piece that was not documented, and discuss the nondocumentation process, what it felt like to lose the work.

Resources
Art Fundamentals Theory and practice. http://www.award.szpilman.de/informations.html http://www.chihuly.com/Video/j2k.html http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/091799/Loc_icewall.html http://www.learnersonline.com/weekly/archive99/week40/index.htm