COP 1: Aesthetics “Once upon a time there was pure art and applied art (I prefer to use these terms, rather than 'fine' and 'commercial', because 'commercial art' does not cover enough ground). At all events, forms were born in secret in ivory towers and fathered by divine inspiration, and Artists showed them only to initiates and only in the shape of paintings and pieces of sculpture: for these were the only channels of communication open to the old forms of art.�
"You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world famous art museum where you can view,at close range,the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa"-Dave Barry
"Anything is art if an artist says it is"-Marcel Duchamp
Main themes • Society • Commercialism • Division • Applied art • Pure art • Quality • Mass production • Art establishment • Identity of the artist • Conceptualism
Research to undertake • Books • Bauhaus • Modernism and Post-Modernism • Turner Prize • Young British Artists • Conceptualism • Link between technology and art
Pages from the journal
Base elements of the journal so far • Colour- red, black, gold – affect perception of an image • Experimenting with abstract and figurative representations • Focus on theories of art making, consumerism and commercialism • Having sort of a focus but not limiting directions
Where to next ? • Collage • Combine abstract with figurative • Explore more themes/topics • Carry out more research and use the information to inform the visual journal • Research outside of the art world- link to politics, social classes, social movements