LESSON 11- APPROPRIATION IN ART

-To “appropriate” is to take possession into something.

-Appropriation artists deliberately copy images to take possession of them in their art. They want to
recognize the image they copy.

-Borrowing of an image for this new context is called “Recontextualization.”

Examples of Appropriation
1. Image of Campbell Soup
2. Sherry Levine’s After Walker Evans” in 1981
3. Bacchus Restored 1992, Kathleen Gilje appropriated Caravaggio’s Bacchus
4. Jeff Koons “String of Puppies,” appropriated from Art Rogers “Puppies

LESSON 12- INSTALLATION ART

-Installation art is a term generally used to describe artwork located in three-dimensional
interior space as the word "install" means putting something inside of something else.
-It also creates a high level of intimacy between itself and the viewer as it exists not as a
precious object to be merely looked at but as a presence within the overall context of its
container whether that is a building, museum, or designated room.

Installation Art Key Ideas

-Installation art champions a shift in focus from what art visually represents to what it
communicates. Installation artists are less focused on presenting an aesthetically pleasing
object to viewers as they are enfolding that viewer into an environment or set of systems of
their own creation.
-Installation artists are preoccupied with making art a less isolated concept - by installing work
beyond the galleries and museums and by using more utilitarian components such as found
objects, industrial and everyday items, commonplace materials, and technologies of the
populous.

Immersive Art
-An immersive art space is about creating a holistic experience for the audience. While
traditional museums focus on visual arts, immersive art spaces often seek to activate other
senses such as touch, hearing, smell and sometimes taste.

-These spaces can include anything from art installations to an entire building or street made by
one or several artists. While the location may be permanent, the art may change periodically or
regularly.
Large Scale Art
Enveloping the viewer and dominating interior spaces, large scale paintings create an impact.
Artists and their patrons have utilized size to display power and prestige to impress their
audiences.
-In 18th century Europe, history painting was considered to be the most important genre,
above portraiture, still life, and landscape, and thus was executed on bigger canvases by artists
like Jacques-Louis David and Benjamin West.
-Inspired by their the large-scale public murals for the Work Progress Administration (WPA),
abstract expressionist artists like Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner painted on large scale
canvases that could take up entire walls, interpreted by some to represent the freedom of
American expression.

Site-Specific Art
-Artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account
while planning and creating the artwork. Site-specific art is produced both by commercial artists
and can include some instances of work such as sculpture, stencil graffiti, rock balancing, and
other art forms. Installations can be in urban areas, remote natural settings, or underwater.

Influences
Art historians study which artists might influence others by examining the descriptive attributes
of art. However, finding influences is a sophisticated process that involves studying the
historical, social, and personal context related to the artist and to the art.

Dada
-Dadaism is an artistic movement in modern art that started around World War I. Its purpose
was to ridicule the meaninglessness of the modern world. Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it
influenced surrealism, pop art, and punk rock. It went against the standards of society.

-The word "Dada" may be an allusion to an infant's first words, such as "Mama," and thus a
reference to the failures of our ancestors to convey the meaning of life, create meaning within
life, or ensure we understood how meaningless our life is.

Conceptualism
-Conceptual art is an art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important
than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually
refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.

Conceptual art can be - and can look like - almost anything. This is because unlike a painter or
sculptor who will think about how best they can express their idea using paint or sculptural
materials and techniques, a conceptual artist uses whatever materials and whatever form is
most appropriate to putting their idea across – this could be anything from a performance to a
written description.
 Lesson 15: Fusion in the Arts: Classical Music and Film

FANTASIA 2000
-1999 American animated film by Walt Disney feature animation and Walt Disney pictures and
released by Buena Vista Pictures.
-Produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is the 38th Disney animated feature film and
the sequel to fantasia (1940).
-Like its predecessor, Fantasia 2000 consists of animated segments set to pieces of classical
music.

PROGRAM
-The film begins with the sound of an orchestra tuning and Deems Taylor’s introduction from
fantasia. Panels showing various segments from fantasia fly in outer space and form the set and
stage for an orchestra. Musicians take their seats and tune up and animators draw at their
desks before James Levine approaches the conductor’s podium and signals the beginning of the
first piece.

Symphony No. 5
-“First movement” by Ludwig van Beethoven.
-Abstract patterns and shapes that resemble butterflies in various colourful shades, tints and
hues explore a world of light and darkness whilst being pursued by a swarm of black bats.
-The world is ultimately conquered by light. Introduced by archival recordings by deems Taylor.

Pines of Rome
-by Ottorino Respigni.
-A family of humpback whales are able to fly.
-The calf is separated from his parents and he becomes trapped in an iceberg.
-Eventually he finds his way out with his mother’s help.

Rhapsody in BlUe
-by George Gershwin.
-Set in New York City in the 1930s and designed in the style of Al Hirschfeld’s known caricatures
of the time, the story follows four individuals: Duke, Joe, Rachel and John, who wish for a better
life.

Piano Concerto No.2, Allegro, Opus 102

 -by Dmitri Shostakovich.
-Based on the fairy tale “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” by Hans Christian Andersen, a broken toy
soldier with one leg falls in love with a toy ballerina and protects her from an evil jack-in the-box.
-Unlike the original story, this version has a happy ending.

The Carnival of Animals

-Finale by Camille Saint-Saens.
-A flock of flamingos tries to force a slapstick member, who enjoys playing with a yo-yo, to engage in
the flock’s “dull” routines.
-Introduced by James Earl Jones with animator Eric Goldberg.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

-by Paul Dukas.
-Based on the poem “Der Zauberlerhing” by Goethe, the segment is the only one featured in both
Fantasia and Fantasia 2000.

Pomp and Circumstance – Marches 1,2,3 and 4

-by Edward Elgar.
-Based on the story of Noah’s Ark from the Book of Genesis, Donald Duck is Noah’s assistant and --
Daisy Duck is Donald’s wife. Donald is given the task of gathering the animals to the Ark and misses,
loses and reunites with Daisy in the process.

Firebird Suite – 1919 Version

-by Igor Stravinsky.
-A sprite is awoken by her companion, an elk, and accidentally wakes the Firebird, a fiery spirit of
destruction in a nearby volcano who destroys the forest and seemingly the Sprite. The Sprite
survives and the elk encourages her to restore the forest to its normal state.

LESSON 15- IMPROVISATION ART

IMPROVISATION
-Doing something without prior preparation
-Within the present context, it has become an integral part of the arts.
-It is a reaction against the stiffness in the arts in the 20th century.
-There is a call for liberation from monotony that aims to rekindle the creative spirits of people in
the arts.
-Infusing spontaneity and improvisation adds up to the totality of the work of art.
-During the 1960s, art improvisation has taken forms in the galleries around New York City.
-Performance arts, dance, and visual arts were combined to create new forms of artworks using a
new medium.
-These performances were known as the “Happenings” which later on paved the way for modern
body art and performance art.
IMPROVISATION
-Allows for a certain extent of freedom for the artist to improvise and allow the subject to perform
and embody the artwork itself
-Improvisation may have been a revolutionary concept when it comes to art because it blurs the
line of reality and that of imagination.

PERFORMANCE ART
-A term emerged in 1960’s to describe a diverse range of live presentations by artists, including
actions, movements, gestures, and choreography.
-It is often preceded by, includes or later represented through various forms of video, photography,
objects, written documentation or oral and physical transmission