a.) Postmodern Art is a rejection of the older traditions and beliefs that were carried out before it's time. It's a return to more natural and impulsive art showcasing human nature and less of the academy.  It can also be seen as the fusing of low and higher culture's through pop art or reflections and criticisms on society.

b.)Feminist Art could be looked at as Postmodern Art because it dives deeper into realms of concept and history, that intertwine themselves with social and political views and goals. It doesn't focus only on the once held school of thought aesthetics but explores and ask more of modern society. Also, Feminist Art often is used to solely speak to one gender, to point out the unnoticed and make it obvious, not for the whole viewing audience but the targeted crowd.

c.) Lorna Simpson does black and white photography predominately focusing on the African-American female figure. She also incorporates text and phrases with her works. I believe one reason her work is classified as Postmodern is because she attacks the social and historical roles of both women and blacks. She infuses her personal feelings and leaves the imagery to reflect a view that is full of power and usually is a contradiction to the actual photo. Also the medium she deals in, photography is largely considered PostModern.

d.) Casey Jex Smith. even though or views differentiate on religion I enjoy his pursuit of combining the two.

a.) Formalism is art that is created and viewed solely on the purpose of it's form. Subject matter or conceptual thought or design distract from the piece and degrade it when viewed within the guidelines of formalism.

b.) I believe that Piet Mondrian would best fit my definition of formalism after viewing his works. Even though his medium is 2-D, Mondrian creates purely based on form more so than Kandinsky or Malevich.

c.) I believe that Mondrian's work is very formalistic, focusing on the contour rather than subject matter or conceptual thought. All his work combined even feels like the audience is viewing one form that he then shows differently in scale, from far off, revealing mor or zoomed very close to the object, cropping out that form yet, constantly creating new forms through this artistic and well designed cropping. His work has depth and spreads easily into other aspect of life and art, yet it's simplistic and virtious methods capture purely the form for it's necessary and natural role of formalism.

d.) I chose Michael Klauke, i enjoy his stress and importance he puts on typography. It is something i am currently experimenting with adding to the imagery a form of text taht somehow relates to the image, either directly or absrtactly and personally.

a.) Expressionism is art centered around human emotion and it makes a point to get across a certain emotion that is shared throughout humanity. Cognitivism is closely tied together with emotion to communicate views on the world that the viewer adds onto. Cognitivism is more open with it's interpretation of emotion than expressionism is.
b.) Tolstoy's view of art is outside of just the artist, the viewer, or even the actual piece. His definition of art rest in how all three of these components interact with each other to shape and form a unique experience.
c.) According to Collingwood, the viewer is essentially the art. Art becomes a collaboration between artist and viewer, with the viewer partaking in the creation of the piece. Both artist and audience come to learn about themselves through the interpretations of each other.
d.) Louis Bourgeois used metaphors almost as a personal map that points out what has happened to her in the past and then takes you to where she is in the presence, linking the two situations together in a cause/effect like situation. Kiki Smith tends to use the metaphor more openly and traditionally, to symbolize her emotions for a visual understanding from the audience.

a.) To me, realistic art is art that deals with subject matters that we encounter in everyday life and portray how we individually conceive them, allowing others to connect and share these realities through our similarities while still acknowledging the tangible qualities that the subject matter consist of.

b.) If art is understood to not be reality, since reality is conceptual perceptions that we hold in our consciousness, and is actually viewed as further withdrawing from reality that could be controlled and censored to morally regulate and help society, then Plato would define it as good art.

c.) Plato would probably have different responses to the variety of Koon's work, stating that his, "Puppy" probably isn't very useful art in the fact that it doesn't accurately portray a realistic dog but rather evokes emotions that a dog can arouse, but this doesn't constitute a dog and therefore further abstracts and changes the reality of a dog. Yet, on Koon's other works, where he is taking real-life objects that can be purchased from a store and portraying them artistically, Plato would consider closer towards good art because the void between reality and art is shortened by not making a representation of the tangible object, which itself is a representation of the real object, which is conceived within consciousness.

d.) Aristotle would take a different approach in defining good art since he say beauty linked to form and form linked to meaning, good art was art that expanded reality and expressed and withheld it through meaning. He still sought the natural world we live in yet connected it with meaning we can relate to.

e.) in my opinion obscene art isn't a contradiction. Art doesn't have to be beautiful or morally upheld to standards. Beautiful art to me is truth, and reality has moments of obscenity that should be interpreted and portrayed just as art does with moments of beauty.

f.) Obscene is obscene, one form of it doesn't out weigh the other. It's an individuals definition on what makes something obscene. Seeing a vivid image of sexual material isn't necessarily obscene to me yet, i'm more opposed to images of violence. I find violence to be more offensive than sexuality, yet in our American culture violence is easily embraced while sexuality is shyly talked about and treated negatively when in the social limelight.

g.)jason d. watson. i enjoyed the artist themes of connection, attraction, yet indifference. Just the range of human emotions he plays with i consider a lot when dealing with my work.

Beauty vs. Repulsion: dos

a. An artist that i feel meets the criteria of good art is Tim Roelofs, a collage artist from Berlin. An artist that i feel meets the criteria of bad art is Thomas Kinkade.

b. honorific art, is art that meets certain criteria and answers to some of the necessary purposes of art.

c. classificatory definition of art states that certain pieces may be works of art while others are not. this does not essentially describe what is good art though.

d. i feel most uncomfortable trying to actually come up with a permanent and concrete definition of art, since many rules or criteria for art will probably eventually be broken and the rules and ideology changed. I feel most uncomfortable when the definition of art is made permanent.

e. Christine Kim. i enjoy her primitive and simplistic style with the deeper messages that she describes with her works. The line work and the coloring are simple, yet beautiful. getting my bird on, sing to you next week.

Beauty vs. Repulsion

  

                                                           

                                                      

               

Beauty- is a group of qualities that an individual finds pleasing about an object. Repulsion is an object that offers distaste in the individual making them uncomfortable. Within art there is no difference between beauty and repulsion. getting my bird on, sing to you next week.