AHIS BC 3626y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abstract Expressionism, Avant-Garde, Productivism
25 Aug 2016
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Janaury 28th, 2016
Abstract Expressionism:
Constructivist and Productivist Avante Garde
Review:
Trope- uses a phrase or image in a way that isn’t intended by the word
Metonymy- moving from one element to another
• a sail comes to stand for a ship, native tongue
• Metonymy requires a cultural knowledge
• Signs are fundamentally metonymic because they rely on the combination of signifier
and cultural significance
Metaphor- a trope in which a word or phrase is transferred to represent something else. It
doesn’t use like or as, it says something )S something else. my love is a rose
• The last painting was a metaphor in a sense because its combining two things
without like or as the fact that it’s the end of all paintings but not really
• If Metonyms are connected to signs, metaphors are connected to symbols.
• Language and imagery is fundamentally metaphoric (a is b but not really)
Language:
• CROWN- signifies something a person wears but is simply a symbol in one’s mind of
it
o )t’s a cultural leap from the word to the meaning
• Deconstructionists argue that all language and all of life is metaphoric, and
deconstruction is the return from the language to the metaphor
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Russian Constructivism and Productivism
• Constructivism is the idea that visual images are a constructive and the meanings are
a construct and they take apart the different parts to show how the images are
created
• Productivism how to be productive and create utility, the artist as a parallel to the
worker
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Document Summary
Metaphor- a trope in which a word or phrase is transferred to represent something else. It: metonymy requires a cultural knowledge, signs are fundamentally metonymic because they rely on the combination of signifier. Rodchenko: analytic cubism and the legacy of constructivism is very much present in his work in productivism. Club(cid:499) and abandons all constructivist positions of communism, there was a promise that a worker"s and creates a new utilitarian aesthetic: the workers club is where there is a balance between leisure and labor. In this increasing improved balance because experience would be improved: artists turned from traditional forms of art making to making what could be useful which was a historic shift. El lissitzky: young, jewish avante garde member barred from education in tsarist russia, studied in germany in engineering. In his transition from constructivist moment to productivist moment he created a billboard painting.
