FA 164a Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Abstract Expressionism, Brushstrokes, David Alfaro Siqueiros
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Profoundly counterintuitive assignments, to transform non-verbal expression into. Social assignments in terms of writing words . Class is gonna go to 1940s to the 1980s ish. Can we still make art now, after all the carnage. Adorno (lyric poet) asked whether it was ethical to make art, a civilizing element, Is it barbaric to continue to make art in the context of a post-war world. Artist after ww1 grapple with issues of representation. Many post-war artists felt they were the first to deal with making art after such a conflict. Pushing the boundaries of abstraction and representation. It"s probably a head with a bullet hole in it. Use of body to express a lot of these issues. Intensified feeling of what kind of species are we after ww2, the holocaust, the. In the soon to be ussr, malevich is experimenting with abstraction. He wants to start society over, and with the first building block of a black square.
