VPSA63H3 Lecture : Lec4.docx

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Convention: rules- the artist decided to paint differently and broke the rules. Avant-guard had a relationship with other cultural productions that were happening outside of the world. It talked about this relationship was based on problematic assumption. Art, western art is connected to the world in two important concepts, colonialism and the idea of primitivism. This post-modernist question creates a space for artist to look at the definition of art and something that is universal and has a cultural perspective. A perspective that has argued about the western worlds superiority over the rest of the world. 1860, the english critic, john r, no can be found outside of nyc. Art critics and artists were drawing from the african areas. The majority of this avant-guard interest, primitive art embraced the otherness- objects from other places. It was a strategy- they saw a directness in these african paintings, a certain raw factor.

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