Slide Identification/Description

• Brought back fine art idea

• Cropped pics – Pollock is in the environment, literally (see other pics)

• All overness• Brought the figure back

by removing it

• Participants of Totem : colonialism

• Zips keep you on the surface but confirmed as object pictorally

• Flatness• Widths of lines = depth

of the canvas (stretcher bars)

• Objectness – you can visually see it’s in the world

• Purified and not contaminated by conventions

• Women were fooled into thinking the installation was an actual super market

• Proving woman are easily fooled; more informed on consumerism than the actual aesthetics

• Theme: domesticity and family values• Sent to jail• Combine construction• 4 parts

met at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London from 1952-55. The IG consisted of painters, sculptors, architects, writers and critics who wanted to challenge prevailing modernist approaches to culture. They introduced mass culture into debates about high culture, re-evaluated modernism and created the "as found" or "found object" aesthetic.[1] Currently the subject of renewed interest in our post disciplinary age, the IG was the topic of a two-day, international conference at the Tate Britain in March 2007. The Independent Group is regarded as the precursor to the Pop Art movement in Britain and the United States.[1][2][3]

• Pictures of actual people from the 50’s on the wall (governor – Ruskett)

• Ruskett being there – focuses on the lifestyle that the products bring, not the product themselves

• Why was it Bunk?-Middle class loses power and upper class determines culture

• Tom : not a success

• For the working class

• Wanted labor to be in control but things changed in 52’….

• Meaning less wages, no benefit from consumerism

• Paolozzi’s response: BUNK!

-only benefited the investor class (upper class)

• Rapid sequence of collage material, magazines, newspapers (americanimages)

• Demonstration 4 years later at This is Tomorrow exhibit

• Didn’t prime• Dripped paint• More purified than Newman and Pollock• Removed the hand and enabled gravity• Canvas absorbs the paint, making them 1

Metro Exhibit ^

• Saw art in terms of giving an aesthetic feel to the space of domestic interior setting

• Task: visually perform what was argued as female territory (domestic)

• Why Suburbia?-Nature can be seen clearly through the window, showing the separation of nature and culture• Middle class

appliances• Meat featured was

specially chosen –finally able to be refrigerated at this time

Run for Love – man is removed from Lich. Work

Raised fine art status with the separation and the autonomous eye

• removed signs of weakness in males• Gender focus• Regenerate pop art images• Masculinity is in control of context

(surroundings)• Feminine traits : not able to respond to

the context (emotionally handle it, as well as physically); cannot handle the external

• Takes away the background because the woman is the main subject and she cannot handle the context (background)