Working with found/ready made objects презентация

anti art
situationist international
arte povera
objet trouve
contemporary art examples
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20th century art history is characterised by the intrinsic inclusion of philosophy and critical thinking.
The prefix “ anti” was first used during Dada movement years by Tristan Tzara. He referred to Picabia as being “ anti-painter” .He also wrote about “anti-philosophy”, “anti-artistic”, even “ anti-dadaist”, about himself. But he never actually used the term”anti-art”.
anti art

The term “anti-art “ was first used by Andre Breton around 1930 and again many times during the 20th century and even into the 21st.
“ It takes more than this man to make death from dust”

Diogenes of Sinope

In 1963 Duchamp admits that in his early Dada years he questioned whether he should make art or anti-art.

The anti –artists are those who in their work have attempted to deny or break with every conceivable anon of style, taste, or convention that may have been established by the practice of artists in the past.
Anti-art is not, in other words , a non-art. It may be simply a kind of art that attempts to turn the dominant art of its time upside down and expose its underside –the side that is usually repressed.

Man Ray- Enigma of Isidore Ducase, 1920

situationist international
“Presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit.”, Gilles Ivain, IS#1
Situationists Map of Paris

The Situationist International (1957–1972) was a relatively small yet influential Paris-based group that had its origins in the avant garde artistic tradition.
Essential to situationist theory was the concept of the spectacle, a unified critique of advanced capitalism of which a primary concern was the progressively increasing tendency towards the expression and mediation of social relations through objects

Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920-2005) was a member of the Dutch branch of the world-famous COBRA movement, which also included Karel Appel and Corneille. In 1956, however, his work took a completely different direction. Abandoning painting, he threw himself into a vast architectural and town planning project called New Babylon, expressing his ideas for a progressive, modern society via maquettes, drawings, films, graphics and manifestos.

New Babylon
Constant Nieuwenhuys

Moscow Occupiers, 2012

arte povera
Term coined by the Genovese critic Germano Celant in 1967 for a group of Italian artists who, from the late 1960s, attempted to break down the ‘dichotomy between art and life’ (Celant: Flash Art, 1967), mainly through the creation of happenings and sculptures made from everyday materials.
Michelangelo Pistoletto

As well as expressing their interest in social issues, the Italians were preoccupied with creating various forms of physical interaction between the work of art and its viewer. From the early 1960s Pistoletto had been making life-size images of people that were attached to mirrored surfaces so that the reflections of the spectator became part of the work

Giuseppe Penone

Mario Merz

Jannis Kounellis

Piero Manzoni

objet trouve
Lost property department at the train station in Paris

Richard Wentworth

Bill Woodrow

Fischli and Weiss

contemporary art examples
Jessica Stockholder

Isa Genzken

Gordon Matta Clarke

Richard Tuttle

Caroline McGregor

Build 4 sculptures as a team by using found/bought materials/readymades and 5 verbs and 2 contexts from Richard Serra’s list:
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In pencil on two sheets of paper, the artist lists the infinitives of 84 verbs—to roll, to crease, to fold, to store, etc.—and 24 possible contexts—of gravity, of entropy, of nature, etc.—in four columns of script. Serra described the list as a series of “actions to relate to oneself, material, place, and process,” and employed it as a kind of guide for his subsequent practice in multiple mediums.