An Artist Willalways Create a Work with the Audience in Mind
Past HSC Trial Paper 2011. Section 2. Question 7
An artist will always create a work with the audience in mind
An artist will always create a work with the audience in mind, this is a false statement as most great artists contradicted what was socially acceptable in their period. Artist such as Edouard Manet, Artemisia Gentileschi and Francis Bacon, all created much discrepancy with their works through the themes in which they portrayed, and the meanings they gave. Hence no, artists do not create their works with the audience in mind.
Édouade Manet was a French painter in the 19th century and was one of the first artists to approach modern and postmodern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Many of his earlier works, such as Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, caused much controversy. Luncheon on the Grass was particularly discredited by society, that it was exhibited in the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the rejected). The work juxtaposes a naked women to a couple of fully dressed men, which affronted many of general public because of the relaxed nature of woman, this was enhanced by the fact that the figures present were of great familiarity; the woman being a mix of his wife and a young model at the time, and the men were recognised to be Manet's brother and his future brother-in-law.
Manet's of other work Olympia was an appropriation of Titians masterpiece Venus of Urbino. It wasn't the nudity or the presence of her fully-clothed maid that shocked the audiences, it was the intense stare in her her eyes, giving a hint the that she is the one with power. Olympia was know to be a prostitute, it was a known fact in society, but the controversy was the fact that Manet had captured her in his work with such power and determination, society did not like it at all. In studying both these works by Manet, it is evident that an artist will not always create their works with the audience in
An artist will always create a work with the audience in mind
An artist will always create a work with the audience in mind, this is a false statement as most great artists contradicted what was socially acceptable in their period. Artist such as Edouard Manet, Artemisia Gentileschi and Francis Bacon, all created much discrepancy with their works through the themes in which they portrayed, and the meanings they gave. Hence no, artists do not create their works with the audience in mind.
Édouade Manet was a French painter in the 19th century and was one of the first artists to approach modern and postmodern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Many of his earlier works, such as Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, caused much controversy. Luncheon on the Grass was particularly discredited by society, that it was exhibited in the Salon des Refusés (Salon of the rejected). The work juxtaposes a naked women to a couple of fully dressed men, which affronted many of general public because of the relaxed nature of woman, this was enhanced by the fact that the figures present were of great familiarity; the woman being a mix of his wife and a young model at the time, and the men were recognised to be Manet's brother and his future brother-in-law.
Manet's of other work Olympia was an appropriation of Titians masterpiece Venus of Urbino. It wasn't the nudity or the presence of her fully-clothed maid that shocked the audiences, it was the intense stare in her her eyes, giving a hint the that she is the one with power. Olympia was know to be a prostitute, it was a known fact in society, but the controversy was the fact that Manet had captured her in his work with such power and determination, society did not like it at all. In studying both these works by Manet, it is evident that an artist will not always create their works with the audience in