The Art Of The Industrial Revolution: Marcel Duchamp
The industrial revolution caused creative practitioners to re-examine the ways that form and function were applied to everyday objects. Mass production enabled them to reach a wider audience at a lower cost, and many artists used this to their full advantage. Of course, there very different responses to this. In the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp created the term “readymade”. A “readymade” was an ordinary mass-produced object transformed into an artwork merely by the choice of an artist. Duchamp was the inspiration for the Conceptual art movement and challenged the notion of art as being aesthetically beautiful. In contrast, the textile designer William Morris rejected industrial design and lead the revival of handcrafted art. His textile patterns
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The readymade often consisted of commercially available objects, taken out of their functional context and placed in a gallery.1 With his art, Duchamp sought to emphasis on artistic concept over aesthetics. This can be seen in his famous artworks The Fountain and the Bicycle wheel. He also placed emphasis on the role of the viewer in an artwork. “It’s a product of two poles – there’s the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes …show more content…
Initially Murakami trained to be in the Japanese animation industry. Instead he went to art school and majored in Nihonga, traditional Japanese painting. As he studied it he noticed more and more similarities between Nihonga and Japanese anime. With their 2D linework and flat colouring Japanese art often directs the viewer’s gaze across the surface of an image, rather than drawing it in, as done in conventional Western practice.6 In 2000 Murakami published the “Theory of Super Flat Art”, functioning as a manifesto for his work. He believes that the disparity between social classes and pop culture have ‘flattened’, producing the society we see in Japan today, with little distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’. Additionally, it highlights the aesthetic of Japanese art as a reinforcing its own two-dimensionality. His “superflat” blending of art and mass production continues to be inspired by his traditional
The readymade often consisted of commercially available objects, taken out of their functional context and placed in a gallery.1 With his art, Duchamp sought to emphasis on artistic concept over aesthetics. This can be seen in his famous artworks The Fountain and the Bicycle wheel. He also placed emphasis on the role of the viewer in an artwork. “It’s a product of two poles – there’s the pole of the one who makes the work, and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes …show more content…
Initially Murakami trained to be in the Japanese animation industry. Instead he went to art school and majored in Nihonga, traditional Japanese painting. As he studied it he noticed more and more similarities between Nihonga and Japanese anime. With their 2D linework and flat colouring Japanese art often directs the viewer’s gaze across the surface of an image, rather than drawing it in, as done in conventional Western practice.6 In 2000 Murakami published the “Theory of Super Flat Art”, functioning as a manifesto for his work. He believes that the disparity between social classes and pop culture have ‘flattened’, producing the society we see in Japan today, with little distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’. Additionally, it highlights the aesthetic of Japanese art as a reinforcing its own two-dimensionality. His “superflat” blending of art and mass production continues to be inspired by his traditional