Brief: Using texts to explore and develop an argument using opinions of other people.
In the COP session today my group looked in detail at the quote "In his studio the artist has no social responsibility. But when the artist displays his work the situation changes" David Shingley
Within this our responses were
*the artist has responses within the constraints of their studio however outside the response by others is one which can't be controlled. Outside of the studio people will have different perceptions of the work ind different contexts. This will be impacted by where it is released, the context it is released within and when it is released and who the audience are!
*should the work be made for the artist or for public (fine art or design methods). If so should the artist take credit for work which could cause offence? Is it their duty to portray honest work and to intentionally create a reaction/agitate?
Here we focussed on the importance of the 'meme'.
These start off as innocent images which are spun to cause a reaction. At the creation of the initial images the artist has no idea that their images will be spread around through 'memification'
Our example of this was the 'Arthur fist'. This is fascinating because it is an innocent children's cartoon and somehow a close up of his fist has become a phenomenon!
Another group also chose to investigate the same question exemplified misinterpretation and pushing the boundaries through Chris Ofili: The holy virgin Mary. This image was in protest against how sexualised the Virgin Mary is portrayed. He himself was religious and he took a modernistic approach to representing the Virgin Mary, however this wasn't taken kindly by many and it had animal poo thrown at it is protest!
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