Criteria

What other messages does work of art carry besides its historical relevance?

How does curator make decisions? Is it a collaboration, an alternative, a true independent?

How do we value craftsmanship in works of art today?

Does it create strong impact and significance that can be appreciated by larger viewers (how does it transcend?)

Does work of art contains enough of the artists own statement?

How does work of art enable the viewers to shift from their postmodernist perspective?

Idea over aesthetic? Aesthetic over idea? or balanced?

Is the work beautiful?

art & identity

How does favoritism come to play in art?

How can one define their identity besides their origin and appearance?

How come people see Nikki lee’s work controversial when it is just a photo of everyday life that captures people (white, black, Asian, etc)?

Are abstract artists conscious about their identity since the great names are all white males who were interested in masculinity and sublime?

How successful are these artists in terms of naturalizing social constructions through their works?

art & body

• Is there a difference between body art and adornment?

• Can the figure still represent the idea of beauty?

• What does the body represent outside of the sexual sphere?

• What cultural representations does the body hold outside of sexuality?

• Can the body be present without political significance?

• Can the body ever be neutral? And if so, how?

• In it’s absence can the body still be present? (ex. Barbara Kruger)

• Can the body be separate from identity?

art&nature&technology

lee bul


chris jordan


andy goldsworthy


rauschenberg


mel chin

How does art different from science fiction?

Where do we draw a line between art&activism and art&nature?

How can a human being triumph over nature?

art&abstraction

james sienna

jackson pollock

piet mondrian


mark rothko

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terry winters


Why does abstract art mainly refer to abstract painting and not any other genre?

Does the idea of “flatness” still imply any significance to many artists today? What is so special and outstanding about flatting the surface of canvas?

How can one possibly acknowledge the content behind the work when the work doesn’t show anything else but color and form?

Can abstract art be conceptual art?

Who made Jackson Pollock so famous and influential? Is it Pollock himself or Greenberg?

Manifesto

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRkoI29Wzyc

Can Radicality viewed as producing a falsely critical, ineffectual 'social' or even 'compassionate' art?

What is rational art?

How about not trying so hard to do anything more than the aesthetic, that it actually constitutes a political space of its own that is more effective than interventions into the realm of social relations?

So this (the precarious politics of art) is what artists today destined to do?

Will these politics of art enhance and protect the precariousness of the world??.... ?