High culture Vs Low Culture Lecture:

HIGH CULTURE VS LOW CULTURE:

AVANT GARDE is the innovation in the arts and selects pioneers. but in the modern day it is slowly losing its name.

Artists such as:  MARCEL DUCHAMP

- 1917, Fountain

- Mona Lisa

- avant garde trying to do something different and shocking

- upset the establishment

 There are also 'FAUVES', wild beasts who were self taught painters and attack the order of things with critics and painters. 

- innovation

- experimentation

- originality

- creative genius

= impossible in institutional framework

HENRY WALLIS:

- CHATTERTON

- 19 year old, writes genius poem to save the world

- not understood so commits suicid

ART FOR ARTS SAKE:

- WHISTLER, NOCTURNE IN BLACK AND GOLD, THE FALLING ROCKET (1875)

- no politics // no engagement with the world// beacon of aesthetic beauty // separation between artist and viewer

* ART FOR ARTS SAKE

* SOCIAL CHANGE PROGRESSION

9. CLIVE BELL (critic)

- Cezanne = fave painter

- SIGNIFICANT FORM

combinations of lines and colours, which when organised give the power to move someone aesthetically

- make careers off interpreting art that no one understands

- self perpetuating between critic and artist

- CLEMENT GREENBURG

// the avant grade // american painting in 20th century (e.g. POLLOCK 1950) everything else = 

KITSCH? - seeks qualities of true art but fails for various reasons 

10. AVANT GARDE IN RUSSIA

- CONSTRUCTIVISM...SOCIALIST RUSSIA

STALIN BANS A-G

- avant garde seen as major problem...run the risk of being elitist

- members of left wing tendency to rely on ACADEMIC TECHNIQUES in order to appeal to public

- CAN YOU BE A-G AND STILL BE INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE?

IF YOU APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC ARE YOU LESS IMPORTANT?

KITSCH?