Action in Art 6

Assignment

SIX

Visual Art

& Society

• Complete the Homework

6 QUESTIONS

PART ONE

Homework Comprehension Questions: Please respond t

o the following

questions?

1.

What was Black Mountain College?

Briefly describe the intellectual interests

and ideas of its faculty and students.

2

.Who was John Cage?

How did he influence visual art in the 1950s?

3.

Briefl

y

explain how Alan Kaprow believed his work followed from Jackson

Pollock.

4

.Contrast the approach to painting represented by, respectively, Jasper Johns

and the earlier Willem de Kooning.

5

.What are some of the similarities and differences in Rauschenberg

’s combine

painting series and his later silkscreens?

6.

How would you sum up the stylistic and philosophical differences between the

“Beat” generation and the earlier Abstract Expressionist artists?

Which would

you defend as more successful in their artis

tic accomplishments?

PART TWO

Discussion:

Is

a

"happening"

visual

art?

1

.

After you've considered Alan Kaprow's

"happenings,"

how would you defend these against the following simple

deductive argument about aesthetics.

2.Premise 1: Art takes the form of human

-

made material

objects with specific aesthetic attributes (line, color,

texture, value, deliberate compositi

on).

3.Premise 2: A happening involves loosely

-

orchestrated,

performative encounters in which human

-

made material

objects are secondary

4.Conclusion: A happening is therefore not art, though it

may be

some thing

else (theater perhaps)

Assignment SIX Visual Art & Society

• Complete the Homework 6 QUESTIONS PART ONE

Homework Comprehension Questions: Please respond to the following

questions?

1.What was Black Mountain College? Briefly describe the intellectual interests

and ideas of its faculty and students.

2.Who was John Cage? How did he influence visual art in the 1950s?

3.Briefly explain how Alan Kaprow believed his work followed from Jackson

Pollock.

4.Contrast the approach to painting represented by, respectively, Jasper Johns

and the earlier Willem de Kooning.

5.What are some of the similarities and differences in Rauschenberg’s combine

painting series and his later silkscreens?

6.How would you sum up the stylistic and philosophical differences between the

“Beat” generation and the earlier Abstract Expressionist artists? Which would

you defend as more successful in their artistic accomplishments?

PART TWO

Discussion: Is a "happening" visual art?

1

. After you've considered Alan Kaprow's "happenings,"

how would you defend these against the following simple

deductive argument about aesthetics.

2.Premise 1: Art takes the form of human-made material

objects with specific aesthetic attributes (line, color,

texture, value, deliberate composition).

3.Premise 2: A happening involves loosely-orchestrated,

performative encounters in which human-made material

objects are secondary

4.Conclusion: A happening is therefore not art, though it

may be some thing else (theater perhaps)