Discussion: Relating to the Viewer
Relating to the Viewer
Your reading for last week covered several art movements that flourished in the 1960s, such as Performance art and Pop art. This week your reading focuses on the way in which the modernist abstraction of the 1950s and and 1960s continued to evolve (Chapter 20), and how conceptual artists further pushed the boundaries of art (Chapter 22).
Although their methods were very different, Op art painters, Minimalist sculptors, and performance artists sought to engage the viewer physically by altering space and questioning reality. Op art paintings stimulate the retina of the viewer’s eyes in various ways to create optical phenomena. Minimalist sculptures are often meant to be navigated by the viewer and understood in relation to the viewer’s body. Performance art and Happenings engage their audience by asking fundamental questions about what it means to be human, dissolving the separation between art and life.
Your task this week is to describe the strategies employed by an artist as they attempt to engage a viewer. How do you experience a work of art? Why does it make you feel the way it does? How might your experience change if you encountered this artwork or performance in person (instead of in your book or online)?
You may choose to analyze an art “object” from an artist covered in Chapter 20, a conceptual piece by an artist featured in Chapter 22, or the work of an activist or feminist artist.
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