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HOME CONTACT US RESOURCES LINKS FACULTY MY COURSES MENU       AHIST 1401 Art History - Term 2, 2019-2020 Search forums Discussion 8 by Alison Binger (Instructor) - Wednesday, 1... 3 November 2019, 10:48 AM In the 1960s and 1970s art critics believed that current trends in art foretold the “death of painting.” Do you think painting has actually “died” as an art form in contemporary art? If so, what has risen to replace painting? If not, how has painting been able to survive? As always, please refer to speciÕc works of art in your post. 61 words Permalink | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Alison Binger (Instructor) - Thursday, 2 January 2020, 10:10 AM Welcome to Week 8 and our last week of class together! This week we will be looking at the major art movements in contemporary art. Modern art heavily inÖuenced the contemporary art movement. We will learn about Postmodernism, which employs new methods and materials that had not been introduced before. We will also look at current and future trends in art. A few artists to keep in mind are Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Robert Smithson, Yoko Ono, and Lin./ 79 words Rate: Rate... Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Christopher Hebdon - Thursday, 2 January 2020, 3:56 PM This is an interesting question, as I sit in my living room and look around I have a painting on the wall painted only a few years ago, I have a print of painting painted in 2017, I have a photo of a cityscape, I have two printed signs, two printed poems, and then a host of personal family pictures, to me they are all art, they all depict something that invokes some kind of response in my mind when I look at them. Some people may argue if they are all art or not, but as we have read this week many modern works of art serve exactly that purpose to involve some kind of response, some will love it, some will hate it, some will agree with it and some will not. Anyway, the question is, has painting actually died? Well for me the answer lies in what I have just described in my living room, two of the pieces of my art are a painting and a print based on a painting, done in the last decade, so clearly, painting isn’t dead, or certainly not totally. As we have journeyed through this course, we have seen how art has developed from ancient times through to works taking us into the late twentieth century. Each time art has moved to a new form it has invoked responses that include resistance and acceptance, some people are ready to move on others prefer to hang on to what they have a little longer. Today we live in a world where news travels faster than ever before and everything is global, as a race our expectations are greater than ever, and to meet the expectations our search is greater than ever. In the search of art, we have so many options available to us today, our tastes are greater and more varied than ever, again as we have gone through this course we have all chosen many diàerent works as our choices, which is obvious, we are all individual, we all have individual tastes which may well be diàerent to the next person. That doesn’t make them wrong or right, just diàerent. As Jason Farago (2015) describes in his article “Is painting dead?) people have been declaring painting dead for over 150 years. Paul Delaroche declared painting dead when he saw daguerreotype for the Õrst time, but it continued, but it opened the door to new forms of painting that we saw follow it in the following decades, so photography didn’t kill painting it just changed what artists were painting. Painting has survived because artists have changed direction. Let me go back to the print of the painting that I have, this was the Õrst picture I discussed on this course when we were asked to discuss a picture we liked. Ok, the picture may contain a comical element, however, it invokes in me a response that catches my attention and draws me to it. Does it fall into any of the styles we have covered on this course? Possibly not, but what we have covered are the major trends, works that change the course of art over time, but not every work of art is a game-changer, Oor Wullie and Big Tam/ Mcoo (Steven Brown Art, n.d.), may not be a game-changer in the art world but he did cause a stir on a local level when it was released (Gibb, 2018) as over 2000 prints of the painting were sold in the Õrst month of its release. So, I think it is fair to say painting has not died, it will continue to have high and lows, like every art form and who knows how technology will change what we expect of paintings. I say this as I look at an app on my phone that turns my photos into pictures that look like they are painted, I guess this shows we still want paintings. References: Farago, J. (Feb. 2015). Is painting dead? BBC Culture. Retrieved from: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150217-is-painting-dead Gibb, B. (Feb. 2018). Artist Steven Brown thrilled after multi-coloured Oor Wullie is a smash hit. The Sunday Post. Retrieved from: https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/coopendous-rush-for-multi-coloured-wullie// Steven Brown Art (n.d.). McCoo canvas prints. Retrieved from: https://www.stevenbrownart.co.uk/collections/mccoo-canvas-prints 720 words Rate: 10 Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Kay Davids - Saturday, 4 January 2020, 12:09 AM Hello Christopher, Great submission. I especially like that you used examples in your direct vicinity. This is how people relate to art today. Few go to museums looking for art because so much of it can be seen without leaving our homes. Your piece made me realize that the progression of visual art is similar to that of music. Newer music uses new technology, this doesn't mean it's not music, it's just diàerent to what came before. 77 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Alison Binger (Instructor) - Saturday, 4 January 2020, 11:16 AM What a wonderful post Christopher. I love that you looked around your environment to gain a greater understanding if painting is dead. I agree with you that it is far from dead. It has just transformed and changed since that statement was introduced to the art world. Dr. Binger 49 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Ajibola Okubanjo - Sunday, 5 January 2020, 10:41 AM Hi Christopher, Excellent post, this line in your post is on point - "but it opened the door to new forms of painting that we saw follow it in the following decades, so photography didn’t kill painting it just changed what artists were painting", painting just like every other form of artistic expression has always been evolving and would always evolve in newer and modern forms, although it is also important to note that sometimes painting has also been able to dive right back into the past to recycle old painting styles./ 91 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Earl Montgomery - Sunday, 5 January 2020, 11:17 AM Christoper, Happy new year! The art piece you added is a bit comical to say the least. It also shows that people still want to paint. Your observations of art still being alive were impressive. Thank you and best wishes to you on Õnals. 44 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Marco Pintus - Sunday, 5 January 2020, 2:28 PM Hi, Christopher, you've done some very good thinking and written a very pleasant post. Painting is far from dead, it's only changed the way of making art and above all the way of enjoying it. I love Scotland and I love Steven Brown, but above all I love the very nice Scottish cows even more. That's good work. 58 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Martin Eshun - Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 8:28 PM Hey mate, that was a great submission. I didn't know skip your work without giving you a great compliment. Not forgetting the great art you used as an example. Good job and best of luck in the coming exams. 39 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Andraea Camble - Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 11:30 PM/ Hi Christopher, Thank you for the interesting post. I go on the notion that painting has just changed with the times as more genres have appeared. 26 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Osman Bawa - Friday, 3 January 2020, 6:49 AM Discussion Assignment Unit 8 AHIST 1401 Art History University of the People Well, there is no doubt that modern art encompasses a large range of traditional and experimental media, including works of art heavily rely on internet technology and other scientiÕc innovations but in my opinion, painting hasn’t died. It’s clear that contemporary art is quite popular in today’s societies, but this hasn’t caused the death of painting. The trajectory of art thus, redeÕning art through the mass media, and the bringing of utopia (an imagined community) reintegration of art into everyday life are some of the factors caused painting to be seen as dead but it not. Painting is still a practical form of art taught in many art institutions today. Many artists still make their living through painting. For instance, let’s have a look at a plain oil painting by Brad Teare based on images in 2019. This work of art underlies structure over the black surface and depicting the use of black as a color in painting. I think painting still remain relevant as every previous form of painting is used to reconÕgure into new and vibrant styles of painting. Although, photographs did more by depicting the world in a faster and better way than painting, there are still countless painting evolution, including abstract, impressionism, and marker paintings today. Another cool example is Hogwarts Express, a train oil painting by Harry Potter that was painted in full detail before the movie ever came to the big screen. Painting survive through the feeling of society because people still enjoy painting form of art whether as a career choice or therapeutic reasons. Let’s have a look at some fabulous artworks of today that still attract people’s attention. Hogwarts Express is a painting by Robert Steen which was uploaded on August 4th, 2014. Black is a color by Brad Teare: http://bradteare.blogspot.com/ References/ Farago, J. (2015, February 18). Culture - Is painting dead? Retrieved January 3, 2020, from http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150217-is-painting-dead. Frohnsdorà, M., Kapadia, S., Stretch, J.-V., Fuller, C., Steen, R., Search, L., & Moriarty, D. (2014, August 4). Hogwarts Express by Robert Steen. Retrieved January 3, 2020, from https://pixels.com/featured/hogwarts-express-robert-steen.html. 370 words Rate: 10 Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Osman Bawa - Friday, 3 January 2020, 7:05 AM Attached images did not appear after submission, please Õnd them below: Hogwarts Express is a painting by Robert Steen which was uploaded on August 4th, 2014./ Black is a color by Brad Teare: http://bradteare.blogspot.com/ 37 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Earl Montgomery - Sunday, 5 January 2020, 11:21 AM Osman, Happy new year! You provided excellent arguments to support your position and I agree with them. Your piece that you attached has a beautiful assortment of colors, get job. Best wishes to you on the Õnals. 37 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Osman Bawa - Monday, 6 January 2020, 2:35 AM/ Happy New Year, Earl, and thanks for your positive comment. 10 words Permalink | Show parent | Reply Re: Discussion 8 by Ajibola Okubanjo - Sunday, 5 January 2020, 12:16 PM Hi Osman, I think until technology advances to the point where it can capture the mind's thought processes, then painting as a form of art is safe. A camera captures whatever one points it at, whereas painting (be it digital or drawing) goes much further, and can capture the imaginations, fears, and aspirations of artists in a way that photography could never do, hence, one of the few reasons why painting would still continue to exists in one form or another for generations to come. [Show More]

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