Art Week 6



Art Week 6

What did gallery owner Leo Castelli claim was the reason for perceived female discrimination in the arts?

Leo Castelli carried a great vision for arts and artists. In the 1980's there were very few women artists present and it was said that there is gender and color biasness in arts. He claimed that there was no particular discrimination against the woman artists as there were very few artist of that gender but discrimination is done against females by various artists using the medium of art. Castelli claimed that the perceptions of female discrimination are because some artists have introduced sexism in arts (Lucy, 1995).

The East Village artist, incorporated graffiti styles, gestural Abstract Expressionism brushwork and often included African American symbols or subjects.

Give three adjectives that describe the 1980s cultural and political climate.

The period of 1980s brought changes in the cultural and political climate as it brought changes in revolution. The period-enhanced people with better quality work as industrialization had initiated. Art was produced with a greater sense and cultures and political climate were described in the framework of arts. Modern visual culture was developed, as there was a greater sense towards arts (Broude, et.al, 1994). The era of 1980s brought up relationship between cultures and politics using imagery for institutions and power.

Imagine you have entered an art gallery and come across Jeff Koons' St. John the Baptist, 1988 and have never seen of or heard of Jeff Koons before. Write a one-paragraph response to the work. Next, read the accompanying text on 213-214 in our text. Now, write a second paragraph about how your reaction to the sculpture changed and why (or why not)?

Jeff Koons has a versatile thinking and obsessions with sex and desire in his artwork. His work at times categorizes race and gender, ...