Today I finally got around to starting
my research paper, this is where I got to today.
Aesthetic Choices and
Meaningful Dialogue
This essay is going to look at artists that make aesthetic
choices to entice the viewer to look into the deeper meaning within their work.
I will also explore how I seek to accomplish this in my own work. The two artists
that I have chosen to write this essay about are Kazimir Malevich and Daniel
Buren. Both have made minimalistic work in the past that appears to have no
meaning beyond the fact that it is interesting to look at. However this is not the case.
It is impossible to talk about the work of Malevich without
first talking about Suprematism, an art movement that he founded in 1913[i],
which sought to give over artworks to the highest point of expression, whilst
simultaneously ignoring the familiar appearance of objects[ii].
When he created his Black Square[iii]
there was no figurative basis there, at the time it was considered to be a
desert[iv],
with no meaning or aesthetics to speak of. What critics didn't realise is that
it's simplistic beauty was the start of a movement that utilised basic
geometric shapes[v] and conformed to a rigid set of rules[vi].
So one could argue that Malevich himself made no real
conscious aesthetic choices whilst creating his work, he simply allowed his
feelings and emotions to take over, whilst using a small selection of shapes
and colours to represent his thoughts. The aesthetic decisions that happened
before creating the work is another story however, when he and his fellow
artists devised the rules of Suprematism they chose the use of simple shapes to
be a key factor, so that the work could be solely about the expression of
feelings. But it could also be said that they chose those shapes in the
beginning because of aesthetics, so that whatever they went on to create it was guaranteed
to be beautiful and interesting to look at.
[i] http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/suprematism
Kasimir Malevich, The Non - Objective World,
1959
[ii] http://www.theartstory.org/movement-suprematism.htm
[iii] http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/five-ways-look-Malevich-Black-Square
[v] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprematism
[vi] http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/574754/Suprematism
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