University of Phoenix ART/101 101 art unit 8

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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 specific works of art in your post. In the 1960s and 1970s art critics believed that current trends in art foretold the “death of painting.” art today encompasses a wide range of traditional and experimental media, including works that rely on Internet technology and other scientific innovations but painting is far from dead as an art from the contemporary art. Art brought about social and cultural change to a place were artist could express they feelings thoughts and deams. In “The Death of Painting” many artist considers the death of art under three aspects. Hegel’s prediction of art’s “sublation by philosophy is realized, he says, albeit in caricatured form, in modernity”( Vattimo,). Vattimo also speaks about art’s as obsolescence because of mass media. According to Walter Benjamin, art is as described the age of technical reproducibility. The function of value of art works within a fabric of religious belief and ritual, came to be associated in the era of autonomous bourgeois art with the uniqueness of the original work of art. It’ s seen from the artist’s point of view, Vattimo observes it as the idea of genius. The generalization of art in the mass media as entertainment is one of the forms of art’s death; a second is the bringing of utopian reintegration of art into life; and a third is the path of high modernism, which sets an ever more restricted programme for art as a reaction to the perceived insidious encroachments of mass culture or kitsch. The last-mentioned, in which authentic art paints itself into a corner - Adorno and Greenberg offer versions of this modernist doctrine - is a form of death by suicide. Vattimo states that the actual event of art’s death, that ought to coincide with a complete cessation of art production, is indefinitely postponed, hence one should more accurately speak of the decline of art. This situation, in which art continues to be produced while contemplating its own death, he contends, ‘constitutes the historical and ontological constellation in which we move.”(Vattimo). The absence of any shared and agreed upon aesthetic criteria in [Show More]

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