Currently i am thinking about how to incorporate some of the underlying questions within the constraints of fine art into the design world.
focusing on some key questions that i plan to answer throughout my report ( and also that are in my head at the moment ) ...
... How does the change in art movements throughout the 20th century reflect on the design world and vis versa ? ( narrowing down over the next few days a more precise question or investigation.)
... Possibly even drawing in the concepts of the the handmade / handmade
craft-work aesthetics ( collating knowledge from my last term project)
.... I could look at the Process, ( thats what interests me the most ) taking into account the boundaries of how fine art is produced ( the medium that it is created ) and why this determines, to an extent it's "label"... why is a painting labeled fine art if it visually communicates a message ? isn't this also the outcome of a piece of design work ? what separates the role of a designer and an artist ?...possibly the concept of briefs?( i know Darren will not like this question )
To be honest i'm still pretty up in the air about it all, and many more rhetorical questioned like this bouncing around in my head... so ill try and get them down on paper for the next session.
i think help will be needed ;)
Lucy
focusing on some key questions that i plan to answer throughout my report ( and also that are in my head at the moment ) ...
... How does the change in art movements throughout the 20th century reflect on the design world and vis versa ? ( narrowing down over the next few days a more precise question or investigation.)
... Possibly even drawing in the concepts of the the handmade / handmade
craft-work aesthetics ( collating knowledge from my last term project)
.... I could look at the Process, ( thats what interests me the most ) taking into account the boundaries of how fine art is produced ( the medium that it is created ) and why this determines, to an extent it's "label"... why is a painting labeled fine art if it visually communicates a message ? isn't this also the outcome of a piece of design work ? what separates the role of a designer and an artist ?...possibly the concept of briefs?( i know Darren will not like this question )
To be honest i'm still pretty up in the air about it all, and many more rhetorical questioned like this bouncing around in my head... so ill try and get them down on paper for the next session.
i think help will be needed ;)
Lucy
I think its an interesting area to look at Lucy. However, you need to be careful you aren't attempting something to big.
ReplyDeleteLots of artists work to commission similar to designers. Portrait artists for example. The art establishment would say their painting aren't 'art' however.
There's a great book that's dead easy to read and well worth it called Design as Art by Bruno Munari - it's recently been republished by Penguin - you really should read it.
It's only since the Industrial Revolution that Fine Art came into being - before that 'art' was embedded in useful things - art and design were together. Art critics decided that mass produced goods couldn't be art - the Arts & Crafts Movement and the Bauhaus were responses to this...
Interesting stuff but very large - you need to find a small niche I think...
Do you want to do an investigation into contemporary designers who also practice as artists? Or whose work does not have clients in the traditional sense.
ReplyDeleteI suggest you need to find a handful of names, look at their work and what's been written about it and see where that takes you...