ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Assimilation, Indigo Dye, Acoustic Music
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The de nition of autonomy changed in the 20th century. Throughout art history, modern" artists would create new styles by rejecting previous ones. (dialectic relationship) Close relationship to signs (e. g. icons, symbols, and index) After picasso nished attending the academy and learned the maximum knowledge and skill that the academy could offer, he moved to the capital of art", paris. As a foreigner, picasso was classi ed as a bohemian". Bohemian: a french subclass made up of a mixture of the bourgeois and the working class. Demimonde: group of people considered to be on the fringes of respectable society. Love for african artifacts: the artifacts reversed artists" way of looking at thinking, dismantles western code, generates meaning, strong structural impact. Believed that mimetic paintings were not natural, rational or realistic. Rather, mimetic paintings were just as unnatural as primitive paintings. Picasso wanted a carnal response from the viewer and wished that the people could visualize themselves within the painting.
