Art is not only paintings and drawings but
comes in different forms of creativity, from fashion to the use of one’s body
to create a message or point, to free association. Artist such as CoCo Chanel, Yoko Ono, Adrian
Piper, Janet Cardiff, and the extraordinarily Frida Kahlo, all address social
issues through their work. When we think
of art we think of painting, drawings, clay structures. I will use these artists to show how any kind
of art can be used to express how one is feeling or how one may view something
in their own perspective. To be able to
create art is something beautiful.
Anyone can create art, it is in the matter of the beholder, the creator,
who sees the beauty in what they may call art.
Performing
art and fashion called art? Anything that deals with creativity in which
intrigues the mind is art. Art is found everywhere;
anything that is created should stand as art. Artists like Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, and Janet
Cardiff are artist and performers that created forms of physical, verbal, and
expressive art. Art is no longer paintings,
drawings, and sculptures, but has expanded to different forms and perspectives
of art. All art is somehow intertwined
and compliment each other, and all should be appreciated as the artist making
them.
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| Fashion is Art! |
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| Coco Chanel wearing one of her suits! |
Fashion and visual
arts go hand in hand with one another. As
artists the use of color is an extreme importance and tells a lot about the
piece. Jechow writes, “No matter how we
look at it individually, though, it is fact that the fashion world and the art
world are most definitely woven rather tightly together. (Jechow, Is Fashion Art?) The fashion and art world influence, and
compliment each other. Art defines
culture as Sofonisba Anguissola did for the Renaissance Era, as Coco Chanel
with her ideal flapper dress, and Coco Chanel’s women’s suit. The flapper movement defines the current
women of the 19th century.
Yoko Ono performed
certain kinds of art to make a point across.
Yoko Ono performed a piece called “Cut Piece”, in 1964. This type of art was created to tell us about
something about of society and culture. Yoko
Ono was apart of the Fluxus movement in Japan and created conceptual art. This
piece shows the interaction of the audience by cutting pieces of her black
dress off. This piece tells something
about the audience even by getting up in the first place to cut pieces off her
dress, to actually completely having it cut off. Art is to be analyzed and critiqued, without
it what is art.
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| Image of Yoko Ono |
Adrian Piper is a
performer whom touches on the issue racism, and sexuality. Chadwick writes, “There are some women whose
work revolves around home, childhood and family, all of which are inextricably
linked with racism in education, the challenging of racial stereotypes, and
breaking through tokenism and sexism. “ (Chadwick, p. 386) Adrian Piper’s work, Cornered (1988), talks
upon racism and how it feels to be white or black. This is a type of art that is performed with
the use of clever words to make a critical point to the audience about society
and racism. The piece “Cornered” is
almost a sarcastic approach to the issue of being black. This piece was created to get people to see
how we critique issues on racism, by making the audience think how it may feel
to be black, and cornered because there is nothing you can do to change the
color of your skin. This type of art is created
to be critiqued and questioned to help oneself to understand society a little
better through the shoes of another.
Janet Cadiff and
her partner George Miller’s created a work called “The Murder Of Crows”, (2008)
is a clever type of art, in which tells a story, almost like a dream. This creative piece talks about death and the
savaging crows that pick at the dead of a living creature. This type of art tells a story with emotion
with the different kinds of music illustrated in between telling of the
story. If paintings could speak this
type of art will illustrate what they are saying. Janet Cadiff uses a fractured narrative to
tell this story of the murder of crows, Chadwick quotes, “Whether the viewer
experiences these narratives in enclosed spaces (the gallery) or becomes a part
of a drama that plays out in real space and time, his/her experiential reality
is shaped and conditioned by Cardiff’s imagined/spoken narrative.” (Chadwick,
p. 479) This kind of art is meant for
the audience to listen and to enjoy, and is beautiful in it’s own way. Personally, I highly appreciate this piece
because it opens up the adult imagination in a clever way.
Janet Cadiff work
such as, “The Murder of Crows”, (2008) appears to be mysterious, and
eerie. The mode, tone, and body language
of the audience is all a part of the piece.
Unlike regular paintings you see in a museum, this kind of art you need
to pay attention to, to observe the audience and performance to understand it
as a whole. Cadiff’s art makes you think
outside of the box, in a reality vs. dream perspective. This is the future of art, where as there is
more to it than just a still life painting, but is extended physically and
emotionally to grasp the audience attention.
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| Image of Janet Cadiff. Most of her installations and walking pieces are oftern audio-based. |
The painter most
worth mentioning is Frida Kahlo. Frida
Kahlo specialty is self-portraits. Frida
expressed through her paintings a more biological aspect of her feelings, and
struggles though out her life. From her
relationship with her husband Diego Rivera, to her miscarriages, and tragic
accident. Frida was a courageous
artist, who wasn’t afraid to express exactly how she felt. The painting, “The Broken Column” (1944),
pretty much sums up her pain through out her life. This painting is a strong representative in
which many women artists never came close to.
Chadwick writes, “At the same time, the careful scrutiny of the female
body with its gravelly surfaces, and the frank confrontation between the woman
and the artist, disrupt the conventions of the female nude, fusing the issues
of females and creativity in new ways.”(Chadwick, p. 289) Frida was apart of
the revolutionary way of painting.
Through her self-portraits, she showed expression and issues, unlike her
fellow artist of her time.
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| Image of Frida Kahlo |
The
woman body is used to justify art and fashion, through each generation. Women functioned as both producers and models
of this new visual culture. Fashion and
performing art is relevant to fine art.
Bibliography:
musedialogue.org/articles-by-genre/visual-arts/costume-design/is-fashion-art/
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, And Society. Singapore.1990
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, And Society. Singapore.1990
Photos:
Fashion is Art!
mixupfixup.com
Yoko Ono:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/poll/2013/jan/01/yoko-ono-new-york-times-ad-peace-poll
Adrain Piper:
apcallingcard.blogspot.com
Janet Cardiff:
www.last.fm/music/Janet+Cardiff
Janet Cardiff:
www.last.fm/music/Janet+Cardiff
Coco Chanel:
fashionremedies.blogspot.com/2012/12/coco-chanel-launched-her-first-elegant.html
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