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This paper is due at the beginning of class on December 4. It should be 8-9 pages long (double-spaced, one side of the page, 12-point font, stapled).

This course has considered towards two very different approaches to the relationship between a work of art and its audience: Engagement and Disruption. The first approach holds that art is improved or intensified via a responsive or even interactive relationship; the second implies that art should be difficult, upsetting, and challenging, that it should work against its audience, not letting them slip into escapist pleasure or consume an artwork mindlessly. Choose two works, one that embraces engagement and the other disruption, and make an argument about which is more successful and why. At least one of the works should be one that we studied in class.

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Introduction

The definition of art varies from the different players in the field of art. Whatever
philosophers, artists, art historians and art educators refer as to art may not necessarily mean the
same thing. With the possible changing times and modernity, the name art is constantly redefined
and getting a hold of its meaning regardless is of essence despite its metamorphosis. Generally
artwork refers to categories of visual arts namely sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, and
architecture, which in whatever way they spark a conversation of to a particular audience that the
art communicates to.
Discussion
The relationship between the work of art and its audience has overtime been an issue of
debate. Some say that art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed, such an
oxymoron. Over the period the conversation has elicited different approaches to art work and as
a consequence two schools of thoughts have championed the discussion. One school of thought
focuses on the engagement aspect of art work holding that art can be conditioned in a way that it
consistently improves through interactive segments and responses from the audience. While
disruption on the contrary that art should upset and unsettle the expectations of the audience.
That art should challenge the set up patterns not giving any chance to escapist pleasure.
Again value holds many faces when it comes to art. Art work can be expressed in
aesthetic appeal, historical significance and an appreciating price tag. The significance of the art
can be measured in the artistic period (durability) or movement or within the viewer’s personal
history. In considering the school of thought of engagement, the approach reflects on the content,
style and material of the art. Stating that an art of work is not self-sufficient of self-contained but

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rather it is created featuring the specifics of location, moment, medium, outlooks, traditions and
possible change in its social and artistic milieus. Hence there are forces that shape an expression
of art.
For example, learning the historical context of art can be one of the most responsive ways
of engaging with art. One would definitely appreciate art more if they got to understand how
their works fit in the emblematic of their time or how they have been innovative. Museum
collections reflect values, grouping works that are to be considered to be representative of a
particular period in the history of art highlighting the individual pieces that were pivotal in
changing artistic climates. One of the illustrative example is one by a Dutch artist Pieter Claesz’s
“Still life with a Turkey Pie” realized in 1672. Amidst the wealth such as exotic spices, fruit and
fine silverware, his painting highlighted the nautilus cup fashioned out of polished nautilus shell
and decorated with ornate metalwork. The nautilus cup represents the Dutch Republic’s maritime
trading culture as well as a broader fascination with the fusion of art and nature in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries.
Again factors that contribute to the final product or production wholesomely precedes
time and place, taking into account the media, technologies, theories and artistic milieus with
which the artist works, pointing out the medium or mode of relay enriches the understanding of
art. Andy Warhol illustrates artistic media and technologies. In 1962, he created Marilyn Diptych
a documentary following the death of Marilyn Monroe’s death, by repeating the same image
with different levels of saturation, focusing on negative shade of the hair, eye shadow and lip
colour as mechanically...


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