Links of interest to the Museum of Drawing.
MOD SOCIAL MEDIA
1. MUSEUM OF DRAWING DIRECTOR GARY G. ERICKSON LINKEDIN PROFILE
2. MUSEUM OF DRAWING TWITTER ACCOUNT
3. MUSEUM OF DRAWING ON FACEBOOK
4. MUSEUM OF DRAWING ON GOOGLE+
5. MUSEUM OF DRAWING ON INSTAGRAM
INTRODUCTION TO NEW MUSEOLOGY
1. A Historians' Brief Guide to New Museum Studies.
Randolph Starn Department of History University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-2550 Email: rstarn@berkeley.edu Tel: 510-883-0551 (home)
ACCESABLE LINKS TO DEFINED TERMS
1. Historicty. Historicity is the historical actuality of persons and events, meaning the quality of being part of history as opposed to being a historical myth, legend, or fiction. Historicity focuses on the truth value of knowledge claims about the past (denoting historical actuality, authenticity, and factuality). The historicity of a claim about the past is its factual status.[1][2]
2. "Michel Foucault was a philosophical historian who questioned many of our assumptions about how much better the world is today compared with the past. When he looked at the treatment of the mad, at the medical profession and at sexuality, he didn't see the progress that's routinely assumed. If you like our films take a look at our shop (we ship worldwide):Michel Foucault was a philosophical historian who questioned many of our assumptions about how much better the world is today compared with the past. When he looked at the treatment of the mad, at the medical profession and at sexuality, he didn't see the progress that's routinely assumed." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBJTeNTZtGU
3. "Nietzsche believed that the central task of philosophy was to teach us to 'become who we are'." :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHWbZmg2hzU
4. Fine Art. "In Western European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics or beauty, distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function. Historically, the five main fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music and poetry, with performing arts including theatre and dance.[1] Today, the fine arts commonly include additional forms, such as film, photography, conceptual art, and printmaking. However, in some institutes of learning or in museums, fine art and frequently the term fine arts (pl.) as well, are associated exclusively with visual art forms…..The word "fine" does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons.This definition originally excluded the applied or decorative arts, and the products of what were regarded as crafts. In contemporary practice these distinctions and restrictions have become essentially meaningless, as the concept or intention of the artist is given primacy, regardless of the means through which this is expressed." Wikipedia. [Authors note: The attribution of "fine-ness" is a practice of the art authority having jurisdiction, not a quality of the medium, object or practice. The ajudication of an art object from a simple unqualified drawing or practice, may take an artists entire lifetime, leaving artsits to bear the financial risk of their production.]
5. The Visual Arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking andarchitecture. Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts[1] are the applied arts[2] such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.[3]
Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied, decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before theArts and Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms.[4] Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts.
The increasing tendency to privilege painting, and to a lesser degree sculpture, above other arts has been a feature of Western art as well as East Asianart. In both regions painting has been seen as relying to the highest degree on the imagination of the artist, and the furthest removed from manual labour - in Chinese painting the most highly valued styles were those of "scholar-painting", at least in theory practiced by gentleman amateurs. The Western hierarchy of genres reflected similar attitudes. Wikipedia.
6. Drawing in the Arts Drawing is used to express one's creativity, and therefore has been prominent in the world of art. Throughout much of history, drawing was regarded as the foundation for artistic practise.[9] Initially, artists used and reused wooden tablets for the production of their drawings.[10] Following the widespread availability of paper in the 14th century, the use of drawing in the arts increased. At this point, drawing was commonly used as a tool for thought and investigation, acting as a study medium whilst artists were preparing for their final pieces of work.[11][12] In a period of artistic flourish, the Renaissance brought about drawings exhibiting realistic representational qualities,[13] where there was a lot of influence from geometry and philosophy.[14]
The invention of the first widely available form of photography led to a shift in the use of drawing in the arts.[15] Photography took over from drawing as a more superior method for accurately representing visual phenomena, and artists began to abandon traditional drawing practises.[16] Modernism in the arts encouraged "imaginative originality"[17] and artists' approach to drawing became more abstract. Wikipedia.
7. Figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may be from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches. A "life drawing" is a drawing of the human figure from observation of a live model. A figure drawing may be a composed work of art or a figure study done in preparation for a more finished work such as a painting.[1] Figure drawing is arguably the most difficult subject an artist commonly encounters, and entire courses are dedicated to the subject. The human figure is one of the most enduring themes in the visual arts, and the human figure can be the basis ofportraiture, illustration, sculpture, medical illustration, and other fields. Wikipedia.
8. Nude photography is any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of nudity. The exhibition or publication of nude photographs may be controversial, more so in some cultures or countries than in others, and especially if the subject is a minor. Wikipedia.
9. Age of drawing. Cave paintings (also known in archaeology as "parietal art") are paintings found on cave walls and ceilings, and especially those ofprehistoric origin, which date back to some 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in both Asia and Europe. Wikipedia.
10. Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art.[1][2][3] Art critics usually criticise art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty.[2][3]A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation[1][2][3] but it is questionable whether such criticism can transcend prevailing socio-political circumstances.[4] The variety of artistic movements has resulted in a division of art criticism into different disciplines which may each use different criteria for their judgements.[3][5] The most common division in the field of criticism is between historical criticism and evaluation, a form of art history, and contemporary criticism of work by living artists.[1][2][3]" Wikipedia.
11. The history of art is the history of any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or, in general, a worldview. Over time visual art has been classified in diverse ways, from the medieval distinction between liberal arts and mechanical arts, to the modern distinction between fine arts and applied arts, or to the many contemporary definitions, which define art as a manifestation of human creativity. The subsequent expansion of the list of principal arts in the 20th century reached to nine: architecture, dance,sculpture, music, painting, poetry (described broadly as a form of literature with aesthetic purpose or function, which also includes the distinct genres oftheatre and narrative), film, photography and graphic arts. In addition to the old forms of artistic expression such as fashion and gastronomy, new modes of expression are being considered as arts such as video, computer art, performance, advertising, animation, television and videogames." Wikipedia.
12. Art. "Versions of the institutional theory were formulated more explicitly by George Dickie in his article "Defining Art" (American Philosophical Quarterly, 1969) and his books Aesthetics: An Introduction(1971) and Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis (1974). An early version of Dickie's institutional theory can be summed up in the following definition of work of art from Aesthetics: An Introduction: A work of art in the classificatory sense is 1) an artifact 2) on which some person or persons acting on behalf of a certain social institution (the artworld) has conferred the status of candidate for appreciation.[2]" Wikipedia.
13. Contemporary art is art produced at the present period in time. Contemporary art includes, and develops from, postmodern art, which is itself a successor to modern art.[1] In vernacular English, "modern" and "contemporary" are synonyms, resulting in some conflation of the terms "modern art" and "contemporary art" by non-specialists." Wikipedia.
14. Post-contemporary,(PoCo) is a forward looking aesthetic philosophy distinguished by a re-constructive, global, human ethos which posits that the aesthetic experience is universal to humanity, and that this experience can inspire understanding and transformation….In the visual arts, Post Contemporary has taken the form of skill-based representational painting, photography, and sculpture which addresses current issues in globalized culture.[10] The New Britain Museum of American Art was the first to dedicate a room to Post-Contemporary Art in their permanent collection - highlighting their new collection with a discussion panel on the term. [11] [12]" Wikipedia.
INSTITUTIONS OF DRAWING
1. The Drawing Center, New York.
The Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought.
2. MoMA. One of the most comprehensive collections of twentieth-century drawings anywhere, MoMA's holdings bring together more than 10,000 works on paper. These include a historical range of drawings in pencil, ink, and charcoal, as well as watercolors, gouaches, collages, and works in mixed mediums.
YOUTUBE UNIVERSITY
Parallel to the erosion of the museum by social media, is the replacement of the classroom by You-tube. Opinions are by the author, and is not an endorsement by this museum.
Links we find interesting on Youtube:
1. Using social media to publicise your artwork.
School of Fine Art presenter Michael Cuffe shares social media marketing tips for building your art career.
LINKS TO CONSULTANTS
Model Dorrie Mack Links
1. Model Dorrie Mack on Facebook.
3. Model Dorrie mack on model mayhem.
4. Model Dorrie mack on model society.
5. Model Dorrie Mack on Instagram.
MUSEUM DIRECTORS THESIS
1. A Museum of Contemporary Architecture in New Yaletown, Vancouver
Erickson, G. G. (2009, February 27). A Museum of Contemporary Architecture in new Yaletown, Vancouver (T). UBC. MArch Thesis. Retrieved from https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/831/items/1.0087454 (Original work published 1994)