Pluralism and the Treaty of Waitangi

1. Define the term 'pluralism' using APA referencing.

According to Caldwell (1999):

"Pluralism in art refers to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse. The cutural context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's cutures. Inclusion of individuals of differing ethnicities, genders, ideologies, abilities, ages, religions, economic status and educational levels is valued. Pluralism honours differences within and between equitable groups while seeing their commonalities. (para 1)."

Cadwell, B. (1999) Cultural context. retrieved 16 Oct, 2003 from http://www.public.iastate.edul~design/ART/NAB/PluART

the foundation of Pluralism

2. How would you describe New Zealand's current dominant culture?

I think New Zealand is a multicultural country, it has a long history of immigration, there have been a number of 'waves' or groups of immigrations since Aotearoa was discovered and settled by the Maori. Now New Zealand includes several different cultures, like " Maori, Niuean, Chinese, Indian, Jewish, Muslim and Christian". (Sue and Emma 2002, P.57).

Haka

3. Before 1840, what was New Zealand's dominant culture?

New Zealand was one of the last corners of the planet to be inhabited by people, around 950AD the Maori arrived from Polynesia. During the 1830s there was a small number of Europeans living in here, but Moari still was the main controller until the Treaty be signed.

4. How does the Treaty of Waitangi relate to us all as artists and designers working
in New Zealand?

New Zealand is an isolate country in the South-Western Pacific Ocean, so it developed a distinctive art atmosphere, individual mythology, recitative, sports etc, all of these give more opportunities to artists and designers who are working in New Zealand to combine Maori and Weatern techniques to creat fabulous works.

unique and dynamic curture

5. How can globalization be seen as having a negative effect on regional diversity in New Zealand in particular?

According to web ( http://searchcio.techtarget.com/): " Globalization is the tendency of business, technologies or philosophies to spread throughout the world, or the process of making this happen". To New Zealand this kind of isolate country, globalization can cause some outbreak out of control, like terrorists attack, local culture extinct, western monopoly power invate, especially disease can destroy natural environment.


New Zealand natural environment

6. Shane Cotton's paintings are said to examine the cultural landscape. Research Cotton's work 'Welcome'(2004) and 'Forked Tongue' (2011) to analyze what he is saying about colonialization and the Treaty of Waitangi

At the heart of Share Cotton's art is something of the ambivalence about the land and curual landscape, his ambivalence about concepts of landownership and the nation of two curtures living in one land. According to the National Review (2011): " in Shane Cotton's painting always can conveyed in a literal way with many images and symbols making it possible to read a simple narrative with Maori and Pakeha cultures ". In both 'Welcome' and 'Forked Tongue' can easily find Maori designs and an elaboration on the link between Maori and this country. Also have symbols show the western countries try to colonialize New Zealand, thereby, he want to appeal the potential problems of Treaty of Waitangi.

needlework

7. Tony Albert's installation 'Sorry' (2008) reflect the effects of colonization on the aboriginal people of Australia. Research the work and comment on what Albert is communicating through his work, and what he is referring to. Describe the materials that Albert uses on this installation and say what he hopes his work can achieve. Define the term 'kitsch'.

Albert is an Australia artist who has made something of a name for himself during the post few years by recontextualising the bric-a-brac he has collected since he was a boy living in Cardwell in north Queensland. 'Sorry' is a work made up of big letters spelling out the word, with each letter covered in what he calls Aboriginalia: stereotyped and kitsch portraits of Aborigines from a time it was considered quaint to beat into copper an image of a man standing on one leg with a boomerang or to paint an idealised bare-bosomed maiden on to black velvet.

He said in his 'Sorry' all the images of Aboriginal people are who around him, he built his own way to show the respect and Aboriginal people have been offered many broken promises, Albert and his army of kitsch faces have taken this apology on face value until real change is observed.

exotic OTHER, 2009   Tony Albert Australia  Vintage ephemera and vinyl

'Kitsch' is a form of art that is considered an inferior, tasteless copy of an extant style of art or a worthless imitation of art of recognized value. Also kitsch refers to the types of art that are aesthetically deficient and that make creative gestures which merely imitate the superficial appearances of art through conventions and formulae.

Cats and Kitsch Jigsaw Puzzle

8. Explain how the work of both artists relates to pluralism.

Shane Cotton's paiting and Tony Albert's installation all used local individual images, religions and the background history, Maori and Aboriginal, both exist in isolated island and keep their unique techniques but colonised by western culture. Two artists stand on the observe side appeal equality and matural benefits.

pluralism be described as something better than tolerance




references

http://www.nbr.co.nz/
www.buzzle.com/articles/negative-effects-of-globalization
www.crystalinks.com/maori.html/
http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/globalization
www.inna.co.nz/about/history.html
Sue, M. and Emma, B. (2002) Cuture and Change. Pearson Education New Zealand
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/
http://21cblog.com/tony-albert-story

Kahinde Wiley and inter-textuality

Kahinde Wiley

1. find a clear defination of Intertextuality

According to Chandler, D. (2003) Intertextuality:" Intertextuality refers to the way that any one text (written or visual ) is influenced, or made up of a variety of other earlier texts."

After Pontormos Two Men with a Passage from Ciceros on Friendship 2009

2. research Wiley's work and write a paragraph that analyzes how we might make sense of his work. Identify intertextuality in Wiley's work.

Wiley's painting style has been compared to so many traditional portraitists like Reynolds, Gainsborough. Wiley's work reference specific paintings by Titian and Tiepolo, but he incorporates rang of art historical and vernacular styles from French Rococo to the comtemporary urban street. It is the intertextuality in Wiley's painting. Thereby he creats his own style which based on photographs of young men from streets.

After Jean August Dominique Ingres The Virgin with the Host 2009

3. Wiley's work relates to "Pluralism", find out how the work relates to it

It is generally believed that during modernity just European (white), male and middle class visual art was therefore prioritised in the art gallery or in the art history book. In Wiley's work only have male figures appeared, he must followed this rule somehow. Also according to Cadwell, B. (1999) Cutural context:

" Pluralism in art refers to the nature of artforms and artists as diverse. The cultural context of art is all encompassing in its respect for the art of the world's cultures. Inclusion of individuals of differing ethnicities, genders, ideologies, abilities, ages, religions, economic status and educational levels is valued."

Wiley himself is an African American and he has used African American male to pain, so pluralistic feature emerged.

Triple Portrait of Charles I 2007 oil on canvas

4. comment on how Wiley's work raises questions around social / cutural hierarchies, colonisation, globalisation, stereotypes and the politics which govern a weatern worldview

western world in general conforms to the beliefs or philosophies of materialism, capitalism and humanism which has so many pros and cons. Definitely Wiley uses his painting support pluralism which also have obverses and reverses, he put these contradictory concepts in each paiting, using traditional way of oil painting to represent hierarchies, colonisation, globalisation and politics. In another side, Wiley challenged religion which use a humorous fundamental, this acquirs the connection of humanism, or say as western worldview.

Ice T  2005  oil on canvas

5. add some reflective comments of your own, which may add more inforemation that you have read during your research

Be an artist Wiley not just use traditional oil painting do portraits, add large, vibrant, highly colorful pattens, also he develops his own style, hip pop street fashion which can slice of nowadays urban amarican life. The treatrical poses and objects appeared in his works from seventeenth through nineteenth century western art, but he gives the authority of those historical sitters to twenty-first century, which is dramatic and fabulous.

Portrait of Michael Jackson  2007





referenses

www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/recognize/paintings.html
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/
www.deitch.com/artist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kehinde.wiley
Cadwell, B. (1999) Cutural context. retrieved 16 Oct, 2003 from http://www.public.iastate/~design/ART/NAB/PluArt.html
Chandler, D. (2003) Intertextuality. Retrieved 9 Oct, 2003 from http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem09.html

week 3 Hussein Chalayan

                        Hussein Chalayan

1. chalayan's works in clothing, like afterwords(2000) anf Burka(1996) are often challenging to both wiewers and the wearers. what are your personal responses to these works? are afterwords and burka fashion of are they art? what is teh difference? not all clothing is fashion, so what makes fashion fashion?

1st time I saw these works I shocked, because normal feeling to clothing is fashion show, new and classic style designed by fashion designers whole over the world, but hussein's works just like conbination of pieces and really is a tough challeng to my thoughts and feeling.

  manifest destiny   spring summer collection 2003

Like the introduction of the Paris' Les Arts Decoratifs opened " Fashion Narratives " said:" fans and industry icons alike flocked to the opening -- kindly showing their affection and loyalty to Hussein's works." Each time he has exhibition, must be titled "art and fashion", as you can see, his pieces already jump out of basic fashion conception, it is more like architectures in clothing, and also would rather collect it at home or museum, not weat it walk in the street.

According to Designboom (2006), in the interview, Hussein be asked "do you discuss your work with other fashion designers", he answered "yes but not really in depth, i like talking with architects because we speak a similar language".

  spring summer collection 2008

Web(http://www.tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/):

"art and design were more closely tied at the turn of the 20th century than they are today, artists did not see the difference between creating an original work of art, such as a painting and designing a textile patten that would be reproduced many times over, each was a valid creative act in their eyes."

I think fashion is an art form which is decorative, some critics call it "applied art", art is a bit conception, fashion designer need amount of artistic expression goes into clothes, they dont have huge distinction but they are different.

  spring 2010                

Fashion, a general term of a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear or accessories. What makes fashion fashion, I think is the fashion trend, because the trend always can define it is fashionable or nfashionable.

2. chalayan has strong links to industry, pieces like The Level Tunnel(2006) and Repose(2006) are made in collaboration with, and paid for by commercial business, in these cases, a vodka company and a crystal munufacturer. how does this impact on the naturel of chalayan's work? does the meaning of art change when it is used to sell products? is it still art?

The Level Tunnel Installation 2006

Chalayan's work lay stress on nature. The Level Tunnel is a 15m long, 5m high installation that can be experienced from the exterior or blindfolded on the inside, also play with scent, touch and sound, and the sound made from vodka bottles.

in "the level tunnel"  vodka bottle  2006

Also chalayan had collaboration with Swarovski, the collection forcuses on hybrid of cultures culminating with a special museum piece the Floating Dress.

the floating dress      Swarovski    2006

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influencesand affects one or more of the senses, emotions and intellect. Traditionally the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery, and the conception 1st time changed during the Romantic period, it is more with religion and science. Thse days the meaning of art change again, it involes selling, buying, pecuniary trend, but it still art, still can effect human society.


Detail of shoes  Ready to wear collecton  London fashion show  Winter2008

3. Chalayan's film Absent Persence screened at the 2005 Venice Biennale.If features the process of caring for worn clothes and retrieving and analysing the traces of the wearer, in the form of DNA. This work has been influenced by many different art movements, can you think of some, and in what ways they might have inspired chalayan's approach?

  Absent Persence

Absent Persence is a video installation telling a story based on identity, geography, genetics, biology and anthropology. It questions whether the extent to which identities can adapt to new environment. I think it has been influenced by Impressionism, Humanism and Industralism. Chalayan took the idea of DNA and analysing it, this movement was very technological and scientific, it represented the process in doing something in human's DNA thus learn more and help more about wearer, humanism become visible. With Inpressionism the DNA traces of the use of clothes give scientist impressions to increase the quality of wearing. To Industralism I think its because whatever we improved, discovered or impressed, the society need economy, then Tndustralism engaged.

  Absent Persence

4. many of chalayan's pieces are physically designed and constructed by someone else, for example, sculptor Long Sigurdson made some works from Chalayan's Echoform (1999) and Before Minus Now (2000) fashion ranges. In fashion design this is standard practice, but in fact that he personally made the painting. Contrastingly, Andy Warhol's pop art was largely produced in a new york collective called The Factory and many of his silk-screened works were produced by assistants. Contemporarilly, Damien Hirst doesnt personally build his vitriness and preserve the sharks himself. So when and why is it important that the artist personally made the piece?

 echoform

Any exhibition or fashion show cant present by artists or designers themselves, all successes depend on well cooperation, maybe hundreds or thousands people involved. But the artist made some pieces personally is also occupied a very important part in whole, the ideas, materils, forms etc should have a basic constructure by artist, I think it should be done from beginning of the exhibition or fashion show, also in the half to finish, artist need check again which means no discuss or outside interruption, just use art sense and sensertive feeling.

  before minus now

Design Museum exhibition Hussein Chalayan Works 1994--2009

reference

www.husseinchalayan.com/blog/

www.designboom.com/eng/interview/chalayan

www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2003/jul/13/art.artsfeatures

www.tirocchi.stg.brown.edu/514/story/fashion-art.html

www.whatmakesfashion.com/

http://www.designboom.com/

http://www.dianepernet.typepad.com/

www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/art

www.imdb.com/title/tt0768786/