POINT A: GIOTTO, POINT B: DUCHAMP, POINT C: ? PDF Download

Author: ÖZKAN EROĞLU
Publisher: TEKHNE YAYINLARI
ISBN: 6256728769
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Book Description
In July, now four or five months ago, when I was busy making arrangements for an exhibition on Figure-Emancipation I happened to be in Paris where the artistic atmosphere caused me to decide to give a conference to be called “Point A: Giotto, Point B: Duchamp, Point C: ?” I don’t know how familiar you participants may be with these artists so I thought I should give you a few basic facts about them. Giotto, who lived in Florence during the years 1267 to 1337, was a fresco-painter whose talent was discovered by his master, Cimabue, when Giotto was a shepherd grazing the village flocks on the mountainside. Duchamp is a French painter-sculptor who lived between 1887-1968. In this talk, it is not the artistic qualities of these two painters that I wish to dwell on but the philosophy which shaped these. If we look at the years in which each was born, we see that there is a gap of 620 years between them. Here a fresco painter is contrasted with an artist of the ‘ready-made’. However radical Giotto’s paintings of Assisi or Padua may have seemed in his day, so in 1913 did Duchamp’s work called “A Bicycle Wheel”. Briefly, why did I say “Point A: Giotto, Point B: Duchamp, Point C:?” In order for the search for this talk to be the answer to this question and to stay in your minds, I’d first like to make this introduction.