“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Which made me think of contemporary art. A variety of methods and experimentations. And then my mind jumps to Marcel Duchamp, and his mission to put art back in the service of the mind.
We've all seen his readymades.
Makes you think, right? Is it art, is it not, Duchamp brings up a revolution in the world of art.
“An ordinary object [could be] elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.” (Duchamp)
The readymade also defied the notion that art must be beautiful. Duchamp claimed to have chosen everyday objects “based on a reaction of visual indifference, with at the same time a total absence of good or bad taste….”2In doing so, Duchamp paved the way for Conceptual art—work that was “in the service of the mind,”3 as opposed to a purely “retinal” art, intended only to please the eye. (MoMA)
The object itself is not the art (or is it?), the fact that it makes you wonder, it makes you feel, this is the art. The experience of the interaction creates the artistic value. By putting a readymade in a museum or as a part of exhibition, Duchamp creates a shock-experience, which we can say is a method of creating an experience. While on the subject of putting art in the service of mind, I can't miss to mention another popular piece, Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe,
This masterpiece of Surrealism creates a three-way paradox out of the conventional notion that objects correspond to words and images. Get's you thinking outside of the box, once again.
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