Chap. 1
I. Reframing The Black Figure
A) 🎨 Art Intervention
- Art intervention refers to art designed specifically to interact with an existing structure or situation, including artworks, audiences, institutions, or public domains. (Source: Tate)
B) 📚 Useful Vocabulary
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Techniques
- graphite, charcoal, graphite drawing
- printmaking
- embossed (paper); blind embossing
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Forms of Intervention
- to cut, shred, stitch, bind, erase, rip apart, rip away from (a frame), blot, blot out, whitewash, tear away, smudge, wipe, remove
- to dip something (in tar, in paint, ...)
- to obscure, to hide something // to reveal; to highlight, to expose something
- to bring forward / to the forefront vs. to push back
- to outline; an outline
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Artist’s Intention(s)
- to shift the attention to; to shift the focus to; to shift our gaze
- to draw/bring attention to; to force attention onto
- to reinterpret/revisit the canon
- to offer an alternative depiction of
C) 🔍 Important Distinction
- Expose ≠ Exhibit
- Expose means to make something known or to reveal (e.g., wrongdoings).
- Practice page 41 for further understanding.