Monday, March 9, 2009

Artwork can either intentionally ignore the principles of design & the formal elements, or it can just purely be poorly done and unintentionally ignoring the composites of art. With the two images I have selected above, we can tell the difference between the two. The one on the left is what I have labeled as ‘bad’ art and the one on the left is a DADA piece of art. The bad art doesn’t depict anything to my knowledge, and nor does the DADA work. However, the bad art just looks like splats of painting on a canvas whereas the DADA artist, even though ignoring certain elements, has chosen to make his painting like that with the carved wood and there is a sense of unity with the lines all being the same size and thickness. The only unity we can see from the bad art is the white lining through the middle of the painting. The artist of the bad art has most certainly ignored most aspects of design, except for colour (he has stuck uniformly to three main colours - primary colours, and white). The DADA artist has purposely rejected principles of art by doing it on wood firstly, which limits the things you can to the work. It is the role of DADA artists to purposely ignore or reject some or all elements or principles of design, however if you are an artist and you do not belong to the DADA art movement, there needs to be a justifiable reason for why you have chosen to ignore the elements or principles.

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