Apr
15th
Wed
15th
Art?
Design?
Starcks table / bedside lamps:
What is this? Me thinks ugly, and too “commenty”… Maybe it’s art?
Definitions: art - design
The dictionary on my mac says:
art
noun
- he studied art fine art, artwork. See table.
- the art of writing skill, craft, technique, knack, facility, ability, know-how.
- she uses art to achieve her aims cunning, artfulness, slyness, craftiness, guile; deceit, duplicity, artifice, wiles.
design
noun
- a design for the offices plan, blueprint, drawing, sketch, outline, map, plot, diagram, draft, representation, scheme, model.
- tableware with a gold design pattern, motif, device; style, composition, makeup, layout, construction, shape, form.
- his design of reaching the top intention, aim, purpose, plan, intent, objective, object, goal, end, target; hope, desire, wish, dream, aspiration, ambition.
verb
- the church was designed by Hicks plan, outline, map out, draft, draw.
- they designed a new engine invent, originate, create, think up, come up with, devise, formulate, conceive; make, produce, develop, fashion; informal dream up.
- this paper is designed to provoke discussion intend, aim; devise, contrive, purpose, plan; tailor, fashion, adapt, gear; mean, destine. See note at intend .
Applied art refers to the application of design and aesthetics to objects of function and everyday use. Whereas fine arts serve as intellectual stimulation to the viewer or academic sensibilities, the applied arts incorporate design and creative ideals to objects of utility, such as a cup, magazine or decorative park bench.
Refers to art that challenges the existing accepted definitions of art. It is generally agreed to have been coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he made his first readymades, which are still regarded in some quarters as Anti-art (for example by the Stuckist group). In 1917 Duchamp submitted a urinal, titled Fountain, for an exhibition in New York, which subsequently became notorious and eventually highly influential. Anti-art is associated with Dada, the artistic and literary movement founded in Zurich in 1916 and simultaneously in New York, in which Duchamp was a central figure. Since Dada there have been many art movements that have taken a position on Anti-art, from the lo-fi Mail art movement to the YBAs, some of whom have embraced the absurdities of Dada and Duchamp’s love of irony, paradox and punning.
Where Modernism admired the integrity of material properties in their own right, Anti-Design embraced ornament and decoration. Furthermore, where Modernism inclined to concepts of Good Design and the adage ‘form follows function’, Anti-Design considered the expressive potential of kitsch, irony, and distortion of scale, characteristics that were also to become hallmarks of Postmodernism and important features of Memphis design.
