Reflective Log: Artnet News Articles

The above article by Artnet news was not useful when I read further into the text, it spoke about spotting the difference between fakes and real photographs of women. However, it led me to find similar suggested articles below:

Source: Artnet News Skye Arundhati Thomas, September 21, 2016. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/study-reveals-that-we-are-more-tolerant-of-art-659891 

Key points:

• In a study, people were shown images of art and their brain activity was monitored, being asked to evaluated whether it was a pleasant image or unpleasant, and whether they were art, or real events. "Et Voilà: the study showed that the subjects showed a preference for the images labeled as “art.”"(Thomas, 2016). This shows how art is a pleasant experience for the viewer (even if the art may appear to shock or be mundane, the fact it is art adds this aura to it). 

• In the article above it states how viewers are desensitised to life if they perceive it as art, for example real blood in a gallery could be mistaken as fake blood for a performance. They also accept anything as being art. 

• "Jonathan Jones, unsurprisingly, has picked up on the study to justify a societal interest in works that he deems to be of a lesser-aesthetic quality (say: Tracey Emin’s My Bed) and asks the question in a recent column for the Guardian, “Can you turn ordinary objects into art simply by saying so?”"(Thomas, 2016)

• "Being the post-De Bordian “Society of Spectacle” that we are now, all is convincing, all is likeable, even, as long as it is art."(Thomas, 2016). 

The next suggested article also had some valid points of interest:

Source: Brian Boucher, May 23, 2016. https://news.artnet.com/market/millennial-art-collection-study-us-trust-502013 

Key Points:

• "Some of the study’s findings might be comforting to those who believe that art’s principal worth is aesthetic, intellectual, or cultural. For example, three-quarters of collectors surveyed say their primary reason for collecting is art’s aesthetic value." (Boucher, 2016). This conforms to the themes within my work and the threads that underpin its aesthetic value.
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• A generational survey of value and art above. 

Further research:

• Conduct a research into the value of my own artwork. Record peoples responses to what they think my art objects are worth. Show them photos of the art rather than the real thing, this could add to the arts perception and help ameliorate it - a selling point.