FORM VS CONTENT
This piece of art is called "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp. The FORM of this work is the urinal itself. It is porcelain and unchanged from its original self other than the inscription of "R MUTT 1917" painted on the side. This artwork's form is a porcelain urinal with a painted signature. It's CONTENT is completely different. In fact it's content is proving how it is NOT a porcelain urinal. It has had many interpretations as to what its content is, that it stands for the commercialization of things that could be art. It could mean that art is everywhere even in lowly everyday things. The inscription is said to have different meanings. The artist never really explained what he meant. But the content is the artwork, trying to interpret what Duchamp was trying to show.
REPRESENTATIONAL ART
This artwork is called "Sunset Over the Plains" and is done by Albert Bierstadt. It is representational because it is so naturalistic. The viewer would recognize the trees, the water, the deer, the sky and its colors, and the sun and register all those things as a sunset over the plains. It doesn't use any other techniques besides painting what the eye would see if the artist were standing in that very spot.
This is called "Guitar Player" by Pablo Picasso. It does not resemble a real guitar player and, in fact, most people would not know just by looking at it that the artist was aiming to show a guitar player. However, once the viewer knows the title, the geometric shapes seem to come together and the guitar player is able to be seen. It breaks the natural way of seeing a guitar player up into a new abstract way.
NON-OBJECTIVE ART
This work of art is called "Number One" by Jackson Pollock. This is non-objective because it doesn't refer to the natural or objective world at all. It is difficult to make it out to resemble anything specifically right away or recognize it as something realistic.
This masterpiece is called "The Last Supper" by Leonardo DaVinci. It is considered an icon both in the religious world and in the modern pop world. It is highly recognizable to just about anyone in the western world. It symbolizes the notorious last supper of Jesus Christ and even though we know DaVinci was not there it is held as being the depiction of what occurred. It has been debated over for years as to it validity and "hidden" meanings only furthering its status as an icon.
This piece did not have a name nor an admitted artist, but it is a vandalism of the original work by Michelangelo called "Pieta". It showed the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ in her arms. It was considered a religious treasure showing the strength and divinity in Mary, the ultimate mother, and also the pain and suffering of Jesus Christ. It was vandalized in this depiction by beheading Maary and chopping off Christ's legs and arm.
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