Originally posted by saladsugery
good luck (if you've been good and not distracted you won't read this till afterwards 
). In preparing for art exams, do you prepare for just one type of question (e.g. the stuff i'm interested is postmodern works, use of new material and stuff that can be challanging/shocking)?
ahaha!! 'good'?! i dont know the meaning of the word!
nah ive got some class notes on tracey moffatt, marcel duchamp a nd picasso which im gonna read through tomorrow, and sort of pull it outta my ass. i was doing well in art, came first (even though its only outta 8, but hey) but i really fugged up the last essay so theres not much motivation at this point in time. only for my major work cos ive spent soooo much time and money (literally hundreds of dollars - over 300 at the last count, cos im doing photography), but yeh, anyway, basically, i dont particularly care too much about art atm. i mean i watched secret life and last weeks dawsons creek (again) so i dont think i seen to be taking it too seriously
anyway, yeh, im 'preparing' for just one idea, basically the whole modernism thing and contemporary art. my major points will be something along the point how because of the artists' change in reaction to their world, i.e they actually
do react to the world, and artworks can be lots of different mediums (i.e film, performance, installation, sound, electronic, etc,)(, and how the audience is an integral part of an artwork, cos they complete the artwork. like e.g koons' works, if thy're not presented in galleriies and displayed as artworks for people to see, they become little trinkets and crap.
baaaasically im just arguing that art has changed from traditional art. duh. but its such a vague and general topic that there has to be at least ONE question which asks that sorta thing...
anyway hope you can make more sense of that than i can!
-jian
