Contextual Studies

Over the past week, my studio practice work has taken a back seat due to a hand in for my essay draft. The hand in for this is Friday 12th October (this week) so have mainly been focusing on this.

Essay Statement:
What is deemed as acceptable within contemporary fine art? A discussion on the values of traditional, contemporary and conceptual art and the comparisons between their acceptance within today’s society.  

 

Within this essay, I intend to discuss the acceptance and monetary values within contemporary art and how it is or is not deemed as socially acceptable within today’s society. Discussion points throughout the essay will be focusing on the history of contemporary art, changes since 20^th century, values of conceptual and contemporary fine art and also the work of artists whose work relates to these topic points. Since the beginning of the 20^th century, a common question asked by society is what exactly constitutes art? This has often been asked since the modern, post-modern and most recently conceptual art era. Who is it that determines what can be constituted as art: society, art galleries, collectors, museums?