? QU'EST CE QUE L'ART ?

REFERENCE TO THE ART HISTORY

First proposal

The first proposal made by Annie Pelletier make's me think of the conceptual work realize by Joseph Kosuth in 1965 entitled: One and Three Chairs. This installation is constructed whit a wooded chair and two photography’s : One represented the chair and the other merely a textual description of a chair. Emblem of conceptual art, this proposal made by Kosuth try to vanished the art object to the profit of its analysis.

Second proposal

Art of living / culinary art

Here, a link could establish with several practices using food as a medium. However, we will reference three artists who use food in their actions and/or events. First of all, the Thailand artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, associated in France with the concept of « relational esthetics » (« d'esthétique relationnelle »), has invited, the public to a meal in a museum or a gallery. Closer to us, the Montréal artist Massimo Guerrera, included in his installations and performances, an exchange around oral behavior and the sharing food. However, a bond more than interesting seems to link with Le sens de la vie (The meaning of life ) (1990), of Allan Kaprow that ends with a bagel recipe. Since 1957, food is an important figure in is « happenings ». Kaprow’s essays, propose that theory and practice can blur the line between life and art. By these actions, he claims that our immediate environment, the actions and the objects of our daily life, are artistic tools and that they deserve to be studied and analyzed through the language of art.

		PROJECT This project is an experiment, an attempt for communication. Several artistic currents, some more revolutionary than others, have marked the twentieth century. Each current rejected the preceding in search of new forms of expression. Yet, they all claimed modernity. Once at the end of this course of fragmentation, modernity changed and became post-modernity. After the beautiful certainties and promises offered by modernism came a time of disillusion and superabundance. The bursting of values that marked post-modernity propelled art beyond its limits. More the work seemed thin, a line, a point, in the eyes of the non-initiated, more erudite was its interpretation. As an example, we could think of Yves Klein (known for his monochromes and his attachment to blue) who in 1958, presented a show where there was nothing. It was a un-materialization of paintings in view of creating an environment; it presented an invisible pictorial climate that was still able to express the sense of painting by its radiation. After these various extremes made in art history, everything can now be considered art: a meal offered in a gallery, a social action, a ready-made object, etc. The criteria proposed to evaluate art are unsystematic. Everything can be considered art. For some people art is anything, and, for the others, it is an essential freedom for the survival of art. Like Fred Forest, I am offering you the chance to express your opinion on art by answering the questionnaire that you will find on this site. Furthermore, in this section you will be able to annex, a written comment, attach a file (image), a project, a work or a critic articulating on what is art. Your opinion could be used to design a work of art in a show that will be held soon. You can consult the heading news to know the exact date and place where the show will be held. ANSWER THE QUESTIONNAIRE
		INTENTION Since the project is being built using your answers, it is difficult for me to precisely predict the continuation and the impacts of this action. However, here goes my policy : the answers will be transformed into works of art, presented in an artistic context and in relation with art history.