PDP-Presentation on Art and Design and International Discourses
Posted: December 7, 2013 Filed under: Constellation Leave a commentI considered the aspect of modern art having more of a freedom to challenge or attack social floor. This is ultimately as a result of a higher awareness perhaps due to advances in technology. Or a fairer democratic society in which artist have a license and some who say duty to do so.
After paying close attention to the Turner prize 2013 I was shocked to find their was only one painter, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
She is an artist who paints black people from imagination and memory, the black people depicted on the canvas isn’t actually an individual, isn’t this a form of generalization?
I compared this to the ‘study of a black man’ by Joshua Reynolds, in 1770.
This piece also harbors an element of generalization. An aspect common with the slave trade. It could be said Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is confronting this stereotype; as she challenges the accepted norm of western figuration by depicting black subjects.
