Art as techné

Art as techné

Art as techné

Individual

Particular

Cultural

Universal

Levels in art

Levels in art

Mary Pratt

Mary Pratt

Andy Warhol

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Individual

Particular

Cultural

Universal

She created paintings with images of her daily life in moments when she was probably alone, but are moments that everybody could experiment.

She keeps pictures in her mind, like daily objects and situations to resignificate and combine them with her personal life and toughts.

She was daughter of the war/post war (1935), studied arts, get married & pregnant soon, and took all the responsibilities of the house. She found in the role of housewife her artistic voice.

She had some difficulties in life, like her spontaneous abortion, and found in her daily life an image that match with the feeling.

He proposed to put into daily activities pieces of art, and reuses publicity iconic images to express entire arguments that were linked with his personal life.

He combined all his particularities in final pices of art that with a naked eye are simple, but had a socio political critic behind.

His art critics american capitalism, voracious, selfish, vacuish, and superficial with irony. He had the ability to took any object and transform them into cultural icons.

He uses daily objetcs to resignificate and massificate them. You can find art in the supermarket.

Andy Warhol

Mary Pratt

100%

Cultural

100%

Cultural

80%

Universal

100%

Universal

85%

Particularity

90%

Particularity

50%

Individualism

80%

Individualism

20%

Politics (non intentionating)

90%

Politics

60%

Relationship with reality

100%

Inspiration in daily objects

100%

Relationship with reality

Symbolic hiperrealism of the daily life.

Pop Art

100%

Inspiration in daily objects

Mary Pratt

Andy Warhol