29 déc. 1828 - What is the modern artist?

Description:

-Observer (dandy/flaneur: Baudelaire)
-Wants to reflect his own time
-Craftsmanship as a creation to industrialisation
-Back to nature --> primitivism and japonism --> vb. van Gogh, Gaugain, Picasso
-L'art pour l'art --> art for art's sake: Art shouldn’t be produced for the public’s sake, it shouldn’t satisfy any practical or moral function, it should be produced for its own sake: to stand alone, to be independent and self-determining, this could be achieved when it only appeals to the artistic sense of eye and ear; when it concentrates on its formal aspects, not the content. Every distrachting )recognizable) objects were striped away.

Works:
Van Gogh: Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige) (1887)
Gaugain: Het visioen na de preek (1888)