4-20-2024: World Cultures and Modern Art at the 1972 Munich Olympics - EPISODE2
When the project of putting the catalogue of World Cultures and Modern Art 1972 exhibit online the objectives were: first, to share this unique material and make it accessible to others, as a collection of texts about art, under the thematic of cultures encountering and assimilation, and as an historical collection of writings, showing some mindsets within the art community in that time; second, to make a connection with another topic of interest, that is the mandala colouring activity, seen as an initiation to art and also seen as a therapeutic activity according to some sources -why artgraphic-db adopted another approach of exploring mandalaya-ing and producing original patterns and mandalas, making also the connection between the traditional buddhistic mandala and the popular commercial mandala to color, as today known-, and third to make another connection with what can be produced with a computer, including with how to make a mandala, or color it, and, if it can be seen as art and why or how. Contents of the today's blog, (1) About the catalogue, art critique articles and pictures (2) About the mandala colouring activity in the catalogue (3) about digital art in the catalogue
Below, picture coming out of an online search (the link is after the snip), so-called Jung's mandala.
An online search (an example of what is online) about mandalas and Carl Jung and psychology and therapy (or why) Search results
About the first objective:
artgraphic-db has done pretty well so far, the catalogue has been scanned. The scans are presented online. The material has been splitted into several sections, and converted as a web content.
CATALOGUE
Focusing on the catalogue, in terms of list of references of artworks, presented at the 1972 exhibit under the topic "World Culture and Modern Art", 13 text documents reproduce parts of the lists, as split here and there, in the real document.
Access to the list of artworks:
1-12 :: 13-328 :: 329-455 :: 503-560 :: 561-980 :: 959-1586 :: 1588-1676 :: 1677-1705 :: 1766-1861 :: 1846-1861 :: 1862-1900 :: 1901-2121 :: 2122-2251 :: 2252-2394
ARTICLES
Articles giving sense to the thematic of world "art" cultures encountering, melting in what we know nowadays, worldwide, as modern art are converted to 15 web text documents.
Access to the articles, presented as web documents:
Art as a Universal Phenomenon
Portraits of Extra-Europeans in the Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Art and Sacral Drugs in the Orient; Egyptian Vogue; The Orient and Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Architecture; Orientalizing Architecture; European Ceramics and their Islamic Prototypes; William de Morgan's Islamic and Oriental Sources; Paul Dresler; Islamic Glass; Ludwig Lobmeyr; Art Nouveau Lustre Glass and the Orient; The Rose-Water Sprinkler - its Role between East and West around the Year 1900; Peacock Motifs
Treatment of Light and Colour in the Oriental Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Odalisques; Graphic Art; Oriental Motifs in Book Publications
Oriental Colouring in the Music of the Nineteenth Century
Chronological Survey of the Japanese Influence; Manual Techniques of Japanese and European Wood-engraving and the Artists of the Utagawa School; Vincent van Gogh's Search for the Serene Life in the Japanese Wood-Engraving; The Far-Eastern "Dash- Dot-Line" in the Work of Vincent van Gogh; The Far-Eastern Pattern- Background Principle as Source of initial Attempts at Abstraction in Western Painting at the Close of the Nineteenth and Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries; The Japanese Motif; Some Observations on the "Bridge" as a Motif in Far-Eastern and European Painting during the Nineteenth Century; Rocks in the Sea, a Theme of Japanese and European Painters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; The Lily and Iris as European Picture Motifs in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Methods of Composition; The "Wave" as Picture and Ornamental Form in Japanese Art and its Influence on European Art in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries; The Far Eastern Pattern- Background Principle as Source of initial Attempts at Abstraction in Western Painting at the Close of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries; Japanese Dyeing Stencils (Katagami) and European Monochrome Graphic Art around 1900; Influences of Japanese Sumi Ink Painting on European Modern Art
European Symbolism around 1900 and the Influence of Hokusai's Spectres; "Abstractions" in Landscape-Representations of Japanese Chrome Wood-Engraving; The "Waterfall" - a Japanese Motif and its Adaptation by European Art in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Java and the “Nieuwe Kunst”; Javanese Batiks and their Influence on the Textiles, Book Covers and Ceramics of the "Nieuwe Kunst"; Japan's Contribution to Modern Western Architecture; The Oriental Influence on the Decorative Arts in France and England; The Influence of the Far East on British Pottery in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century; The Importance of the Far East for the Renaissance in French Ceramic Art towards the Close of the Nineteenth Century; German Ceramics from the Art Nouveau to the Bauhaus Period; Asia and Europe Meet in Contemporary German Ceramic Ware; The White Porcelain of the Sung Period; Celadon Ware and its Renaissance in Contemporary Ceramic Art; "Chien-yao" and its Rediscovery in Modern Ceramic Art; The Lavender-Coloured Glazes of the Sung Dynasty; The Monochrome Glazes of the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1912) and Their Influence on Ceramic Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; The Monochrome Glazes of the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1912) and Their Influence on Ceramic Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; The Blue Glazes; Japanese Forms - European Commodities
Calligraphy in the Far East; Zen Buddhism, Ink Painting and Modern Art
Musical Exoticism around the Year 1900: Claude Debussy
Primitivism in Modern Art; The Magic Element in Modern Art; The Negative Reception of the Art of the Traditional Societies of Africa
The Brücke and "Primitive" Art: Some Observations; French Painting and "Art Nègre"
African Proportion
Masks in Tribal Art, "Masks" in Modern Art; Pre-Columbian Stone Sculpture and Modern Art; Magic Signs; Idol, Totem and Fetish in Modern Art
Difficulties in the Fusion of Jazz and Symphonic Music; Negro Music in Latin America
New World Music; The Music Program of the Sound Centre
PICTURES
Below, an aid to the navigation shows a snip of the mosaics of artworks images presented in the catalogue and converted to web images (the folder is shared to the web encounter interested to work with the web material). The mosaics are also presented in a separate way to help the web encounter to identify an image of its own interest).
NEXT EPISODES
- artgraphic-db has offered to review the articles material and to enhance the reading to allow access of the information in a more compulsive way, as of a common way of exploring the web, adding extra keywords and outlines;
- examples of outlines are already made for Art as a Universal Phenomenon and African Proportion contributions;
- reviews and blogging about the texts are also a possible perspective and opportunities to go further and enlighting
About the mandala colouring activity in the catalogue
The catalogue does not talk that much about mandalas, and not that much about mandala coloring as we know today.
A reproduction of a Tibet Mandala (traditional mandala) is shown (I want to see the reproduction) in the Orient section.
It is a mention about how mandala feeds, or can feed inspiration psychedelic artists or Op-artists (as said in the article). The Tate gallery refers to Op-art as "a major development of painting in the 1960s that used geometric forms to create optical effects".
Op-art is about visual effects more than exercising focus or awareness (see entries in visual effects web information).
However, Atwell says the article:
"Atwell orientates himself to Tibetan meditation diagrams, the mandalas, visual aids for tranquil meditation which record the unity of the world of Mahayana Buddhism in circles and squares. In the same way as rhythmical-ornamental abstractions, these magic symbol structures can be conceived as form constants which produce a meditative outlook. Atwell's mandalas are multilayered variations of Tibetan designs projecting cellular currents of vital energy instead of deities."
A question is: what does one look for while coloring mandalas, beyond Mahayana Buddhism? A question that Carl Jung, perhaps, had in mind himself (The Red book).
Also, artgraphic-db has proposed a tool to the mandalayaner in the form of a travel book, offering geometric structures to color, and, figures dashing the geometric symbolism to a more figurative symbolism (see the full mandala stencils document).
Allen Atwell, as a psychedelic artist, has been quoted on other web pages (psychedelic art).
The catalogue has also a reproduction of the Triptychon by Allen Atwell (the triptychon in the 1972 World Culture and Modern Art catalogue); Allen Atwell as the oriental mandala encounter.
NEXT
About Digital Coloring (and more, for instance see a more exploratory mandalayaning)
About digital art in the catalogue
Digital art is more often referenced by "pixel art" nowadays. In 1972, in the exhibit catalogue, digital art is not presented. However, the times of cybernetics have begun, and cybernetics art starts to emerge in its very beginnings.
[The primitive artists belong without exception to pre-industrial economic systems]
"Just as aboriginal man stood, deeply moved, before the inexplicable, apparently
chaotic natural phenomena, so modern man, in spite of atomic fission, cybernetics
and the launching of rockets into space finds himself again faced with the inexplicability
of an expanded and for him no less mysterious new reality."
[art acts as a mediator]
Will that mankind formed by science and technology, by mass communications media and
cybernetics be able to find the way to end this process of destruction?
As mentioned earlier (blog https://artgraphic-dbase.blogspot.com/2024/02/2-2-2024-world-culture-and-modern-art.html), cybernetics art makes the core material of another website: http://dada.compart-bremen.de/
The website presents examples of art produced, in that time, with the help of computers or cybernetics (if the site is sleeping, refer to the above quoted blog to take a look at an example of artwork -1964, Frieder Nake-).
Thus, the wording "cybernetics" in the catalogue, was used with this idea of emerging cybernetics art activity, perhaps.
Dates and milestones (to be completed) about computer-produced artwork:
1956: "Nicolas Schöffer's CYSP I (1956) was perhaps the first artwork to explicitly employ cybernetic principles"
1968: Ernest Edmonds: I started using software to make art in 1968 (see note **1)
1971: Cybernetics, art and ideas
Jasia Reichardt (editor)
ISBN 10: 0289701082 / ISBN 13: 9780289701089
Published by Studio Vista, London, 1971
1973: Review of the book by Michael Thompson in ??
- The Computer in Art by Jasia Reichardt, and: Cybernetics, Art and Ideas ed. by Jasia Reichardt (review)
Michael Thompson
Leonardo
The MIT Press
Volume 6, Number 1, Winter 1973
pp. 81-82
1984-1985: "Fragment", by Ernest Edmonds, AI-based generative movie, Fragment (1984-85) (see note **1)
1988: First issue of the French magazine "pixel" (THE new images magazine)
January 29, 2024: “digital art” has only grown in popularity (see note **2)
Notes:
**1 says the web articleTHE GENERATIONS OF GENERATIVE ART
A groundbreaking exhibition uncovers new histories of human-machine interaction
September 15, 2023
WHERE NEXT FOR DIGITAL ART?
With Web3 in flux, Danielle King and Jason Bailey discuss what 2024 holds in store with Alex Estorick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token
On the Internet:
Nicolas Schoffer
Cybernetic Serendipity
Cybernetic Organism
Cyberpunk
Norbert Speicher
Cybernetic Man
Digital Painting
Drawing
Concept Art
Slides Presentations:
A taste of history in digital art (more dates and mailestones):
A taste of history in cybernetics:
Types of Digital Art:
Art game
Computer art scene
Computer music
Cyberarts
Digital illustration
Digital imaging
Digital painting
Digital photography
Digital poetry
Dynamic Painting
Electronic music
Evolutionary art
Fractal art
Generative art
Generative music
Generative art
Generative music
Immersion (virtual reality)
Interactive art
Motion graphics
Music visualization
Photo manipulation
Pixel art
Render art
Software art
Systems art
Textures
Tradigital art
Via Art
Curiosity
NEXT topics
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