LESSON 14-
INSTALLATION ART
Installation Art
•Installation art is a term generally
used to describe artwork located in
three-dimensional interior space as
the word "install" means putting
something inside of something else.
• It also creates a high level of intimacy
between itself and the viewer as it
exists not as a precious object to be
merely looked at but as a presence
within the overall context of its
container whether that is a building,
museum, or designated room.
Example of Installation Art
Installation Art Key Ideas
• Installation art champions a shift in focus
from what art visually represents to what it
communicates. Installation artists are less
focused on presenting an aesthetically
pleasing object to viewers as they are
enfolding that viewer into an environment
or set of systems of their own creation.
• Installation artists are preoccupied with
making art a less isolated concept - by
installing work beyond the galleries and
museums and by using more utilitarian
components such as found objects,
industrial and everyday items,
commonplace materials, and
technologies of the populous.
Example of Installation Art
Immersive Art
• An immersive art space is about
creating a holistic experience for the
audience. While traditional museums
focus on visual arts, immersive art
spaces often seek to activate other
senses such as touch, hearing, smell
and sometimes taste.
Immersive Art
• These spaces can include anything
from art installations to an entire
building or street made by one or
several artists. While the location
may be permanent, the art may
change periodically or regularly.
Example of Immersive Art
Large Scale Art
• Enveloping the viewer and
dominating interior spaces, large
scale paintings create an impact.
Artists and their patrons have
utilized size to display power and
prestige to impress their audiences.
Large Scale Art
• In 18th century Europe, history
painting was considered to be the
most important genre, above
portraiture, still life, and landscape,
and thus was executed on bigger
canvases by artists like Jacques-Louis
David and Benjamin West.
• Inspired by their the large-scale public
murals for the Work Progress Administration
(WPA), abstract expressionist artists like
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner painted on
large scale canvases that could take up
entire walls, interpreted by some to
represent the freedom of American
expression.
Example of Large Scale Art
Site-Specific Art
• Artwork created to exist in a certain place.
Typically, the artist takes the location into
account while planning and creating the
artwork. Site-specific art is produced both by
commercial artists and can include some
instances of work such as sculpture, stencil
graffiti, rock balancing, and other art forms.
Installations can be in urban areas, remote
natural settings, or underwater.
Example of Site-Specific Art
Influences
• Art historians study which artists might
influence others by examining the
descriptive attributes of art. However,
finding influences is a sophisticated
process that involves studying the
historical, social, and personal context
related to the artist and to the art.
Dada
• Dadaism is an artistic movement in
modern art that started around World
War I. Its purpose was to ridicule the
meaninglessness of the modern world.
Its peak was 1916 to 1922, and it
influenced surrealism, pop art, and
punk rock. It went against the
standards of society.
Dada
•The word "Dada" may be an allusion to
an infant's first words, such as "Mama,"
and thus a reference to the failures of
our ancestors to convey the meaning of
life, create meaning within life, or ensure
we understood how meaningless our life
is.
Example of Installation Art
Conceptualism
• Conceptual art is an art for which
the idea (or concept) behind the
work is more important than the
finished art object. It emerged as
an art movement in the 1960s and
the term usually refers to art made
from the mid-1960s to the mid-
1970s.
Conceptualism
• Conceptual art can be - and can look like - almost
anything. This is because unlike a painter or
sculptor who will think about how best they can
express their idea using paint or sculptural
materials and techniques, a conceptual artist
uses whatever materials and whatever form is
most appropriate to putting their idea across –
this could be anything from a performance to a
written description.
Example of Conceptual Art
