1. As Duchamp challenges the notion of art and the viewers of art, it is interesting to question what defines a person as an artist that has some form of legitimacy. No doubt any of us have the physical ability to put our shit in a can and submit it for consideration, but who would really do so and take that risk? This calls to question the divide between artist and non artist where perhaps the difference is that an artist is so convicted to his work and attitude in a way that he or she will stop at nothing to express his point of view without boundaries. What other attributes are important in discerning an artist and a non artist?
2. The act of painting as a form of self realization has been a repeating theme where artists attempt to break from the mold, yet as the article shows, nothing is made from nothing and everything comes from something in the sense that all these artists were influenced by others and or by changing political climates. In this case, are these abstract expressionist really expressing anything of themselves or is it an accumulation of their experiences as they are still subjects of society?
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