For those of you who were able to attend the Carlos Basualdo lecture last night (Monday), make one or two thoughtful comments for extra credit.
Here are some considerations (although you are as always welcome to discuss other issues as long as you do so thoughtfully):
•Revisit Basualdo's distinction between a cultural "movement" and a cultural "moment."
•Basualdo spoke a lot about an artist we will read about later in the semester, Helio Oiticica. From what you learned about Oiticica, what can you infer about his performance work? What elements of his works that were discussed are relevant to performance work?
•Discuss the relevance of the major works in the Tropicalia exhibition (that are decades old) to current work.
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Carlos Basualdo is the curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Basualdo was the creator of the art installation, Tropicalia. Tropicalia represents a Brazilian cultural movement of the late 1960’s involving pop art along with fashion, television and even food. It was interesting to hear Carlos Basualdo describe the Tropicalia “moment” that occurred in Brazil in the 60’s. He drew a picture of how the very culture of Brazil influenced art during that time, and described how he intertwined and represented various art forms in his Tropicalia museum installation. His creation of a physical 3-D “experience” showcasing the culture and art of Brazil in the 60’s was a very interesting interpretation that became a piece of performance art as visitors interacted with the display.
I'm a big fan of the 'interdisciplinary' approach to everything, so Tropicalia would definately be for me. Putting any history into a broad context increases both the accuracy of portraying a history and the understanding of that history among the audience. I hope that the interdisciplinary art exhibition is either a current trend or that Basualdo encourages similiar interdisciplinary exhibitions in the art world. I also find it uplifting that Basualdo describes Brazilian culture as a positive model for the globalized world - one that absorbs other cultures while maintaining heterogeneity.
I attended a seminar of Carlos Basualdo at Fine ARt Center. He was from Argentina, and he is a curator of Philadelphia Museum of Art. His seminar topic was 'Tropicali' which represents Brazilian style of art(contemporary art). He show us many works of album cover, movie posters, architecture sketches, and photos. I could see all those are very strong brazilian art culture style. He likes to work with lots of models, and they seemd happy. At last, I was happy to come and learn out of school about his works.
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