See also:1958 in art, other events of 1959, 1960 in art, list of years in art See also: 1957 in art, other events of 1958, 1959 in art, list of years in art // Awards Exhibitions Jean Arp retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City Works Births Deaths Paul Henry, painter Categories: 1958 | Years in art ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This was the Pop Art decade. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Traditionally, high art consists of the meticulous expression in fine materials of refined or noble sentiment, appreciation of the former depending on such things as intelligence, social standing, educated taste, and a willingness to be challenged.
Low art is the shoddy manufacturing in inferior materials of superficial kitsch, simply catering to popular taste, unreflective acceptance of realism, and a certain "couch potato" mentality.
Pop Art further weakened the distinction, and artists as various as Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988), Jeff Koons (American, 1955-) and the Guerrilla Girls (American), influenced strongly by the different branches of postmodern thought, have dealt it the further blows.
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