Standing between the bars and the shoreline, the artwork functions as it should--it complements, even augments, the beauty of its surroundings.
This year the exhibition explores how artwork functions as a tool.
Yet this is another way of saying that, ontologically speaking, artworks function as symbols.
I am interested in how these artworks function as representations during the campaign (the trust of the image by the buyer), and as artworks installed in the same space during the physical exhibition.
Both share a preoccupation with clarity, simplified shapes and what Martin has called "light and lightness" and "breaking down form". Both are classicist in their orientation and perfectionist by disposition (the function of artwork is "the renewal of memories of moments of perfection," Martin has said).
I would like to see it, to test a theory: the primary function of these artworks is to deceive Mr. Meier into thinking that his buildings are not artworks, too.
My understanding of the primary function of art implied when audiences are looking at an artwork, is to convey a meaning, an idea, message through seeing.
The described system was assembled in two different configurations, as a function of the analyzed artwork, as reported below.
Although it would be tough to argue that the exhibition brought down barriers between art and food, since the two have been pals throughout history, PLEASE HAVE ENOUGH ACID IN THE DISH! certainly centralizes the function of food in artwork, emphasizing edible goods as intellectual and creative curiosities, rather than merely incidental subject matter.
Herder's conception that it is and should be the primary function of art to form moral character serves him as a criterion for evaluating artworks.
