Influence On Griselda Pollock And Modern Art

Another influence on Griselda Pollock and modern art was Charles Baudelaire. In his essay “the painter of modern life”, Baudelaire uses the character of Constantin Guy, a flaneur, an artist in Paris to describe the representation of Paris’s earliest form of modern art (Pollock 66). Using Baudelaire’s essay, Pollock maps a description of Paris as the city of men. However, the women in Paris attempt to defy this dominance by men and are on a sexualized journey just like that portrayed by the impressionist artists Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot (Pollock 67). Baudelaire’s essay helps Pollock to learn of the male dominated Parisian. Baudelaire depicts the flaneur as an artist who is inspired by the Parisian nature and streets in his creation of

The sponsors determined the value of paintings and works of art based on their corporate criteria instead of on the artist's criteria. The jurors, in essence, only expected the artists to enter paintings that were conservative and had romanticized images painted in simple and decorative styles that were popular during the early 20th century (Berlo Philips 213). These according to the jurors and patrons perception were considered the epitome of modern Indian art. These expectations went against the faithful illusionistic expression of forms in art (Berlo Philips 213). Contrary to the jurors’ beliefs, not all forms of Indian art are supposed to focus on the flatness of the surface of the art object. Art was meant to depict the artist's expressionism and abstraction. By going against these fundamental principles of art, the jurors were infringing on the principle of art as a form of expressing oneself and against the individual freedom of self-expression (Berlo Philip

The jurors' expectations can be classified more as western influenced compared to being Indian influenced. It would then be an irony considering that this competition was supposed to lead to a form of art exhibition showcasing Indian artworks. Oscar Howe's painting was a real version of an authentic Indian artwork as it showed the Indian traditions throughout history and mythical stories (Berlo Philips 222). The jurors were more interested in their patrons’ view of commoditization of Indian artworks. The paintings had to be a representation of the white man's opinions and depiction of Indian art (Berlo Philips 211). They had to express indigenous, cultural and aesthetic features, but more importantly the paintings were to be comprehensible to the non-Native and precisely the white man (Berlo Philips 212). Oscar Howe's vocal stand later made the Philbrook Museum of Art change its views and adopt the inclusion of expressionism and abstractness in paintings for the annual competitions (Berlo Philips