The Bride and the Bachelors

The Introduction to the reader, "The Bride and the Bachelors" by Calvin Tomkins, is an attempt to expand the mind set of the readers so that they or we, as student of ArtSt 7A, can look past the norms of society and instead create our own unique and interpretive art.

Within the intro the author introduces five artist; Cage, Cunningham, Duchamp, Rauschenberg and Tinguely. These five individuals have one distinct persona in common; they incorporated humor into their art during a time when art was viewed with set barriers. They challenged the norms and created a glorious "revolt" which showed the world that just about every little minuscule aspect of life can be artistic and thus worthy of being deemed beautiful. Interestingly enough, the artist didn't want to destroy the barriers because that would have been an absurd task so rather they wanted to show the absurdity of following them down to the finest point. It can be interpreted that what the artist sought to do was expand the barriers almost to the point where the barriers where no longer visible.

Although the five artist previously mentioned, expressed themselves by bringing in humor to the equation of acceptable art, what we should take away from this reader is that when dealing with art or even more, when dealing with life there is no one way to develop a solution. As discussed in the first lecture of the class, art is a fart so just let it flow out.