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Chapter 2

WHo's AfRaid Of MoDerN ArT?

Arts and Debates Axis: Art that Stirs debates

Introduction

INTRODUCTION HERE

Have a look at the next documents and react

Modernity or Modernism?

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Read the article and explain in your own word to what extent Turner is modern?

Lesson 1

Oh so shocking!

Art and Moral Controversy

Audio

God Knows Why, Damien Hirst, 2005

Conclusion Lesson 1

Lesson

Women and art

Visibility, Voice, and the Female Artist

Women's bodies in art

1. How is the woman’s body being used or represented?
2. What emotions or reactions might this provoke?
3. Who holds the power — the artist, the audience, or the institution?
4. What is being criticized or exposed?
5. Is the body a tool of empowerment or objectification here?
6. What debates might this piece ignite ?

Read

A female voice?

1. What makes Woolf’s voice distinctly feminist?
2. How does Maier communicate through her invisibility?
3. How do both women challenge traditional narratives about female creators?

Read

Write a monologue as if you were Virginia Woolf or Susan Maier. You'll address nowadays' female artists so that they receive your legacy and will also contribute to enrich art history.

Conclusion Lesson 2

Lesson

Art and Money

How valuable is modern art?

Compare the 2 following paintings according to motifs- imagery- message- purpose...

Explain how contemporary art can tie directly to investment, hype, branding, speculation

The Auction Game

Conclusion Lesson 3

Conclusion – Who’s Afraid of Modern Art? Modern and contemporary art constantly push the limits of creation and perception. By shocking, provoking, or disturbing, artists like Hirst or Quinn remind us that art can expose uncomfortable truths and challenge moral boundaries. At the same time, the link between art and money, from Warhol to Koons, reveals how creativity and commerce often coexist, raising questions about value and authenticity. Women and feminist artists such as the Guerrilla Girls have used art to fight inequality and reclaim visibility, proving that creation can also be a political act. To go further, conceptual works by Cage or Rauschenberg show that absence and silence can be as expressive as form and colour. Ultimately, modern art invites us not to fear provocation but to embrace questioning, seeing art as a space of freedom, reflection, and transformation.

FINAL PROJECT

In this final project, you will create your own modern artwork inspired by consumer culture and famous art movements (Pop Art, Street Art, Contemporary Art). Your artwork should:

• Transform or reimagine an everyday consumer product (food, brand, object, logo, packaging, etc.).

• Echo or reference the work of at least one major artist we studied (Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, or others).

• Provoke debate about the relationship between art and money, originality and mass production, brand and identity...

• Be accompanied by a written presentation that explains its concept, value, and artistic context.

Your project:

Traning for the synthèse

Doc A: The Catcher of the Rye (excerpt)

Doc B: Article about Mae West

Doc C: The Guerilla Girls poster

Doc A:

Doc B:

Doc C: