conceptual art
...e to convey their thoughts, ideas, emotions, and reactions in some way readable to the viewer. I also think that one's artwork should have a certain finnished or composed quality to it. It has been hard for me in the past, when viewing or expieriencing coneptual art, to really connect with the artists work, because it usually has been very scattered, or the idea is to make the art look poor in quality on purpose. Take for instance a film movement called The French New Wave, in particular, a film called Breathless by Jean Luc Godard. The only thing that I could focus on was the cinematography, which was designed to look like a two year old had filmed it and maybe a three year old edited it. There are jump cuts everywhere, and there were numerous instances where mistakes in the films continuity were blatently obvious. Now, don't get me wrong, I do understand that these mistakes were purposly made, and the reason he did it was to draw the viewers attention away from the other elements of the film to focus mainly on the cinematography, but that doesn't excuse the fact that I found it very hard to sit through, which, in the long run, made me lose interest in the piece all togeather...