Manifestos

UCA lecturer Tom Dale delivered a very interesting lecture on the art of the manifesto and how these shape artists' intentions and give structure to their ethos and creativity. The manifestos also provide a "recipe for understanding the world at that time". 

Fillip Tommaso Marinetti's manifesto (1909)shows the importance of how the developing technologies of the time were key to the Futurism movement's fundamentals. The belief in globalisation and the building of empires through new technologies produced powerful, dynamic and avant garde approaches for creative invention. The manifesto's connective energy for a modern world was an extraordinary artistic philosophy.  

         

"I am for an art that embroils itself with the everyday crap & still comes out on top."

 https://artiststatements.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/claes-oldenburg-i-am-for-an-art/

Claes Oldenburg's manifesto (1961) is unapologetic, radical, and like Marinetti is aware of new technologies shaping our futures. He also reaches out to the public reader in his art as a protest to intellectualists. Again, this progressive approach in generating 'art rules' is intriguing and has stimulated my own 'recipe' for making art. 

I titled my manifesto RatTar Art as word play is one of my quirks! The words rat and tar are anagrams of the word art but I also like how the word suggests a rebelliousness. Rat and tar conjure images of disgust and irrelevance and could be applied to the process of using unconventional mixtures of media. I intend to shape my energies towards producing art with these statements in mind. 

RatTar Art Manifesto 2017