Jessica Stockholders work is described in Art and today as being 'arranged to bring out relationships between colour and form'. She uses a wide range of materials to create these sculptures. I wouldn't have considered her work very nice to look at and kind of confusing because it seems like just a bunch of objects that are arranged in random ways. However, after reading about her explination of what she would define as the beauty that is in her art it made me think about the kind of impact that society has on the way people view art and appreciate it:
'The works beautiful, but then i step back and think, what does that mean? Some people don't think my works beautiful. I think beauty has to do both biology but also history, culture and fashion. think pleasure is very political. pleasure is a part of what controls people. Advertising is directional and our pleasure and taste is tied to class, hierarchy and social structure.'
She also talks about her work being meaningful because of the concept of involving the viewer in the arrangement of objects and make them see that because they have relationships with space like the artwork that they are effectively a part of it. The quote doesn't have much to do with that but i thought it was interesting that she said its not just out taste that lets us appreciate art but the conditioning of the our environment, how it's infulence could be more subconcious then we know. This is related back to the beginning to the idea of Duchamps 'fountain', questioning the reasoning behind peoples perception of what was percieved as 'beautiful' and 'correct' and therefore valid as art.
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