Does Repetition Increase Or Dilute Meaning ?

Repetition does increase meaning because of the impact the installation or painting or drawing it had. For an example David Connearn, in his work one line is repeated it them becomes something else as it creates a whole different look on the paper. It’s all about the impact. The impact affects the viewer. As once he has finished he has lost own ship of it and its down to the viewer if it makes a statement to them as he has just created it because he likes the process of doing it and repeating the lines. It’s like Kusama's work she uses repetition to create dots which is like therapy to her mental illness it’s almost like OCD. They both do this process to help themselves not just to create artwork for other people to see.

Kusama finds solace in drawing dots and repeating patterns. Producing art pieces in dots is a repetition in itself. Then for Damien Hirst he repeats the theme of death which gives his work more meaning because you already know some of his other stuff as he is world famous and he creates work to help him deal with the idea we are all going to die soon. However it’s almost like he is attention seeking because he loves to be in the spot light and to have to craziest ideas and to sell them for millions of pounds then on the other hand Kusama and David create their pieces of art because it helps them deal with their lives with David doing because he likes creating art and Kusama to help her deal with her mental illness. 

Each artist uses repetition in a different way to create meaning. I find that the use of repetition does make a bigger impact on the meaning because it’s making more of a bigger statement on the viewer. The bigger the impact on the viewer the more they are going to try and find the meaning of why the artist has created the artwork.