What is art?
Welcome to the continuous human quest, the examination of aesthetics, expression, purpose and form. Humans have the ability to ask questions and create abstract thoughts. We find great value in these abilities.
What is art? What is art today? What forms of art do you appreciate and value? What forms do you feel is under-recognized?
As visual artist, art educator, art business owner, and poet, I have certain perspectives concerning art, mostly as a more traditional form of appreciation, as commercial products and personal insights that connect us on a basic human core. This core is universal in it's language. As a small art collector and appreciator of literature, film, theater, music and song, and dance, I see and experience many interesting things that I consider art.
To learn more about me go to my gallery's web site: www.vistagallery.com There you can read statements and information concerning my career, art making and poetry. You can see my art as well as many of the other gallery artists. I own the fine art gallery in beautiful Lake Tahoe, California and I am one of about 30 artists that I represent.
My artwork is contemporary in style, creating images relating to nature in mixed-media and in several different processes of printmaking. I write poetry that that companions my visual images; they tend to relate to the images on another interpretive level.
posted by Douglas E. Taylor at 4:27 PM
6 Comments:
I think art is good for us. It makes us feel human. Humans think and feel and that elevates our experience.
How can we justify art and it's value in society when people are dieing, starving and confronting such problems in the world.
If everyone had a full stomach and could live 100 years more there would still be suffering. Countless have found peace through art.
How does art do this? How does art transform? What value do you, personally find in art? What specific experiences have you had?
Paraphrasing Bob Dylan who said in an interview several years ago, that his religion is really art. Art is what sustains his spirit, his life, his purpose. When he hears good music and songs, poetry, painting, film, it transforms him, brings him closer to God, to his true spirit.
Perhaps the contemporary distractions we experience such as information regarding "everything", Perhaps the contemporary distractions we experience such as information regarding "everything", extensive news, mass communication and advances in technology makes art even more relevant, even more important? Art connects with everyone, everywhere. I mean human expression in abstractions (pictures, words, music...). It is ironic that in this age of communication there is still an amazing proportion of the world’s population that is illiterate. A common denominator in many of the world’s trouble spots is illiteracy. I believe written language helps the mental process develop deeper abstractions, more meaningful ways of sharing ideas and information. It enhances the “education” process of the human being.
As an artist, I think that any art exists to speak when we are no longer able to.
Meg
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