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The Nature of Art/ What are you saying?
14 years ago
I've had this conversation with a lot of people, about the intrinsic nature of art, what illustration and what art is, if there is a difference. What art is or is not. Long winded conversations with big words and heavy sighs of exasperation at my own inability to fully articulate what I am looking for in art. Lots of hours have been spent in academia and out of it too, attempting to define art, which is chasing wind.
Look at the art in the latest submissions. What do you think these people are saying with each of their pieces? What are you saying with the pieces that you post? Is that worth saying? Hmmmmm...
Most of my perspectives on art are filtered through my faith. The doctrinal answer of what art is, or more what it should do, is bring glory to God. That is a pat answer however. I think if we look at the nature of God (a much deeper rabbit hole than the nature of Art) we find these ideas of Love, and beauty, and acceptance. Purity. Hope. Truth. Huge abstract ideas filtered down into what? Art?
What is art? What is beauty? Please leaves post structuralism and post modernism at the door, while they are valid they reek of nihilism. Love. Isn't that what has to push us? In all senses.
Look at the art in the latest submissions. What do you think these people are saying with each of their pieces? What are you saying with the pieces that you post? Is that worth saying? Hmmmmm...
Most of my perspectives on art are filtered through my faith. The doctrinal answer of what art is, or more what it should do, is bring glory to God. That is a pat answer however. I think if we look at the nature of God (a much deeper rabbit hole than the nature of Art) we find these ideas of Love, and beauty, and acceptance. Purity. Hope. Truth. Huge abstract ideas filtered down into what? Art?
What is art? What is beauty? Please leaves post structuralism and post modernism at the door, while they are valid they reek of nihilism. Love. Isn't that what has to push us? In all senses.
Like a tactical nuke buddy.
I'm not trying to bash on those who take commissions, in fact I admire people who can actually make a living that way. But as an actress and a writer and the occasional sketcher, I've always found the best way to relax and be at peace is to focus on whatever artform calls me at that time and I can't understand people who view art as just a way to make money. We're given these talents for a reason, after all.
-"Closer to God" in a more "humanist" sort of view; artmaking is to become closer to one's self.
-As with Jimi said not everything needs to be from the deepest cockles of one's heart; expressions of the body in other manners from other places can be just as valid. Sentimentality and pornography-- sugar and spice, respectively.
-Sincerity is a thing that matters; just say something that you mean, no compromise.
-"No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader"~ Robert Frost. That is to say that if you know exactly what you are doing and what you are saying before you make a thing, there is no reason to make it (whether a film or a poem or a painting or a song or whatever)
- http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/indiev.....ion/open.shtml this letter was written with filmmakers in mind, bu tit is relevant to all artists, in spirit. But it's gigantically apt.
-I can think of a lot of things to say but they'd all just be stumbling through that little article I just linked so just take a look at that.