#Animations
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Well, Art does happen. We can work and train ourselves as artists our
whole lives and never be so blessed to create a single work of art.
That is the sad fact of it. Anyone can learn to draw and buy paint
but in only the hands of one who has vision will anything of value
emerge. I go against the humanistic school that sayes anyone can be
an artist if they so choose. Those with talent and purpose are so
few that they must surely be chosen or recieve some calling.
As for art, I believe that it must truly qualify itself. Just like
the artist that can't be separated from the society in which they
exist and work, art must conduct its transactions with the society it
finds itself in. It has to serve in some exemplary way to whom it
appears as art and eventually it has to stand the test of time. If
it doesn't it will pass on as a relic to settle into the silt of time
just like the rest of us.
ah how nice to find you three drinking absinthe together- speaking of
art passing away in the dust have you been to see "like water for
chocolate?"
"Like Water for Chocolate" was an insanely great film. Best I've seen
all year, I think. (as a film, it was way better than Jurassic…
but not much computer graphics 🙂
i knew you had a soul -r
Gee… with all the work I've been doing in front of the MACHINE lately, that
makes ONE of us.
– G
Hi Rachel,
Good to meet you. I like what you are doing with your "dignified people." I
relate to your sentiment on this subject and wish you the best success. I
haven't seen anything but the reprographs of them but like what I see.
>>"like water for chocolate?"
As a matter of fact I was planning on going tommorrow night. You have piqued
my curiosity now.
meb
hello meb-movie is sad but beautiful, i really loved reading your thinkings and
it made me wonder about anasazi ruins and minoan temples in the middle of
nowhere
Hi Rachel, The movie masterfully handled two very difficult subjects, love and
magic. It really was a story quite beautifully told. Funny you should mention
Anasazi ruins and Minoan temples, I am reading a scifi classic I missed in
earlier years, Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles." It touches me in that same
sad, longing, and lost way.
One of the hallmarks of art is that it usually contains some ontological
significance. In other words, it arises out of some logic of being, in the
same way that Tita's cooking had a power to effect her family's lives. When we
look at a beautiful Anisazi pot in a museum we sense the significance of it's
use in the lives of the culture that created it. The words of poet/writer
Octavio Paz come to mind, "…the beauty is in the use of the object…" We
may find the object aesthetically pleasing to the eye but that is only the
remaining evidence that art has passed through it.
meb
Michael – I appreciate the sentiment. I do think however, that great
artists have often gone against their contemporary society, in their
search of art. And there are examples like Henri Rousseau, who very
late in life became an artist, and I find his work very moving, and
while he may not be condsidered great like Michelangelo and Leonardo,
there is a purety to his work that deeply inspires. And I find it
encouraging that I am not alone on a trek that may lead nowhere. You
express the sentiment eloquently. -JE
No matter how hard artists bang around against contemporary society or the art
world, read conceptual art, or even for that matter try to run away from it
like Gauguin, the art is indelibly marked. You have spoke about the political
nature of art. Did you ever stop to consider how similar artists and
politicians are? Both require patronage and depend on it to carry out their
work. meb
No Michael I didn't but I find your comment very amusing and quite true. And
yes if I read you correctly no matter how hard the artists bang up against
contemporary society the influence on them is still there. I was thinking of
the impressionists when I wrote about some of the greats, because they had to
fight the academy, but they also influenced each other, much as we are doing I
think. -JE