friends that are artists - please read and offer opinion...
i have been interested in art for a long time - and i feel i have an open mind - i don't however, claim to be any sort of expert - to paraphrase the old adage, i simply know what i like.
that being said, the article, Why the art world is a disaster seems to make a lot of great points based on my very limited observations - much art today seems to be deliberately ugly
i don't think all art needs to be pretty or even beautiful - part of our world is ugly and it is certainly valid to express that. yet, it seems that art collectively takes great pains to avoid expressing beauty - which exists in the world as well and is every bit as real as the ugliness...
it has always struck me as odd that an overly optimistic worldview is viewed as trite and superficial, where an overly negative one is deep....
i'd appreciate any comments on this - what do you think of what i've said and the article...
posted by Mike @ 7:16 PM
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Hehe, I've been saying this for ages. It is so hard to find new aspects, this extremism has been done to death.
Fortunately, in music, it is now again acceptable to write melodic music, (which I have always insisted on doing - sometimes not being very respected by my peers)
Wow, that's an interesting post. Looking at what you said and moving it beyond "traditional" art (as if there were such a thing) to the art that is life itself (which is how I see it) - I believe that I owe it to myself never to become so worldly as to negate my impulses to be continually awestruck with the world around me. There is so much grizzlyness around us and I don't feel any obligation to embrace it more than I absolutely have to. Naive? Probably. Be it driving for the first time over the Triborough Bridge or gazing at the night sky, I can't help being in awe. Thus, if I were an artist, my work would definitely celebrate beauty in all its forms.
thanks for the feedback... and for confirming my opinion...
hidigunnur - i agree - it gets old - been done to death!
herdis: great observation that it can be applied to life as well...
to be real, i think, is to acknowledge the beauty and pain in life - but we can choose what to dwell on...
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