isn't the abstract category 'art' an attempt at identifying a special value that already exists in these specific things people do, rather than these people do these things to try to adhere to this abstract category called 'art'?
'art is an abstract category' might imply the system is universal, I would hope an artist would favor their own emergent 'art' system arrived at through persistent practice
could this art instance and the art discourse merely have a common root in a cultural zeitgeist, or must the artist be consciously aware of the discourse their art has an affinity with? (does 'avoid' imply an awareness of and a choice not to engage?) -also, could this discourse be internal, within the artists own system?
hours can be more obsessive compulsive than critical explorations, or obsessed with techniques over meaning. I wonder if more work in sale-based galleries may fit this 'pseudo' idea - safe commodities - resembles accepted art without challenging the system. 'REAL' art COULD make it into a museum IF someone of esteem champions it, but more likely it will eventually make it to a dumpster :)
"art is greater than the object or the label, art is a powerful functionality below the foundation of consciousness, our words only whisper ghosts of the god." - precocious and/or pretentious grad student
could these art writings merely pass through the art, to branch from its roots, to grow in a symbiotic affinity, without any dependencies or hierarchies, to compound into some greater understanding beyond the capacity of either media? (idealistic? :)
isn't the abstract category 'art' an attempt at identifying a special value that already exists in these specific things people do, rather than these people do these things to try to adhere to this abstract category called 'art'?
ReplyDeletethe dog wags the tail wags the dog wags the tail wags the dog
ReplyDelete'art is an abstract category' might imply the system is universal, I would hope an artist would favor their own emergent 'art' system arrived at through persistent practice
ReplyDeletere: 'at what point', maybe when the individual representation contains a significant development in the system it emerges from
ReplyDeletecould this art instance and the art discourse merely have a common root in a cultural zeitgeist, or must the artist be consciously aware of the discourse their art has an affinity with? (does 'avoid' imply an awareness of and a choice not to engage?) -also, could this discourse be internal, within the artists own system?
ReplyDelete"my art career was really taking off, until I made it onto Saul's 'pseudo' list" - anonymous pseudo-artist :(
ReplyDeletehours can be more obsessive compulsive than critical explorations, or obsessed with techniques over meaning. I wonder if more work in sale-based galleries may fit this 'pseudo' idea - safe commodities - resembles accepted art without challenging the system. 'REAL' art COULD make it into a museum IF someone of esteem champions it, but more likely it will eventually make it to a dumpster :)
ReplyDeleteart is the conversation, not the final word
ReplyDelete"art is greater than the object or the label, art is a powerful functionality below the foundation of consciousness, our words only whisper ghosts of the god." - precocious and/or pretentious grad student
ReplyDeletecould these art writings merely pass through the art, to branch from its roots, to grow in a symbiotic affinity, without any dependencies or hierarchies, to compound into some greater understanding beyond the capacity of either media? (idealistic? :)
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