art is not a handicraft. it is a transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.-tolstoy. or at least according to some poster i saw yesterday , these words are tolstoys! no matter. i believe its true. art is definitely self expression to the max. the more one has experienced the richer ones art . this applies to writing , painting, crochet , photography, jewelery making , etc. its not just a matter of slapping some words together or following a pattern. its a matter of transmitting one's being via creativity.
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If art is a reflection of the collective mind of a culture or generation, what can we conclude from contemporary art?
Modern art tries to seek harmony in discord, without symmetry or structure.
Classical art forms have given way to the distinctive "auteurship" we intellectually appreciate. Ballet has fallen to contemporary dance in which pirouettes lead to falls on the ground; the symphony of classical music had evolved to the creative harmony of cacophonous sounds of Radiohead; our impressionists have been pushed aside to the contemporary art of cubism and splatterpaint and incongruous asymmetrical shapes; sculpture and architecture with rules and strict shapes have become amorphous; and poetry, which used to have rules and parameters (think... Shakespeare) now need not grammar nor punctuation nor form.
We have gone from ordered art to disordered art - appreciate the creative and avant-garde inspiration. Is this new art an instigator or merely a representation of the mind(set) and soul of our new society?
Have we became ruleless and "art theory anarchists" (my own term) that our classical, structured, and harmonious mind has resigned?
Yes these new forms can be beautiful (even more so we sometimes think). And we (at least those included in this email) think of our new art as evolutions of centuries of beautiful (some may say, incorrectly of course, stale) movements and continual periodical progress (however, progress over those centuries stayed within a set of rules and guidelines).
(I'm not discussing what is or isn't art, what to or not to appreciate, I'm merely reflecting the "point that creative expression of this generation reflects a preoccupation with such dissonances.")
If it's true that our mind and soul is revealed in physical realities, that outer form mirror inner essence, what should we be thinking?
What is our art reflecting of our culture and generation?
this is a good question that you have posed. im not sure that i know the answer. i do believe that the art of this generation is an emanation of who people are but i cannot begin to analize it.
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