Art as life, part deux
It's funny to try to judge someone and someone's work from a distance, and yet we do this all the time when considering public people. Of course, this leaves us open to making quick judgments based on nothing more than a handful of glimpses, and why it's important for those in the public eye to curate those glimpses and thus gain the upper hand by manipulating us.
And so it goes. Recently, I found an interview of an artist, whose work I enjoy immensely. You may have read about a view of the pieces she paints. She has been moving towards structures and sculptures which have actual movement. Interesting, most of this. Funny thing is that in the interview she explains some of this, and what flowed from the critics is nothing short of a vitriol that I'm sure I will never understand. See if the interview irks you.
The artist explains how she sees the world is history as some ever changing flow of actions with a person (in multitude, in other words multiplied by billions) and how they influence each other and their histories and perception of life and so on [1]. She is still trying to approximate that and perhaps paintings and sculptures are all not enough to do so? Moving sculptures are next, she says.
History, or trying to write about it, or even about the human condition is like standing in the middle of a flowing stream and saying the cold I feel speaks to everything about the stream. It doesn't. It doesn't even speak to the water that was once flowing when we weren't standing in the stream. And this is how she sees life, humans and their inability to really speak about the world.
Her art, she hopes will sooner or later become a better approximation. Let's see.
[1] so far so post modernism, right?
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And so it goes. Recently, I found an interview of an artist, whose work I enjoy immensely. You may have read about a view of the pieces she paints. She has been moving towards structures and sculptures which have actual movement. Interesting, most of this. Funny thing is that in the interview she explains some of this, and what flowed from the critics is nothing short of a vitriol that I'm sure I will never understand. See if the interview irks you.
The artist explains how she sees the world is history as some ever changing flow of actions with a person (in multitude, in other words multiplied by billions) and how they influence each other and their histories and perception of life and so on [1]. She is still trying to approximate that and perhaps paintings and sculptures are all not enough to do so? Moving sculptures are next, she says.
History, or trying to write about it, or even about the human condition is like standing in the middle of a flowing stream and saying the cold I feel speaks to everything about the stream. It doesn't. It doesn't even speak to the water that was once flowing when we weren't standing in the stream. And this is how she sees life, humans and their inability to really speak about the world.
Her art, she hopes will sooner or later become a better approximation. Let's see.
[1] so far so post modernism, right?
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