it is my understanding from my own experience that
art expresses the essence of things, most always to
the pleasure of one and displeasure of another.
The expression once expressed becomes an object
of fact that can only be interpreted subjectively.
We each live in our world of individual experiences
and conclusions of taste and meaning in which
A equals X or ugly to one is beauty to another.
Our individual human choice within the aesthetic
umbrella of choices is probably as rare to match
with another, as a DNA match is. Close maybe.
I think all of us love the aesthetic choices in which
we live, but as an artist, I want to play in the outer
boundaries of the essence yet stay connected to
nature
mando
On May 24, 2008, at 5:22 PM, William Conger wrote:
Yes, that's the paradox or the dialectical problem
with modernism and the avant garde. It is both
destructive, even nihilistic, and constructive and
optimistic. It must destroy the status quo and offer
a new future all at once. So the issue is can
modernism reimagine beauty and the original even as it
forsakes the commonplace and the continual novelty
that sustains mass culture and the capitalist
imperialism degrading everything to use value? I
don't know of course, but I am very committed to art
that reflects the renewed spiritualization of
autonomous or individual identity. I would prefer
visual art to be more like poetry, about particular
human experience, and less about matching itself to
mass culture and the commonplace. No one is paying 25
million for a poem these days. Serious poetry remains
free from from stramroller banality.
WC
--- Mike Mallory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "The meaning of things lies not in the
things themselves but in
ou r attitude towards them."
One important step -- being to ignore that which
is "paralyzingly banal,
empty, distressing, depressing, and deathly" --
and identify that which
is
invigorating, encouraging, vital, comforting,
wholesome and enjoyable.
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There is often an identification of both the
attractive and the repulsive on
this list. I believe that such an indetification is
a worthwhile goal for
the individual seeking to understand the nature of
her taste. However, I
thought the question before this list was whether
such a claim to the "
invigorating, encouraging, vital, comforting,
wholesome and enjoyable" was
justifiable.
Mike Mallory
