Re: 'I get the feeling that you really don't know as much about art as i thought.'
I don't know about Chris, but I often get the feeling that I don't know as much about art as I thought. DA On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 6:03 AM, armando baeza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris, > I think that working from one's soul will attain better Aesthetic results > than always making copies of models and expecting life to emerge. > That's like playing 'mary had a little lamb' over and over and expect the > classics to emerge. You have to learn to swim before in get in deep water > > Of course one needs a good foundation before, in any creative endeavor. > I get the feeling that you really don't know as much about art as i thought. > mando > > > On Jun 22, 2008, at 10:04 AM, Chris Miller wrote: > >> Mando's persistent argument on behalf of self-direction is a fine guide to >> creativity and success in the popular arts. >> >> It's exactly what I'd expect an emerging punk band to be doing in their >> garage >> -- finding their own unique voice -- inventing the music that they like to >> hear - and then hoping there's a lot of other people who like it too. >> >> But it doesn't quite address the challenge of making high art - where >> artists >> must be aware of -- no, even more --- artists must closely study and >> compete >> with canonical achievements of the past. >> >> And maintaining something like a high art has been a real challenge in the >> visual arts over the past hundred years because the institutions of >> Modernism >> (museums and schools) have failed to do it. They simply have not been >> able to >> reconcile innovation with quality. >> >> If you're not interested in high art, this would not be a problem - but >> I >> think most of us are -- with the exception of Cheerskep and Mando. >> ***************** >> >> >> >> IF all of you would read my old paper back by Susanne >> K. Langer, 'Feeling and Form' on the aesthetic experience as >> presented by Clive Bell. >> One would conclude, it's not in the object itself but >> in our like mindedness >> in our personal experience to it's related forms of >> all sensed things. >> At least, I am convinced of that, and why I work to >> relate my forms in the >> creation of what I do ,from my own being, and trust >> that others will feel it too. >> Mando >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Get Visual Basic Software and Training. Click here. >> >> http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/Ioyw6ijlVoiEk3JVINXBKi6Cr4g2C5 >> YKaFHOpfeYB3yyorYIsLJF3W/ > > -- Derek Allan http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/default.htm
