Subject matter in art with timelessness and universality is an important ingredient to me. With a universality, communicates in the visual timeless language of ones soul. It's those natural relatively unchanging things, forms, colors and symbols common to all, that hopefully would be understood yesterday, today and tomorrow, and yet, have a unique individual aesthetics.
mando On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:02 PM, William Conger wrote: > I think it's fine to promote your own taste. But do your choices > match those of the mainstream? I've always agreed with the view > that all options (all styles and tastes) are always present and > competing for mainstream attention. However, certain social/art > forces are also always dominant and will run their courses. The > question is how relevant are they to the social/art reality --as > examined by other means-- and how well do they counter the claims > of those other options? There is a personal taste and a > "historical" taste always in some dialectical or even paradoxical > relationship. In today's art scene, the personal is out, the > historical dialectic is in. > > With the growing influence of the "flat world" of wireless > technology it seems that more and more value is given to the > artificial sharing of global "discourse" and less and less to the > actual sharing of lived experience. In art this seems to be > augmenting idea art, conceptual and purely stylistic trends that > don't require any personal taste or sharing of lived experience in > terms of place and context. Thus the kind of art and taste that is > "out" is that which relies on the individual experience. This > alienation of lived experience has distanced art from actuality and > has replaced it with the mediated world of "global" imagery. The > end result is the domination of truly dehumanized > art...indistinguishable in content and appeal from brand-name > consumer products. > > WC > > > --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Chris Miller <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: competent people with discerning taste and knowledge >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 6:42 PM >> My mistake -- it should have been obvious to me that only >> Brady would feel >> that the topic of masturbation was embarrassing enough to >> aggressively joke >> about it. >> >> Well --- it doesn't embarrass me -- nor does promoting >> the things I like and >> why I like them (i.e. promulgating my taste) >> >> I think that's the kind of contribution that all of us >> can make to our >> culture. >> >> **************** >> >> >>> Brady is the jokester here. He's the one who made >> the hairy palm quip. I'm >> way too serious -- philosophical, intellectual, spiritual >> -- for that sort of >> thing. >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Click to compare life insurance rates. Great rates, quick >> and easy. >> http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/ >> PnY6rc1kRj6smTyslh3yM1atZQtcnI >> W7EwJ9TDYyBBEmLdXY1W48c/
