--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The arts are an especially rich source of sweet suffering. Or > > > > maybe I'm listening to too much opera, and seeing too > > > > many heavy movies. But artists seem to revel in mixing beauty > > > > and pain. I figured that was not just an artist's trick, but > > > > a reflection of life. > > > > > > Something I've always wondered about: What happens to > > > art in a (hypothetical) Age of Enlightenment? > > > > > > Can you take pain and suffering and struggle out of > > > the mixture and have art just be about joy? > > > > I just uploaded 4 of my pieces, done over the last 25 years, into > > the Photos section under miscellaneous. Other than the mandala, > > which is colored pencil and metallic ink on paper, the others are > > montages from photos of carved and colored wood pieces, ranging in > > size from about a foot square to about 3.5 feet by 10 inches. Art > > reflects the pysche and interest of the artist. > > The artists I support as "mini-patron" are all > completely positive. They don't buy into the > "art is suffering" crap, and it doesn't appear > in their work. They manage to sell a lot of it, > so t'would seem that there are a lot of art > buyers out there who don't buy into the > suffering crap, either. > Good for you! Yeah, I found it [art is suffering] was something I DID express when I was about 13, going through the usual teenage angst. Then I outgrew it...several artists whose stuff is really dark, and I like anyway, are helen frankenthaler, willem dekooning and of course edvard munch, but they are by far the exception, not the rule. Absolutely no need to suffer to produce good art.
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