| I was just thinking about "artistic merit". I am lucky that I grew up across the street from a rather edgy radical museum in New York City. The Whitney is renowned for displaying art that most folks would shake their heads at in confusion. I myself definitely did not understand much of what I saw there. I didn't like it, I didn't "get" it, I saw no reason for putting it in a museum. But then again I was a young adult trying to make sense of the world. But huge canvases painted white with nothing else on it just didn't do it for me. I was also lucky to have traveled to Venice, Italy and was exposed to the greats like Titian, Tintoretto, Bellini, Raphael, da Vinci, and the likes. So my visits to the Whitney Museum were interesting, I racked my brain trying to figure out what this art meant. So what is artistic merit anyway. Does it mean I would buy it? Hang it above my couch? Do I react to it or not, walk on by, or stop and view. I dunno. Recently I was on a website that featured an artist's work. I had thought the point was for the viewers to react and dialog about the artwork. A hard thing to do, would the artist be offended if something bad was said? I noticed that none of us has been brave enough to say much of anything. Did I like the art? Nope, sorry. Does it have artistic merit? yes, I suppose so. If anything, art does make us react in one way or another.....  "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better." -- Laurie Anderson Dragonfly Dream www.dragonflydream.com gotta mail art call to post? |
- (",) artistic merit Dragonfly Dream
- Re: (",) artistic merit Reid Wood
