Hehehe,
well why don't I just sit here and say.. "Art.. its all subjective"
I just think that we have exhausted our mediums.. and perhaps even
exhausted our techniques.. but I am going to back off on this one because I
am not a fine artist. I just feel that the techniques used in art are the
only things that have been evolving. "Sensation" was a great show.. but in
the end all I could really come to the conclusion of is that the subject
matter was shocking..
In this day it seems that trying to get something that isn't normally
recognized as "art" to be recognized as art (embalmed animals) is the main
focus of artists.. In away this is tired.. Just move to San Francisco and
you got people sticking bottles of JD up their arse and calling it
performance art... Pop art today is more or less pushing what we percieve
as art.. I don't think art has anything to do with asthetics these days.
Form has flown out the fucking door... Function is more of a science..
Sticking bottles up your ass and painting on your nipples seems to be
todays art.. Sad day it is.. I think.
Photography.. Why don't we just take a bunch of pictures of little kids in
an orgy.. Wow, thats art! How about taking shit and applying it to
canvas.. Whoa.. what a concept.... Dunno its all so tired to me.. Taboos
have been broken a long time ago.. need we break them again and again to
show how arty we are.
Then again.. an age old art school exercise is this.. "Invent a new orginal
art movement. Come up with a manifesto for that movement." Take a shot at
that.. and see if you can come up with anything that hasn't been done.
By far I think art today that isn't sorry is hard to find.. .. but as I
said before.. ITS all subjective.. and nothing I say really means anything
to anyone else.. just myself.
And maybe in the end.. Having the right to enjoy a personal opinion about a
subject. such as art. no matter how dumb that opinion or smart that opinion
or stubborn that opinion is.... is the true beauty of art.
John
At 12:06 AM 3/31/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>John Drefahl wrote:
> > Well I have asked myself this question many times.. Have we taken >the
> > mediums to the point of exhaustion?
>If that's the only game in town, maybe. Or maybe we'll learn to move on
>from judging things just in terms of whether they advance things.
>
> > Have we done everything that is
> > to be done.
>As worried about in the C19th, at least.
>
> > Now it seems we just recreate it over and
> > over again.. as if it was an excercise.
>Doesn't that depend on your attitude - if you put something of yourself
>in, or just want to recreate someone elses work.
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