Thankyou for your reply to this. I agree with much of what you say, especially your second paragraph, but I am going to have to spend a little more time to understand...
My mind just kept getting stuck on the statement "art is not communication", it is a powerful sentance! Rene Magritte's "This Is Not A Pipe" painting came to mind not long after. Thanks. On 20/8/2007, "ARN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >james jwm-art net a écrit : >> i'm getting upset now. >> >> >> can you then just clarify for me this statement: >> >> "art is not communication". >> >> art is not just communication? >> art is not the act of communication? >> art is not communicating? >> art does not communicate? >> >> ****?????____WHY____?????***** >> >> why is art not communication? >> >> simple case: artist has idea. artist make art about idea. someone sees >> art and understands idea about it. >> >> so therefor has not the art communicated the idea? > >this simple case is a good example, and yes in this case, art is similar >to communication. but i consider this process is one of the less >creative process, one of the less able to produce artistic outputs. it's >probably more efficient when you have an idea to communicate it with >words, write a paper, make a poster or something like that. On the other >side, you don't need to have ideas to make art. You can write, draw, >paint, make installations or write code without having a special idea to >share, you can simply make things, and see then if these things give you >ideas. surely they will, and they will give other ideas to other people. > >art is not communication because you can not reduce the artefact to a >message, despite what's happening today in many exhibition. you can >often hear or read 'the artist in this piece wanted to say ... blah >blah...', so we can ask: if the artist wanted to say that, why didn't he >just say it ? why did he a piece of art instead ? why was he so silly to >confuse the message to transmit with, for example, a such polysemic >installation ? > >because for many people, as for many artists, art is communication, art >is a media, like another one, and sometimes a piece of art should be a >demonstration? why not, but when you have science and communication, why >should you still need art ? > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
