its a rush, anyone who's done it will tell you that.
My basic view on art is that it is meant to make people think. many people today might agree that they are dealing with too many messages in their lives; it feels like I spend 90% of my waking hours trying to make sense of it all...
maybe my math is a bit off.
anyways, what I'm getting at is that more or less messages isn't the problem, but the quality...and the Effect (of course this is completely subjective to the individual). What i take from the graffiti movement in the last few decades--is these pieces in unexpected places are welcome grassroots artworks that incorporate and uplift/ even enlighten their surroundings-the most modern art form in my eyes
btw,
"The soul never thinks without an image."—Aristotle.
I believe that true art changes the way you perceive the world. Art CHANGES you, makes you see things you didn't otherwise see in the world. First an artist must discover something and then find a way to let the world know. This is not easy. The artist cannot (and should not) simply tell you, they can only show you. In doing this they create art. This 'something' that is discovered can be anything, an idea, an observation, an argument. It can be as simple as discovering color in shadows, but I think the most powerful art reveals a universal truth.
In class today we were discussing Shelby Foote's "The Civil War" and some of the characters, and I think that Foote may have been trying to show is that TRUTH is hard to see. I think that is what Rene Magritte was getting at in this painting. He said that "Everything we see hides another thing."
Painting and sculpture are not always art, some are just entertainment, and there is nothing wrong with that. I think that most books, music and movies are entertainment, but some can be art too. There are a few I think that are art and not entertainment though, like some of John Cage's compositions (look up 4'33") or Andy Warhol's films (look up Sleep or Empire). Either way it is very subjective and up to the individual.
I think that this song is a good example of something that is both art and entertainment. Peep the first verse, it's amazing.
Anyways there are many definitions of what ART is, this is just mine, who knows if its right or wrong, but its kind of fun to think about...
