Why is art-"art"?
D i m i t r i
observers of a scene? Can we readily stop and admire a "real-time" still
life setting of pots and plants without capturing it on canvas? Have any
of you ever taken a mental 'snapshot' of a moment in your day? A
moist-eyed child with fingers clutched weakly through a chain link
fence, watching the bigger kids play ball. An old couple firmly holding
hands-grey eyes still alight with love and words no longer necessary.
Did you ever wonder if other people on the bus or on the walk were
sharing your inner thoughts about these scenes? Or were they thinking
about how cold it was, or if supper would be ready when they finally
made it home. They don't see the child, or the couple. They are blind.
Why are your eyes open? Why do you appreciate it?
How many of us have forgotten how to look at this world with a childish
curiosity?
Is it because it forces us to face an instant of time devoid of
complexity? Time that we do not believe we have? Power we think we do
not hold. A simplicity that we are somehow afraid of?
How many of you still look at the clouds or the stars at night and
ponder how small you really are. Maybe you were looking for answers and
then laughing to yourself for being so foolish, like I have. Maybe it
was hope you were looking for. Maybe just needing a moment to remind
ourselves that strength and beauty can wear the guise of simplicity.
Maybe there ARE answers in simplicity. Answers to questions we are blind
to.
When was the last snow angel you made? God that was fun. A picture of a
child making a snow angel is a powerful image which would make me smile
and remember. Is this art? Simple-powerful, thought provoking?
I wonder what intrigues us about art? Maybe it's what intrigues us about
ourselves, but we just don't listen much anymore, until someone or
something reminds us to look.
Mette Sabram
And you are right. I haven't really looked for a long time. I haven't seen
life.
Thank you for this inspirational piece.
D i m i t r i wrote in message <3831D1AA...@the-spa.com>...
glorywest
D i m i t r i wrote:
> What intrigues us about art? What are we REALLY appreciating as
> observers of a scene?
I see the things you mention all the time.
All the time my mind is in a healthy state that is. When I'm low and feeling
overwhelmed, stupid or rushed I can't see those things.
Unless the image is too powerful to ignore.
Sometimes images are like that. Too powerful to ignore or pass by. Even
abstract things. Just color or shape or texture. Or terribly simple things
like the moon or the sun or the stars.
Sometimes those simple things jolt me back to reality. They give me back my
perspective so I can carry on.
drewpatterson
Briefly though, it seems that a good portion of the imagery mentioned below
has now become cliché, and that's a shame. With the recent influx of
information, nothing is new nor shocking.
Luckily, I have the chance to see life through the eyes of my 2 and 4 yr.
olds.
Thanks for the inspiration. I'll try to keep a good lookout for these
treasures.
Drew
D i m i t r i wrote:
> What intrigues us about art? What are we REALLY appreciating as
sistercarol
to take your clothes off.
--Carol
Baden Chant <b.c...@uws.edu.au> wrote in message
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>
>
> D i m i t r i wrote:
>
> > What intrigues us about art?
>
> The fact that suckers will pay millions for a bit of paint on
canvas. .
> .err. . .just kidding.
>
> As the poet said "Each man is an island". Art is the bridge that
let's you
> cross over to someone else's perspective on things. You see an
image that
> speaks to you, the best way to share that with others is to
express it
> through art - that can be a painting, music, words whatever
medium you
> choose.
>
> That is why the best art evokes emotion - the artist is inviting
you to not
> only see or hear or think what he sees or hears or thinks but
also to
> experience what he feels. That is pretty heady stuff. No wonder
the suckers
> are willing to pay millions...
>
> And then there is artifice - the use of technique - sometimes to
better
> convey vision, but more often to make up for lack of it. This is
intriguing
> to me as well, but not in the same inspiring way that a dash of
pure genius
> can be. Good technique makes you nod in appreaciation, brilliant
art makes
> you stop in your tracks and stare dumbfounded at naked genius
until some
> kindly soul reminds you that staring at something slack jawed
for half an
> hour is a great way to get covered in drool.
>
>
> Baden
>
>
>
>
>
David A. Burgess
~DAB
Terry L. Griffin
cloud gazing...they're the most beautiful things in nature to me.
Ooh, and I'll tell you what manages to hypnotize me every
time...reflected moonlight. Whenever there's a full moon, I know it
without even having to look up at the sky. Catching the cast shadow of a
tree at night. Or the pale glow of your own skin lit by the moon...it's
awesome stuff.
I once sat and stared riveted for hours at a quite impressive halo
around the moon...the first and only time I've ever seen one. (I'm a
city boy. *hehe*)
And yeah, the last time I stared directly up into a starry night, I
actually got disoriented...lost in space. I'll tell you, God's creation
is truly an amazing sight.
terry
D i m i t r i wrote:
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Baden Chant
D i m i t r i wrote:
> What intrigues us about art?
The fact that suckers will pay millions for a bit of paint on canvas. .
Limelight
Wonderful thoughts you've shared. You may have been the one to 'remind us to
look' again. I love looking at the finer details in life and getting lost in
the thoughts I have. However, it's too often that life becomes busy and it
just passes you by. Thank god for weekends and holidays!
Helen
Limelight
D i m i t r i wrote in message
D i m i t r i
sistercarol wrote:
>
> Art is a way to become very intimate with strangers without having
> to take your clothes off.
>
> --Carol
>
> Baden Chant <b.c...@uws.edu.au> wrote in message
> news:38315A30...@uws.edu.au...
> >
> >
> > D i m i t r i wrote:
> >
> > > What intrigues us about art?
> >
D i m i t r i
wow
"Terry L. Griffin" wrote:
>
> ... Or the pale glow of your own skin lit by the moon...it's
> awesome stuff.
>
>
David A. Burgess
them.
I love to take pictures. I would spend my entire paycheque on film if I
didn't have to spend half of it on developing. When I don't have film, it's
like a physical itch I just can't scratch. I look around and I see this
scenes, these snapshots, these little pieces of time and I wish so badly
there was a camera in my head, because no matter how hard I concentrate, I
can never remember them for long.
Sometimes I will see someone or something or some scene so breathtaking, so
beautiful, that I just ache to capture the vision, the moment. So many times
though, I don't have my camera, or the moment passes too quickly, and it's
lost... and I feel such a profound sense of loss that it almost hurts
physically... to have seen, experienced, something so beautiful or
meaningful and not to be able to share it with someone...
That is what I try to do with my photographs, and less often, my drawings.
To share with others something that is just too important to keep to myself.
Then again, I've always been a little odd... *smile*
~DAB
D i m i t r i wrote:
David A. Burgess
~DAB
D i m i t r i wrote:
V1V1V1V
>child making a snow angel is a powerful image which would make me smile
>and remember. Is this art?
Yeah..Its art..If you like normal rockwell.
-666BLACK DEATH OCTOPUS666-
Mikkel Gram-Hansen
Don't recall who said it, but actually he said that "NO man is an island"
Unless you are thinking of someone else ;)
Mikkel
sistercarol
--Carol
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> I like that statement, may I quote/borrow it?
>
> ~DAB
>
>
> sistercarol wrote:
>
> > Art is a way to become very intimate with strangers without
having
> > to take your clothes off.
> >
> > --Carol
> >
> > Baden Chant <b.c...@uws.edu.au> wrote in message
> > news:38315A30...@uws.edu.au...
> > >
> > >
> > > D i m i t r i wrote:
> > >
> > > > What intrigues us about art?
> > >
sistercarol
tell a stranger in the street.
Same with singing. I can make you laugh, cry, get angry --
whatever. It's a beautiful thing to look at an audience and see
that one person who has reacted so strongly to what you've just
said.
--Carol
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> I like that.
JLamb
It is a sight that was not not common when I was a child and I will never take
for granted.
"David A. Burgess" wrote:
> Sometimes it almost hurts to see the beautiful things if you can't share
> them.
>
> I love to take pictures. I would spend my entire paycheque on film if I
> didn't have to spend half of it on developing. When I don't have film, it's
> like a physical itch I just can't scratch. I look around and I see this
> scenes, these snapshots, these little pieces of time and I wish so badly
> there was a camera in my head, because no matter how hard I concentrate, I
> can never remember them for long.
>
> Sometimes I will see someone or something or some scene so breathtaking, so
> beautiful, that I just ache to capture the vision, the moment. So many times
> though, I don't have my camera, or the moment passes too quickly, and it's
> lost... and I feel such a profound sense of loss that it almost hurts
> physically... to have seen, experienced, something so beautiful or
> meaningful and not to be able to share it with someone...
>
> That is what I try to do with my photographs, and less often, my drawings.
> To share with others something that is just too important to keep to myself.
>
> Then again, I've always been a little odd... *smile*
>
> ~DAB
>
> D i m i t r i wrote:
>
> > When was the last snow angel you made? God that was fun. A picture of a
> > child making a snow angel is a powerful image which would make me smile
> > and remember. Is this art? Simple-powerful, thought provoking?
> >
> > I wonder what intrigues us about art? Maybe it's what intrigues us about
> > ourselves, but we just don't listen much anymore, until someone or
> > something reminds us to look.
Baden Chant
> > As the poet said "Each man is an island".
>
> Don't recall who said it, but actually he said that "NO man is an island"
> Unless you are thinking of someone else ;)
>
> Mikkel
Just a little poetic license on my part.
Baden
GeorgyGirl
voice cuts in with: "He's a peninsula"....and the track is called...
(Runs into livingroom)
"A Small Package of Value Will Come To You Shortly" (Side One, After Bathing
at Baxter's)
GeorgyGirl
--
"A verbal contract to support a football team may not, in Sam Goldwyn's
memorable phrase, be worth the paper it's written on, but in the minds of
millions of us, it is as binding as one written in blood."
Mikkel Gram-Hansen wrote in message ...
JLamb
GeorgyGirl wrote:
Mikkel Gram-Hansen
island?
Or was is "I rock coz' i'm from Iceland" ??
Mikkel