No Time for Free Expression Art
John Ng
> Sorry lad, but I was thinking of those who paint because,
> well, they have no choice - there is something deep within that must
> be expressed in painting.
It is the stereotype idea that artists are mad hatters and all look
like Andy Warhol or Ozzie Osbourne. "Free expression" can produce
results that people like Bonnie will call art but art that we really
treasure, for centuries to come, are those that are executed with
precision and skill with an overall result of astounding beauty. The
fad element, or what most people term "Free Expression", comes last.
In an earlier post, I relate "Free Expression" art to music. That
is, "Free Expression" music artists like Yoko Ono goes on stage and
screams her lungs out. You don't call that music? and certainly if
you do, you wouldn't purchase her recordings. How then can a similar
"Free Expression" 2D artists like Pollock spills paint irresponsibly
and ends up with something that you call art? Simple... lies and
deception, promoted by the critics and the media. The public is taken
in, and Bonnie too.
"Free Expression"... you do it on your neighbour's wall, you do it in
News Groups, but you won't catch me hanging someone else's pointless
doodle on my wall. No thanks, I can do my own and better too.
John
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keith o'connor (tinmangallery.com
therefore not a true modern abstract artist who has abandoned all traces of
traditional methods.
I do agree with you about YO.
Warhol comes into the new modern group - His work does not appeal to me but
I recognise it as expressing the general mood of that generation.
If I may draw a parallel - it has been argued that Victorian pastoral
painters filled the walls of their clients with happy tranquil village
scenes that never existed. We may find those realistic looking scenes
pleasing but they are all pictorial lies. Abstract artists also paint
scenes that never existed but they don't use realism to fool people and they
are called liars.
When it comes to art we are free to choose between the likeable liars and
the unlikable liars.
Art people think it is so simple to understand - we see what we want to see
and what we see tells the world what we are.
keith
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