What if the idea is a modernist construct?
--
James Whitehead
I have thought very simply about this....the "modern" art or whatever...
being Modern means to change and to think about what u can be and that means
u cant be the same as the others were!!!so postmodern has actually folowed
the same rule...so it is "modern" again!
Only if you think post-modernism has contributed in this way - but look
at the *new* mini cooper for example...
--
James Whitehead
Post-modernity as the inability or unwillingness to change - hence its
backward looking pre-occupations.
--
James Whitehead
Individualism in a sense destroys the hegemony which allows "Fine Art"
to exist...
>think about impressionists ..and others ..they used to continue each
>others works..and after these kind of continiues there was a big
>result.. another "ism"
Yes they worked within a tradition - which had a narrative - this is
typical of Modernity
>was made in this result...
>but with this kind of looking back, its a huge history u can choose to
>work on..
Again perhaps so - but work on and not in - a big difference. To work in
the tradition of modernism is to take part in its co-operative venture -
to work on it is to live either parasitically on it - if its alive - or
of its remains..
>and look back.. and that means you are the only one who is searching
>the history like that ...and your work is influenced by that very
>special looking back...
It doesn't much matter.
--
James Whitehead
To come to your question, we live on a turning point. Less and less
people are impressed by new experiments of individual artists, while
in the 60th and 70th the word "experiment" was a magical expression
that captivated almost everyone. It is not because art subsidies are
cutted down by low economy, but I strongly believe that people are
tired of egocentric biografies artist have invented in the last
decades. The question has arisen: what is accually a painting and why
should people continue painting? What is the use of it beside
decorational values? Is there something left for the future? Many
artists are nowadays rediscovering painting as one of the most direct
ways of expression of ideas and feelings. Not as a nostalgy but
because between the painter and his canvas there is no loss of
information.
In 2030 we will look back to 1965-2000 ; this neo-modernistic period
was not as an enlightend time for art, when artists were overestimated
to the utmost. When the artist started to develop to a mystery-man who
was giving the crowd sacred messages and boring riddles. There is no
better time than now to convince everyone that there is a good reason
to start painting again!
greetings Fons Bloemen
http://bloemen.fol.nl
The study of what has - and how it has died in modernity is an
interesting field - necro-philosophy? necrosophy? In that its not
obvious - the corpse is - in a way - very much alive though no longer an
organic whole - no longer a hierarchy - but a mass of individuals living
off the residues of life. This presents the illusion of idea - of art -
of dream but its movement is uncoordinated - well may be directed by the
interest in where in the putrefaction is the best sustenance to be
found.
to the maggot the corpse is beauty itself.
--
James Whitehead
Fons
What differs today art to your idea with 20th century or 17th century
art? What makes postmodernism different with other arts and do you
find postmodernist art superior to its predecessors?
Fons
> Painting is dead. Art of the future is idea. lucid dream as art. the
I have 204 paintings from lucid dreams on the web. I look for
paintings in my lucid dreams and reproduce the ones I like.
http://www.epicdewfall.ca/
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 03:05:26 -0400, Epic Dewfall <b...@epicdewfall.ca>
wrote:
NO JOKE
If the james above refers to me - then you misunderstand my point -
which is 'painting as art is dead' and perhaps further- so is art. The
'personal' tool for expression which you use painting as is not the same
thing - its a form of graffiti - which if considered as art negates art
- as having any value judgements within it - everything is then allowed
in art and is as good as anything else. Of course there are lots of
painting - bridges - doors, but also on Sunday afternoons with water-
colours - or in classrooms by school children. If we take the tools of
the enlightenment and use them now just to represent our own
subjectivity then we have destroyed art. In the same way as saying 2+2
is equal to anything you like destroys mathematics. The very act of
painting now is part of this destruction- to keep art alive we would
need to stop - as Duchamp anticipated.
--
James Whitehead
and that painting is like going back to the horse and buggy days. I would
stress that the impact of whatever medium one uses is where the power is,
not the medium itself. I find H.R Giger interesting at some point, but
totally
useless at another. There is nothing in his art that evokes a process or
chain
reaction of useful ideas. He would be much better of an artist for
illustrating
technical manuals or chemistry books.
In five minutes this paragraph will self-destruct.
The beauty of the self destruct tape in Mission Impossible is - hey why
not tape the recording! Before it destructs.... well James Bond would
have with his Mont Blanc pen. (sic)
--
James Whitehead
Cezanne didnt know about that..!!and I think in our century It is a
very big change to underestand our diferences and accept them...so...
I mean they used to search other culture to find the way they can be a
very new painter!!!but now we are not that interested in african
sculptures as Picasso were...cause we have seen it alot...so....
I think the big change is not making new paintings!!!or even something
like new Idia!!!!!!the new thing is something behind all these
things.....what do u think..?
I think we've got to stop defining art, only what makes "good" art and
"bad" art. It seems there are as many definitions for art as there are
artists and all of them could be right...Also, I think that at the
same time we've got to gather our wits about us and find out where we
want to go, if at all. The problem, in my opinion, is that we're
moving in different directions and we don't even know where we're
going...I mean, the goal is always the same, the artist is always
searching for something, but each of us has a different way of finding
it, and, as in religion, politics, etc. "different" doesn't mean
"wrong", as people always seem to confuse these two. Oh well, to
continue along this line would result in a very long, elaborate
discussion, as we'll have to enter the realms of psychology and man's
deep seated fear of what is different.