Recruiting shoes .... and art

[Shiney]

>"Kim Trollip" <k...@frdmail.frd.ac.za> wrote:
>
>Hi shoes
>
>> Sue wrote:
>> glad to see a DOT ZA shoe again boots
>
>I've been recruiting too - a South African from the southern tip of our
>country and her first post has gone unanswered. So on the brink of
>despair ;-) she is creating really dark brooding paintings in her
>Cape Town studio, because no-one on ASLM responded to her post <g>.

Oh Helen, don't despair!!! I read your post and was interested in what you
had to say, but having no artistic expertise, I felt totally inadequate when
it came to responding! I was hoping that one of the more artistic shoes
would respond. Don't go away! And WELCOME, btw.... come back lots!

I hope your despair is proving fruitful, btw , and you're producing some
masterpieces ;-) - although how anyone could despair with Kim *Un-Spice* T
onside is quite beyond me, hee hee...
>
>So that's what I'm going to do right now:
>
>> Helen wrote:
>> Any artists' out there want to share thought processes? I paint
>> environmental chaos, landscapes and more recently, trying to locate
>> the vision of hope within my palette.
>
>Well Helen, as you know I'm no artist, but what I do know in my short
>time on aslm is that there are a lot of thought processes relating to
>the environment, landcapes and visions of hope being discussed here.
>Some of us express hope through art, some of us pass on messages
>of hope by word of mouth and others chat about it using electronic
>media.
>
>Perhaps we should throw out the question to aslm and get their input
>on art as a medium for healing the planet. Is it a viable one?
>Success stories?
>
>Kim
>boots looking forward to the easter break

Hmmm, well, let me see, do I have anything intelligent to add to this? Oh
dear, probably not - not that THAT usually stops me ;-) <looking around and
taking a deep breath> Oh well, here I go...

Art as a viable medium for healing the planet? As a consciousness raiser, I
certainly think art has great potential. But a stumbling block (and here I
have to draw on personal opinion based upon my inept research a couple of
years ago for an essay on postmodernism in art and architecture) is possibly
its accessibility.

There's this idea that *Art* is a High Culture thing, and as such, it is
frequently inaccessible to *the masses* - I mean, you stick it in an art
gallery somewhere, and only gallery-goers get to experience it, and the
average person doesn't go to an art gallery very often. OTOH, if it's
mass-produced and put in places where it *is* accessible to everyone
(posters, shopping mall displays etc) - it somehow loses its claim to be
recognised as *Art*. If it's not recognised as Art, even if it raises
consciousness and helps heal the planet, you can't say that *Art* has helped
heal the planet, because your mass-produced, accessible artwork gets called
craft, or poster-art, or something else - oh bugger, I think I'm making a
mess of this.

Hey Tilly..... TILLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! You posted something a while
back, I think, about the dichotomy between art and craft, and as an artist
you are far better qualified to talk about this than I, in my half-baked
way, have attempted to do....

HEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sue
floundering, unartistic boots

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[Pat]

On 10 Apr 98 at 5:11, Shoe Moderated wrote:

> "Shiney" <shi...@dynamite.com.au> wrote:
>
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> the planet, you can't say that *Art* has helped heal the planet,
> because your mass-produced, accessible artwork gets called craft, or
> poster-art, or something else

[]

> Sue
> floundering, unartistic boots

Well said, Sue! I think art, whether it's seen by a few or by many,
can definately affect the health of the planet. Like the ripples from
a stone in water, feelings invoked by art can spread outward, in the
form of actions and attitudes, and influence other people and events.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but, I think, the
inspiration and joy that can be the result of recognizing that beauty
are universal to humanity as a whole and as such, contribute to the
health of the planet.

Pat
slippers inspired by Sue
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and am looking for a good fantasy."