The idea of art for art sake has been coming up in discussion more and more in my life this year. As I was writing a paper the other day I came across this quote:
“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.” -E. M. Forster
For some reason I kept reading it over and over, I ended up reading the quote eight times. I think that the slogan art for art sake had been unconsciously stored in my brain. And for the first time last semester in Dr. Unrath class brought to surfaced or either the veil was lifted. And I have been on a journey of understanding what the communication art and I have.
Therefore let me state that I am in the stages of determining a way to articulate my feelings about the process of art making and therefore I will not claim a state thus far.
In our program we are being taught about making meaning through meaningful making and the concept of enduring ideas , yet so much of what I went through in school seemed to be this mindset of just producing and regurgitation of art that I wont to get away from!
Bird's discussion about the idea of conceptual art was hard for me to follow. And I read this then stepped away and came back and still struggled with it, I wonder is this because I and in the midst of arriving to my own idea of what it means to make art? Or that I also struggle with understanding what my work is convening and what I want it to convey?
Yet I did understand the part about "art was an expression or revelation of truths that were inaccessible to the intellect alone". Ha am I Romantic?
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