Yesterday I was talking at lunch with a friend about art, creativity and innovation.
One thing that came up was how art has gotten all weird. Charlie talks about this on his blog, where he shares this recent quote:
“Actually, beauty hasn’t been a prominent factor in art for the past 30 years.”
(see quote in Newsweek artice “A Room with a Hue” )
Personally, I think that art has suffered because of how good our technology for preserving it is. Since the renaissance, and even before, we have continually advanced in preservation of art so that less and less is lost. Since Art students are told to have bold unique visions, one generations ART, would be a stomach turning cliche is recreated a single generation later...
so the pursuit of Beauty is not CLICHE and what matters in being UNIQUE... only I don't like stuff that is Uniquely ugly...
Rather than each generation having to attempt to capture beauty… we still have the last 10 generations attempts…
so in order to be new… we push into new frontiers…. like smearing blood and fecal mater on canvas….
It certainly is not beautiful, even if it is art so to speak…
Our insane desire to be different is killing our pursuit of beauty…
one wonders what a person who is pursuing beauty is, if they are not an artist?
