RE: Art Speaks, Across Distance and Time
I wonder what artistic products our future curious people will discuss. Cyber art?
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Will there then still be something like permanent art (in its physically tangible form)? Or is it pixels and bits, always over when no one is looking anymore? Similar to here, your blog and my blog and all blogs are their own art forum - a form of expression - that only lives as long as you click on it?
Contemporary performances basically, fleeting like a perfume. This can certainly be seen in many different ways ... The history of art is, as always, one with surprises, I think. It is also a contemporary one. What poetry tries to do with that which cannot be put into words, art tries through visualization.
Sorry, I'm in a bit of a morbid mood right now.
You have put together a good and very diverse collection here. It's nice that you have taken the continents and set an example from so many. At first sight I found the Raffia Matte irritating and amusing. It looked like a formerly symmetrical pattern dissolving into small males or animals.
Aesthetically, the Asians appeal to me the most. And then the Indian drawings. But ...the polish sheep: I so much love the painting.
The quadripartition: one can hardly believe it, can one?
Hello Erika,
Thank you for stopping by with that most interesting comment.
Art. For me, it is not separate from everything else. We speak of it that way, but as you can see by my blog, even the way text is presented is art. I agree, art is visual communication.
What will remain in the future? Just as in prehistoric times, only the most durable mediums will survive. Will they be holograms? Will they be inscribed on stone? Enclosed in time capsules? Sent to space on recordings?
Don't know. If anything remains of us, it will likely be an artifact, as the petroglyphs and cave paintings are today. Then those who happen upon these may puzzle about the nature of our culture.
As for my selections--these are limited by at least two factors: copyright restrictions and the fact that people in occupied areas are not free to express their native culture. So I had to find work that not only was created under occupation, but which also managed to somehow express the will of indigenous people.
Hope your mood lifts. Every now and then I get hit by one. I try to move around (my house gets clean) and distract myself until it goes away.
Wishing you brighter days, health, and peace.
Your friend, AG
Maybe we just made a circle and found ourselves in the arts we created ourselves in ancient times. I's you and me on that cave walls.
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