From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 16 2004 - 00:56:25 BST
>I guess no one is interested in actually experiencing dynamic quality
>through art. Or is it such a common experience that it's just ho-hum?
When I went to the Gauguin show a couple weeks ago, and saw the bustling
gift store, and all the guards and janitors and lights and people, I came
out thinking "what a collosal waste of resources, what a gigantic and
decadent blind waste of energy, I pity these happy people. Gauguin
impressed me as a guy who figured out where the topless girls were, but I
was embarrassed for him and sorry for his lifelong desperation. I was so
happy to get outside and under the sun walking back through the fenway. I
had zero "inspiration" to waste my time creating anything, and felt so very
happy about that.
> I spent a summer parachuting (eight jumps, one 10 second freefall). That
>was very dynamic. But it doesn't even come close to the excitement and
>immediacy of painting.
How dynamic was it? Did you ever go up?
>Is it that art is not in that top intellectual level?
>
>On what level does art reside?
As an activity, it is social - we make art to show it to other people,
generally, and relate to each other. It often continues intellectual
patterns, if it is of a "school" or "style", and it may make comments about
society which are intellectual. And it uses your biological muscles and
eyeballs, and inorganic paints.
Johnny
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