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Re: everything goes back to...
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:39:50 -0400 jwolp at juno_com writes:
> Also, the fundamental point of most art, in my opinion, is to relate
> to
> the human experience. To create something that elicits a certain
> emotion/reaction from people. Something in the theoretical realm of
>
> being "completely original" would not do that because it would be so
> far
> removed from everything that everyone (even the artist) has ever
> experienced.
I tend to disagree. I think if something is created with the reaction of
others in mind, it ceases to be art and has taken the first step to being
a marketing ploy at best and propoganda at worst. Maybe I'm naive, but I
honestly believe real art is created out of a sense of compulsion on the
part of the artist. It may make no sense to anyone but him - and maybe
not even to him. But it is in someway true to his experience. I do
believe, however, that the vast majority of experiences or emotions a
person can have are common to the vast majority of people. So in that
sense, it would elicit an emotion or reaction. I just think that if that
is its purpose it compromises the art.
I still believe that in some small corner of the cosmos there is
something happening that is truly original. I just don't know what it
is. Okay, maybe I am naive.
Kelvin
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