Talking about art is like walking a rope. To me.
Art has always been a means of communication. Whether with the Gods or with fellow humans and/or the artist' self, it has communicated magic, ideals, devotion, genious. admiration, discoveries, love,humor, maddness, sentimentality, drama, pompousness and ambition, despair. Beauty.
Conjuring the mystery and being fascinated by the beauty and mystery of universal creation comes closest to the main motive for the making of art.
(meaning music, archtecture, dance, painting, sculpture, litterature, poetry, theatre, film, photography, crafts.) Everything.
It would be a long story to go through the different purposes and meanings of art in the course of the ages. And it 's confusing in present days, after both art and philosophy (always interacting ) have been more than once been declared dead.
Themilums's question , to give an answer in words about the worth of Andy Warhol's work , I would gladly and easily put away with as : It is none of this mentioned here above. (ambition, yes) Others may fight this point of vieuw. (and how sure can I be?))
Yes, a work of art can always be a conversation piece if you want, but there should be more to it. IMO. Making art should be more than throwing a surprise party and impressing the world with BIG and MANY and masking theories.
Art and philosophy have till recently played a leading part in cultural and also social changes, but somehow there is no longer an answer to the never ending demand for renewal.
There's (postmodernism) been a lot of recycling done the last decades and many things presented as new are stolen or borrowed from the past. Andy Warhol's pop art still was something new. But Campbell's cans of tomatoe soup or the many colored prints of Monroe do not really strike me with awe.
( that is personal value giving).Warhol was a remarkeable personality and a clever business man and networker.
(For renewal science is the only field that still can come up with real discoveries.)
(All this is IMO )
P.S Seen in the context of art as a means of communication Andy Warhol was an advertising man. That's what he had to say. Advertising in an entertaining and often specticular way.
Making good show of himself. The art world loved it.
Last edited by BranShea; 05/02/07 06:29 PM.
