There are times when my mind buzzs with ideas and thoughts especially after researching and rereading some article that I am trying to engage with or fathom (!!)in order to then incorporate them into ideas for art…Because my chosen subject has been art in the context of social meaning -as social comment, I have frequently questioned my motives, ethics and understanding of this subject matter particularly as It concerns the darkerside of human nature – contestations, because of this it has been fundimental and essential for me to gain insight into artists and critical writers who have tackled these issues within their work…reflecting back on my dissertation I started thinking of various aspects raised and researched within the study that debated the ideologies concerning art for arts sake over art with social meaning,…(I do feel and appreciate the relevence of both forms, in the pursuit of visual communication, both are essential and have a place). In Has Modernism Failed? Susie Gablick raises the question with a quote by Arnold Schonberg, “Nothing done for a purpose could be art.” p.20 indicating here as I understand it, art with any purpose can’t essentially be art…having used Gablicks book in my dissertation I felt Gablick explored ‘arts purpose’ well through looking at art for arts sake and art with a social meaning; one can conclude both have a purpose…Gablik, Suzi (1984) Has Modernism Failed ? London: thames and Hudson pp.20-35.
At LAST! Firstly to say… I am connected !! I say this with a sense of relief and euphoria, as having now started this blog I have begun to understand how it functions
Secondly Welcome to my blog I have another you are welcome to visit at yvonnesartroomblogspot.com
As can be seen briefly from the first blog my art practice has tended a have a strong leaning toward art with socio-political meaning and content concerning various aspects of society in particular the controlled definitions depicted via mass media. I do tend to get emotionally drawn into specific current issues that in someway impact me and capture my attention, particularly issues that concern the ongoing plight of others. Critic Nicholas Bourriaud said “The artist dwells in the circumstances the present offers him …he catches the world on the move…he is a tenant of culture,”Relational Aesthetics,pp13-14,2002,by Nicholas Bourriaud, Les Presses du Reel.
This quote reasonates with me and reminds me how as artists we are so intrictly connected to the world and people around us. It is a challenge to me that if I can allow myself to be open to what impacts me, to my connectedness to humanity, nature, life I can attempt in someway to give expression to concerns and encourage others with similar views and experiences to pursue another way of seeing from an alternative perspective.Thanks for taking time to read this blog.
Images
The work’s produced here were for projects that focussed on protest movements within societies and human rights of the marginalised. These images were made due to my response based around media articles and images, connected to the Arab Spring and the displacement of indigenous peoples due to deforestation in South America.
