Firstly I like to thank anyone of my viewers who still comes
in and checks up on me. It has been a difficult year. However when one is
stressed one starts to reflect on what's going on around us. So even
though I don't have the head to research
and read about an artist. I want to share
with you guys 2 experiences that are of
course art related that happened to me this month in 2 posts a short one and a
long one . Note: this is probably my
longest post ever...
Last week I had an express trip to México city, for some
stuff I'm not going to get into. I had some time on Sunday to walk around the
city, I traveled with my mother, and to anyone who has been to México city
specially around the Zocalo you know it can become a mass of people (specially Sunday
before school starts). And although I really had no head to go into museum,
since I had an important appointment on Monday,
We literally stumbled into the Museo Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público. Well on the
temporary exhibit they had some
beautiful Leonora Carrington sculptures,
and then some cotemporary pieces. As we were walking around I noticed my mother's
reactions to what was on display. She smiled on the Carrington exhibit,
but frowned even grimaced on to the contemporary exhibit along with a puzzled
expression.
So when she asked me if I could explain a couple of them I
looked at them and I couldn't...I will not call myself an art scholar but i
like the topic enough to know more than most people so I'm used enough to this
question. I looked at the piece and I know that the artist was trying to show
something, make a stand on something, revel from something, since they where aggressive
pieces... but what from?
This got me thinking, when did art stopped being a communication
channel? When did we as artist stopped
even trying to please our viewers? When did it become about the artist against
the world? when did it become so egocentric? When did it become so ugly? Why
did we stopped people from being in awe of our talent?
I will like to make it clear that I am not talking about every single
contemporary artist, there are many of them I am in awe of which I have posted
trough the years here on my blog.
Art from its start was a communication channel, for everyone
between raze, status and age. And in the
past it was used as decoration to make a wall more personalized, more pleasant
to look at. Have that image transport
you to that scene.
Now before I start getting, angry messages that refer me
to Picasso's Guernica.... ask yourself..
would you be happy looking at the artwork every day for the rest of your life?
And to those who will refer me to Duchamp's fountain... are you about to change
the course of art into a new movement?
I am not looking for answers and its a subject I can think
we can all discuss to death. But since this is my art blog, I thought it would
be nice to express my thoughts on it. Questions and thoughts in the comments.
