4.52p Tuesday
Cubism will never die. Even today, it still serves as the basis of many works of art. Painting is about reinventing but it is also about looking to the past. The great artists of the world have done that and the great artists continue to do so. Artists today may be unable to hike up the hills with Cezanne but they can look at what he has left behind. Painters leave art. Even if they never think to do so, they do and isn't it the responsibility of those in the present to learn about the past? Where have we come from? That is a question that crosses all platforms. And, if we are to look at the past, no doubt we will be influenced by it in some way. As humans, we are influenced by everything we see. Trees, the sky, a rock, the wrapper of a candy bar tossed on the ground. We see these things and for a split second or two, we think about these things. Maybe longer. Then it leaves. Or so we think. But does it really? Or is it merely tucked away somewhere - a memory of sorts. Should we stop painting trees? Should we no longer paint the sky? It has been done before. For those artists who claim that certain movements are dead, cubism among that lot, I ask them this - why aren't the artists of today totally reinventing subject matter. Forget about movements. What about subject.
Leave a thought if you are passing through.
posted by amy boras @ 1:42 PM
2 Comments:
Hey Artgirl, Nice post! You are absolutely right - there is little new to be seen these days. However it is up to artists to find what is new in their time. This doesn't mean new subjects - we will continue to deal with the same things - life, death and what's in between - but how we interpret those things. Cubism is still around, but we expereince it differently because of the span of time and experience that make up our lives today. It is the painters responsibility to define that difference. As in all things - it's HOW something is done that makes it unique. That is what makes it new rather than neo. Art innovates - fashion revives and unfortunately we live in a time of endless revival. I find that ultimately, subject matter is uninteresting - hell, you can make a painting about anything - how you do it is the key to making it unique!
RT - Thanks for the great comment and the compliment. I think you are right in many ways. Artists must always reinvent. There is not getting around it.
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