Friday, May 14, 2010
art for art sake
i am not sure if this will make sense to anyone but here it goes. am i just making art for art sake or is there a real purpose? a friend of mine told me that i create art because it is my passion. i find this odd seeing how it was not me making the statement but an outsider "observing" my actions as such. i have written stories and poems, painted, taken photos, created art in any way that would convey the ideas that were floating in my head and make them legible to those i came in contact with... so am i creating art for art sake? am i creating art because it is my passion. i think i teeter on the fact that art is a form of therapy for my soul and constantly begs me to spill my guts ... it just transpires as art..hmmm..something to think about at least while i tediously mull over projects.
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Everything a human being does is fused with one of three types of emotions:
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2. Unpleasant
3. Neutral
Any one of those three has a universe of gradations within it. Not to mention that they are some what organically connected. What does any of this have to do with the question of what is art? Well, Art is an expression of emotion. Sometimes they also express ideas but it always has one of the three mentioned emotional categories. So, what does the expression of emotion do for a human? It relives it...builds it...charges it [You name it and place it here]
We don't have to define what our art is...it would be much more useful to just let our art define us.