I don't know if I agree with Mr. Wilde on this (actually I never do agree with him). Of course, he said this many many years before the advent of Pop Art.
As Whistler once put it, "Art for art's sake"--except it's far greater than thatpersonatalieMarch 11 2004, 15:20:11 UTC
I do, of course, completely see what you mean here. I suppose I didn't mean to comdemn all things serving a perpose as "ugly" or void of inspiration. In some ways, I might even go so far as to say that anything and everything is art--that art and what it means and what it's purpose is is all up to the beholder.
Rephrase: There is something to be said about the ARTIST--not necessarily the art itself--that painstakingly invents an image/object/motage purely out of some kind of spooky, inherent inclination. The amazing fact that perposelessness is, in a strange way, the perpose of life....
I think that's a stab in the dark towards whatever it is I'm trying to get at.
I'm not sure if I completely understand the quote myself, but I don't think I agree with your statements that came as a result.
Admiring something that has no real function in the world is why so much of the it is covered in concrete and ruled by coroporations. Gold, an obvious jumping off point. I don't have to re-hash jr high history to remind you the devistation on western natural habitat that cost... as well as human lives. All the knick knacks, trinkets, and ultimately pointless things in our malls. Compulsive shoppers, men and women who spend more than they have because their admiration for the newest reprint of something they already have 20 of came out. "It's the useless parts of existence that are worth living for." or so you said... but if that's the case then please count me out of living. I dont mean to say I don't go out and get a comic book, or want some stupid video game every so often, but that's not what life is about.
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By the way, I am interested in attending that show.
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Art can be found in everyday things... the lines and curves of a building, an old telephone, a Gibson electric guitar...
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Rephrase: There is something to be said about the ARTIST--not necessarily the art itself--that painstakingly invents an image/object/motage purely out of some kind of spooky, inherent inclination. The amazing fact that perposelessness is, in a strange way, the perpose of life....
I think that's a stab in the dark towards whatever it is I'm trying to get at.
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See ya Saturday! It should be fun. I think we each get a guest, by the way.
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Admiring something that has no real function in the world is why so much of the it is covered in concrete and ruled by coroporations. Gold, an obvious jumping off point. I don't have to re-hash jr high history to remind you the devistation on western natural habitat that cost... as well as human lives. All the knick knacks, trinkets, and ultimately pointless things in our malls. Compulsive shoppers, men and women who spend more than they have because their admiration for the newest reprint of something they already have 20 of came out.
"It's the useless parts of existence that are worth living for." or so you said... but if that's the case then please count me out of living. I dont mean to say I don't go out and get a comic book, or want some stupid video game every so often, but that's not what life is about.
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http://www.paradiselosttheopera.com
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