The Never-Ending Art Debate - Our Responsibility to Longevity
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- jerrib
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- Pictorist
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» jerrib - You have exquisitely put the topic
in front of the reader.I, like you, feel that art should be preserved - if for nothing more than a picture of the past that survived to aid in others' perceptions of before and how it fits now and in the future.
If my children and grandchildren appreciate my writing work, then I have left a legacy. If others don't, well, that's not my desire anyway. But I hope it means something to them.
If we can't leave a piece of ourselves, our art, to destiny and the future, what's the point? We have too many "throw aways" in our society today. Do you think you'll be writing about them when you are old? No, you'll be writing about the masters. And if you could be one of them for all future generations to see, wouldn't that be the best way to have lived your life using your gift?
I think so.
Jerri
-- posted by jerrib
» jenlongshaw - Artist Choices
I guess the artist has to make a choice as to how they want their work to be remembered. I am thinking in particular of one artist who used elephant dung on canvas- an example of painting for the moment (or his 15 minutes of fame) rather than posterity.You also raise many pertinent points about restoration. I am pleased to own an oil landscape my grandfather painted when he first came to New Zealand in 1906. This has darkened considerably over the decades which I guess gives it a certain charm and definitely an "aged" look but sometimes I long to see how it must have looked when it was first painted.
-- posted by jenlongshaw
» Pictorist - On Posterity and Process
I don't believe that "longevity", as the writers have coined the term, is really the issue or any great concern to me. Maybe it's my advancing age, but for myself and a few other like-minded people, the joy in art for the artist is in the process of its creation, that is, in doing it. What happens beyond that isn't really of concern to me. I'm too busy with the next project to be results-oriented. I once thought about my contributions to posterity, but it seems a misuse of my mind. I don't say everyone should think as I do. Still, focusing on process and not results has really boosted the amount of work that I can do, paradoxically-- posted by Pictorist
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